Police organizations in St. Louis have separate predominantly white and black organizations

[Skidmore]

Interesting.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/01/1348628/-St-Louis-has-two-police-associations-one-for-white-officers-and-one-for-black-officers?detail=facebook

It all makes so much more sense now.

Although it doesn't say so in its name, the St. Louis Police Officers Association, which has staunchly defended Darren Wilson, defamed Mike Brown, and recently called for the suspension of St. Louis Rams football players who showed solidarity with Ferguson, is actually the (White) St. Louis Police Officers Association. African-American officers in St. Louis have their own separate organization that advocates for their needs.

Called the St. Louis Black Police Officers Association until 1975, African-American officers continue to organize separate from their white counterparts in what they now call the St. Louis Ethical Society of Police.

In a strange twist of irony, the head of the African-American police union in St. Louis is a black man named Darren Wilson. In a recent letter he stated:

Our motto is “We are the conscious of the St. Louis Police Department.” We did not come to this motto lightly. We believe that someone has to be willing to stand up and hold our Police Department to the oaths of service that we all have taken.
In fact, our motto is almost like another type of oath. It is a promise---a promise to you that we will be working every day to be the conscious of the St. Louis Police Department.

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[elleng]

1. Same for Bar associations,

and probably others.

[BootinUp]

2. We need some police officers to come forward

and speak some truth. I am not holding my breath, just saying it would sure help.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Why am I so NOT surprised to learn this? nt

[marym625]

4. Wow! n/t

[heaven05]

5. amerikkkan segregation

at it's finest..... and all wear the same uniform, carry a gun and wear the same badge. And one 'union' defends the murderer and injustice, even guards the murdering cowards home and the other spouts platitudes. Speak out against the injustice and your words carry weight. Otherwise, just words that ring hollow.

[ANewEra]

6. So much for that "post-racial America" myth. NT

[Igel]

7. "Conscience."

Unless he really does mean that they are the only conscious people in the St. Louis PD and the others are the comatose.