[JennysCool]

A post by another FReeper on another thread got me thinking. Apparently, the Ferguson police force has a miniscule number of blacks, in a town that is predominantly black (that might have been why they felt they had to go to the state police to get a black officer to attempt to counter the protests). It sounds like an effort to attract more black lawmen and women to Ferguson couldn’t hurt.

[jjsheridan5]

It sounds like an effort to attract more black lawmen and women to Ferguson couldn’t hurt.

A band-aid on cancer. As long as black culture (current black culture, not the black culture that it subsumed) is normalized, then the epidemic will not disappear. It will just show up elsewhere. Any solution that doesn't address black culture is just a feel-good exercise that does nothing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why should it matter? Would bringing in Hispanic, Asian, Indian and Native American police officers up the “diversity” of Ferguson or do they have to be black? And do a certain percentage have to be Nation of Islam, Atheists, Voodoo and Jehovah’s Witness? And what about gender and transgender/homosexual? Mixed race like Mr. Obama?

[T-Bone Texan]

rRe your comment

"...an effort to attract more black lawmen and women to Ferguson couldn’t hurt...."

I respectfully disagree. It is a race to the bottom as far as standards go.

It is an absolute that to be more "inclusive" involves gutting our standards and settling for something inferior.

That hurts us all.