Editing Waterloo, Iowa (section)

==== 21st century ====
In 2003, Governor [[Tom Vilsack]] created a task force to close the racial achievement gap in Waterloo.<ref>{{cite news|title = Vilsack looking to Waterloo in closing achievement gap for black males|url = http://wcfcourier.com/news/metro/vilsack-looking-to-waterloo-in-closing-achievement-gap-for-black/article_425ff00a-ac34-5c70-bf5e-8b6c53bd3bcd.html|work = Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier|access-date = 2016-02-15|first = Andrew |last = Wind}}</ref> In 2009, a fair housing report, "Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice", compiled by Mullin & Lonergan Associates Inc., found Waterloo to be Iowa's most segregated city.<ref name=":2" /> "Historical patterns of racial segregation persist in Waterloo. Of the 20 cities in Iowa with populations exceeding 25,000, Waterloo ranks as the most segregated".<ref name=":2" />

Many activists who participated in the original protests feel that Waterloo has remained the same.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> In 2015, The Huffington Post listed Waterloo as the 10th worst city for black Americans.<ref>{{cite web|title = The Worst Cities For Black Americans|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/worst-cities-black-americans_us_5613d10ee4b0baa355ad322f|website =Huffington Post|date = October 6, 2015|access-date = 2016-02-15}}</ref> The site noted that the city's black residents have a 24% unemployment rate compared to 3.9% for whites, giving Waterloo one of the highest black unemployment rates among Midwest cities.<ref name=":0" /> Waterloo still has a higher percentage of blacks than most Iowa cities.<ref name=":0" />

In December 2012, Derrick Ambrose Jr. was shot by a police officer. Ambrose's family maintains he was unarmed, while the officer stated that he felt his life was in danger. A grand jury acquitted the officer. The shooting sparked outrage in the community.<ref name=":0" />

===== Flood of 2008 =====
[[File:WaterlooAISandbagsJune2008FEMABig.jpg|thumb|Waterloo after the June 2008 flood]]

June 2008 saw the worst flooding the Waterloo – [[Cedar Falls, Iowa|Cedar Falls]] area had ever recorded; other major floods include the [[Great Flood of 1993]]. The flood control system constructed in the 1970s–90s largely functioned as designed.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}