As the NYPD continues to disproportionately target New Yorkers of color with Stop and Frisk practices, a new website CopWatchNYC.org was launched to help put all of their unconstitutional interrogation tactics to an end.

Created by ColorOfChange, People’s Justice and Communities United for Police Reform and the support of other local grassroots civil rights movements, CopWatchNYC.org is designed as part of their ongoing effort to aid New Yorkers to safely and legally document and expose police misconduct in order to hold them accountable.

“We came up with this idea as a way to utilize technology to support our work and as a platform that New Yorkers can use to monitor the NYPD misconduct,” said Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.

When reporting a police misconduct to CopWatchNYC.org, New Yorkers have to describe the incident in three to four sentences, provide the date and time of the incident, tell where it happen, have an option to upload a video or photo and provide a contact information for ColorOfCange to further investigate the issue.

But taking a picture or recording a video of police misconduct might be a challenge for many New Yorkers. In last year, there were many cases that involved people recording police unlawful interrogation tactics. There is a current pending legal case that was filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Charles v. City of New York include a plaintiff, Hadiyah Charles who used her smartphone to record two NYPD officers as they questioned and frisked three black youth whom had been innocently fixing a bicycle down the street from her Bedford-Stuyvesant home, according to the NYCLU’s website. The police officers tried to prevent Ms. Charles from filming the encounter by shoving her, handcuffing her, arresting her, and holding her in a jail cell for 90 minute.

When asked of CopWatchNYC.org will does more harm to New Yorkers, Robinson said he doesn’t think so. He said that, “We have to continue to fight back injustice. The Civil Rights movements have always standing up to injustice for us,” he said. “We know it is legal for us to monitor the NYPD because as tax papers, we are the ones paying their salaries.”

As the advancement of technology continues, with the new ways and platforms that people are using to communicate Robinson said that, “I see ColorOfChange continuing to grow and playing a pivotal role in serving the black community.”