A federal judge recently agreed to dissolve a 42-year-old court mandate on minority hiring within the Chicago Fire Department, finding that minority representation had increased substantially since its implementation in early 1980.
. Firefighter-EMT is the department’s most common rank. Hispanic firefighters, who were 13.5% of firefighters in 2016 are now the second largest group at 18%.
The news was particularly upsetting for James Winbush, a retired Black fire captain and a founding member of the African-American Firefighters & Paramedics League of Chicago, who had been an outspoken voice for increased hiring since 1967. “When I got on the job in October 1967, there were only 225 Blacks and five Hispanics” on the department,” he said. He blamed the mayor’s office and other black elected officials for not backing the fight to get more Black firefighters in the department.
While the department is far more diverse than any time in its past, Black firefighters complained that their numbers lagged at the department’s most common rank and that new hires couldn’t keep pace with the number of retirements of higher ranking Black personnel.Minority representation among the battalion chief rank increased from 2% in 1980 to nearly 26% by 2020, according to numbers cited by prosecutors from the DOJ’s Employment Litigation Section.
The decree was the result of a 1980 lawsuit filed by the federal government, challenging the CFD’s promotional practices. On March 31, 1980, federal Judge Frank McGarr entered the decree that mandated the city “shall seek to promote black and Hispanic persons in sufficient numbers so as to increase substantially the minority composition in each of the promotional ranks” and make each rank more representative.
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