Just days after civil rights attorneys and community groups held a news conference announcing they were asking a judge to delay the start of the NYPD's body camera program, a judge dismissed the...
The 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...
...NYPD’s body camera program came as a result of the Floyd v. City of New York case in which a federal judge found stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional and ordered the police to use body cameras...
The Muslim and refugee bans are back in the courts this week. The resistance is ready. On January 27th and again on March 6th , the Trump Administration issued executive orders that barred travel...
Last week in Virginia, CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar had their words illustrated in real time at a profoundly moving gathering organized by a CCR supporter.
This coming Sunday marks Mother’s Day, a holiday with roots in the post-Civil War burgeoning feminist and pacifist movements in the U.S. In its modern incarnation, Mother’s Day has become a more...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking at the 2017 American Constitution Society National Convention on a plenary panel, National Security and Civil Liberties Under the Trump...
Raise Your Hand features a side-by-side orchestra of student musicians performing alongside professional musicians, and include guest speakers such as activist and youth mentor Antonio Hendrickson...
May 30, 2017, New York – The monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case, Floyd v. City of New York , filed a report today...
CCR Bertha Justice Institute Fellow Stephanie Llanes will be speaking at the 2017 Summit on Latin@s on a panel, Criminal Justice and Police-Community Relations . The Summit on Latin@s seeks to...
