User:Student0040/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Police use of deadly force in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because my topic is about police violence in the United States and this relates to that directly so this could be a potential source for the project. This matters because it is about people who are meant to serve and protect American people (police) using illegal force to attack the American people.

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 does not have a good lead sentence to define what the topic is. The lead is fairly concise with statistics but not too much detail. Everything in this article is related to the content. The order of the sections is a bit distracting to me. I think the frequency section should go right after the lead section but instead it talks about databases which seems like a random spot. The content all seems up to date with the majority of the sources being from the past 10 years. The article has a neutral tone and does not take one side. Many of the sources that I checked are reliable from scholarly sources although a few that I clicked on were from news sources. The sources do appear to be unbiased views. There are a few grammatical errors that I found in this article but the writing style isn't bad. Again, the sections do not make the most sense to me as far as the order. There are no images although there are three graphs/tables and two of the three are well captioned. This article was apart of a class project. The talk page consists of people questioning the validity of the article's statistics and adding more. This is mostly all it talks about as the talk page is fairly short.