By Peter Rugh for Waging Nonviolence The New York Police Department has reportedly been giving young adults free tickets to screenings of “Selma,” and last month, on Martin Luther King Day, officers with the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood even drove a group of local…
Reprinted from The Guardian The creation of a new counter-terrorism unit within the NYPD, which will be armed with “machine guns” and tasked with policing protests as well as guarding the city against any terrorist threat, has drawn heavy criticism from legal…
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund condemns the decision of the New York City government to target free speech activity with a newly created NYPD ‘anti-terrorist’ unit. The PCJF calls for the unit to be disbanded and for Mayor De…
By Sam EiflingReprint from The New Republic The New York Police Department announced this week a new approach to community policing. By Commissioner Bill Bratton’s account, the new strategy will allow more precinct cops to spend more time in neighborhoods, leading to better mutual…
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…