Anything Can Happen With Police Around: Article Analysis

Imagine living in a world where you feel more threatened than protected by authority. “Anything Can Happen with Police Around,” an article written by Michelle Fine, Nick Freudenberg, Yasser Payne, Tiffany Perkinds, Kersha Smith, and Katya Wanzer, addresses the issues that teens have with adults and public authority in New York City. Her article is solely based on a survey that her and other scholars conducted to gain insight on how certain teens felt about the way they had been treated, while leaving out a few details that would make the article stronger. According to the survey, your race, gender, ethnicity, or borough will change the interactions you may have with adults and people of authority. In order to have urban areas such as New York City advance in the future, Fine and the other authors suggested that youths must be able to feel trusted and respected by public authority if they …show more content…
She wanted to share how teens truly felt about how they were treated by police and public authority. The most important point throughout the whole article was that there are many influences that change police and adults behavior. The argument is solely built upon the 911 New York City survey and the in-depth telephone interviews. Fines included anecdotes from certain people sharing their experience with police brutality and harassment. A survey participant said, “They say they are protecting us, but they only make me feel more at risk.” She also gave a table that included information about various interactions teens had with police, which gave the readers a visual so they could better understand the information (147). Fines used inductive reasoning throughout the whole article making it very open ended and exploratory. It gave out general information to begin with to inform the reader and then went into more detailed accounts of the survey. It also was more one sided since it was just teens given their