No Black Rookies
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get these nets
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What hurts non-white potential recruits in police or fire departments is that most are first generation applicants. Those departments are full of 3,4, 5th generation white dudes who knew every detail and t to cross, and i to dot for those applications when they were sophomores in high school. People are groomed for those jobs.
People doing career changes are out of the loop in many ways.
What Black firefighter and police organizations across Jersey have done is to set up pipelines to recruit high school students and let them know what the job and the application process is years ahead of time.
Proactive.
People doing career changes are out of the loop in many ways.
What Black firefighter and police organizations across Jersey have done is to set up pipelines to recruit high school students and let them know what the job and the application process is years ahead of time.
Proactive.
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FishNGrits
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Credit history and work history…. 
Young people change jobs a lot. I changed jobs just to get raises.
I honestly got turned down from the NYFD and later I guess some class action law suite came out talkin bout they HAD to hire minorities or some shyt. They been on that
time
Young people change jobs a lot. I changed jobs just to get raises.
I honestly got turned down from the NYFD and later I guess some class action law suite came out talkin bout they HAD to hire minorities or some shyt. They been on that
time
Gritsngravy
Superstar
We all know the Italians, Irish, polish folks are greedy and ain’t trying to give up spots, that’s why the control the city jobs for the most part and you got to jump through hoops giving you the run around just to get an opportunity and you still won’t get the job
Thats typical for office govt jobs thoCredit history and work history….
Young people change jobs a lot. I changed jobs just to get raises.
I honestly got turned down from the NYFD and later I guess some class action law suite came out talkin bout they HAD to hire minorities or some shyt. They been on that
Even more so for public security agencies (police/feds/defence contractors )
FishNGrits
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Had no clue. Like you need a decent job to fix your credit, and they deny you a job for having weak credit. Could of just been a dumb kid who wasn’t mature and defaulted on a student loan or some shyt.
.Shyt kind of twisted.
Heafcliffe
Hope there's puddin' in the clink...
Not shocked in the least bit...
Muthafukkas be working minimum wage jobs at the movie theatre and Applebees 6mo before they became a pig and they talking about work history?
Yes fire department checks credit as well as the PD and Sheriff in LA countyCredit history and work history….
Young people change jobs a lot. I changed jobs just to get raises.
I honestly got turned down from the NYFD and later I guess some class action law suite came out talkin bout they HAD to hire minorities or some shyt. They been on that
Yes it is.Being a cop is so selective up north
I know down Florida it's different. My family in Broward tell me that the state is basically hiring anyone to fill in Police and Teacher positions.
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its to help prevent stuff like this but it's not a 100% deterrence.
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get these nets
Veteran
Related..... Black lawmaker sponsored and fought for bill to create this program
*first 7 minutes discusses the Cadet program
Boston Fire Department celebrates inaugural class of cadets, aims to diversify ranks
June 23, 2023Mayor Michelle Wu welcomed the inaugural members of the newly formed Fire Cadet program Friday, three years after a state home rule petition paved the way for its creation.
“Some of you join us from our Boston Fire Teen Academy, some of you are recent graduates, and some of you are coming from established careers in other industries,” Wu said at the pinning ceremony celebrating the class Friday in Dorchester. “But all of you share a calling. A sense of purpose and responsibility to be part of something greater than just your own self, to serve our city and our communities.”
The 32-member class, which represents 10 Boston neighborhoods, will complete a two-year program and become eligible for admission into the Boston Fire Academy.
The launch of the program follows similar training programs created by the Boston Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police.
The department needed the three years following the passage of a bill, sponsored by state Representative Chynah Tyler, to plan and budget for the program, said Michael Gaskins, diversity recruitment officer for the Boston Fire Department.
The program, modeled after the city’s Police Cadet program, is designed to prepare young Boston residents for firefighting service and diversify the Boston Fire Department, which is dominated by white men.
“Programs like this can be a national model to address some of the underrepresented communities that we might not find in our applicant pool from those that have served” in the military, said Gaskins
Gaskins said the civil service test aspiring firefighters take to enter the academy often prioritize already overrepresented groups such as veterans, which limits the diversity of the applicant pool in race, age, and language ability.
“For the cadets, this gives us a totally different track,” Gaskins said.
Sixty-nine percent of the inaugural cadet class belong to communities underrepresented in the Boston Fire Department, according to the city’s website. Seventeen are people of color and nine are women.
The number of women in the class is high compared to statewide numbers, which indicate that about one in 26 enter the service, according to Gaskins.
“We can call them unicorns, if you will,” Gaskins said. “When I first arrived in 2022, ... out of the 90 that were in the recruit class, we had one woman.”
Fire Commissioner Paul Burke lauded the diversity.
“We look forward to turning this diverse group of women and men into Boston Firefighters,” said Burke in a posting on the city’s website.
Additionally, cadet eligibility requires at least three years of residency in Boston, as the department aims to build a class with “cultural competency that comes from that neighborhood upbringing,” Gaskins said.
Over the next two years, the cadets, who range from 18 to 25 years old, will train extensively with the fire department, getting hands-on experience and familiarizing themselves with community residents and firefighting tools.
Wu commended the group for speaking languages ranging from Spanish to Haitian Creole to American Sign Language. Gaskins said language skills are “desperately needed within the department.”
“The power being the first lies in ensuring that you’re not the last,” Wu said. “That you will be there as supports and mentors for those who are going to follow in your footsteps.”
