This relates to things specifically to police. Profiling, stop and frisk, brutality - and not so much for police arrests at marches (use 'repression' for that, unless the please are brutal i.e. killmon)
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly gave lawyers from the Civilian Review Board, the independent agency that investigates allegations of police abuse, authority to prosecute police officers in cases...
The NYC Council and Public Safety Committee call on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to end the practice of archiving digital files on all individuals, including the innocent, who are stopped by police...
CCR is providing legal support and criminal defense to the protesters who engaged in civil disobedience (CD) as part of the New Sanctuary Movement’s (NSM) on-going campaign around immigrant...
February 17, 2010, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) found significant racial disparity in the fourth quarter data for 2009 on stop-and-frisks just released by the New...
A year ago, hopes ran high that a newly -elected President Obama would undo the shameful legacy of the Bush Administration - - a legacy that includes torture, preventative detention, and rendition...
The New York City Police Department needs to be restrained. The nonstop humiliation of young black and Hispanic New Yorkers, including children, by police officers who feel no obligation to treat...
In Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case filed on behalf of Arab and Muslim non-citizens who were subjected to prolonged and abusive detention in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
Dear CCR Supporter, Each year the world celebrates Human Rights Day on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the United Nations 61 years ago...
