[Solved] Critical Analysis: Article Review

Critical analysis: article review Name Course Instructor Date Laughland, Swaine & Lartey (2015), focus on police brutality in the article US police killings headed for 1,100 this year, with black Americans twice as likely to die. Despite calls for better oversight, police violence is still a problem in law enforcement. The police cite threats to their safety and justifiable homicide as reasons for using force to maintain law and order. Media owners push the narrative that the police should not be soft on crime even as they ignore circumstances that lead to use of deadly force by the police. Thesis statement. Police brutality is directed at the poor while the media reporting on over policing is simplistic as it may reinforce the idea that victims are partly to blame for cops using deadly force. This paper uses a Marxist approach to critique the article. The FBI relies on justifiable homicides to determine the extent of police brutality in the U.S., but this is merely self-reporting on police killings committed against citizens.