A dozen white, male police officers reportedly filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco Tuesday, alleging sex and racial bias in promoting officers. The plaintiffs allege that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is using a diversity technique called “banding,” which treats all promotional test scores within a certain range as the same. They claim the technique promotes female and minority candidates with lower scores over white men, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. “The city — to this day — has a long-standing practice and custom of discriminating against white males in SFPD promotions to the rank of...