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Fire department bosses promised to hunt down staff who booed and chanted at the event in Brooklyn, and Federal Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis has ordered them to get on with it.
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Back in 2007, the Bush Administration sued the Fire Department of New York, which lost 343 men on 9/11, for disparate impact discriminating against blacks and Hispanics by using a firefighter hiring test that asked fairly hard questions about firefighting. Now, the FDNY has finally learned the lesson that La Griffe du Lion pointed out years ago: If you want to please the feds, you can minimize disparate impact (percentage point differential) of the hiring test by making it extremely easy, then hiring randomly.
From the NY Daily News:
More than 42 percent of minority-group members earned grade of 97 or higher and likely to be hired by FDNY over next four years