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pbmus

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Thu Sep 4, 2014, 04:17 PM Sep 2014

WTF ...136

The Race Gap in America’s Police Departments
By JEREMY ASHKENAS and HAEYOUN PARK SEPT. 4, 2014

In hundreds of police departments across the country, the percentage of whites on the force is more than 30 percentage points higher than in the communities they serve, according to an analysis of a government survey of police departments. Minorities make up a quarter of police forces, according to the 2007 survey, the most recent comprehensive data available. Experts say that diversity in the police force increases a department’s credibility with its community. “Even if police officers of whatever race enforce the law in relatively the same way, there is a huge image problem with a department that is so out of sync with the racial composition of the local population,” said Ronald Weitzer, a sociologist at George Washington University. Listed below are local police departments from 15 metropolitan areas, sorted so that departments with the largest percentage-point differences of white officers to white residents are at the top.



http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/03/us/the-race-gap-in-americas-police-departments.html?_r=0
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WTF ...136 (Original Post) pbmus Sep 2014 OP
I am not sure how to figure this in our area. In our county there is a county and city police force jwirr Sep 2014 #1
It would help to title your posts . . . brush Sep 2014 #2
WTF ... pbmus Sep 2014 #3

jwirr

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1. I am not sure how to figure this in our area. In our county there is a county and city police force
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 04:37 PM
Sep 2014

and there is a reservation police force. I have no idea what the ratio is in this situation. It seems to work as far as I know. I am sure that there are more white police than Native American police but they work together. If I were to call in a complaint to the white forces the Native American force would be the ones to respond because we live inside the reservation.

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