Why Chris Rock has been posting selfies every time he's pulled over by police. Watch the video here.
Updated: June 1, 2015
March 23, 2016At the height of the NYPD’s unconstitutional and discriminatory stop-and-frisk program, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were being stopped every year for a “furtive movement.” Thousands more...
June 15, 2016Today in Albany a Civil Service Commission is meeting to consider a cadet program aimed at increasing racial and gender diversity in the New York City Fire Department. The proposed program grew out...
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has announced he is resigning next month. Bratton was a lead advocate of the so-called broken windows theory that called for officers to crack down...
Updated: October 24, 2016
August 3, 2016Recent weeks have seen courts around the country rejecting and raising concerns about voting laws that seek to keep people of color (especially Black people), low-income people, and other...
August 17, 2016Last Friday, August 12, marked the third anniversary of the historic ruling in Floyd v. City of New York , in which a federal court ruled the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional and...
October 5, 2016In the last two weeks, some Americans have heard more about a controversial New York City Police Department tactic — “stop and frisk” — than possibly ever before. A whole host of conservative...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney discusses efforts to curb ongoing stop and frisk abuses by the NYPD and the importance of input to that process from the communities most affected by those...
Updated: November 7, 2016
March 22, 2017On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
April 27, 2017The New York Police Department will begin one of the most controversial experiments in policing on Thursday when it outfits some officers in Washington Heights with body cameras. Unfortunately the...
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