Talk:Copaganda

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 2 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): DesSantiago (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Sr10721, Gmp76, ARO1209.

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This is an unbelievably biased article. makes no mention of "Copaganda" being a concept held by those opposed to law enforcement presence, instead basically treating it as universal objective fact. That's the bare minimum of what this should do--not even mentioning where this term/idea even comes from and how prevalent it is Adam8410 (talk) 15:20, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's also inaccurate in the description of the shows. Dragnet and Adam-12 were not a half-hour of people doing the Rodney King beating. Half of the episodes of Dragnet are so not in touch with 60s youth culture that they're seen as kitsch if anything. OJ Simpson shows up in a brief cameo in one episode which deals with minority outreach to the LAPD. There's also an episode where they stop a Neo-Nazi from bombing a school about to be racially integrated. You can tell the people who wrote this article are ignorant and most likely very young, too young to remember when people weren't hyper-partisan. Stoverfan (talk) 03:46, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Meaningless Junk

Not every buzzword you see on Twitter needs a Wikipedia article. Stoverfan (talk) 03:43, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Officer-involved shooting" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Why this article isn't necessarily bad but should have rewriting considered

I personally believe that the concept at hand here is a real thing, and I think police brutality is a real issue, so know I am NOT against whatever opinion the writer of this article has (assuming it reflects the writing decisions.) However, this article as the card at the top might say, this article has written bias and is written like a persuasive essay. Wikipedia is of course, meant to be unbiased, and I feel like some changes would really help this article. I don't want to be like everyone else in this discussion page and say its automatically bad, so I'll list some things that are good in this article.

The sources seem to be reliable (haven't checked all of them out).
When the article is written more formally, it feels more in-line with Wikipedia.
The notable events and media listed are in fact, good examples according to sources.

With that out of the way, other than the bias mentioned this article has some flaws. The article does not follow Wikipedia's usual formality at times. For example, "[...]were endorsed and supported by the Los Angeles Police Department and were very pro-police[...]" could be rephrased to say, "[...]were endorsed and supported by the Los Angeles Police Department and held a positive view towards law enforcement and authority[...]".

Also, I know I sound like I'm repeating myself a little here, but putting some responses of police departments to criticism of Copaganda would go a long way to not only improve the article generally, but add more sources, reliability, article popularity, and even strengthen anti-copaganda views readers of this article may have.

Anyways, that's all, have a great morning/evening/night/whatever, and reconsider improving this article. HAZPUNK (talk) 01:08, 24 April 2025 (UTC)HAZPUNK HAZPUNK (talk) 01:04, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]