article_snippet.sent: Ferguson: Black residents outnumber whites in the St. Louis suburb by more than a 2-to-1 ratio, yet at the time of Michael Brown's shooting, there were only three black officers on the city's 53-member force, and there was only one African-American member of the six-member City Council.
article_snippet.sent: (Two more African-Americans were voted in during this week's city's elections.)
article_snippet.sent: North Charleston: It's closer to an even split here, with census data from 2010 showing the city is 47% black and 42% white.
article_snippet.sent: The makeup of the city's police department is unclear, though The makeup of the city's police department's been widely reported that 2007 federal figures indicated The makeup of the city's police department was about 80% black.
article_snippet.sent: Three of the 10 City Council members are black.
article_snippet.sent: The ratio of white and black officers on the North Charleston Police Department appears to more closely mirror the makeup of the North Charleston Police Department population than does the Ferguson Police Department, but both are considerably off.
article_snippet.sent: As for the city councils, the latest election in the Ferguson Police Department makes the latest election in Ferguson governing body more representative than North Charleston.