Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Express their impressions of their local police department, views about police nationwide, and the representation of police in movies and television shows. Analyze and evaluate some of the quotations from the featured article. Summarize a news article about police brutality and compare it to the featured article, focusing on how ideas are presented differently between news and editorial writings. Give examples for each of your answers.
Students then share their responses, offering their examples to support their opinions.
In round-table discussion format, analyze and evaluate some of the quotations from the featured article offered below. Students who wish to speak can have their names added to the list by raising their hands, and names are added to the bottom of the list to maintain the order in which students volunteer to speak. When you have this sort of mentality, excessive brutality and improper actions are more likely to occur. And the line between law enforcement that is aptly forceful and law enforcement that is unduly brutal or abusive can be thin indeed. Those sorts of instructions, however, call for judgments that are bound to be imperfect.