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For my research my participants will be 5 male police officers.  I plan on interviewing all of these officers either by phone or one on one.  The officers will be from; 2 Pennsylvania State Troopers, 1 Indiana University of Pennsylvania cop, 1 Indiana Borough cop, and finally an officer from a small municipality.  i think that 5 is the perfect number to have participate in my research.  It gives a wide variety.  I plan on having officers who are on the job for more than 2 years.  Race, demographics, and age will not play a part in this researcher’s conclusions from the data collected.  Personally, I do not see any harm or potential harm that my participants will be facing in this research that I am doing.   They will be answering questions about their own personal experiences about being a police officer.  I will however offer them the right to their privacy by (if they wish) having their information kept anonymous.  This may be necessary if they are answering very personal questions about their family life or job life.  I have questions pertaining on the proper way I will issue questions.  Although I want face to face interviews I realize that police officers have very busy lives so I have had the idea to go forth with phone interviews also.  I believe that this will help and be very beneficial when dealing with time in my research project.

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