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Review

My overall review of this article is that it is quite incomplete and only includes small pieces of information about specific periods of time in only a handful of countries. There are more scholarly sources, databases, and grey literature that could strengthen this article. The areas in most need of improvement include the following:

Content

The content is relevant to the topic although it is a very big topic to cover for each individual country and most sections are out of date. There are only a handful of countries with select incidents of police brutality listed. There are some countries that have links to main articles with slightly more detail, but others that don't. There are some countries with more extensive timelines of incidents of brutality (especially those in Europe, such as Italy), but most countries only have an incident or two listed, while many others have a few sentences about the national police agency (such as Ethiopia), or a single sentence (such as Uganda and Iraq). Other countries have a sub-sub-section for history, legislation, data, and specific categories of issues (such as Poland and the UK).

Sources and References

There is far more available literature on this topic, and some parts of this article are missing citations entirely. Of the sources included, most are from mainstream news outlets and some are from human rights organizations (e.g., Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations). Most sources are not recent and only cover a limited number of specific incidents. There are only a few scholarly sources out of the 386 sources currently cited, although there are far more peer-reviewed articles and books that have been emerging in recent years that should be added.

Organization and writing quality

There is much room for improvement around organization under each country because it varies wildly in scope, chronology, and coverage. There is also room for more copyediting.

Overall impressions

There is a banner at the top of the page indicating that the article has "multiple issues," including cleanup, language, specificity, and need for updates. I would agree with this assessment. There is another article linked at the top with the statement, "For a chronological guide, see List of cases of police brutality by date" and I'm not sure how these pages fit together because they both cover incidents of police brutality very incompletely. There are crowdsourced data projects that more regularly and rigorously collect this data. There is a similar C-rated page on Police brutality that has spotty and incomplete coverage.

Flamingo Cregg (talk) 19:28, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Global Politics of Policing

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 July 2024 and 25 August 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Flamingo Cregg (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Flamingo Cregg.

— Assignment last updated by Flamingo Cregg (talk) 15:51, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]