The Buffalo Police Department discriminated against people of color through traffic enforcement practices, including checkpoints that targeted neighborhoods where the majority of residents are black...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this important discussion, which will take place in Room 210 . In 2017, under court order, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI turned over hundreds of...
Amid the national outcry over the family-separation crisis at the border, the Supreme Court last week ruled to uphold President Trump’s Muslim ban . This decision will increase the number of families...
... Yet the lawsuit – filed last week by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and the Western New York Law Center – is filled with data accusing the...
...Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that his organization knew shortly after hearing the details of the police department’s checkpoint program...
..."If you look at the data over these many years, it clearly shows the police department is not accurate in saying that the do it everywhere. The overwhelming majority is being done in...
...Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them...
July 17, 2018, New York – Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and...
Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters July 19, 2018, New York — Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen...
CCR is a proud community sponsor of Sanctuary presented by The Dream Unfinished on Friday July 27, 2018 at 7pm. Sanctuary is a festival of music celebrating artists who identify as immigrants or...
