Massachusetts OKs 40M settlement in sergeant exam suit

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts has agreed to a $40 million settlement in a long-running case brought by police who had argued that the state’s promotional exam to attain the rank of sergeant discriminated against Black and Hispanic candidates. The agreement could affect about 600 current and former police officers and calls on the state to create a new test that better measures the skills needed to serve as a police sergeant according to the settlement filed Friday in Suffolk Superior Court. Judge Douglas Wilkins had ruled in October that the promotional exam amounted to a discriminatory process against Black and…