today they have firefighters like maurice kemp to show for it.ief maurice kemp, the department's first african-american in charge. >> like all other major city departments, it doesn't come without a struggle. i mean, we have to be conscious of the fact that we need to be diverse. >> reporter: mannix believes the current fdny test focuses too much on producing a racially diverse department and not enough on identifying the strongest candidates regardless of race. >> you're asking me to make my job more dangerous to satisfy a social engineering experiment. >> reporter: mannix doesn't officially speak for the city, but both the fire department and the mayor declined our requests for an interview. in a statement, the city said that it disagrees with the court's findings that these tests were discriminatory and intends to appeal. the city says next time it hires, the incoming class will be one-third minority, but no new firefighters have been hired in the last two years and no one knows when the city will hire again. >> i find it shocking that the fir

today they have firefighters like maurice kemp to show for it. that's chief maurice kemp, the department's first african- american in charge. >> like all of the major city departments, it doesn't come without a struggle. i mean we have to be conscious of the fact that we need to be diverse. >> reporter: mannix believes the current fdny test focuses too much on producing a racially diverse department and not enough on identifying the strongest candidates regardless of race. >> you're asking me to make my job more dangerous to satisfy a social engineering experiment. >> reporter: mannix doesn't officially speak for the city but both the fire department and the mayor declined our request for an interview. in a statement, the city said that it disagrees with the court's findings that these tests were discriminatory and intends to appeal. the city says next time it hires the incoming class will be one- third minority. but no new firefighters have been hired in the last two years. no one knows when the city will hire again. >> i find it shocking that t