Community Policing Rhetorical Analysis

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A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY POLICING-A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

The article "Community Policing-A Shared Responsibility" by Sulaimon Giwa , Carl E. James, Uzo Anucha and Karen Schwartz (2014)deals with the negative relations between the police and youth. In particular it focuses on the effect racial discrimination has on the relationship between police and minority youth(p. 218). This article has an anti-police bias that is created by a critical race theory framework and an attempt to use pathos to sway public opinion. They are also using the attention the issue is receiving to take advantage of kairos.

To begin this analysis it will be argued that the article "Community Policing-A Shared Responsibility" by Sulaimon Giwa, Carl …show more content…

Lockhart(2005) explains that pathos is an emotional appeal. It is meant to get an audience to side with an argument by manipulating their emotions(p. 96). Pathos is a way to strengthen an argument by playing with the emotions of the audience. Giwa, James, Anucha and Schwartz(2014)create pathos by creating a narrative in which the racial profiling by the police is oppressing minority youth(p. 235). The use of language like oppression is meant to create a narrative in which minority youth are an oppressed population being targeted by oppressive police. This strengthens the anti-police bias within the article. This is used to strengthen the arguments that are being made for changing the relationship between minority youth and the police. However, it places must of the emphasis on the police needing to change the

way they do things.

In conclusion, the article "Community Policing-A Shared

Responsibility" by Sulaimon Giwa, Carl E. James, Uzo Anucha and KarenSchwartz(2014)uses three rhetorical strategies to try and strengthen its arguments in favour of improving relationships between police and minority youth. This article has an anti-police bias that is created by a critical race theory framework and an attempt to use pathos to sway public opinion. They are also using the attention the issue is receiving in the media to take advantage of kairos. Many of these rhetorical strategies used loaded language to make the police sound like they were being worse then they probably

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