The research question I have chosen is: How does the spike in police misconduct from 1990-1999 correlate with the amount of police misconduct cases against African American males since 2000? Creswell (2014) explains that there must be independent and dependent variables that “must be measured separately and not measured on the same concept” (p. 144). With this idea in mind, I separated my variables through different time increments. I will most likely create a hypotheses rather than employ a research question for this study. With this in mind and the complexity of my research study, as it is quantitative, I have to choose my method of analysis within quantitative research, which should significantly affect my research question or hypothesis.
