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...July city council session, Danehy said selective certification smacked of "reverse discrimination." He said there is no justification for promoting black patrolmen "who happen to be so low on the list that to appoint them would throw the departmental table of organization out of line...
Danehy said there is no justification for promoting black patrolmen 'who happen to be so low on the list...
...suit, the patrolmen argued for promotion under provisions of a state "selective certification" rule that allows civil service positions requiring "special qualities" to be given to persons who may be outranked on a civil service list. Although the rule has been used primarily for women and bilingual persons, the patrolmen said the rule applied to them, since their ability to relate to the Cambridge black community constituted a "special quality" needed by the police force...
...response of some city councilors to the black patrolmen's complaint angered community groups including the local chapter of the NAACP and the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, as well as many white civic leaders. Council independents Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy made public statements last month that led one civic group to charge "racism" in the city council...
Where the administration has freely allocated money for security improvements, it seems reluctant to fight the crime problem by increasing its police force. Harvard has not hired additional foot patrolmen recently. Larry Letteri, president of the patrolmen's association, claims that too much money is invested in gimmicks and not nearly enough goes to ensure adequate police coverage...