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Urban policing forum set for Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says an upcoming forum will provide a second opportunity to gather people’s thoughts about challenges facing urban police forces.

Koster is billing Tuesday’s event in Kansas City as a “round-table discussion” on solutions to low minority participation in city law enforcement agencies.

 He held a similar event earlier this month in St. Louis.

The racial composition of police forces has come under scrutiny following the Aug. 9 shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. The police force there has three black members among its 53 officers, though two-thirds of the town’s residents are black.

At the St. Louis event, some people said black residents often have strained relationships with police from a young age.

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