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what they need to succeed. There is no
in-group of people with access to secret
information that's going to help it succeed
in becoming a lieutenant or a captain or
an officer. The department needs to provide
equitable professional development
resources to everyone, and may the best
person win.
Inclusion is also simple. If we are
about to make a decision, we look around
the room and see if the people who are
impacted by that decision are part of
the decision-making process. Do you
have Black folks sitting there? Do you
have White folks sitting there? Do you
have Hispanic folks sitting there? Do you
have women sitting there? These things
become important because that inclusion
strengthens the likelihood that the
decision is being vetted properly. It's a
very intentional act. DEI isn't just about
creating a pleasant work environment-it
has real impacts on the performance of
fire departments.
How does greater DEI impact
performance?
When I was a young firefighter in LA, I
was working at a fire station that was in a
predominantly Black neighborhood. That
fire station was considered pretty diverse
for the time; we had six or seven Black
firefighters out of 38 people. One day, we
get a call for a room and contents fire in
this garden-level apartment where an
older Black woman lived. We go in, put the
fire out, it's all good. When we were finished,
the captain, who happened to be a
White guy insensitive to race, told us, " We
don't need to do a big overhaul, just scrape
the burnt stuff away from the walls and
let them hire somebody to come and clean
it up. " But that's not how we did things
for the White folks. The brothers looked
around and we said, " Nope, we going to
give Mrs. Sally the same level of service
in South Central that we will give Mrs.
Whoever, who happens to be White in a
rich neighborhood. " We did the overhaul,
as we should have. That would not have
happened if we didn't have that diversity
on the rig.
That's one example of how the level
and quality of service goes up with DEI.
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