Too many white males are NYPD bosses compared with the rank-and-file�s diversity and the city�s makeup overall, several New York City Council members said Wednesday.
White males hold at least 70 percent of positions in the police force�s highest ranks, such as captain, deputy inspector, inspector, deputy chief, assistant chief and bureau chief, according to statistics distributed at the council�s Committee on Public Safety oversight hearing.
Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) said he wants to know whether there�s �some blockage� preventing racial minorities and women from taking promotional tests and ascending to the NYPD�s top ranks.
�In the department, there�s only one constituency that outpaces, statistically, everybody else, and that�s white males, and we have to figure that out,� Williams said.
The NYPD�s first-deputy commissioner, Benjamin Tucker, told the committee that the department encourages all police officers to seek promotion and makes sure the tests are fair.
�You don�t get to the captain rank unless you take the promotional exams,� said Tucker, who is black. �At the end of the day you end up with whoever passes those exams being moving up through the ranks.�
Promotion into uniformed ranks beyond captain is at the discretion of the NYPD brass � but the pool consists of those who have already been promoted to captain.
Of the NYPD�s nearly 36,000 cops, more than half are white. The biggest minority groups are Hispanic, 27 percent; black, 15 percent; and Asian, 7 percent. Seventeen percent of the force is female, statistics show.
(Source: Newsday)
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they’ll allow it when they can confine them to doing an exact job description & approve & fire whoever they want.
we’d need to reinvent/design the entire foundation/narrative. an African shomrim, except require full access to intel infrastructure & ability to control every aspect of education system as well as uncensor the media sector etc etc.
obviously anything they agree to & hand us will be irrelevant & only serve to further pacify us with its time factor.
police don’t prosecute or report crimes committed by the western euro intelcom (r1bCommy tech- which in my opinion are the only relevant crimes). attempting to report it requires by law the reporting individual to be officially labeled with psychotic symptoms & mental desease & placed on a hidden watch list which is handed off to some darpa branches with exclusivly r1boversight.
Why aren’t there more mentally ill commanders either.
@#1- huh?