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CBS News
17-07-2025
- CBS News
Miami Gardens police chief denies racial bias claims in five Hispanic officers' lawsuit
Miami Gardens Police Chief Delma Noel-Pratt is rejecting allegations from five Hispanic officers who claim they were subjected to racial discrimination over three years. "I want to make it absolutely clear that these allegations are without merit," Noel-Pratt said on Thursday. "Every decision I make, as difficult as it may be, is rooted in operational necessity and not personal bias. I do not operate in isolation." The officers — Sgt. Pedro Valdez and Officers Juan Gonzalez, Francisco Mejia, Rudy Hernandez, and Christian Vega — are represented by attorney Mike Pizzi, who announced on Wednesday his intent to file a federal lawsuit against the city. He stated that the officers were unfairly demoted, transferred, and disciplined without cause. Noel-Pratt said one officer was reassigned from a temporary federal detachment, which is not a guaranteed position. Another was transferred based on staffing needs and departmental goals. "These decisions are not made lightly and they are certainly not based on race or ethnicity," she said. Noel-Pratt said calls for her resignation are "misguided and misplaced," and noted that City Manager Cameron Benson has reaffirmed his support for her leadership. CBS News Miami reached out to Benson for comment but has not received a response. The city issued a statement Thursday saying it would not comment on the officers' claims due to pending litigation. Pizzi said he stands by the allegations and criticized the city and the chief for not addressing the issues. "I plan to file the lawsuit within 30 days and I will see the chief in court," he said. Noel-Pratt, who has led the department since 2017, said she remains committed to fairness and accountability for all employees, regardless of race or background. "My job is to hold every employee accountable to the standards of the profession," she said. "Federal lawsuits come with the title, and I am not afraid of a lawsuit." She spoke at police headquarters flanked by a few dozen officers, along with Miramar Police Chief Delrish Moss and North Miami Police Chief Cherise Gause.
Entrepreneur
03-06-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Morgan Stanley Builds AI Tool That Fixes Major Coding Issue
Morgan Stanley first introduced the AI tool in January, and it has since saved developers 280,000 hours of work. Morgan Stanley built its in-house AI tool to tackle a difficult coding problem: reworking old legacy code into more updated coding languages. Morgan Stanley introduced the AI tool, which is based on OpenAI's GPT models, in January, per The Wall Street Journal. The tool, called translates code in older languages, such as Perl (released in 1987), into plain English, which developers can then use as a basis for rewriting the code into newer languages like Python. Related: Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don't Code — and AI Does It Instead Mike Pizzi, Morgan Stanley's global head of technology and operations, told WSJ that in the five months since its launch, has worked through nine million lines of code, saving the firm's 15,000 developers roughly 280,000 hours of work. Pizzi said that Morgan Stanley opted to build the tool itself because tech companies didn't have any solutions that could fit Morgan Stanley's exact specifications. Commercial tools lacked expertise in deciphering older coding languages, especially those specific to a company. "We found that building it ourselves gave us certain capabilities that we're not really seeing in some of the commercial products," Pizzi told WSJ. "We saw the opportunity to get the jump early." Related: Morgan Stanley Plans to Lay Off 2,000 Workers, Replacing Some with AI Morgan Stanley trained on languages within its own code base, including languages customized for the company. However, the AI tool still has growing to do when it comes to full translation. Though the tool can, in theory, rewrite code from an older language to a newer one, it doesn't know how to write the new code efficiently or as well as a human developer, Pizzi said. That's why Morgan Stanley is keeping human developers involved in the process of translating old or legacy code to new languages. Pizzi disclosed that the firm will not be reducing its software engineering workforce as a result of the AI tool, though the company did lay off 2,000 of its 80,000-person workforce in March. Morgan Stanley has released several AI apps for employees, including one that helps them summarize video meetings and another that quickly finds information for them from the company's body of research. Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick told investors last year that the AI tools could save employees up to 15 hours per week and be "potentially really game-changing," per Reuters.
