On March 17, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined dozens of organizations in urging Mayor Bill de Blasio to immediately adopt a series of recommendations to decrease the likelihood of...
We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
... Mr. Qatabi said he worried about the psychological effect this order, which has been described as a Muslim ban, could have. “What we worry about more than ever is that Trump’s executive orders...
Alec, the rightwing network that brings conservative lawmakers together with corporate lobbyists to create model legislation that is cloned across the US, has been accused of spreading racist and...
In California, prisoners will help develop a remedy to unjust detention conditions [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the first time, the men who were held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at...
The court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy has made his final recommendations. Peter Zimroth submitted two policy changes to a judge. One prohibits stops based...
A new NYPD form will require cops to explain in greater detail why they conduct any stop — and it does away with what critics considered catch-all excuses for making stops, such as “furtive movements...
Ever since the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy was ruled unconstitutional back in 2013, the city's been trying to shrink the number of stops officers make and avoid...
... The practice stopped and frisked more than 684,000 people at its peak in 2011, ostensibly in many cases to search for illegal weapons. But the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights...
...“You’re going to see a loss of life” because of exposure to the coronavirus in ICE detention centers, Jeremy Jong, a Louisiana-based civil rights attorney, told Business Insider. Alongside...
