When Laverne I. and her husband were stopped by the NYPD while simply walking down the street, she asked one of the officers for his badge number as they began to search her husband’s pockets. The...
July 8, 2015, New York – In response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing, today, of an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate killings by police of unarmed civilians and with...
July 9, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices filed his first interim report on the...
Stephanie Llanes, and John Cusick NY State Capitol. Mothers of New Yorkers killed by police. (Photo by Nahal Zamani) They went to Albany seeking a measure of justice, a guarantee that other families...
It's been one year since the killing of Eric Garner and over three years since the killing of Ramarley Graham. Despite welcomed news this week about a financial settlement between the Garner family...
The federal monitor overseeing changes to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy said Thursday the reform effort is moving in a positive direction, but some officers now avoid making or documenting stops,...
New York City police may be avoiding "lawful and prudent" street stops to avoid "personal legal liability" after being hammered for racial profiling in a landmark civil rights case, a federal monitor...
The number of African-Americans in the Fire Department has nearly doubled in the past two years. At this rate, by next summer there will be more black firefighters than there have ever been in the...
...“Black houses [of worship] have been disproportionately targeted for a few reasons,” said Vincent Warren, executive director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal and...
