Hiring Additional Police Officers
Guiding Questions
Your Responses
Define the subject or situation
1. Explain how the issue you have chosen affects your community. Be sure to include impacts you perceive to be both positive and negative.
2. What do members of your family and community say about the issue?
1. It affects my community because it will bring more protection and bring the crime rate down on the positive aspect. On the negative note, it will be a higher rate of people in our community getting tickets and pulled over because there will be more cops around to being gunning people, etc.
2. My family members don’t think we need more police officers in our community because they think there isn’t enough crime here to the point of needed more police officers. Our community has two different opinions. Some believe that there should be more police officers and others disagree.
Construct a circular-flow diagram that incorporates effects of your chosen issue on economic products and various sectors of the economy.
Based on your diagram, answer the following questions including positive and negative effects on each economic sector.
1. How does this issue affect households and local residents?
2. How does this issue affect area businesses?
3. How does this issue affect our government at the local, state, and national levels?
4. How does this issue affect the rest of the world?
5. How does the issue affect resources, goods and services, and finances?
1. This issue affects households and local residents because they will live in safety with security of more police officers.
2. This issue affects the area of business because it produces more resources for police officers and prepares them for it.
3. This issue affects our government at the local, state, and national levels because it will show a lowering of crime rates and with that it will be an example to the rest of the state and nation.
4. This issue affects the rest of the world because it