Now that I have completed the researching process of the paper, I will begin moving on to the drafting aspect. Before I do that, I want to analyze my topic to find out if I am missing anything. In Curious Researcher, I was introduced to Dave, an imaginary character who has many questions surrounding my topic that many other people could have about it. The following post will be a "conversation" that I have with Dave in order to answer his questions and fully understand my topic and research, while also determining the audience I am writing to in order to make my essay more focused.
Q: What are the why, where, who, when, and what of your subject?
A: K-9 units are important because they assist in catching criminals, search and rescues, detecting illegal substances, and public relations whenever necessary within small town communities all over the world.
Q: What do you mean by K-9 units?
A: When I say K-9 units, I am talking about implementing K-9 units into a small town police department because of the benefits that will make the department more efficient.
Q: How do most people see this? How do you see it differently?
A: Most people would view K-9 units as super aggressive and intimidating, which they are supposed to be, but they aren't only viewed as such. These dogs can help find people who are missing or even connect the department with the community it serves.
Q: Are you kidding? I didn't know that. What else did you find out?
A: Something that most people don't really think about is that K-9 units are actually very beneficial to small town police departments and not just within the big, flashy cities, not only by making it more efficient, but it is also more time- and cost-effective.
Q: Can you give me an example?
A: Since the implementation of a K-9 unit in Fraser, MI in 1999, Officer Maxey stated that his team is responsible for 21 arrests, $130,000 in cash seizures, the seizures of 1270 grams of cocaine, 190 grams of crack cocaine, 3200 grams of marijuana, 15 building searches, 43 search warrant executions, 213 vehicle searches, 25 suspect tracks, and 85 tractor trailer searches.
Q: Did that surprise you?
A: For the majority of the information within this example, yes, it did surprise me because I wasn't expecting all of this to be accomplished within 14 years of the unit first starting in this small town. This shows the obvious effectiveness of the canine unit, and it can also show the time efficiency of the unit by being able to search places a lot quicker than humans can.
Q: What other questions does this raise?
A: Some other questions that were raised by this research includes what does it take to actually go about incorporating a K-9 unit into a small town police department, and how long does it take for a canine unit to become cost-effective and increase the department's efficiency.
Q: Who does this affect, mostly?
A: This would affect any small town community whose police department is debating whether or not to implement a K-9 unit into its agency because it would increase safety and better the relationship between the people of the community and the police officers.
Q: What should we do about this?
A: We should propose incorporating K-9 units wherever possible because of the benefits they can create.
Q: I'm not sure I believe this. Why do you?
A: I believe we should do this because crime is a major problem in our country today, and implementing K-9 units will aid in fighting crime and making the communities safer.
Q: What do you think we should do about it?
A: To increase the number of K-9 units in existence, we should show small town police departments that the benefits of these teams heavily outweigh the drawbacks, while making the department more efficient and the town safer.
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