In 2013, the Ferguson Police Department made 5,384 stops and 611 searches. Eighty-six percent of the stops and 92 percent of the searches were of black people.

Only 67 percent of the town’s population is black.

The racial inequality and profiling these numbers reveal is not only appalling, but also socially unacceptable.
However, it is not as easy to make sense of the social injustice as it might seem.

Are they solely a reflection of racist law enforcement?

Or is there more behind the story?

The issue revolving around race both includes and goes beyond what a police department does. There are some cases where police departments and their officers engage in racist actions; and other cases where the numbers of stops and arrests the officers make have nothing to do with skin color or ethnic background.

Whatever the case, the controversy revolving around race and race equality has been an ongoing problem since the founding of our nation.

Our country has tried countless times to try and solve this problematic issue, but it seems that we can never find a solution that works.

And on top of that, matters such as Ferguson and what happened recently in New York City highlight just how much racial inequality there is still left in America.

Michael Brown is dead.

Unfortunately, there is not a single thing anyone can do to change that fact.

However, what we can and must change is the pattern of biased treatment at the hands of police officers (in some cases), banks, schools, and elected officials.

We must change the way our society actively, although not always, tolerates racial slurs then perpetuates racial injustice.

If we do that, finally, then we might ensure that no more Michael Brown’s, Eric Garner’s, Oscar Grant’s or Trayvon Martin’s are killed.

That is the ideal vision.

After all, our nation was built upon the idea that every man is created equal.

Let’s not put that philosophy in vain.

Let’s make our Founding Fathers proud.