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US Court Finds New York Fire Department Guilty of Racial Discrimination

A US Court has ruled that Fire Department of New York (FDNY) discriminated against minorities in its recruitment procedure, applicant screening and probing discrimination complaints. The ruling came after a three-week civil trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, which found that the FDNY has 93 percent white employees largely due to “an informal friends-and-family recruitment network,” the New York Daily News reports. “The underrepresentation of black firefighters in the FDNY – a direct result and vestige of the city’s pattern and practice of discrimination against black firefighter candidates – is responsible for making blacks significantly less likely to apply to become New York City firefighters in the absence of a formal recruitment program,” Judge Nicholas Garaufis said. Click here to read more.
 
 



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