article_snippet: "another community, as we see, has been hurting and struggling for some time now," Chief Thomas Jackson says.
article_snippet: "city looks to become an example of how a community can move forward in the face of adversity.  
article_snippet: Community leaders and other officials agree.
article_snippet: We need to deal with the culture issue here to make sure whoever is coming in behind Chief Jackson is not a new face and a new name on the same type of issues," Patricia Bynes, a Democratic committeewoman for Ferguson Township," told CNN Wednesday.
article_snippet: CNN need to seriously deal with the culture of the police department and the municipal courts and the way the city is run.
article_snippet: So will the new chief need to be African-American to help defuse the racial tensions roiling the city?
article_snippet: But diversity is very important.
article_snippet: CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report.
highlights_snippet: Chiefs need to embrace need for change .
  