rewrite When determining a staffing model, there are certain requirements that need to be taken into account that civilians do not realize. An example of this is budgeting. Who is going to allocate funds for overtime? What if there are financial restraints brought about by city budget cuts? An allocation model that focuses on this quality is the authorized-level method. Unlike the other methods that focus on specific criteria, the authorized-level only takes into account budgeting allocations (COPS, 2012). Also feeding into the fire, in regards to this method, are the political decisions, which have an impact on the budgets given to the receiving departments (Wilson & Weiss, 2014). As oppose to using identifiable criteria possessed by the community, using political decisions when allocating officers puts the acting agency at a disadvantage. Removing the community farther away from policing is detrimental to community policing, especially when the environment refuses to reflect the political atmosphere. A large city, featuring a dense population requires an allocation method as fluid as the activity that occurs on a daily basis. The workload-based method can support this requirement by establishing a standardized baseline with information that determines staffing needs by referencing levels of activity (Wilson & Weiss, 2014). Furthermore, this allocation preference can assist future necessities by identifying working (calls for service/ instances of police intervention) trends