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The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic job seekers in recruitment by the Nassau and Suffolk County departments, a Newsday investigation has found.
With thousands more people seeking jobs than the number needed by the two forces, the investigation revealed that since 2012, each county’s hiring process rejected minorities at rates that exceeded a federally established benchmark used to detect evidence of unlawful discrimination.
Candidates for positions on the 2,400-member Nassau County Police Department and the 2,400-member Suffolk County Police Department compete on written exams and then undergo physical fitness tests, psychological screening, medical evaluations and background reviews.
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American Fair Credit Council, an association of debt settlement companies, hired
Allon Advocacy LLC to work on issues related to consumer unsecured debt settlement, debt relief and debt consolidation. Steven Boms, former legislative director to ex-Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), will work on the account.
The
RLJ Companies LLC, a holding company for investments in media, entertainment, automotive and financial industries, hired
Arent Fox LLP to work on legislation to incentivize equity investment in businesses owned by socially disadvantaged individuals. Oliver Spurgeon, former legislative correspondent to Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Dan Renberg, a member of the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank from 1999 to 2003, will work on the account.
Reps. Grace Meng and Ted Lieu Join Anti-Semitism Task Force Leadership
WASHINGTON (JTA) Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force.
Reps. Grace Meng of New York and Ted Lieu of California, both Democrats, were listed among eight-co-chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism in a release Monday, the first for the new Congress. The task force has over 100 members from the U.S. House of Representatives.
The newcomers replace two Jewish members, also Democrats, in leadership positions: Nita Lowey of New York, who retired, and Eliot Engel of New York, who lost in a primary election last year. That leaves just one Jewish co-chair, Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat.