CHICAGO (AP) – The Chicago Police Department is struggling to hire applicants that will allow it to reflect the city’s racial makeup. Chicago’s inspector general on Thursday released a report noting white police department applicants are far more likely to get hired than African Americans. The report indicates that 37% of the department’s applicants from 2016 to 2018 were Black in a city where 30% of the population is African American. But by the end of the process, only 18% of all candidates who were invited to the police academy were Black. Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s office questioned whether the department’s employment process is equitable.