It is difficult to assess the independent effect of public opinions on shaping public policy.  Public policy often differs from national opinion polls, and the Constitution contains no provision for national referenda on policy issues.  The public does not have opinions on many policy questions, public opinion is unstable, and decision makers can easily misinterpret as well as manipulate public opinion.  Public policy is more […]

Crime rates are of great interest to policy makers as well as citizens. After all, who wants to live in an area with a high crime rate? When you calculate crime rates, you are able to compare cities, states, and countries of different sizes. For example, suppose city A has a population of 120,000 and city B has a population of 500,000. The preceding year, […]

In a 3-5 pages. You are a counselor for a major metropolitan police force. Your job is to interview persons who are referred to you by superiors, who voluntarily come to you for counseling, or who, because of a specific incident, are mandated by departmental regulations to seek your counsel. On the last four callouts over the past 6 weeks, three of them have resulted in the […]

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper identifying a current issue that demonstrates a disconnect between the development of a policy and its implementation. In the early 1990s, for example, Congress mandated that state and local governments add 100,000 new police officers but did not provide long-term funding for these officers. In your paper, identify the specific obstacles and constraints that generated the disconnect in your […]

Guidelines The main elements of the research paper will include: Topic Selection:  Research topics must be objective in their presentation of the material. A list of possible topic ideas found below can be used as a resource when choosing a topic. You will need to present and support a conclusion about the topic.  If the topic is one on which people have differing […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted lower courts the power to hear cases. This power is known as jurisdiction. You remain an investigator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and you have a suspect that is in the neighboring state. The U.S. Attorney wants to arrest this person but believes in training his investigators, so he has asked you to research the topic of jurisdiction. Then, he […]

1.      Review the case Connecticut Department of Public Safety v. Doe (2003) in your text. In your response, explain why John Doe believed his due process rights had been violated. What were his main arguments? Did the Supreme Court agree with Doe, or did it agree with the State of Connecticut? Do you think that the Constitution should afford due process rights to sex offenders who have […]

One of the principle concerns created by the co-locating of responsibility for both strategic analysis and covert action in the same organization is that policy options and use of covert action may contaminate or be contaminated by the process of strategic intelligence analysis. There is no independent judgment of the value, prospects, and risks of covert action other than that produced by the organization that […]

In the healthcare field, different groups of healthcare professionals adhere to their own codes of ethics. All healthcare professionals are duty-bound to follow a strict code of ethics. This has been true since the fourth or fifth century, when the Hippocratic Oath was penned. While the code has changed with the times, the code of ethics still dictates a commitment both to patients and to […]

During the events of 9/11, the military scrambled fighter jets that were tasked with patrolling the skies around Washington, D.C. and New York City. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters, the military has been called on to respond to communities in dire need. The United States Coast Guard was praised for the rescue of over 33,000 people during and after the storm. […]