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Article Evaluation
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 * Talk:Police brutality in the United States
 * I picked this article pertaining to police brutality because of everything going on in the United states. I think police brutality is a very Important topic at the moment.

Lead
==== The lead section of this article includes an introductory sentence that is concise and clear. The article clearly defines police brutality within the first few sentence of the article. The article does not specifically come out and say what the major sections of the article but in the lead section it does hit some of those topics I believe. The lead is concise and detailed. ====

Content
==== The articles content does contain relevant information regarding the topic of police brutality. The content has a large range of time frame, it starts off by going back in history to discuss police brutality and also discusses police brutality from recent years and has a paragraph dedicated to "Recent incidents" and "George Floyd protests". ====

Tone and Balance
==== Overall the article is discussing the negative of police brutality and is not neutral. I think the topic of police brutality is had to show the opposite viewpoint since the topic of police brutality is never really looked at as a good things. ====

Sources and References
==== Sources and references evaluation: The article is backed up by reliable secondary sources of information and they do reflect the available literature on the topic. The sources are pulled from a large range of dates, but the majority of them are very recent. The links do work. ====

Organization
==== '''The article is well written, it is clear and concise. Each subtopic of the article is clearly stated so you could easily find the subtopic you are looking for. Overall the article has very good grammar and spelling, with minor mistakes.''' ====

Images and Media
==== The article uses very few images and media, but when they do they are well-caption with dates and descriptions. I believe all the images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations. Also the images are laid out in a visually appealing way, but i think more images could be used to make it more visually appealing. ====

Checking the talk page
==== On the talk page there are many different conversations, discussing things that could potentially be changed to better the article or things that might not be relevant to the topic or are unclear. It is not very clear whether this article is part of any WikiProjects. It just says that the article is of interest to some WikiProjects. The way Wikipedia discusses this topic differs from the way we've talked about it in class because we have discussed the whether more police or less police would help violent crimes. this article is just evidence for why police need reform. ====

Overall impressions
==== The overall status of the article is that police brutality is very real and has been happening for decades. The article has many strengths, one specifically is the amount of sources provide to backup their claims. The article could be improved by avoiding bias language since it sounds very bias against police-brutality instead of stating facts of both sides of the argument. The article is well-developed and has a lot of additional resources you can click on to learn more. ====

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