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The Complicity Triangle: Why Albany, City Hall, and One Police Plaza...
Executive Summary For over two decades, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has operated a psychological screening regime that flagrantly violates state licensing laws, federal employment selection standards, and fundamental civil rights...
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Policy Statement: The Illegality of Unlicensed Psychological Evaluations in Police Hiring...
The Sanders Firm, P.C. is committed to protecting the rights of civil service applicants and employees and ensuring full compliance with New York State’s Education Law. We categorically reject the NYPD’s claim that it is exempt from the...
Read More ›Policing the Mind: How the NYPD’s Use of Unlicensed Psychologists Violates...
Thesis: This thought piece examines how the New York City Police Department has systematically circumvented New York State licensing laws to employ unlicensed individuals as “psychologists,” conducting fitness evaluations that directly impact...
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Overtime or Overreach? The Racial Double Standard in NYPD ‘Reform’
Executive Summary For over a decade, the New York City Police Department has operated under a ballooning overtime budget that defied financial logic and internal accountability. Between FY2013 and FY2022, the City’s annual overtime...
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Policy Memorandum: Civilianizing the NYPD—A Roadmap to Fiscal Responsibility and Public...
Executive Summary For over a century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has maintained a workforce structure that blurs the line between law enforcement and civil service. Despite repeated fiscal crises, audit warnings, and internal...
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UGESP Unveiled: Why Civil Service Compliance Begins with Valid Selection Procedures
Executive Summary For nearly half a century, the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) have served as the federal government’s benchmark for ensuring fairness and validity in hiring, promotion, and disqualification...
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