As a law enforcement officer who specializes in traffic enforcement and traffic crash reconstruction I chose to look at the cause and effect of traffic enforcement. As law enforcement we use statistical analysis everyday, but most of the time officers do not realize they are doing this because it is second nature. Traffic officers take the use of statistical analysis to a different level than everyday patrol officers due to the fact that traffic officers actually study numbers and can recreate a traffic collision without ever having to talk to another person. I must admit that words like range, standard deviation, and dispersion were all foreign to me given their context in the required reading, but after the past 4 weeks I feel I have at least
