Are blacks disproportionately targeted in Ferguson? Blacks make up 65% of Fergusons population, yet they accounted for 93% of arrests, 92% of searches and 80% of traffic stops in the city last year, according to a racial profiling report by the Missouri attorney general. Blacks in Ferguson are twice as likely as whites to be stopped by police even though police find contraband for 34% of whites stopped, versus 22% of blacks, said Scott Decker, a criminologist on a team contracted by the attorney generals office to compile the data. Who are Ferguson’s police officers? The Ferguson Police Department has 53 total commissioned officers, three of whom are black and two of whom are other minorities; the rest are white, the police chief told the Los Angeles Times. Three of the officers are women and 50 are men, he said. The officer who shot Brown is a six-year veteran of the department and has been put on paid administrative leave, officials said.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:56:57 +0000
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