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LEA 432 Week 1 Analyze the City of Scottsdale
Budget For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   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.  2.    Assess the roles and
responsibilities of the Administrative Review
Team members.
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LEA 432 Week 1 DQ 1 Budgeting Philosophies For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Budgetin
g 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?
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LEA 432 Week 1 DQ 2 Strategic Planning Process
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ategic 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? Your initial post should be at least 250
words in length. Support your claims with
examples from required material(s) and/or other
scholarly resources, and properly cite any
references. Respond to at least two of
your classmates posts by Day 7. 
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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. Provide an example of positive and
negative externalities in the police (public)
sector. What kind of impact can
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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? Your initial post should be at
least 250 words in length. Support your claims
with examples from required material(s) and/or
other scholarly resources, and properly cite any
references. Respond to at least two of
your classmates posts by Day 7. 
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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.
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LEA 432 Week 3 DQ 1 Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory
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t-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? 
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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.
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LEA 432 Week 4 DQ 1 Block and Categorical Grants
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Blo
ck 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? 
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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?     
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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
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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 less? Should
the technological advances in law enforcement
replace physical police officers? What impact
would this have on the community?
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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.
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