Investigation of the Ferguson Police Reflection
The media say that there is a war on the police. This is not true, quite frankly, it’s the
other way around. The Ferguson police department does not care about their citizens. Ferguson is
a predominately black community which is why the police have made it their duty to make a
profit off of them instead of protecting them. The officers see free-speech rights as disobedience.
They either didn’t get proper training or are just ignorant racists if they see innocent movements
as physical threats. The Ferguson police officers have a pattern of stopping people unreasonably
without any suspicion. The only reason they have for these stops which they cannot say is that
the “suspect” is black. They
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Instead of giving out
warrants for murderers and thieves the warrants were for minor violations such as; parking
infractions, traffic tickets and housing code violations. It makes no sense to arrest someone just
because they didn’t show up to court for a traffic ticket.
A police officer is not supposed to have any racial bias, however the Ferguson police
department actually reinforces the racial bias and stereotyping. Their records show that they are
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extremely biased against African Americans. There was data collected from the Ferguson police
department from 2012 to 2014. The African American population of Ferguson consisted of 67
percent. However, 85% of vehicle stops, 90 percent of citations and 93 percent of arrests made
by the Ferguson police department were made towards African Americans. African Americans
are twice as likely to be stopped than white people, but they are also 26 percent less likely to be
in possession of contrabands.
The Ferguson police department only cares about the money that
they make from basically looting African Americans under the pretense of ticketing them