The two men say that because the department does not routinely test officers for hearing, the hearing-aid ban does little to weed out officers with hearing loss.
It commended the New York Police Department for initiating a program, in the wake of the Edwards shooting, to test officers for unconscious racial bias, something Mr. Stone said he hoped would be replicated across the country.
Mr. Sharpton said the call to test officers' sobriety after shootings was a "rallying cry" among black religious leaders and elected officials when they met with Mr. Kelly and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at City Hall on Nov. 27 to calm frayed tempers after the Bell shooting.
Because there's no good national data on police shootings, racial bias has frequently been measured using lab simulations to test officers in hypothetical scenarios ― something researchers want to move beyond to determine whether racial bias is a factor in police shootings in the real world.
It spoke of testing officers being intimidated or misled by security staff, of athletes giving addresses in closed military cities, making it impossible to test them.
The company's veterans and the testing officers said their main message was that the way to keep safe is by focusing on the small, present-tense details of helicopter flying, ingrained by training and repetition.
– the drug-testing officer failed to record any information about the partial sample in the doping control form.
After the sobriety tests, Officer Schneider told Mr. Powell that he would be fingerprinted, photographed and would have to appear before a judge.
In February, he was interviewed for the sergeant job, he said, and was asked if he would "hold a grudge" against other officers if he was promoted -- a test, Officer Vasnaik claims, to see if he would retaliate for years of racial taunts from other officers.
And by Saturday evening, when the last would-be rookie has taken the test, Officer Ferreira and his six colleagues expect to have screened as many as 4,000 applicants, an accomplishment in three days that would rival New York's recruiting effort so far this year.
