Locator map of the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Statistical Area in the northeastern part of the of . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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That’s the number of racial minorities on the 143-officer Scranton police force.
Meanwhile, Scranton has morphed into a fairly diverse city in recent years.
The 2010 census reported the city was more than 5 percent black and 3 percent Asian. More than 80 percent is white. About 10 percent of the population is Latino.
With the mostly white police force in Ferguson, Missouri, making headlines while trying to quell protests from the mostly black town residents after a white officer shot a black teenager last month, the lack of diversity in police departments, and the problems that come with it, have been pulled back into the public eye.
Read more: http://citizensvoice.com/news/diversity-lacking-in-scranton-w-b-police-1.1748937
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