Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and CLEAR for a panel discussion in advance of Supreme Court arguments in Tanzin v. Tanvir , a case brought on behalf of American Muslims who were placed or...
... The New York Civil Liberties Union has shown that the city’s police have stopped and questioned people more than 5 million times since 2002: at the height of stop-and-frisk in 2011, about 685,000...
... This week on Intercepted: As Bloomberg nears a half a billion dollars in paid ads for his presidential campaign, he is intensifying his attacks on Sen. Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, the red-baiting...
...Bloomberg said that “in 2012, in my third term, we began putting more safeguards in place. And we began scaling back the numbers of stops.” The numbers corroborate that, but Darius Charney , a...
... Since he launched his bid for the Democratic nomination, Michael Bloomberg has been trying to distance himself from the legacy of ‘stop and frisk.’ He says stops went down 95 percent by the end...
... When Darius Charney saw this speech, he was skeptical of Bloomberg’s remorse. Starting in 2008, he and his colleagues at the Center for Constitutional Rights had spent five years suing the city...
...The court also ordered the NYPD to begin tracking and investigating complaints of racial profiling. As of June 2019, the police department had failed to substantiate a single claim. (Zimroth has...
... Thankfully, the Center for Constitutional Rights successfully sued the City of New York to end the program. A federal judge determined that the policy was unconstitutional because it permitted...
The Social Justice Throwdown has been postponed and will now take place on September 17, 2020 in New York City . The Center for Constitutional Rights has rescheduled our community event as a...
3/13 Update: Unfortunately, we have had to cancel this event due to the rapidly developing situation of COVID-19 (coronavirus). We hope to reschedule this conversation for a later date. Join the...