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crln-9603	Arnold-Garza, Sara; Gadsby, Joanna	Social justice and Baltimore: A brief history	2017	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3537	145	50	The 2016 investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division into the Baltimore City Police Department con- firms that biased practices are longstanding, systemic, and have contributed to disparity.25 Federal government response to the prob- lems in some urban neighborhoods include low-income housing developments and other antipoverty programs, which have had ques- tionable success in actually improving the underlying factors contributing to the decline January 2017 25 C&RL News of Baltimore neighborhoods and those in other U.S. cities facing similar issues. Between 1880 and 1910, the city’s population doubled to approximately 550,000, of which 88,000 were African American.7 At the same time, the large land tracts around Baltimore City and increased transportation led to suburban- ization.8	cache/crln-9603.pdf	txt/crln-9603.txt