A cheeky Slate piece published yesterday asked a question about Ferguson, MO that could be applied to almost any municipality with a majority population of color: "Why Is Its Government So White?"

Among the city's white "public servants" (who have more or less thrown that designation out the window by declaring a de facto war on the populace) are the mayor, the police chief, five of Ferguson's six city council members and 94 percent of the city's police force.

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The percentages of black people in administrative and law enforcement positions in Ferguson are therefore not only drastically lower than the percentage of black people living in Ferguson (67 percent), but also living in the United States of America, generally (13.2 percent, according to the latest census). This is a trend reproduced across the United States. Even the Detroit Police Department, which at 63 percent has one of the highest percentages of black police officers of any major police department in the country, still has a significantly lower proportion of black officers than black residents (who account for over 80 percent of the city's total population.)

Slate's Jordan Weissman explores possible reasons for the disparity, including low voter turn-out, a more transient population and the shady suspension of a black school board superintendent without explanation.

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But perhaps the question we need to be asking, especially in light of a police force in so-called democratic America that has responded to justified public outrage with something akin to martial law, is not why Ferguson's police force is so white, but what the inevitable implications of this disparity are on racial power dynamics. As Gov. Jay Nixon prepares to flood Ferguson with Missouri State Troopers, we must honestly ask ourselves if the solution to racialized police violence is more white cops.

It is that much easier to criminalize brown and black bodies if the face of justice is almost always white.

In other words, probably not.

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