Angela Walker

ENGL 1020 Kent

Assignment 2
Hughey, Matthew W. "The Five Is of Five-O: Racial Ideologies, Institutions, Interests, Identities,
and Interactions of Police Violence." Critical Sociology Sept. 2015: 857-71. Print.
This source deals with my stereotype area. It talks about race and profiling innocent
people. It defines race, brutality, and police treatments. This source is an article and I found it in
the Auburn University at Montgomery database. The author and publication is relevant because
this was just published last year in September and it discusses an issue that I am going to be
discussing in my paper. This will go under my subtopic about why police stereotype people by
the way that a person looks. Some strengths in this resource is that it focuses on the racial
stereotype and profiling. It mostly deals with race and cruel treatment towards the minority
which is African and Latin America. It also speaks on why White America supports the treatment
that African and Latin America gets from police officers. This resource is weak in the area where
the only classes of police brutality that is being discussed is African and Latino America. I am
looking at police brutality in all races for all reasons and why. I am not just focusing on
minorities, I am focusing on all of America and discussing that police brutality is wrong no
matter who it is done to. This article does stand on valid information and does allow me to input
mu discussion into this in order to use this in my final paper. The writer presents his information
well supporting it with facts and reasoning. It can and also cannot stand up to a stron critical
evaluation from an academic scholar because it only discusses two types of social classes being
abused by police officers. In order for it to stand alone strongly, I feel that it should present
information for all social classes that get harsh treatment by police officers. I see myself using

this resource in the stereotype section of my paper to be able to discuss the racial issues of
stereotyping. This is indeed one of my building blocks for my paper, it is not one of my biggest
ones, but it is one of many.
Staples, Robert. "White Power, Black Crime, and Racial Politics." Black Scholar 41.4 (2011):
31. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 27 Feb. 2016.
This is another article and I found it in the Auburn University at Montgomery database.
This article talks about the way that African Americans are treated by the police officers. It
speaks on the punishments, discrimination, and profiling that Americans get from the police
officers in the United States. This article also discusses the brutality that is released upon the
minors and minority suspects. This publication is relevant because even though it is a 2011
article, these actions are still going on. This article is a strong article for my topic of discussion.
This is because it speaks on the action part of the bad treatments that police display among the
world. I do not see any weaknesses in this article, but at the same time I will not use completely
all of this articles information in my paper. It does stand alone in the argument, and it also can
be added into my paper because it has to do with police brutality. The writer presents the
information in this article very well. This is because there is support and there is also details. I
see me adding this into my paper in the stereotype area. This will be a more detailed source to
use. The source will be a building block because it provides details for me to use in the paper.
This article talks about how whites have the power and incriminate blacks and that it has mainly
to do with racial issues that the whites may have against blacks or even the other way around. It
still should be known that there is also black police officers that bother blacks just as much as the
white police officers do.

Markman, Abe. "Why Are So Many Unarmed Black Americans Killed By The
Police?." Humanist 75.4 (2015): 8. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
This is another article also from the Auburn University Montgomery database.
This article brings up topics about the cause of law enforcement disorientation. To me this author
is focused on reasons why the police feel like they have to use such brutal force when it
comes to black teens even in situations. Other topics brought up in this article are
establishment of natives to incarceration on this topic the author probably discussed why
more young black men sentencings are demanding less reliance on mandatory sentencing
and the death penalty meaning why does it take them doing less than any other race to get
sentenced this punishment. Other topics include president Barack Obamas "Task Force on
21st Century Policing," this is a training for law enforcement, I would think this is for
protection for police officers and black civilians but basically putting them in situations
where they would have to address black teens in react in a nonviolent way and using
tactics to handle the scenario, he also want to reduce surveillance in neighborhoods when
crime is low probably so that African American neighborhoods wont feel scared or
threatened when law enforcement is in their neighborhood and that the race would know
that the only time law enforcement would be in the vicinity is when there is a crime
taking place.
Bennett, Drake. "Building A Better Police Department." Business Week 4407 (2014): 2425. Business Source Premier. Web. 27 Mar. 2016.
In this article the source is the website Bloomburgs Business in the politics/police
section. The content is about the decisions of grand juries in Missouri and New York not
to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men. Drake bennet the author of

the article is relevant because he wrote the article around the same time the whole
Ferguson and Michael brown being shot as an un armed teen being executed was going
on and with all the police brutality on black teens and killing black teens cases were in
the happening he wrote this article on December 11.2014 The shooting of Michael
Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri. One of the strengths of this
source is that it can be pretty accurate because it was in the same time period that a lot of
the police brutality with black unarmed teens was going on and he got first hand facts on
the situations. This article was on time because after the mike brown shooting and killing
of the two New York police officers on duty on December 20.2014 the author was in the
middle of it all so he probably got insight from people who was experiencing the drama
as it was going on. This article can defiantly be used in my article it specifies what police
are trying to do to prevent the black teen death and put everybody in a better situation in
this category it also show that the president is actually trying to show the people that he is
dealing with this problem first hand by making this training mandatory.
Miller, Lisa L. miller@polisci.rutgers.edu Theory & Event. 2014 Supplement, Vol. 17, p1-1. 1p.
This article is about the shoot death of an unarmed teen by a white police officer who
shot him even after he said he surrender and had both hands in the air. This article was
found in the AUM multi search service. The name of the article is Racialized State
Failure and the Violent Death of Michael Brown. This article was based on an event
about police brutality and black teen lives. The strengths of this article is that its based
on the Michael brown event that started as a an unarmed black teen execution, rapidly
became famous all over the U.S. and began riots and killing of cops and threats to kills
cops from enraged African American people and other citizens of the U.S. but all of these

events point back to police brutality. A good weakness of this article is that it doesnt
really speak from the police side of this situation it doesnt say what the officer was
thinking in the event of an unarmed black teens death or why he kept shooting after mike
surrendered or why he blew Michaels brains out on the concrete after the first couple of
shots its just from angered individuals point of view. This article doesnt stand on its
own as a valid argument because it only supports facts from one side of the situation like
what if Michael said to the police Im going to get my gun to shoot you and took off
running or what if Michael and the police officer got into an altercation and Michael took
off running so the police didnt have a choice but no facts on any of these ideas or
thoughts. No this article would not stand up to a strong critical evaluation from an
academic standpoint because the argument are from one side so all the facts arent there.
I foresee myself putting this in my paper as evidence to support my topic of discussion.