November 21, 2019... 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...
November 21, 2019... In 2013, a federal judge ruled the policing tactic violated constitutional rights and amounted to “indirect racial profiling,” as police were subjecting people of color to unnecessary stops over...
November 21, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights , along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, led the charge against the City in the federal stop and frisk litigation. “Let’s be clear, the NYCLU’s...
Plaintiffs & NJ Muslims Targeted by Discriminatory Police Surveillance Have First Face-to-Face Meeting with City and NYPD Officials Newark, NJ — Following a historic lawsuit over the New York...
December 3, 2019, Phoenix, Arizona – Today, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the...
Ask Court to Find Arizona Legislators in Violation of State’s Open Meeting Law December 4, 2019, Phoenix, AZ – Today, lawyers and advocates from Puente, Mijente, Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Drawing Center for a Human Rights Day breakfast and private tour of the exhibition The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists led by...
Updated: December 5, 2019
December 11, 2019... Despite the NYPD’s claims of not being guilty of misconduct or racial discrimination, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has documented cases which it has fought against the department...
December 11, 2019... The NYPD credits the database for helping facilitate large-scale raids and driving down gang-related violence, but tens of thousands of New Yorkers — nearly all black or Latino — have been...
December 12, 2019...A coalition of 10 organizations — including the Legal Aid Society, The Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services and the Center for Constitutional Rights — has signed on to the campaign. .....
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