Three articles

So I have found my three articles for my annotated bibliography requirement. The ones I found are great sources for my topic. They all discuss police brutality and they are from different points of view which will help me make a stronger argument. From my research I learned that not many police officers actually commit these brutal attacks, but since they can be so drastic they always make the news and enter the concerns of the pubic. In fact, an officer will come in contact with a situation where they could use excess force at least once in their line of duty, and many of them with refrain from using brutal actions. This was surprising to me. I learned that the four main types of force used by officers are chemical agents, batons, dog attacks, and vehicle ramming. Out of all of these, chemical agents cause the most wounds but are the most effective. Even though this information is pertinent to my topic, I will still need to find more works that discuss why an officer would use aggressive force.I will most likely find this information in more scholarly journal article. This will be my focus for the next couple of weeks.

The Search for Sources.

On my topic of police brutality and when and why some policemen are guilty of using excessive force,the search for articles supporting my ideas was more difficult than I thought. Not many articles focus on why policeman act in an overly violent way, so I will definitely have to go into a deeper search for my topic. However, I am in a forensic psychology class this semester and one of the chapters we already focused on involves police psychology. There is a really good section about why policemen may act the way they do so I will definitely be able to use that book. So while on my search for the other two articles I need for my Annotated Bibliography I took a different route and got an opposite article on why policemen do not use excessive force. The other article was harder to come by. I just used the key words "police brutality" but not a lot of articles were relevant to what I am studying so I had to take different perspectives. I'm nervous that I will not be able to find any more articles on my topic because if I narrow my search to the precise topic I want, there are only about 20 articles. I think we have to use 8 for the whole semester. So, hopefully I will be able to find enough sources for all of my assignments.