“The City Council of Smithville has recommended making changes to police procedures to improve the visibility of the police force. These changes include hiring more officers, budgeting more funds for police overtime, and directing officers to patrol significantly more often on foot rather than from their patrol cars. These improvements in visibility would significantly lower the crime rate in Smithville and make its citizens feel safer.”
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
According to City Council announcement in the local newspaper in Smithville, improvements in the visibility of the police in Smithville will bring to lower crime rate and higher feeling of safety within its residents. The City Council has recommended making changes, such us adding human resources to police departments, funding more police overtime and patrolling by walk rather than using vehicles. However, in order to validate the author’s prediction, three questions must be answered.
First of all, How ‘Police Visibility’ is defined? Or in other words, are the police working over...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 438 350
No. of Characters: 2393 1500
No. of Different Words: 229 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.575 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.463 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.004 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 77 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.053 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.267 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.549 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 512, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ionalization of the visibility concept. Secondly, does higher exposure of police...
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Line 17, column 573, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... should find the argument unpersuasive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, in conclusion, such as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2504.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 438.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71689497717 5.12650576532 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21693710658 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547945205479 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 799.2 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6978159955 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.789473684 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0526315789 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21052631579 5.70786347227 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352271224829 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103984805971 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0838817898686 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200826382992 0.128457276422 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0967884798022 0.0628817314937 154% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.3550499002 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.19 12.5979740519 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.32208582834 116% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 98.500998004 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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