And a federal judge has ruled the New York City Fire Department intentionally discriminated against African American applicants by continuing to use a test known to put the applicants at a disadvantage. US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis had already ruled last July the use of the tests amounted to racial discrimination. New York City has the least diverse fire department of any major city in the United States. The fire department is about 90 percent white, even though African Americans and Latinos make up the majority of the city’s population. Legal experts told the New York Times the ruling is the first in recent memory to fault a city for discriminating against a large group of people in the workplace.