PTH CIVIL RIGHTS WRAP-UP

2003 Won a settlement in federal court against the NYPD and City of New York, prohibiting selective enforcement of the law targeting homeless New Yorkers

2003 Created pop education materials and gave workshops in shelters and soup kitchen about homeless votin g rights

2004 Launched Operation Cardboard Box, a network of mutual aid safe havens in Manhattan churches during the RNC

2007 Launched our Disorderly Conduct Campaign with created relationships with other anti - police brutality groups

2013 Won passage of the Community Safety Act, including the first local law naming housing status as a protected status from police harassment.

2014 Forced the NYPD to cancel the publicly announced removal of homeless New Yorkers from the subway system

2014 Forced NYPD Commissioner Bratton to publicly renounce shelter raids by the NYPD Warrant squad

2016 Filed the first legal action against the NYPD in the NYC Commission on Human Rights for illegal targeting of homeless New Yorkers

2016 Won compensation for three homeless men whose property was destroyed by the NYPD.

Overall: We built solidarity with police reform movement, educating about the impact of selective enforcement and Broken Windows on homeless New Yorkers, and built long lasting relationships through solidarity.

Jean Rice: So, equal justice before the law is still a myth. Probably in my lifetime I will never see judicialequality . But what I can do is, like we at Picture the Homeless always say, “We can make a difference.” We can diminishtheimpact . We can educate the public, about how America can never be great when it doesn't live up to its national credo.