Detectives Union Head Slams NYPD Recruitment Efforts

The head of the police detectives’ union doesn’t believe there are actually 100 blacks in law enforcement:

Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, said the group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care is like a secret society that constantly chooses to criticize the NYPD while failing to show support for cops — even for slain black cops.

The group, now called 100 Blacks Who Care, was founded by Capt. Eric Adams and has been advocating changes in NYPD undercover tactics, firearms training and removal of top brass in the wake of last month’s fatal shooting of Bell outside a strip club.

“I only see the same five people at their press conferences,” Palladino told The Post.

“What is the identity of the other 95 members, what is their connection to law enforcement and more importantly, what do they care about, since they have showed no interest in the five black NYPD detectives who recently sacrificed their lives for their community?” he asked.

Marq Claxton, a retired NYPD detective who serves as the group’s “minister of information,” said 100 Blacks is a “civil rights” — not fraternal — organization with more than 130 members, most of them in the NYPD.

He said entry into the group is by “invitation only.” He declined to provide a list or say what the dues payments are.