User:Paytynlundeen/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/12/1/1/4629378?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

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 it is an academic scholarly article that was found through the library website. This article focuses on one of my main topics in my paper being body cameras. This article matters because it talks about how body cameras are supposed to be beneficial in the sense that it will stop or decrease police brutality or violence against civilians. Overall my impression of the article was that it was helpful and very informational, however it does not provide as much feedback as other articles like a survey to show a study that has actually taken place, but however gives an overview of the information.

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.)

Overall this article did describe a brief overview of the article but not very much detail or evidence backing up the statements that were being explained in the article. This article in particular did not really have a lead section, this article just went straight into the main points of the article, therefor one way this article could improve would be by adding a lead section to introduce what the article is going to be about. In regards to content this article about body cameras is relevant to the topic of body cameras, this article talks about the benefits of body cameras in regards to the decrease in police brutality. This content is not as up to date as it should be this article was published in 2018, however since 2018 the increase of police brutality has been significant. In regards to the tone of the article this article is written in a neutral tone and is not bias in any way. In regards to sources, these sources that this article uses at this time are up to date and are reliable sources. In regards to organization and writing quality the article is very well written with zero to little grammar errors, this article is also very easy to understand and follow. There were no images in this article.