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...July 31, five black patrolmen--the only blacks on the 250-man Cambridge force--filed a class action suit in federal court against Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, the city manager, the Cambridge City Council, the State Civil Service Commission and the State Civil Service Division. The police officers said they are being denied promotions "due to the racial practices and policies of the defendants." They seek a court order to have all eligible black patrolmen promoted to sergeant and to force the city to implement an "affirmative action" plan for police recruitment and promotion. A special three-judge panel...
Community dissatisfaction with police intensified with the handling of the black patrolmen's federal court suit. Members of the Coalition to Combat Racism were disturbed when Mayor Sullivan on Aug. 19 denied charges of racial discrimination in police hiring and promotion practices. Sullivan said, "When I was mayor in '68, we gave them [blacks] the opportunity. We provided programs for those minority people, but they never went through with them...
...black patrolmen charged that police officials made an unwarranted reduction in the number of openings for the rank of sergeant and that the reduction was motivated by a desire to keep blacks out of upper-level positions. There has only been one black sergeant in the department's history...
Four of the five patrolmen took civil service tests in April and were among the 73 persons listed as eligible for promotion. The blacks scored 92.38, 90.16, 81 and 89.52 on a 100-point scale. The highest scoring black patrolman, Calvin J. Kantor, ranked twentieth on the civil service eligibility list...
Sullivan denied the patrolmen's charges that the police do not actively recruit blacks. He said, "When I was mayor in '68, we gave them the opportunity. We provided programs for those minority people, but they never went through with them...