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CJ598

Week 3 DQ and 2 Student Responses

Drafting Proposed Methods and Design

Discuss your initial plans for developing the proposed methods section of your Capstone Project, including your proposed method and design. Describe how you are planning to conduct data collection and analysis, identifying specific challenges and ethical considerations that should be taken into account. Be sure that you are providing justification and rationale for your decision. In other words, why is what you propose the most appropriate way to address your research problem? Include supporting citations from scholarly, peer-reviewed sources and provide the complete APA reference for each.

In your response posts, provide your peers with constructive feedback, and suggest alternative approaches and/or considerations that they may not have identified.

*********In this discussion thread, we focus on your initial plans for developing the proposed methods section of your Capstone Project. Many of you likely have ideas/plans identified from your work in CJ525. Discuss whether you plan to continue with what was previously identified, or if you are planning any changes. Keep in mind that the more simple your proposed methods, the easier it will be to develop the section and ensure you are proposing a viable and realistic study. Be sure to include citations to support and justify your choice of method and design from peer-reviewed and methodological sources. ***********

Respond to Kindly to Student #1(Blake Carter)

My proposal has to deal with the use of UAV by the USBP along the Mexico–United States border for safer and more efficient patrolling for Border Patrol Agent (BPA). While a qualitative approach is viable here such as interviewing Border Patrol Agents; a quantitative approach would deliver more accurate results and a better understanding of UAV usage. The data would be complied from past and present reports. For example, I could compare assaults and or injuries on BPA before the introduction of UAV and afterwards to see if there is a correlation between the two. Moreover, data about the number of apprehensions could be utilized to see if they are leading to more efficient patrolling methods by BPA. Reaching out directing to the USBP for this information is also an option; however considering the classification of the data they might not be willing to release it if it is detrimental to their mission or national security.

There are two main ethical considerations when it comes to the use of UAV. They consist of privacy and autonomy. Nelson et al. (2019) explored privacy and UAV by conducting a survey and the results where that 82% agreed that UAV violated private space (p.92). In regard to the proposal this would be the privacy of the BPA and the subjects they happen to apprehend or interact with. BPA are working in official capacities, so this should not affect them. However, the people they apprehend are a different story, especially if they are U.S. citizens. It remains unclear how UAV usage interacts with the fourth amendment.

Autonomy has to deal with UAV and if they are being directly controlled by a human operator or an artificial intelligence (AI). Othman and Aydin (2021) discuss the use of human action recognition (HAR) techniques with the use of UAV. HAR allows an AI to identify someone by human actions such as gestures. While this technique could provide invaluable when it comes to searching through a large database for matches; there is still a chance for misidentification. Due to this factor it would be wise to still assign a human operator to an AI system as a failsafe in case of undesirable results from the AI.

References

Nelson, J. R., Grubesica, T. H., Wallace, D., & Chamberlain, A. W. (2019). The view from above: A survey of the public’s perception of unmanned aerial vehicles and privacy. Journal of of urban technology, 83-105.

Othman, N. A., & Aydin, I. (2021). Challenges and limitations in human action recognition on unmanned aerial vehicles: A comprehensive survey. Traitement du Signal, 1403-1411.

Respond to Kindly to Student #2 (Luke Leon)

  My current data approach is below:

  The mixed-methods approach is the approach that will be used for the research. This is the ideal approach for this because there will be both qualitative and quantitative data to be collected and applied. On the quantitative side, the number of attacks that have occurred in the past and at what rate could be an example of quantitative analysis. Whereas, evaluating cyber-security response plans, interviews, surveys, and similar information with cyber-security operations have a qualitative approach. Another benefit of using the mixed methods approach is that the research is not limiting the opportunity to acquire useful information, some research requires one and not the other sometimes it requires both (Maxfield & Babbie, 2018, p. 39). The mixed-methods approach allows for the best opportunity to obtain data for both variables and make it useful, rather than limiting options that could eliminate potential sources for data.

I feel comfortable I have a good start, but can use some work to make it better. One of the main goals is to keep this simple as possible, just as the professor suggested. I want to work on simplifying what I have now while adding in more of what we are developing in this week's assignment to ensure the data collection is efficient and not overwhelming for the study.

Reference

Maxfield, M. G., & Babbie, E. R. (2018). Research methods for criminal justice and criminology. Cengage Learning.