Compare And Contrast The Cost Of Law Enforcement

Local police are the front line of law enforcement efforts in the United States. Police are in the communities. They are the ones that respond to a complainant's residence when they call 911. The majority of states utilize their State level law enforcement in a highway patrol capacity. They are the officers on the interstates and highways that many people have the opinion of fee grabbers looking to write everyone a hefty priced citation. The federal law enforcement agencies, of which there are many, are viewed in a few different ways. The feds are either the knights in shining armor who come swooping in clean up a major catastrophe or the strong arm force of big brother.

In actuality, all three levels of law enforcement work extremely well together and all have more or less the same goals. I would say that the majority of Americans deal directly with local law enforcement the majority of the time. They deal less often with state law enforcement, and rarely with federal. This furthers the
This is a verifying point of what I have stated before, local law enforcement are the front line. The cost is prohibitive with the sheer volume and communities to which those services are provided. The cost is vastly different for state and federal law enforcement, with those two groups coming in at 30%. They simply do not have the same level of responsibility as local law enforcement. The cost verifies that fact. With state and local agencies performing many of the same tasks, the state level has much less volume and thus much less need. The federal agencies are in the same boat, and their volume is not the same either. Local law enforcement deal with the communities on a street level, where the rubber meets the road. They are the face of the industry. State level agencies are much the same philosophy, just on a lesser