The Baltimore Police Department has dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly tar­get­ed African-Americans for stops and arrests, a Justice Department inves­ti­ga­tion has found. After the police depart­ment took a “zero tol­er­ance” approach to polic­ing in the ear­ly 2000s, the report finds, it began engag­ing in a pat­tern and prac­tice of dis­crim­i­na­to­ry policing. Statistics ana­lyzed in the scathing 163-page report show that the […]