Summary of: Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict

1. The article Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict, discusses several fatal events involving police officers in different states in the U.S. Several people believe that officers often mistreat people belonging to minority groups such as African-Americans and Hispanics. These minorities have low amounts of trust for law enforcement. Information involving an officer shooting someone from a minority is not the most reliable information because not all events are recorded. According to this article, reporting data about the number of incidents in which police use force on a person is voluntary which means that not all data will be recorded. The article contains statistics on all types of incidents where police were recorded to have uses some type of force. Other information in the statistics includes complaints. This information, however, is only updated every few years, which means the stats may be completely different from one year to the next. In another research, the African-American minority group is more likely to be shot by an officer than the Caucasian majority. According to a different report, the use of Tasers reduces the number of injury rates between police and citizens alike. Body cameras have made a great impact by aiding in the improvement of police and citizen behavior between interactions. Some of the main claims in this article include:  accusations made against officers who used excessive force against a citizen(s), the mistrust between minority groups and law enforcement, the lack of records involving officers using force, statistics on the likelihood of the African-American minority group being shot by police officers, the benefits of using Tasers to help reduce the number of injury rates, and the benefits of using body cameras. 

2. According to this article, several people have made complaints on the mistreatment of police officers, which has reduced the trust in law enforcement by minority groups. There is also lack of data on the number of times officers use excessive force against a citizen. 

3. I believe I included the necessary information in my summary and have not added too much information. 

4. I like how Jake summarized each paragraph on its own, it seemed to really work well with his topic and the article he chose. We have different main claims because our topics for our first essay are very different.