Photo by: Nassau County Nassau County Executive Laura Curran has officially announced the formation of the Nassau County Police Diversity Committee, which will seek to improve diversity in County police hiring through the three stages of the hiring process: recruitment, testing, and hiring. The Police Diversity Committee will assist with the implementation of County police reform recruitment and diversity initiatives. County Executive Curran is seeking recommendations from the Committee ahead of the next Police Officer Civil Service exam, which will likely be scheduled in 2022. Nassau’s Police Diversity Committee will be chaired by Deputy Director for Diversity and Engagement, Bishop Lionel Harvey, and will include the following members:
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LI civil rights leaders criticize Ryder comments on lack of diversity Email
Four Long Island civil rights leaders said that Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder relied on negative stereotypes of Black and Hispanic families to explain in a Newsday interview his department’s failure to attract greater numbers of minority hiring candidates.
Two of the leaders – NAACP Long Island Regional Director Tracey Edwards and Luis Mendez, formerly Nassau’s deputy director of minority affairs urged County Executive Laura Curran to ask for Ryder’s resignation.
“As a daughter of a Black police officer and proud aunt of a Black doctor, I am totally disgusted by the police commissioner’s ethnic stereotypes and blind ignorance,” Edwards said, adding: