Press Releases

Communities United for Police Reform – together with Council Members Jumaane Williams, Brad Lander, Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Ben Jealous and others – announced that over 100 organizations from across the city have endorsed the Community Safety Act that is pending in the City Council.

A day after the start of the federal lawsuit – Floyd v. City of New York – challenging the city’s stop-and-frisk policy with violating constitutional protections against racial discrimination and unreasonable searches and seizure, and reports that the City Council is close to passing bills to reform discriminatory policing abuses, Communities United for Police Reform released the following statement.

Elected officials, New Yorkers targeted by stop-and-frisk and other discriminatory policing practices, and civil rights and community leaders expressed support for the federal class action lawsuit against the Bloomberg administration’s unlawful use of stop-and-frisk outside of the courthouse today as the trial began. Today’s action kicked off a series of events that will occur outside of the courthouse throughout the trial, highlighting communities impacted by discriminatory policing practices and support for the lawsuit.

Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) released the following statement today from spokesperson Joo-Hyun Kang in response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address discussing stop-and-frisk.