After nearly 15 years of litigation, the Suffolk County Superior Court awarded more than 600 Black and Latinx police officers a total of $40 million in compensation, finding they were overlooked for promotion due to a discriminatory promotional exam.
After nearly 15 years of litigation, the Suffolk County Superior Court on Thursday awarded more than 600 Black and Latinx police officers a total of $40 million in compensation, finding they were overlooked for promotion due to a discriminatory promotional exam.
“The attainability was obvious within those departments where you would see that we had minorities on the job, but very few that were of rank,” he said. “For me, that was something really odd.” However, Cano says the years of discrimination has come at a huge price for him and hundreds of other Black and Hispanic police officers.
Cano said the test for promotion was both trivial and taxing, consisting of 80 questions pulled from 10 books that officers are supposed to study over the course of four months. Then, the test was computerized and would not allow officers to go back and answer questions they skipped. In all, test takers were given two hours to complete the exam, roughly providing officers a minute-and-a-half, Cano said, to answer each question.
“They got a great score, but what was it that they did in the capacity of the job? How's their ability to communicate? What is their characteristic like, what did they give back to the community? What are the things that they do? And their training and their experience? And those things are not really factored into the test in a wholesome way that you can really take a picture of the individual versus just answering a question.”that a superior court judge agreed to a settlement.
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