Bg, the demographics shifts that you speak off in Ferguson sort of defends the poor racial representation on the police force as might other things.

25 years ago 1-4 black to white, now 2 out of 3, so that’s fairly rapid as you say. Ferguson would probably have to fire decent cops perhaps break the law to keep up….or set quotas for giving all new openings to black people no matter who applied. For all we know few qualified black people applied for what was available and quotas with lower standards could be dangerous. What happened to the amazing african american candidates for the ferguson police force who didn’t get work. What is the history there if any? There must be cases of complaints against a shutout if it existed?

Elected positions come down to the electorate…hard to play the race card there….apathy card maybe.