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FDNY Outreach Leads To More Recruiting Among Minorities
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The FDNY Commissioner says the department has recruited almost twice as many black candidates for its upcoming exam as it did for the last one as it steps up its outreach to...
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FDNY Looks To Attract Minorities As Exam Deadline Looms
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - With the FDNY under attack for not having enough minorities in the department, fire commissioner Sal Cassano took his campaign to 125th Street in Manhattan two days ahead of the...
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Judge: Independent Monitor To Oversee FDNY Diversification Effort
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A federal judge will appoint an independent monitor to oversee an effort to make the Fire Department of New York more diverse. Judge Nicholas Garaufis gave his findings...
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Yonkers Fire Department Targets Minority Candidates In Recruitment Drive
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The Yonkers Fire Department is seeking to hire more minorities. The Journal News reports the city plans to send Black and Hispanic officers into minority neighborhoods...
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More Minorities Pass New FDNY Entrance Exam
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – More than 40 percent of the applicants who passed the latest New York fire department exam are minorities. That’s better than the results of the past three exams. The city is...
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NYPD Report: Minorities Account For 90 Percent Of Stop And Frisks
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Data released by the NYPD shows that in 2011, nearly 90 percent of all those stopped as part of the controversial Stop and Frisk program were black or Hispanic. Those two...
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Cuomo: New Fund Will Provide Opportunties For Women, Minorities In Nanotech
ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced a privately-supported $15 million fund to support the involvement of women and minorities businesses in the burgeoning...
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Local Leaders Slam Bloomberg For Comments On Stop-And-Frisk
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — African-American mayoral candidate Bill Thompson supports the NYPD stop-and-frisk policy, but he called Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remarks about how officers stop “whites too...
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Bloomberg Won’t Apologize For Remarks On Stop-And-Frisk
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A defiant Mayor Michael Bloomberg would not apologize Sunday for his controversial comments about the NYPD stop-and-frisk program and how officers stop “whites too much.”...
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NBA Looks Into Alleged Tape Of Clippers Owner Ranting About Minorities
SAN FRANCISCO (CBSNewYork/AP) — Anger, frustration and calls for action echoed around the NBA on Saturday after an audio recording surfaced of a man identified as Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald...
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City Jail Oversight Board Under Fire For Lack Of Minorities, Mental Illness...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A New York City civilian jail oversight board is being criticized for having no minorities or experts in mental illness. That comes at a time when the nations’...
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