Reprint from The Huffington Post The New York Police Department is developing a new anti-terrorism unit that will be deployed, in part, to contend with protestors. The “Strategic Response Group,” a unit of approximately 350 officers, will handle “disorder control and…
The Justice Department is appealing a court decision that would make Plan B available to women of all ages without a prescription Reprinted from The Week Earlier this week, the FDA announced that the morning-after pill would be available to women…
Calls for his removal based on history as mass violator of civil rights The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) condemned President Obama’s appointment of Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, former chief of D.C. police from 1998 to 2007, to…
Reprint from The Gothamist NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has vowed to avoid mass arrests of the Black Lives Matter protesters who have been shutting down bridges and snarling traffic. “We are still paying out from the 2004 Republican National Convention and the…
PCJF heralds release, undertook multi-year investigation and lawsuit exposing corruption of justice The Cuban Five are free! After 16 years as political prisoners in the United States through a prosecution and trial that demonstrated a gross corruption of justice, the…
Excerpt from the Huffington Post WASHINGTON — As several dozen demonstrators began to march from the White House to Dupont Circle early Monday evening, squad cars from the Metropolitan Police Department were positioned at every major intersection leading to the well-known…
Reprint from The Washington Post As a veteran big-city police chief, Charles H. Ramsey has sometimes been at the center of controversy. The man selected to lead President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing — a group of police…
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard was interviewed on Dec. 4 on KPFA’s “Flashpoints” (Pacifica). She discussed Charles Ramsey’s history as chief of D.C. police, the long struggle to protect civil liberties in the District, and his recent appointment to lead…
Ramsey refused to answer questions about unconstitutional practices in police domestic spying operation PCJF calls for his removal from presidential task force The President has placed at the head of his task force on militarized policing Charles Ramsey, an official…
Read the full article at the New York Times website. The following is an excerpt. WASHINGTON — President Obama, grappling with how to respond to the racial unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and a wave of anger at law enforcement officials across…
Reprint from Alternet Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, one of two co-chairs appointed by President Obama to head a commission on ways to demilitarize local police, is known for leading repeated bloody and abusive crackdowns on protesters when he was…
Scattered protests shut down traffic around the District for a third day Monday, with demonstrators lying in roadways and blocking highways to protest the grand jury decision in the police shooting death of Michael Brown. The restraint shown by D.C.…