Opinion ID: 1451762
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: 1983 Remedial Order of the District Court

Text: To remedy these violations, the district court issued an order in 1983, regulating various aspects of the Department's procedures for appointments, assignments, and disciplinary measures, and enjoining the defendants, as well as the defendants' officers, agents, and employees, from engaging in discrimination, harassment, or retaliation against Department officers. See id. at 618-21. Among other things, the remedial order appointed a qualified, neutral Special Master to a) Review any and all disciplinary actions instituted against any black officer who claims such action is racially discriminatory in purpose or effect; and to recommend an appropriate adjustment in any such action found to be racially discriminatory as to initiation, severity of sanction or otherwise. b) Receive, investigate, and remedy all complaints of discriminatory treatment, racial harassment or slurs within the B.P.D. and, in appropriate cases, to bring disciplinary charges against those responsible and/or those supervisors who foster or permit such racial harassment to occur in violation of departmental rules. c) Review any disqualification of any black officer seeking promotion which disqualification is based on grounds of any suspension, disciplinary action, or alleged misconduct upon which such sanction was premised occurring from 1978 to the date of this Order. Id. at 619-20. The order provides that the special master's findings and recommendations may be appealed to the district court. Id. at 620.