.@ksdknews @USATODAY as though the county police is any better? The STL County PD has as bad a record on racial profiling as FPD!

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 12, 2015

Chief Belmar also said that they were lucky they didn’t lose two cops last night. And Ferguson protesters are lucky that the cops didn’t kill a bunch of protesters because the FPD simply can’t help itself to using excessive force whenever it suits them.

Moreover, any talk of a takeover of the FPD by the County Police ignores that the county PD is just as bad as the FPD. The numbers bear witness to the disproportionate policing of minorities by the county PD (that’s the MO AG motor vehicle stop report from 2013). It’s actually worse than FPD.

The disparity index for minority stops by the County PD: 1.5
The disparity index for minority stops by FPD: 1.37.

Numbers greater than 1 indicate over-representation. So, the County PD is even worse

Every way you cut the County PD data, they give minorities the shaft. 29% are given a warning versus a citation. 62% are given citations. For whites, the numbers are: 33% given warnings, 60.7% given citations.

The County PD isn’t the solution to Ferguson’s problem - a wholesale consolidation and elimination of all the local police departments in the area, firing top officials throughout the region, and installing new officials who aren’t putting revenue generation as the key factor in policing but community policing and public safety.