There have been many instances in which security during public shootings seem to be nonexistent. Especially in public locations like a university or elementary school. Granted, schools (especially universities) would require an intense amount of security because there is simply too much ground to cover. Universities already have designated areas in which officers have to scout and make sure the area is not hostile and controlled. So, there are only so many officers allocated for one area; the perpetrators generally have areas in which they’ve looked at for a certain amount of time. The author of “Precognitive Police”, Henrick Karoliszyn, uses previous attempted plans by law enforcement to help support his stance on better technology being …show more content…
Providing the audience with evidence and not theories, gives people a more sure strategy compared to a more foggy strategy that could be debated. Karoliszn statistics are less of actual facts, but of plans that worked locally throughout the nation. The author provided us with a system that was used by the Los Angeles police department called PredPol. Karoliszyn states that PredPol is “a predictive policing device that runs years’ worth of crime reports through specialized algorithms to identify locales with a high probability of crime” (Karoliszyn 339). This system could be very helpful to crack down on events that can be avoided. The only issue is that law enforcement does not discriminate when using this plan. Now that this system was one of the effective systems in tracking down criminals in Los Angeles, other police establishments in Seattle, Atlanta, and even in the United Kingdom have now incorporated it. Karoliszyn illustrates to the audience that providing facts and stats could either give the audience reassurance about the specific topic or steer the audience into the direction in which he wants the audience to believe in. Logos is kind of similar to authority for the rhetoric because both emphasize a topic at hand with other influential speech or …show more content…
Authority, which is the second major rhetoric used in the article, means that the author relied on expert testimony to support his or her point. By doing this, Karoliszyn can back up her point of view with someone who is probably more qualified to talk about this topic. That is what he did when he used Bill Bratton in the article. Bill Bratton was the New York City Police commissioner at the time when he wanted to install a plan to lower crime in New York City. That plan was called CompStat, which is a system “that ran statistics and analyzed district crime reports, arrest records, and other police data to follow crime trends and target criminal hot spots” (338). The system seemed very effective after just one year of using because as a result “murders had dropped by 60 percent” (338). If the author did choose to include any form of outside expert analysis then the audience would not believe one word that Karoliszyn would have to say. We do not know if he is fit to write about improving the security nationally and have his own stats to back it up. Therefore, Karoliszyn’s use of the authority rhetoric was effectively well