article_snippet.sent: Bell, said, "I'm more interested in having quality on Ferguson's City Council," when asked about the change in Ferguson's City Council racial makeup.
article_snippet.sent: Bell had made community policing Bell No. 1 priority and said Bell intends to be deeply involved with the hiring of a new police chief in this St. Louis suburb.
article_snippet.sent: Bell said Bell wants Ferguson's police officers to be judged by the number of people people know in the community, not by the number of tickets people issue.
article_snippet.sent: That is what our democracy about," Bell said.
article_snippet.sent: Bell ran against Lee Smith, a retired electrical plant employee, in Ward 3, which includes Canfield Drive, where Michael Brown was killed, and the West Florissant Avenue business corridor that felt the brunt of the protests and the vandalism.
article_snippet.sent: " yelled Tommy Chatman Bey, a Bell supporter who was distributing campaign literature at Koch Elementary School, the precinct closest to where Michael Brown lived.