Erik Camarena Instructor Canestrino CJ 3230 15 March 2024 Police Subculture Police subculture is derived from a group or agency having a similar set of values and beliefs that often created a sense of unity within the officers. I believe police subculture can be used as a legitimate training tool that can guide new officers into becoming better individuals. Police subculture is often based on a set of “core values” which can shape an agency in a way they believe to be fit. The “core values” can either have positive or negative aspects depending on the agency. For example, some positive attributes would be safety, empathy, teamwork, loyalty, and sacrifice. Some negative attributes are prejudice, biases, close-mindedness, and loyalty. One thing …show more content…
If a department lacks a strong set of core values, it can shape the entirety of the department, making the officers less inclined to be better. A department that lacks a guideline to be better can corrupt these officers and destroy the reputation of every officer. For example, if an officer is close-minded and believes their way is the only way to do things, officers would start to follow blindly without ever noticing if they are truly doing the right thing. Another example would be an officer planting evidence on an individual to make an arrest, if a new recruit sees that and the behavior is promoted, that would make the new officer more inclined to follow the same footsteps. The goal of having a good set of “core values” is to create a line between what is right and what is wrong. Looking at both the positive and negative attributes of police subculture, one attribute tends to stick out and that's loyalty. How police subculture can create loyalty dilemmas. The “loyalty dilemma” is created by the police subculture which reinforces a sense of core values in the officer to believe their way is the only way to do things (Belshaw et al.,
2) What are some of the mechanisms involved in the transmission of police culture and subcultures from one generation to the next, and what are some examples of how these manifest in on the job encounters?
I believe the goal of this book is to provide officers the information of how to recognize the deterioration of core values (personally and professionally) and what can take place in their lives if gone uncorrected. The book then ultimately provides specific strategies that can be utilized to reduce the negative emotional and physical impact of a law enforcement career. I believe the book succeeds in doing this.
In looking at the Kansas City Patrol Experiment, it appears that adding more police officers has little or no affect on arrests or the crime rate. Please review the study and explain why more police does not mean less crime. Due Date March 11, 2005
Police subculture consists of the occupational culture that is shared among the police officers. It is the subculture that shapes the attitude among many police officers, which makes them cynical, isolated, defensive, alienated, distrustful, and authoritarian. Christopher Cooper stated, “Sub-culture, however, conflicts with the culture that the police department seeks to portray to the public. Oftentimes, it is the police subculture that is being blamed for the various transgressions of police officers.”
Organizational culture is a set of beliefs, values, and behavioral guides shared by an organization's members (Giblin, 2014). Police culture is a highly bureaucratic, rule bound culture. The job is highly stressful with a varying degree of personalities. According to the video and in my experience, police culture generally haws two parts. The first is how police interact while doing their jobs on the street and the second in the way officers interact on a organizational level. Often, police get more frustrated and outspoken at an organizational level. However, these two parts can have an effect of one another.
Many people know of the police officers of today’s world and that it is their job to enforce the laws set by their government, but not many people know the history of your typical everyday United States police officer or how they came about. The idea for neither your everyday police officer nor his or her department they work for or how a police department operates, originated in the United States. Over the years though America has made changes and adapted its system over the years to make it more suitable for its countries beliefs and practices.
Police are sometimes stereotyped to be rugged, single minded enforcers who are insensitive to families in their most vulnerable state (Cross, Finkelhor, Ormrod, 2005). This would be an ideal approach to implement; however there seem to be difficult relationships between the two systems as they both hold different values and beliefs.
A main factor of the code of silence is loyalty, to always be there for the other officers even if that means to lie or hide things for them. Loyalty is required and significantly important in police work, in fact it is the second of six truths of policing (to always remain loyal to fellow colleagues.) When future officers first begin their training in police academies the importance of loyalty is embedded into the studies: many areas of the training require the officers to be placed into groups so that th...
Prior to the creation of the formal police academy, officers were taught using various methods that were not always effective or conducive to the work required of an officer. As a result, ill-equipped officers flooded the streets of nineteenth-century America, often unable to perform the primary duty of their job: protecting the public. The United States, inspired by England and other countries with better-developed public safety systems, desperately needed a method of ensuring safety for its people. The creation and evolution of the police academy defined what being a police officer entailed by teaching officers what is expected of them, not only job-requirement wise, but also morally and ethically. The Police Academy prepares an individual for the civil, educational, managerial, and everyday duties of police work while ensuring moral sturdiness and commitment to public service. By combining classroom lectures, CSI training, building search training, firearm training, and combative/defensive training, each officer that graduates the police academy is well prepared to handle every aspect of the work of a police officer.
Women police officers face many stressors. Female officers are more likely to encounter disapproval from fellow officers, and also from friends and family for entering police work. On the other hand, the peers, supervisors, and the public questions female officers’ capability to tackle the emotional and physical rigors of the police work, and this is even when research shows women can do so. As such, the need for female officers to prove themselves to the public and the male officers constitutes some major stressor for women officers. In essence, female police officers do suffer quite more from the stress of their jobs than their male colleagues.
Young people and the police have, for many years, experienced a tense and confrontational relationship (Borgquist & Johnson et al., 1995). This has led to a great wealth of literature based upon the notion of police-youth interaction. Much of this literature has tended to focus upon juvenile criminality and the reasons why young people commit such seemingly high levels of crime. Whilst the relationship between young people and the police force has been widely theorised and explained, there is very little literature on juvenile attiudes towards the police. Research that concerns societies attitudes towards the police force tends to focus upon the views and opinions of adults (Hurst and Frank, 2000). In this first section of my literature review I am going to focus upon work that allows us to gain a deeper understanding of why young people are so important when looking at crime. This section will allow us to comprehend the ways in which, literature suggests, young people view the police. This knowledge will provide a basis for my research in which I look more specifically at youth attitudes towards PCSO’s.
It is both a result and a cause of police isolation from the larger society and of police solidarity. Its influence begins early in the new officer’s career when he is told by more experienced officers that the “training given in police academies is irrelevant to ‘real’ police work”. What is relevant, recruits are told, is the experience of senior officers who know the ropes or know how to get around things. Recruits are often told by officers with considerable experience to forget what they learned in the academy and in college and to start learning real police work as soon as they get to their Field Training Officers. Among the first lessons learned are that police officers share secrets among themselves and that those secrets especially when they deal with activities that are questionable in terms of ethics, legality, and departmental policy, are not to be told to others. They also are told that administrators and Internal Affairs officers cannot often be trusted. This emphasis on the police occupational subculture results in many officers regarding themselves as members of a “blue
In my opinion, the many different views of police culture can vary in many different situations. I say this because of the many different views this can be misleading at times. I think what's needed is reform of a police culture that has often infected relations between police and blacks, destabilized respect for cops and the law, and set the basis for the many deaths. The overall image of the police offers is an overview of the public’s perception of the police in reality. Without the public’s view of this police culture wouldn’t have the look it has now. Specific characteristics of the publics, association, or foundation remain interchangeable. Actions of the overall image are valuable because they
The New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for helping the community to decrease or reduce crime, corruption and improve the responsibility of safety and protection in New Zealand. There is a need to make changes to the police culture in order to improve the performance of their organisation. However there are three fundamental errors that need to be addressed which will be discussed in this essay. Firstly, there is a lack of an established sense of urgency which has the potential to jeopardize the future of the organization. Secondly is, not creating a powerful enough guiding coalition which means there is a lack of communication which resulted in an absence of leadership and teamwork from frontline staff to national headquarters. Finally, an undercommunicating the vision by a factor of ten that organisation leader needs to communicate visions and strategies. These three errors are relevant as they are pivotal in the implementation of a managing change programme. Recommendations are also provided to improve on how the New Zealand Police can be enhanced within a management perspective.
Police corruption has been around since the creation of law enforcement because “the very nature of the police function is bound to subject officers to tempting offers” (Dempsey & Forst, 2016, p. 234). Police officers have an enormous amount of autonomy and discretion when it comes to enforcing the laws and how they interact with the general public. The “rotten apple” reason is probably the most widely publicized and given as the reason for police corruption within a department because every department has had one. It seems to be an easy explanation to the community in order to mitigate scrutiny and deflect blame on one or so dirty cops. Social structure also plays a part in police corruption across the United States.