article_snippet: Department of Justice officials found from 2012 to 2014 that black motorists in Ferguson, Missouri, were more than twice as likely as whites to be searched in traffic stops, even though whites were 26 per cent less likely to be found carrying contraband.
article_snippet: African-Americans were 68 per cent less likely than others to have African-Americans cases dismissed by a municipal court judge.
article_snippet: And from April to September of last year, 95 per cent of people kept at the city jail for more than two days were black, the six-month inquiry found.
article_snippet: Of the cases in which the police department documented the use of force, 88 per cent involved blacks, and victims of the 14 dog bites recorded by the department all were black.
article_snippet: Overall, African Americans make up 67 per cent of the population of Ferguson, about 10 miles north of downtown St. Louis.