Principles of law enforcement

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Principles of law enforcement

A subculture , according to Dantzker (2005 ) can be defined as any ethnic regional , economic , or social group demonstrating particular behavior that may distinguish it from the rest of the society . Policing has been identified as a subculture , historically referred to as The Blue Brotherhood

Graves (1996 ) defines cynicism as an attitude of contemptuous distrust of human nature and motives . This implies that it is an action that is practiced in the

police department , that causes an antithesis of idealism , truth and justice , the very virtues that the law enforcement officers swear to uphold (Graves , 1996 . According to Pagon Lobnikar (1996 , the studies done by Anson et al (1986 ) found that cynicism is a functional subculture among the police officers . The superiors and peers have mostly reinforced this act . The cynicisms also seem to increase among the recruits as they head towards their last training period of 24 weeks . In recent times , research has confirmed that burnout and stress contributes to cynicism and in the end , the police withdraw from the society and become antipathy to idealism

Immediately the police officers leave the training college , they come into the world and find more crimes in the city than they had expected This kind of altitude makes the junior police officers to trust only the other senior police with the belief that they know the world better Instead of the experienced and senior police officers removing such kind of fear among the juniors , they usually seem to reinforce it . In the end the officers start cutting socialization activities with non police officers , and this can go to an extend of them not even trusting their own family members . This withdrawal can lead to an officer loosing the values and norms in the society and hence manipulating the law they are supposed to uphold

Talking about antipathy idealism , most of the young people join the police force with the aim of serving the society . But when they leave the training college , and find that they have been betrayed in the way of carrying out the duties , for instance by the court system or receive hostility from the community , they tend to see that the code of ethics that they are supposed to uphold does not hold any reality . This leads them to hate the society they are supposed to protect hence falling victims of cynicism . In this case , they cannot uphold the values that they are required to uphold while in the force but rather they view them with a lot of contempt

Police cynicism can also be brought about because of the occupational stagnations . There are very few promotional and opportunities in the police department . This makes it impossible for those who especially have high hopes to see the job as having less incentives and job satisfaction . In the end they take it as a tedious job , which contributes to frustration , and disappointment as well as low...