After reading the chapters, discuss how the Us verses Them mentality among police officers creates a strain in the relationship between the police and the community. In your discussion of how the culture of policing negatively impacts this relationship,

Running Head : US VERSES THEM MENTALITY

Topic : Us Verses Them Mentality

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The Us verses Them ' mentality among police officers and how it creates a strain in the relationship between the police and the community

The wok of police officers has always been a demanding role for the officers . They are required to sacrifice much of their time for the interest of the society . They sacrifice and risk their life as they patrol the city and estates at the dead of the night

while they ensure that law and order are followed . This leaves the police officers with little time with the rest of the society . Once a person is recruited into the police force , he /she starts getting absorbed into learning the profession and finds himself mostly establishing relationship with people in the same profession . This slowly isolates the police officer from the relationship that he had before joining the force while at the same time limiting him /her time to continue with his previous relationship (Crank , 2004 . Most of the time , he /she is expected to be on duty when he would other wise be relaxing with family and friends This means that the police officer mostly start loosing touch with the non police individuals

This loss of previous relationships , whether intentional or unintentional is the beginning of the police subculture of us versus them . The subculture of us versus them make alters the way police , view perceive and treat ordinary citizens . The...