Talk:Police brutality in the United States

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 January 2021 and 13 March 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Vak5757.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2021 and 3 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Zen916.

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Wiki Education assignment: African American Studies
— Assignment last updated by Studenteditor03 (talk) 14:39, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

WP:SYNTH issues
The article contains a lot of detail that is only indirectly related to the article's topic, i.e. police brutality (or which is connected to it only in mind of the Wikipedia editor who added it, without the cited source making that connection). Two examples of many, both from the "History" section: The "Effects" section is also in need of a major cleanup in this regard (having been tagged for NOR issues since December 2017 already).
 * [The AIM] grew while 75 percent of Native Americans had moved to urban areas, becoming Urban Indians as a result of federal Indian Termination Act and other policies. A.I.M. was later accepted by traditional Elders living at Native American reservations.
 * police typically cast a blind eye toward gambling and prostitution (police corruption is not the same thing as police brutality)

As a rule of thumb, if the cited source doesn't even mention police brutality or a synonym, we're likely dealing with improper synthesis that violates the "no original research" policy. It also seems that some past contributors to this article have, incorrectly, regarded any type of police misconduct as police brutality.

Regards. HaeB (talk) 09:02, 11 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I found a source that partially supports the first bullet above, though not exactly as it's written. Ironic sensibilities (talk) 22:47, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Race in America, sec 2
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