Stopped in a vehicle in #‎Brooklyn by the #‎NYPD ? Equality for Flatbush (E4F) wants to hear from drivers and passengers who have been stopped ! Community residents can fill out online surveys by clicking here  or contact PoliceWork@equalityforflatbush.org or (646) 820-6039 for more information.

Since 2013, Equality for Flatbush has fought the racial profiling and economic harassment dollar van and cab drivers along the Flatbush Avenue, Church Avenue and Utica Avenue routes.  E4F has documented drivers receiving tickets as high as $2K by the NYPD .  E4F provides a hotline specifically to document NYPD traffic stops as well as legal support.  Drivers are asked to take a picture & text your tickets/summons to PoliceWork@equalityforflatbush.org or (646) 820-6039.

Due to the increase of police presence and measures  during Labor Day weekend, Equality for Flatbush : E4F will be documenting any potential police harassment and violence during J’ouvert and The Caribbean Day Parade.  If you are  stopped, harassed, detained, or brutalized by the police – PLEASE contact 

Equality for Flatbush : E4F at PoliceWork@equaliityforflatbush.org or call 646 820-6039 

#NoCommunityOccupation: #WatchTheCops #EndBrokenWindows,  #NoCopZone

#Jouvert2019 #CaribbeanDayParade

#Flatbush #eastflatbush #crownheights

 PoliceWork@equaliityforflatbush.org or call 646 820-6039 

Currently recruiting Flatbush/ East Flatbush residents of color to JOIN the COP WATCH TEAM

Equality for Flatbush is a proud member of the Peoples’ Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability’s East Flatbush Cop Watch Team.

More info about cop watching from Peoples’ Justice

If you are a person of color who lives in East Flatbush or Flatbush and are interested in joining the team, please contact us at: PoliceWork@equalityforflatbush.org or (646) 820-6039.

Supporting the call for Justice for the families of Saheed Vassell, Dwayne Jeune, Davonte Pressley, Kimani Gray, Kyam Livingston, Shantel Davis, Akai Gurley, Delrawn Smalls and others who have endured police terror/murders.

Street vendors are the lifeline of Flatbush and East Flatbush by providing  unique and vital services that community residents heavily rely on. The vast majority of street vendors are Flatbush and East Flatbush residents who shop and send their children to school within the  community.  But gentrification has made their lives unbearable with street harassment and heavy ticketing at upwards of $2K by the NYPD. Between 2016 – 2017, E4F began fighting the current NYC policy that prohibits street vendors to be on Flatbush Ave between Parkside Avenue and Avenue H from 7am-7pm Monday through Saturday. The police enforcement of this ordinance successfully pushed street vendors off the corners of Church and Flatbush particularly in 2017.  

E4F’s street vendor leadership, majority monolingual Spanish speakers, carried out a relentless campaign to stop the police harassment. We partnered with the Street Vendor Project, we met with the Flatbush Business Improvement District, The Small Business Administration, and the NYPD. We conducted a community selfie and petition campaign, attended the monthly 70th PCT community and created a film to denounce the economic harassment and racial profiling of street vendors in our neighborhood.  By the summer of 2018, through these actions, E4F’s vendor leadership SUCCESSFULLY brought back their fellow vendors to the Church / Flatbush intersection and stopped the rampant NYPD harassment . 

While the struggle to stop the economic harassment and racial profiling of East / Flatbush street vendors continues,  E4F’s street vendor leadership demonstrated that when you fight, you win!