If they were smart and ambitious, they could have been running that town.
“MOSTLY BLACK CITIES, MOSTLY WHITE CITY HALLS”
This is just a variation on the theme that was making the rounds a few years ago, in which welfare reservations were complaining about how much of their current revenues were going to white retirees.
As far as running the town, they can’t keep a tax base when so many of the population are defenders of thuggery. Businesses and taxpayers quickly exit. “Urban sprawl” is a euphemism for “urban decay”...
But the fact is they cried and moaned about a white city council they elected (or elected by default) and recently when a voting drive occurred, only 128 out of the entire city of Ferguson signed up.
Now, the police department and others around it are under fire because the police department does not reflect the population they serve. My agency recently went to a recruiting drive in Ferguson.
Four people showed up.
Now the rabble rousers are pushing for officers to live in the city limits of any city they police. If that were true in Ferguson, Darren Wilson would have been killed by now.
Further, agencies are going to for all intents and purposes write a report completely documenting in minute detail why a black candidate was turned away from being a police officer. To be fair, every candidate will have to have that report written and every agency will have to do the same. This puts an undue burden on the police department and will only open the agency up to dispute about qualification.
As a topper, a recent statement by the Berkeley Missouri Mayor complaining about why felons are banned from working in some fields. He didn’t say police work but in light of the Michael Brown incident and disparate representation of the police force, you could see where he was going.
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