The background check is a must, and in certain positions so is the testing.
This is one PC stance that will be reversed in short order.
The first guy that kills a co-worker and they find out he was a very problematic guy criminal record wise, the City of New York will pay out more money than mast people make in a lifetime.
How do people with this little common sense become mayor?
Money.
Simple, the electorate has less common sense than DeBozio.
If you fail to exercise proper due diligence on a background check on an employee and they harm someone intentionally as in raping them and a background check would have revealed that the employee had a prior conviction for that same act guess what? You’re getting sued.
Background checks just make good sense unless you’re a criminal with a checked past.
RE: How do people with this little common sense become mayor?
APATHY.
Only 21% of NYC residents bothered to vote when De Blasio won.
You have yet to cross the great divide and accepted the fact that none of these hairbrained ideas are supposed to succeed. They are intended to fail and their failures to usher in chaos and collapse. On a theoretical level, the Cloward-Piven strategy is nearing full implementation; on a practical level, the arsonists are now in charge and they are burning our country down.