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Article Title:

Police reform in the United States
Article Evaluation:: Tells the history of the police in the United States. It outlines the issues. The flow is really good going from decade to decade. I think that this article may be a little bias. They seem like they do not like the police. But it might help their article if they act like that since it will lead to reform.
Sources:: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/courts/reports/2014/12/18/103578/4-ideas-that-could-begin-to-reform-the-criminal-justice-system-and-improve-police-community-relations/; https://www.manhattan-institute.org/responds-five-ideas-sensible-approach-police-reform

Article title:: Defund the police
Article Evaluation:: I like this article because it gives the background on why defunding the police began. Then it gives the responses of what people thing about it. I think this article is neutral because it gives everyones opinion. It could use more information in each section because it is on the shorter side and I feel like there is a lot more to say and teach. It could also me updated with more recent information.
Sources:: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/19/what-does-defund-the-police-mean-and-does-it-have-merit/

Article title:: Police abolition movement
Article Evaluation: This article was able to give a pretty good overview of the police abolishment movement. It even gave some examples of other countries but it was super short and I feel like a lot could be added to that part. It could talk more about how it is different from defunding. There was a lot of citations.
Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/police-protests-countries-reforms/2020/06/13/596eab16-abf2-11ea-a43b-be9f6494a87d_story.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html

Article title: Police brutality in the United States
Article Evaluation: This article gives us a good idea on how present police brutality is. It is easy to link police brutality to the defunding the police movement and abolishing the police movement. I do not really think this article does that it more just gives examples of police brutality. The sources seem to be very good.
Sources: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/police-excessive-force; https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/defunding-the-police-will-actually-make-us-safer/

Article title: Law enforcement in the United States
Article Evaluation: This article tells us all about the police officers in the United States and basically what they do. Specifically there is a section styles of policing and also controversies. These are important and pertain to this class. This article is bias and a lot of information that seems like it can not be verified.
Sources: https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=179850