Investigating Police Spending

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• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING: Scarcity of resources and the opportunity cost
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: Due to a scarcity of government resources (budget cuts) how do law enforcement agencies allocate their funding?
• SUB QUESTIONS
• What does your typical annual police budget look like and how is it spent?
• What sort of financial restrictions have been placed on law enforcement agencies?
• Who makes the budgets for each department?
• Are there any unnecessary, common purchases made by the police?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: ProQuest Research Library, Students Research in Context
• WEBSITES: budget example , restrictions on spending , Budget making by chief , unnecessay purchases