Ferguson
Why are there only three blacks on Ferguson’s 53-officer P.D.? As you can read, it’s certainly not for a lack of trying, and they start to get to the right answer toward the end of the article when the Ferguson Mayor states that hardly any blacks apply to get on the force.
If you’re a black in the St. Louis area (for the sake of discussion and simplicity, I’m limiting this to St. Louis City and St. Louis County) and want to be a cop, would you want to be on the relatively low pay high danger Ferguson P.D.? Especially when affirmative action means that every LEA will be lusting after you. You have many better options when it comes to departments and agencies that pay better and/or have a lot more peaceful community to patrol. St. Louis City has roughly as much danger but with higher pay, St. Louis County is very similar and you might luck out by getting plopped in a South County precinct, and lots of municipal P.D.s in various incorporated areas of St. Louis County may pay as poorly as Ferguson but are a lot less hazardous, i.e. black. The most plum agencies are the old to new money suburbs of substantial population near Highway 40: Clayton, Ladue, Town and Country, Chesterfield. High pay and low danger.
This also says the mayor and five of the six city council members are white. The mayor is pictured here, and looks to me to be mixed race, one of those Adam Clayton Powell type “black” men.
ICYMI, bookmark my frequently updating thread about the actual situation. I put new news about and very closely relating to the festivities there, while tangential news and opinions that aren’t closely related to the violence like you read in this post, I’ll write a separate blog post.
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