Posted on 09/18/2010 8:48:03 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
NEW YORK — City officials on Friday said the Fire Department of New York won't hire any firefighters until a new entry exam is created to replace one a federal judge said discriminated against minorities, which is expected to take at least a year.
A federal judge had ordered the city to choose one of five temporary methods for selecting applicants who had already passed the rejected exam as a way of adding to the department in the meantime. But the city's law department said in a letter to the court that they wouldn't select one because they all involved some sort of race-based quota.
"The hiring quotas ... are bad public policy, and we believe not justified by the law," said Corporation Counsel head Michael Cardozo.
It was the latest setback in a lengthy legal dispute with the federal government over discrimination claims at the mostly white fire department. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled in August that the exam was unfair to black and Hispanic applicants after the Justice Department sued on their behalf in 2007.
Garaufis said the city used the exams to appoint more than 5,300 entry-level firefighters between 1999 and 2007, cheating at least 1,000 minority firefighters of chances to join a force of roughly 11,000 at the nation's largest fire department. Of the 3,100 black candidates and 4,200 Hispanics who took the exam, the city appointed only 184 black and 461 Hispanic to the FDNY.
The judge said black and Hispanic applicants had disproportionately failed the written examinations and those who passed were placed disproportionately lower down the hiring lists than whites.
The city is appealing the decision.
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They discriminate between those who can read, write and count and those who can't. As you know, Western Civilization sprung fully formed from the forehead of some minor deity and the attempt to find those who can function in that civilization are just "discriminatory" acts of The Man.
I see... the exam MUST be biased because blacks and hispanics fail it in a greater percentage than whites. Why do I suspect that if the exam was written in spanish ebonics, nothing would change?
What is the sound of one judge having a circle jerk with himself?
The judge needs to learn to discriminate between “discrimination” (an essential survival skill, for any species); and “unfair discrimination”.
LOL! That one would probably knock just about every normal guy out of the running.
>>The bureaucracy keeps running, no matter who’s in charge.
That’s the real issue we face as a people. Changing elected politicians is easy enough. Downsizing the bureaucracy and removing its stranglehold over American life is quite another.
Don’t let the white guilt and white haters hear you they will send reporters to your door.And you know the questions they will ask.
BUMP!
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