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Pittsburgh Police Chief Remains Committed to a Racially Diverse Police Force

Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper said he remains committed to developing a racially diverse police force, despite the fact that a recruit class sworn in last week was 94 percent white. Just one officer in the class of 34 is black, in a city where more than one in four residents is African-American. One officer in the class is Asian; five are women. Whites represent more than 82 percent of the 930-member police force and, by 2008 census estimates, 67 percent of the city. The deficit of minority officers is troubling to community leaders, who say diversity is necessary to build trust in neighborhoods where residents are notoriously wary of police. Click here to read more from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
 
 



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