Ferguson's Elections, Post-Protests

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 9, 2015

Jeffrey Smith, assistant professor of politics and advocacy at The New School's Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, former Missouri state senator serving inner city St. Louis and the author of Ferguson in Black and White (Kindle Single, 2014), talks about the city council elections in Ferguson (the first since the protests over the police shooting) and whether the election of two African Americans bodes well for solving some of the problems the Justice Department found in its study of the St. Louis suburb.

"No county of a million ppl should have 63 different public safety apparatuses" as in St. Louis county. -@JeffSmithMO pic.twitter.com/1DxuhVENPN
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 9, 2015

Ferguson election tripled the # of African Americans on city council, but didn't elect the most progressive candidates, says @JeffSmithMo
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 9, 2015

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