I need answers to questio 5-8. Please and Thank You. Questions based on “The Edu

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I need answers to questio 5-8. Please and Thank You.

Questions based on “The Education of Edwin Raymond”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/magazine/a-black-police-officers-fight-against-the-nypd.html

by Saki Knafo, 2/21/16, NYTimes Magazine

1. Why are Edwin Raymond and several colleagues suing the New York City Police Department?

2. What did the federal courts rule in Floyd v. City of New York?

3. Detail one or more things about Edwin Raymond’s personal life or development that shaped the person he is now as a police officer.

4. How did Edwin Raymond approach policing different from some of his colleagues?

5. What was the police department’s overall approach to policing? Did Edwin Raymond’s approach to policing conflict with the police department’s overall policy? Explain.

6. In your opinion, and based on Raymond’s conversations with superiors, did the New York City Police Department violate the 14th Amendment or the 2010 state ban against quotas? Explain your answer.

7. Edwin Raymond ultimately questioned whether he was a smart police officer. When you consider his actions including starting a teenage leadership academy, participating in conferences with Chief Bratton, recording conversations, suing, etc., do you think that Officer Raymond was a smart police officer? Explain why or why not.

8. Does Edwin Raymond have a whistle-blowing claim or a retaliatory constructive discharge claim?

Explanation / Answer

5.

The department had recently announced a push to recruit more men and women like him — minority cops who could help the police build trust among black and Hispanic New Yorkers. The department was establishing a fairer and smarter policy by doing this.

Over the past year, Raymond had received a series of increasingly damning evaluations from his supervisors. He had been summoned to the hearing to tell his side of the story. His commanders had been punishing him, he believed, for refusing to comply with what Raymond considered a hidden and ‘‘inherently racist’’ policy.

Black and Latino officers have long contributed rare voices of dissent within a department that remains predominantly white at its highest levels.

6.

Raymond and his fellow plaintiffs will try to prove otherwise. The suit accuses the department of violating multiple laws and statutes, including a 2010 state ban against quotas, and the 14th Amendment, which outlaws racial discrimination. It asks for damages and an injunction against the practice. Although plaintiffs in other cases have provided courts with evidence suggesting the department uses quotas, this is the first time anyone has sued the department for violating the 2010 state ban against the practice. In Raymond’s mind, quota-based policing lies at the root of almost everything racially discriminatory about policing in New York. Yet the department has repeatedly told the public that quotas don’t exist.

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