There are only 36 black officers on a police force of 462.

The number of black officers increased even more - from only 5 to 7,000.

"Imagine what would happen if a black officer killed a white kid?"

The company has only one black officer among its top 150 executives, he said.

Of them, 434 white, 247 black and 46 Hispanic officers passed.

Two black officers were sworn in to the now 78-member police department last fall.

A year later he appointed the city's first eight black officers.

I spotted a black officer and suggested we ask him.

He was joined by most of his fellow black officers.

Last month, the 466-member department swore in eight black officers, seven of them women.