Legal Opinion · Dissent
Hammon v. Barry
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 27, 1987No. Nos. 85-5669, 85-5670 and 85-5671Published
1DissentMikva, Circuit Judge
As of April 1, 1984, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia was 38 percent black. The officer corps of the Fire Department was 26 percent black. In a city where the working-age population at the time was about 70 percent black, this disproportion is curious. Black applicants from the city have outnumbered whites for as long as anyone can remember; in 1984, for example, blacks constituted 64.6 percent of the total number of applicants.
Plainly and simply, the Fire Department’s curious makeup is the product of discrimination. The District of Columbia for years followed a policy of overt…
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