Assignment Name: Unit 2 Individual Project 
Deliverable Length: 4-6 pages 
Details: One of the most important aspects to law enforcement management is the anticipation of the resources required to perform police functions effectively. Manpower needs must be weighed, facilities and equipment purchased, and deployment and scheduling adjusted based upon the needs presented by the nature and scope of criminal activity on a local or national level. One of the best tools to assist in this regard is the compilation of data reflecting trends of criminal activity. 

Please answer the following questions and requirement to write your 4-6 page paper. As you answer each question you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used in supporting your answers. Please use APA style for all cited sources including your resource page.

•Select a city, town, or municipality and examine trends in criminal activity over the last 3 years. Analyze reported crime statistics for major/minor offense categories such as murder, robbery, rape, and create a table of the results.
•What are the overall patterns of crime that you see in the selected town or city? What are the surprises and usual results in the data that you analyzed?
•If you were in charge of obtaining manpower with a budget that will permit you to hire eight officers, which include investigative personnel and administrative personnel, which crime units would be given priority to add manpower according to your data? Why?
•Provide 3 recommendations that present the need or cut of manpower numbers according to the crime statistics you obtained and analyzed that will make the police department decisively more efficient by drops of crime rates in the worst crimes presented by your data.
•As an ending opinion, what are the career options that you see in this case that interest you? Why? 
Please submit your assignment. 

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Unit Materials 
Points Possible: 125 
Objective: •Explain and analyze the relationships between law enforcement, the judicial system and corrections
•Explain the process associated with moving an accused through the criminal justice system
•Analyze and determine crime rate, crime index, and recidivism rates
•Identify career options in the criminal justice field

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Score: N/A 
Instructor Comments: I will be expecting original research and more importantly original writing for this assignment. High Similarity Scores may indicate plagiarism which cannot be graded. If you think it is too high you should consider re-writing what you understood from reading the sources.

I will be looking for explanations of the following:
•The students should identify overall patterns of criminal activity (e.g., crime is down 5% over each of the last 3 years) while examining specific offenses for patterns as well. In New York City, for example, subway crime is down overall, but specific crimes (the theft of iPods and cell phones) are up. Their findings should be charted in a concise manner.
•Students will be required to make concrete recommendations on how to address the issues identified by the research. Using the example of increased iPod theft on New York's subways as another example, the police department may decide to attack this trend in crime by deploying additional officers during the days/times these incidents occur, and increasing public awareness of the issue.
•Students must support and provide examples and justifications in answering the questions through academic or real life criminal justice findings focused on criminal justice subjects.
•All cited material must be in APA style.