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Police Brutality
Police brutality

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the article on police brutality because it is an issue I care deeply about. I wanted to know what the global history of police brutality was, since I am mostly familiar with the United States history of police brutality. My initial impression of the article is that it touches on a lot of varied information, but struggles to organize it well and go into detail on certain aspects.

Evaluate the article
The article as a whole is very lengthy, which may detract from the accessibility of the information. The subsections of the article would benefit from improved organization via more specific titles, improved positioning of segments so they fit with surrounding information, and consistent style and sectioning to make the content easier to navigate.

Many of the examples of police brutality included in the article do not qualify as such under the given definition of police brutality in the article, or perhaps the necessary information that qualifies each event as police brutality was omitted(ie. Examples in Uganda, Mainland China, Iraq, etc.). While the context of the cases are important, it should also be clear what the police did specifically that qualifies each example of police brutality. Additionally, some of the individual examples and separate notes are not organized properly in the article layout, so it is difficult to discern whether another distinct location is being discussed or a particular event. Including individual events and supplementary information as subsections under the country in which they occurred would aid the organization of the article greatly.

The portion in the History section that discusses the 1992 LA Riots would be better placed in the section about the United States.

The section on Measurement could use more specificity and concision. Also there seems to be a contradiction: the line “Police brutality is relative to a situation: it depends on if the suspect is resisting” appears to make a judgement on whose responsible for police brutality and when it is okay, while the definition provided by the article states the police brutality is “unwarranted.”