Thomas Von Essen, left, and Mayor de Blasio
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[From article]
All over this city, people are alarmed that the de Blasio administration has substituted political correctness for safety.
“I’m very passionate about this,’’ Von Essen said. “The primary concern of this administration is to stay out of court, make settlements quickly. To try to appease every special-interest group in this city.’’
[. . .]
Evidently, to the city’s brass, avoiding lawsuits is of paramount importance. This administration paid out $98 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of minority firefighter hopefuls, which claimed that the written portion of the firefighting test is biased against black and Hispanic applicants. Now, officials fear a lawsuit from a women’s group, claiming that physical standards discriminate against females.
With Tuesday’s graduation of 305 probies, just 46 of the city’s approximately 10,400 smoke-eaters are gals. But competent women — including two who just graduated from the Fire Academy with Wax, but passed the physical test — might be taken for losers by the public.
Rather than conclude that the vast majority of females don’t possess the stamina and strength needed to effectively fight fires, city honchos have ensured that women may be plunked into jobs they have no business trying to perform. While Wax failed the physical endurance test, she scored well on the academic portion of the firefighting exam.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/07/ex-fdny-commissioner-de-blasio-is-a-disaster/
Ex-FDNY commissioner: ‘De Blasio is a disaster’
By Andrea Peyser
New York Post
May 7, 2015 | 11:15pm
[From article]
All over this city, people are alarmed that the de Blasio administration has substituted political correctness for safety.
“I’m very passionate about this,’’ Von Essen said. “The primary concern of this administration is to stay out of court, make settlements quickly. To try to appease every special-interest group in this city.’’
[. . .]
Evidently, to the city’s brass, avoiding lawsuits is of paramount importance. This administration paid out $98 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of minority firefighter hopefuls, which claimed that the written portion of the firefighting test is biased against black and Hispanic applicants. Now, officials fear a lawsuit from a women’s group, claiming that physical standards discriminate against females.
With Tuesday’s graduation of 305 probies, just 46 of the city’s approximately 10,400 smoke-eaters are gals. But competent women — including two who just graduated from the Fire Academy with Wax, but passed the physical test — might be taken for losers by the public.
Rather than conclude that the vast majority of females don’t possess the stamina and strength needed to effectively fight fires, city honchos have ensured that women may be plunked into jobs they have no business trying to perform. While Wax failed the physical endurance test, she scored well on the academic portion of the firefighting exam.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/07/ex-fdny-commissioner-de-blasio-is-a-disaster/
Ex-FDNY commissioner: ‘De Blasio is a disaster’
By Andrea Peyser
New York Post
May 7, 2015 | 11:15pm
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