User:Imoutinho/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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School resource officer

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because with the increase in BLM protests there has also been much criticism about police. I wanted to see what the perspective/ history of police in schools was. I initially thought that the increase in policing was in an attempt to decrease drugs and guns in schools. I would be interested in seeing what the contemporary perspective on SROs are and what the justification is on keeping them in schools.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article has a good lead in and does a good job of including everything it will have in the article in the intro. It could do a better job with the intro sentence. I find it to be weak to start the article with a definition of the word. I think it would be better to write an overview of what SROs in very general terms then go into what the article will include.

Additionally, the article appears to only be up to date to 2018, so there is room to update it to be more contemporary. I think it could do a better job of addressing jobs like the school to prison pipeline and how SROs fuel the pipeline. These is not addressing the underrepresented population, so there is room for improvement in this.

The page overall is written well, but there are some grammatical issues that could be fixed. I think all of the facts are well backed by sensible articles which makes this a reliable read. Some of the claims made could be taken out as they seem to be one sided without having a fact attached to it, and these are discussed in the talk page.

Overall, this page it very good but there are a couple places for improvement.