...“We are deeply concerned that New York State continues to enforce NYS Penal Law § 240.37 , an archaic anti-loitering law that has led law enforcement to engage in widespread profiling and...
In June 2019, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a letter to the New York State Legislature, calling on them to repeal Civil...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie for an exciting panel discussion organized by ALLEY and Colors of Progress . You can RSVP on Eventbrite . Art...
Report on Biased Policing Recommends CCRB Take Over Investigation of Racial Profiling Complaints Wednesday, June 26, 2019, New York – In response to a scathing report on biased policing released...
...In total, DOI found: NYPD received nearly 2,500 biased complaints between 2014 and 2018 DOI investigated about a third of those – 888 Zero were substantiated by the NYPD “We were quite alarmed...
Federal Case Against Hunt & Polo Club to Continue July 1, 2019, Mahwah, NJ – Last Friday, the Ramapough Lenape Nation and the Township of Mahwah reached a settlement in all their pending lawsuits...
...In a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Senior Staff Attorney Pamela Spees said: “The average person can find themselves facing five years in prison for literally just...
...“Despite a federal court finding, despite years and years of statistics that have shown severe and frankly unjustifiable racial disparities in who they are policing and how they are policing them...
