The first police department Darren Wilson worked for had so many problems it was disbanded, sending him to Ferguson. http://t.co/iMVTtfJRTm

— Mark Berman (@themarkberman) August 24, 2014

The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.

That was three years ago. One of the officers who worked in that department, and lost his job along with everyone else, was a young man named Darren Wilson.

Some of the Jennings officers reapplied for their jobs, but Wilson got a job in the police department in the nearby city of Ferguson.