article_snippet: Residents elect City Council members, who in turn appoint the city manager.
article_snippet: The city manager directs and supervises all city departments, including Department of Justice.
article_snippet: In fact, the City of Ferguson enjoyed so much success in issuing tickets and fines that Ferguson, population 21,000, was ranked in the top eight of the 80 municipal courts in St. Louis County by having more than $1 million in revenue in 2010, African Americans"
  A Department of Justice report said.
article_snippet: that court collections the previous month reached $235,000 -- the first month collections exceeded $200,000.
article_snippet: When Ferguson court revenues exceeded $2 million for the whole of 2012, the city manager responded to the police chief in an internal email: