The city is paying $700,000 to two recently retired black Detectives and the widow of a third to settle a lawsuit they brought claiming that they were repeatedly passed over for promotion in favor of white colleagues despite having gotten strong performance ratings from their supervisors.
They had charged in their complaint in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that they were victimized by “a secretive and unstructured promotions policy, administered by white supervisors who refuse to promote deserving African-American Detectives.”
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