Senior Project Outline

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Animal cruelty crackdown in los angeles has results
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Jack Leonard
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	Los Angeles Times| Local
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Los Angeles Times
Date Page was Last Revised	February 8,2009
Date You Read It	February 6,2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cruelty8-2009feb08,0,7249180.story?page=1

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Many individuals take there in home anger out on the animals as a threat to the other individual. As in this article a man is telling his girlfriend if she doesn't pick up the phone on him he will beat the innocent dog. As the call continues the dog continues to cry and suffer in outrageous pain for someone else's anger. As he states "Everytime you don't pick up the phone , i am beating the dog''.

As police officers arrive at their house they find the pit bull puppy in a sink under cold water suffering as the dog developed a broken jaw. They say that "one of a growing number of serious animal abuse cases in Los Angeles where police and prosecutors say they are taking crimes against animals more seriously than ever".

They state "As a society,we're just less tolerant of unnecessary and unjustified cruelty to animals", stating that we need to be more aware of the harm these animals are getting because of the humans poor choices.

Animal cruelty has raised up the bars in the past few years. Lst year nearly 50% more than the previous year. More and more people tend to have no feelings towards these animals and don't know the consequences they will face because they find this as a joke to them and something very unnecessary in their lives.

Indiviudals feel as is animal cruelty isn't a crime as if you cannot go to jail or prison for harming an animal, as sources states that "None of the people we arrest think they could go to prison for hurting a dog or a car".  As one of the writers also stated "They don't show remorse…They're more shocked than surprised".

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

This article is talking about the multiple cruelties they found amongst animals and in peoples homes. It has been found that people call in abusers and they get sent into prisons. LAPD has been working hard to send out a message and aware people of this case.

Credibility of Source: 

Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

The author is Jack Leonard. Los angeles funds this site by showing how the LAPD and district attorneys are handing the multiple cases of dogfighting and abuse towards animals. 

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

This article is mostly to point out to the readers of how much is going on and how the suffering for these animals continue. Showing how the LAPD is involved non stop to stop this case , also how individuals don't care as much for animals but own them at their houses but then again abuse them for personal issues. As the example given of that guy who's girlfriend didn't pick up but the dog took the blame for that situation.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

Its more of a one side article it shows the cause and how the cause should be detected. This type of problem should be stopped because it is making the community and society look very bad. And how individuals more and more of them are ending up in jail for beating their animals

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

No the author doesn't he clearly states the facts and the works that the officers do and the stories of more an more harms in the houses of individuals. Also how some people have no remorse in these animals. They think that their consequence is a joke and are shocked by the outcome.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

This source helps my project because it shows how secretly things happen to animals in a safe environment they call home but then again these animals are beaten and kept cold by doing nothing. How not just the community but the LAPD works with this cause of animal abuse. And how the numbers on the charts are increasing and the source tells it should be decreasing but many indivulals don't seek this issue to help out.