Pros And Cons Of Police Culture

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.

Typically, officers are either pro or con police culture. From my experience the officers that were pro police culture were

generally more aggressive and had a large ego. Conversely, the con police officers view their career as simply a job, and tend to be level headed and easy going. I think policing in general is a unified culture. Although each department has a different set of norms and standards, all police departments generally a similar culture. Police officers are often jaded but they share a common bond in policing. They realize their jobs are deadly, stressful and highly scrutinized but in the end, they are there for each other. it may sound corny but I believe that is the single aspect in police culture.