POLICE BRUTALITY

The article “The Media Underestimate Police Brutality” by Michael Novick opens with the following expression “Don't trust everything you read in the papers.” This article illustrates how the media portrays police brutality. Novick believes that police brutality is an epidemic and not an aberration. This article contains many well made points, but it is biased, has unsupported evidence, and too many facts that are not needed.

Although Novick's article is great, it is mostly bias. He makes many good points but the way the article is written makes it harder for the reader to make a decision or to show their own feelings. He uses very