Hundreds of police departments are plagued by serious racial disparities

Hundreds of police departments are plagued by serious racial disparities
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Hundreds of police departments are composed of 30 percent more white people than the communities they serve, according to The New York Times, which displayed its findings in an array of interactive maps.

The maps rank the 15 cities so that police departments with the greatest racial disparities come first. St. Louis, Mo., which includes Ferguson, tops the list. The New York City area, which has been marked by reports of racially biased police profiling and brutality for years, runs a close second.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.