User:Brendanepton/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Police Brutality


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article covers police brutality around the world and does not just focus on the United States. The article is contemporary and properly cited and covers a fast range of police brutality issues. The article lacks in that there is little to no mention of the financial implications of police brutality, and personally I believe that there are entire cities in the United States, such as Chicago, that could have a Wikipedia article as long as this one.


 * Sources
 * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941858
 * https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-spent-more-than-113-million-on-police-misconduct-lawsuits-in-2018/
 * https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2017/mar/28/police-misconduct-lawsuits-cost-taxpayers-not-cops-millions/

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Police Corruption


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is well written and well sourced and even has a portion that focuses purely on the economic affects in the United States of Police Corruption. The economic effects are thin, and while they do exist, I believe I could add to this portion substantially.


 * Sources
 * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941858
 * https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-spent-more-than-113-million-on-police-misconduct-lawsuits-in-2018/
 * https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2017/mar/28/police-misconduct-lawsuits-cost-taxpayers-not-cops-millions/

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Police Misconduct


 * Article Evaluation
 * Out of all three articles I have looked at, this article was the least in depth, it was still well cited and up to date. I believe I could add to this article significantly, citing many police misconduct cases from Settling for Misconduct which tracks police misconduct lawsuits in Chicago. Additionally, both police brutality and police corruption cases fall into police misconduct as a broad category, so I can use both articles to add to this one.


 * Sources
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/28/nypd-video-guns-pointed-subway-train-unarmed-fare-hopper/
 * https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/police-misconduct/
 * https://www.chicagoreporter.com/series/settling-for-misconduct/

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Human rights in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is well written and well cited, however there is more to be added in the police abuse section, in addition to the entire justice system section which includes prison and the death penalty. Again, this article does not go in depth in regards to the cost of the violations of human rights, so I believe I could add to this article in that respect.


 * Sources
 * https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1968&context=faculty_scholarship
 * https://fullfact.org/law/counting-cost-human-rights-law/
 * https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/human-rights-emerging-as-cost-concern/article626831/