And it is a fine morning, thank you. It would be better if we were not dealing with the attempted assassinations of two police officers, but life is as they say...
A blogger cherry picking does not undermine anything for me. Those who will never believe this report will though.
It is a couple of lines in a 102 page report on a six month study. In the overall, when you have city councilors pressing police for more revenue, when that revenue is higher than normal to begin with and is coming from the poorest people, there is a problem. A problem that was allowed to fester and became a riot and is now a war, with snipers.
I want this on the record again....I do not give ONE fiddler's **** who is to blame for what Ferguson has become. I do care that it doesn't look like anything is going to get fixed.
But here is a sample of finding kind of illustrating what was the situation in Ferguson.............
Ferguson Law Enforcement Practices Disproportionately Harm Ferguson’s African-American Residents and Are Driven in Part by Racial Bias Ferguson’s police and municipal court practices disproportionately harm African Americans
Further, our investigation found substantial evidence that this harm stems in part from intentional discrimination in violation of the Constitution. African Americans experience disparate impact in nearly every aspect of Ferguson’s law enforcement system. Despite making up 67% of the population, African Americans accounted for 85% of FPD’s traffic stops, 90% of FPD’s citations, and 93% of FPD’s arrests from 2012 to 2014. Other statistical disparities, set forth in detail below, show that in Ferguson:
African Americans are 2.07 times more likely to be searched during a vehicular stop but are 26% less likely to have contraband found on them during a search. They are 2.00 times more likely to receive a citation and 2.37 times more likely to be arrested following a vehicular stop.
African Americans have force used against them at disproportionately high rates, accounting for 88% of all cases from 2010 to August 2014 in which an FPD officer reported using force. In all 14 uses of force involving a canine bite for which we have information about the race of the person bitten, the person was African American.
African Americans are more likely to receive multiple citations during a single incident, receiving four or more citations on 73 occasions between October 2012 and July 2014, whereas non-African Americans received four or more citations only twice during that period.
African Americans account for 95% of Manner of Walking charges; 94% of all Fail to Comply charges; 92% of all Resisting Arrest charges; 92% of all Peace Disturbance charges; and 89% of all Failure to Obey charges.
African Americans are 68% less likely than others to have their cases dismissed by the Municipal Judge, and in 2013 African Americans accounted for 92% of cases in which an arrest warrant was issued.
That report is too in depth and overwhelming to dismiss based on a blogger's interpretation of the figures.