Ashford University Enhancing Public Safety in Florida Paper

You will research your instructor-approved policy topic. You will utilize your research to determine a public policy change or new policy.  

You should have received instructor approval for your policy topic in Week 1. If you have not received approval yet, please contact your instructor. Additionally, if after researching your topic, you would like to adjust your policy topic that was approved in Week 1, please contact your instructor. 

You should write a 350- to 700-word paper that discusses your completed research, defines a problem related to your selected topic, and discusses the benefits of your proposed policy change. Specifically, your paper should do the following: 

Explains why your approved topic is important. You may want to consider the following: the public, public sector, nonprofit sector, tribal government, or a function in a public, nonprofit, or tribal agency 

Summarizes a proposed policy change or a new policy related to your approved topic 

• Discusses the problem the proposed policy change or new policy will help mitigate. Each of the following items should be included in your discussion:
• Introduces and identifies the problem  
• Explains the background of the problem  
• Expresses the feasibility of overcoming the problem 
• Describes the current status of the problem 
• Discusses advantages of the proposed policy change or new policy