ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department wants you on their force. Police Chief John Hayden said that the department is working with the Ethical Society of Police to help make that change. “The goal is to fill this gap,” he said...
Six months ago, the acquittal of a white police officer charged with the murder of an African-American man sparked widespread protests in St. Louis and put a spotlight on racial disparities in the police department. About 47 percent of city residents are...
For Ferguson native Christopher Jamison, living through the protests that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014, was a lesson in contradictions. Jamison is a black man who was born and raised in Ferguson and loves his hometown....
Sisters Rosa Rojas (L) and Suleima Rojas (R) are officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. CHAR DASTON | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO The seventh floor conference room of St. Louis Police Headquarters is windowless and sterile, but it...
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE A broad movement has sprung out of Ferguson, in which white people are increasingly joining a spirited crusade by black people to foster racial equity in St. Louis. They see the Midwestern city as a modern Selma,...
