Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty wants his patrol officers to wear video cameras. He believes his department needs to hire more minorities and knows that some members of his force are racially biased.

Citty offered his thoughts in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday after the fatal shooting earlier this month of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

The Aug. 9 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson sparked weeks of unrest and clashes between protesters and law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb and prompted a national conversation about the lack of racial diversity in law enforcement ranks, the need for transparency in police shooting investigations and the importance of police departments earning the trust of those they serve.

Despite demographic differences between the two communities — Ferguson covers about six square miles, and two-thirds of its 21,000 residents are black, while Oklahoma City spreads over about 600 square miles, and about two-thirds of its 600,000 residents are white — Citty said there are still local lessons to be drawn from recent events in Missouri.