Informative Essay On Murder In Baltimore

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Baltimore, known for it’s amazing harbor, known as bird land, and also known according to www.Neighborhoodscout.com for it's 13th highest rates of Murder. Murder is one of the many things I will be talking about that's wrong with Baltimore. Other things will be what's good about Baltimore. Like the harbor, Diversity and other things like that

Police Brutality, I mean I know not all police aren't bad but some are. It's no need need to shoot people most of the time for nothing and it's mostly black people being shot and killed. So this police brutality thing is mostly towards black people.It's rare if you hear on the news about a white person being shot or killed on the news by a Police.

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