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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.
Want to know how many Blacks, Asians or Latinos are employed by New Jersey’s police forces? The answer is no one knows a year after a new law requiring the state to provide such information went on the books.
Not only does the state not have the information although officials are promising it will be ready by early 2022 but a public records request made by the USA TODAY Network New Jersey to the state s
540 police departments generated only 53 replies.
“If you’re not measuring what you’re doing, how are you ever going to improve?” said Jiles Ship, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. “We have to really develop a matrix to measure what we’re doing.”
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New York, NY (77WABC) In the wake of the recent anti-semitic hate crimes against Jewish people, Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed New York State Police to increase patrols at synagogues, schools and other Jewish community facilities in the downstate region.
Hate has no place in our state.
I am directing the @nyspolice to increase patrols at synagogues, schools & other Jewish community facilities following a spike of violent attacks.
We will do all we can to help ensure Jewish New Yorkers and New Yorkers of all faiths are safe.
You can expect to see heavy New York State Police presence at Jewish educational and religious facilities in New York City, Westchester, Long Island, Rockland, and Orange counties.
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N.Y. Bill Targets Privacy Issues Around Criminal DNA Profiles
Municipal DNA identification indexes in New York have raised privacy concerns after a report showed they’re widely unregulated. One state lawmaker proposes to shut down these databases and create a single state-run index.
May 18, 2021 •
Shutterstock Under a recently proposed New York bill, municipalities would no longer have access to individual DNA identification indexes because of questions about security, privacy and a lack of regulations from state lawmakers.
DNA identification indexes consist of DNA profiles acquired from evidence samples of convicted offenders who committed either a penal law felony or a felony offense.