Research methods are a broad term. While methods of data collection and data analysis represent the core of research methods, the focus of the research is to collect data that can test both dependent and independent variables (Cresswell, 2008). The nature of the dependent variable (social media) in the hypothesis dictates the methodology and design for this perspective study. Therefore, the researcher is proposing an exploratory research to fully expose the potential and conceptual distinctions of the dependent variable as a static field resource for law enforcement efforts. The results of the exploratory analysis in confirming or failing to reject the Null hypothesis will be reported and evaluated as a best practices model for implementation
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Currently, there is no consensus among law enforcers and civil rights advocates about the potential and the most appropriate way to harness social media feeds to monitor the general public for documented acts of deviance (Wang, Tchernev, & Solloway, 2012). Positivism as an objective approach which relies on facts and quantitative data from previous research methods offers the most direct philosophical solution to study the proposed hypothesis (Gauch, 2003). A positivism study, such as this perspective research, allow the researcher to be independent form the study and makes no provisions for human interests within the study or design model (Gauch, 2003). Therefore, this perspective research seeks to follow the positivist paradigm with a deductive approach based purely on facts and data harvested from previous research and directly from social media to be applied in an external and objective …show more content…
First the qualitative effort shall be focused on previous literature review to substantiate the theoretical potential and define the legal limitations of a directed RSS feed for law enforcers. Second the quantitative findings shall be applied to determine how to regulate the information flow from the RSS feed down to the patrol level without creating an information
Currently, there is no consensus among law enforcers and civil rights advocates about the potential and the most appropriate way to harness social media feeds to monitor the general public for documented acts of deviance (Wang, Tchernev, & Solloway, 2012). Positivism as an objective approach which relies on facts and quantitative data from previous research methods offers the most direct philosophical solution to study the proposed hypothesis (Gauch, 2003). A positivism study, such as this perspective research, allow the researcher to be independent form the study and makes no provisions for human interests within the study or design model (Gauch, 2003). Therefore, this perspective research seeks to follow the positivist paradigm with a deductive approach based purely on facts and data harvested from previous research and directly from social media to be applied in an external and objective …show more content…
First the qualitative effort shall be focused on previous literature review to substantiate the theoretical potential and define the legal limitations of a directed RSS feed for law enforcers. Second the quantitative findings shall be applied to determine how to regulate the information flow from the RSS feed down to the patrol level without creating an information