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Analyze the City of Scottsdale Budget. Review the National Institute of Justice article regarding the City of Scottsdale budgeting project and address the following:<br>a. Examine the effectiveness of citizen surveys in measuring the citizen input into the budgeting process. <br>2. Assess the roles and responsibilities of the Administrative Review Team members.<br>3. Agree or disagree with the zero-based budget. Support your assertions with information from a scholarly source.<br>
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LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 1 Analyze the City of Scottsdale Budget For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Analyze the City of Scottsdale Budget. Review the National Institute of Justice article regarding the City of Scottsdale budgeting project and address the following: a. Examine the effectiveness of citizen surveys in measuring the citizen input into the budgeting process.
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 1 DQ 1 Budgeting Philosophies For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Budgeting Philosophies. Examine the pros and cons of using a performance-based budget, zero-based budget, and line item budget. Which would you use during a budget cycle as a police chief, and why?
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 1 DQ 2 Strategic Planning Process For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Strategic Planning Process. What is a strategic plan as it relates to the future goals and objectives of the organization? Why is it important to have a strategic plan in place for a budgeting process?
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 2 DQ 1 Positive and Negative Externalities For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Positive and Negative Externalities. The Government monitors and regulates businesses in both the public and private sectors, to ensure they are complying with Federal, State and local rules and regulations. The result of these regulations can be referred to as positive or negative externalities.
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 2 DQ 2 The Budget Cycle For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com The Budget Cycle. Examine the pros and cons of a law enforcement administration budgeting process of your choice. How is the budgeting cycle used? Are jobs outsourced? Is outside funding utilized? Does the budget align with the goals of the community in regard to fighting crime and quality of life issues?
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 3 Annotated Bibliography For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Annotated Bibliography. Review the Research Paper instructions found within the Research Paper link in your online course or under the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. The Research Paper is due in Week Five. To help with preparation, complete the following and submit to your instructor for feedback. 1. Topics: Select five topics that interest you, as provided in the Research Paper guidelines.
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 3 DQ 1 Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory. What is a cost-benefit analysis and who should be responsible for conducting one? When is the most appropriate time in the budget cycle to conduct the analysis and why? Should each cost be subjective to a cost-benefit analysis? Why or why not?
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 3 DQ 2 Wasteful Spending For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Wasteful Spending. Identify costs which illustrate wasteful spending from either your personal budget or your organizations budget. Articulate why these costs were never eliminated.
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 4 DQ 1 Block and Categorical Grants For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Block and Categorical Grants. Based on your readings for this week, compare and contrast a Block Grant and a Categorical Grant. Evaluate which grant is most useful in terms of law enforcement operations? Why? ============================
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 4 DQ 2 Raising Capital for your Police Organization For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Raising Capital for your Police Organization. What method of fund raising would you recommend for a police agency to raise capital? Do you think that it is acceptable for police departments to initiate and/or fundraise in the community? Does this compromise the ethics of the department? Could it create a community sentiment of entitlement?
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 4 Program Effectiveness For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Program Effectiveness. There are many law enforcement programs that bind the community and the police together to fight crime in a collaborative manner. Each year during the budget cycle, police chiefs are tasked with finding alternative funding to bolster enforcement and non-enforcement programs that they deem as operationally significant. Unfortunately, within this process, some programs are eliminated due to budget cuts. In an essay, address the following:
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 5 DQ 1 The Costs Associated with Hiring a Police Officer For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com The Costs Associated with Hiring a Police Officer. Police personnel cost can be as much as 75% of the operating budget of a police department. Do you think that this is money well spent? Should we ask our law enforcement agencies to do more with
LEA 432 Success Begins / snaptutorial.com LEA 432 Week 5 DQ 2 News Article Critique, Tempe Arizona For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com News Article Critique, Tempe Arizona. After reading “Tempe Considers Laying off Police Officers to Cut Costs,” respond to the following questions: 1. What ideas mentioned in the articles do you think will or will not work in cutting operations expenses? Support your opinions with information from a scholarly source.
