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I have chosen United States Border Patrol because they are the people who maintain the border between Mexico and the US as well as Canada. the reason I choose this article is because the border patrol is in charge of apprehending illegal immigrants entering the US. I feel like this article is neutral because its sources are mainly government based. What I mean by this is that they mostly use US government sources to give information. I don't see any claims that would be considered biased however I do see that some information needs citation so I will consider those instances bias due to the fact that they stated information with no citation. As I checked some links all of the ones i checked (1,2,3) seem to be working fine. Some information goes back before the previous administration so I would like to see some information that is more up to date due to some changes in policy regarding national security. There is no talk page for this article which is surprising due to border patrols controversy. I feel that wikipedia gives a less emotional filled quantitative view of the border patrol. What I mean by this is that in class we have seen things on border patrol that are shown to get an emotional response from us however in this case we see some basic facts about border patrol itself. In conclusion my overall impression of the article is that it is very informative, by this I mean that it gives good information to the inner workings of border patrol itself and it also gives good credible facts on how border patrol interacts with illegals although i do believe there needs to be a side on how illegals interact with border patrol.

Everything under is part of my draft

Economic Effects on the Population.

Under the current communist regime in Venezuela there has been a new epidemic introduced into the country.  This newly increasing epidemic is famine and starvation. Under Nicolás Maduro president of Venezuela leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela there has been an increase of starvation in the population of Venezuela. Under a party that claims to work for the poorest of the country most of its thirty-one million people have been left starving. Nearly three-quarters of Venezuelans have lost weight over the past year, and the average loss was 9kg or 19 pounds. Many of the policies of his predecessor Hugo Chavez have remained intact. These policies that Maduro has kept are linked to the increased prevalence of starvation in Venezuela. This increase of poverty has created a social boundary between the people of Venezuela and the elite due to the increasing wage gap created by said policies this can be seen in the living spaces that the political and social elite vs the common Venezuelan. This can been seen in the amount of increasing protest and increasing amount of people who are arrested or killed by the police during the protest. With Venezuela being the world's leader in the amount of raw oil possessed, the country itself is in shambles. The government’s tendency to subsidize many products below the cost of production is a major reason why the economy is in decline. This is another reason that the separation between the elite and the non-elite is widening and leading to outbreaks of violence and the increase of starvation in Venezuela.

Polarization due to Social Media

In the late 2010s popular media is in on the rise. Eighty-one percent of Americans get some of their news though websites, apps, or other platforms. The increase in consumption of media has caused the separation between political views to increase. But a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research throws that theory into question, as its findings seem to indicate America's trend toward ideological extremism can't be completely explained away by the popularity of outlets like Facebook and Twitter. However, the roots of our current polarization go back almost 40 years to the mid-1970s.  Indices of polarization based on roll call voting in Congress have been nearly monotonical in both chambers of Congress since around 1978.  This can be viewed as a social and political boundary found in the United States political world because this polarization can lead to cause less and less compromise in the house and senate as well as in the presidency which is how the United states is able to keep itslef running. Due to the public having a impact upon the legislators in current power in the United states a reasonable conclusion is that the social boundaries found in america could deepen. Perhaps the simplest explanation for an increasingly polarized Congress is one grounded in the relationship between members of Congress and their constituents. If voters are polarized, reelection-motivated legislators would be induced to represent the political ideologies of their constituents, resulting in a polarized Congress. Evidence of voter-induced polarization is elusive, however. Based on this study it seems to be the case. As seen with alt-left presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and alt-right candidate Donald Trump. As many policies begin to run through the House of Representatives and the Senate in the United states many of the people elected due to such polarization will not be able to come to an agreement causing the people to become frustrated and thus cause people to deepen their beliefs polarizing even more due to the fact that the opposition is unable to work with each other. this can been seen on the issue of national security with the so called Islamic ban which current president trump attempted to ban refugees form countries with a concentration of Islamic terrorism. Therefore this polarization is a social boundary that the people of the United States will be hard pressed to over come.

Effects of Police brutality in America.

In the United States in the late 2010s there has been a increase in the amount of police brutality cases. The amount of deaths by a police officer have slightly increased from 397 to 426 deaths in the last reporting year which was 2013. In the United States there are one hundred sixty million more Caucasian people than there are black people. However, being thirteen percent of the country's population, black people are twenty four percent of the amount of people killed by cops as of 2015. Due to the increased rate of the amount of black people killed by the police there has been an increased distrust of the police in the United States. For example in 2015, the percentage of people who have confidence in the police hit its lowest since 1993 at 52 percent. Of this 52 percent democrats saw the biggest drop in confidence. Democrats' confidence in police dropped 13 percentage points over the last two years compared with 2012-2013, a larger change than for any other subgroup. Over the same period, Independents' and Republicans' confidence in police has not changed. As a result, Democrats (42%) now have less confidence in police than independents (51%) and remain much less confident than Republicans (69%). Most importantly however is the number of black people that have lost trust in the police over the last two years: black people's confidence in police has averaged 30 percent, well below the national average of 53% and much lower than for any other subgroup. Black people's confidence is down six points from 2012-2013, similar to the four-point drop among all Americans. The same study found that the amount of white people who identify as democrat have lost the same amount of confidence in the police as black people, as white Democrats' confidence declined 11 points over the last two years, similar to the 14-point decline among nonwhite Democrats the sample sizes are not large enough to break out black Democrats separately, but the limited data suggest their confidence declined no more than that of white Democrats. This increase in the deceased confidence of police officers is hurting how many people of all people deal and respond to cops which in turn leads to more hostility towards cops in the United States this has also lead to many cities making police wear body armor and cameras on them at all times.

Peer Review - Zachary Miller

In your addition to the article Economic Effects on the Population I think it is good that you talk about the regime and the effects it has supporting your claim. How the economy affects hunger is also an important epidemic to address which you did well. Also mentioning the different policies in place affecting it is key. I think you should talk a little more about the standard of living and how it could affect housing in Venezuela as well. In your addition to the article Polarization due to Social Media I like how you initiate it talking about the topic social media and its affects. A huge part is how can affect politics and the spreading of news through media outlets, which you tackle in your addition. I think this addition is solid and ready to go. In your addition to the article Effects of Police Brutality In America you give statistics which gives a good foundation and basis for your article. It also good how you tie in political parties to the equation and the role it can play. Race is obviously a big issue that surrounds police brutality so good job addressing that. Fear is a result of this so that's good you gave a result of the problem occurring. The one thing you could about is how police now wear body cameras and how people and police are targeted in certain situation so they can purposely be caught but otherwise it is pretty good.