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originally posted by: Thisbseth
..or the psychiatrists that interview the officers before they get the job need to get checked out. because they are hiring a bunch of crazy people..
Psychology of Police Officers
Lefkowitz (1975) states that police do not differ significantly from the general population in terms of intelligence or psychopathology.
Joel Lefkowitz has identified two personality trait clusters which commonly appear in police officers.
Cluster 1 : isolation & secrecy, defensiveness and suspiciousness, and cynicism.
Suspiciousness and Cynicism increase with experience on the job.
Police feel misunderstood by the "civilians"
Lefkowitz refers to their situation as "socio-occupational isolation".
Cluster 2 : authoritarianism, status concerns, and violence.
Authoritarianism : identification w/ and submissiveness to authority, intolerance of minorities, rejection of anything abnormal, high pressure for conformity.
The psychological need for security : Many police officers come from middle class backgounds and jobs in law enforcement are seen as jobs which you can keep as long as your able to work.
Officer.com
distrustful of outsiders, cynical, conservative (not necessarily politically, but rather resistant to change), suspicious, pessimistic, pragmatic, prejudicial and holding other widely-shared attitudes about and beyond the mainstream view. (ref. 7 & 8)
Police have gotten way out of hand all over the country. They no longer "protect and serve".
WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm
originally posted by: Bassago
a reply to: LrdRedhawk
Police have gotten way out of hand all over the country. They no longer "protect and serve".
You can thank the Supreme Court...
Another agency I was referring to was the DOJ and the highest LEO in the land, Eric Holder. They're not corrupt, either, are they? (*sarcasm). - See more at: www.abovetopsecret.com...