Aurora Cop Watch

Thank God for the Denver Post. They get the information you want to know, but don't really want to track down on your own.

The racial make-up of Aurora's police force:

Of the Police Department's 626 sworn officers, 85.3 percent are white, 6.9 percent are Latino, 4.3 percent are black, 1.1 percent are Asian and 1.1 percent are American Indian.

Of course, if you add those numbers up, it only comes to 98.7 so I don't know where that other 1.3% went. To "Other," I guess.

Here's hapless Police Chief Dan Oates on the subject:

"We have been trying really, really hard to attack the diversity issue forever," Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said. "At this point, the Department of Justice intervention will help us with any new ideas and strategies."

When Oates was hired in 2005, diversifying the police force was among his top priorities.

Something tells me that this guy's just not up to the job...