Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al. is a federal class action lawsuit filed against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and frisks. These NYPD practices have led to a dramatic increase in the number of suspicion-less stop-and-frisks per year in the city, with the majority of stops in communities of color.
In addition to litigation efforts, CCR also works with a coalition of New York City grassroots, community-based, legal and advocacy organizations including Justice Committee, Make the Road-NY, New York Civil Liberties Union, and the Urban Justice Center.
Safe Streets/Strong Communities is a community-based organization that campaigns for a new criminal justice system in New Orleans, one that creates safe streets and strong communities for everyone, regardless of race or economic status. The group specifically works to end abuse and corruption within the New Orleans Police Department, inside the Orleans Parish Prison Complex and within the Louisiana court system—problems that have existed before, during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Peoples’ Justice Coalition is a coalition of NYC-based grassroots organizations that have joined forces to win community control and police accountability in NYC. Sparked by the murder of Sean Bell, an unarmed young, black man shot 50 times by NYPD officers, the People’s Justice Coalition organized rallies, marches and public education following the grand jury’s decision in Sean Bell’s case.
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality mobilizes for a National Day of Protest on October 22 to expose the epidemic of police brutality. The Coalition also coordinates the Stolen Lives Project, which documents cases of killings by law enforcement nationwide. CCR provides meeting space for the Coalition’s New York Coordinating Committee.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend its people’s human rights and promote self-determination. With an understanding of the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism at the root of the Afrikan people's oppression, MXGM strives to build community control and self-determination as a human right and a solution to colonization.
Domestic Workers United is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and building a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. CCR provides regular meeting space, office space and materials for DWU.
A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on Mohammed al-Qahtani. Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights said the videos have been seen by attorneys for Mohammed al-Qahtani but cannot be shown to the public because they are classified.
Attention:
John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
January 27-28, 2012
Two years after the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program was implemented, federal officials determined that choices available to local law enforcement agencies that wished to decline or limit their participation would be "streamlined" or "eliminated," making the information-sharing program mandatory, according to a memo recently made public.
Nicholas K. Peart, a witness in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights against racial profiling, has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times. In this NYT op-ed, he shares his powerful personal account of NYPD's systematic stop-and-frisk tactics.
Urge President Obama to Veto the National Defense Authorization Act, End US wars,Scale Back the US Military & Block Legislation that Makes it More Difficult to Close Guantánamo
February 3, 2011
This week marked a new low in the efforts of the 1% to suppress dissent. Join CCR in supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Protesters accuse New York police of inciting violence by disobeying restraining order preventing further evictions.
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