Three black detectives who said they were discriminated against in the NYPD’s elite Intel Division have received a $700,000 settlement.
The detectives — Jon McCollum, Theodore Coleman and Roland Stephens — had blamed the division’s commanding officer, Chief Thomas Galati, for systematically discriminating against them while promoting less qualified white colleagues. Galati’s predecessor, now-retired Deputy Commissioner David Cohen, was also named in the suit. Galati and Cohen are white.
“In spite of their proven track records of achievement and strong recommendations from their direct supervisors, they were repeatedly passed up for promotion due to their race. More than one supervisor who recommended them said that if they had been white then they would have been promoted,” read the suit, which was filed in 2017 and settled last week.
Their claims were backed up by
via NY Daily News
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