Police Culture and the Perpetuation of the Officer Shuffle

Police Culture and the Perpetuation of the Officer Shuffle

Martha L. Shockey-Eckles conducted this ethnographic study in her pursuit to understand social change in the society. She aimed to identify key areas in need of change. The author worked tirelessly to mobilize and encourage local residents to combine efforts towards imparting change, where it is most demanded (Rushkoff, 2013).

The ethnographic approach served as the instrument for picking up data about the culture of the local police, expectations, and that which lies covered up behind The Blue Wall. These same techniques, initially utilized principally by sociologists, have now been discovered to be applicable and credible around a cluster of disciplines due, in extensive part, to their capacity to take dig into themes previously unexplored (Shockey-Eckles, 2010).

This ethnographic study has shown that police culture assumes a crucial role in domestic violence executed by police officers. Police culture has been in the presence since its foundation in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel who started the first paramilitary system police institutions in London, securing the London Police Department (Chambliss, 2011). The paramilitary hierarchical command chain aimed at promoting respect for power, building kinship around those in uniform, and emphasizing the moral conduct from all officers might build the establishment of police culture and the impact that is still in presence today. Solidarity around law implementation has come to be reputed to be "The Blue Wall" and is not common among law enforcers, but is highly expected of the profession. The solidarity and solid feeling of loyalty and the absence of internal monitoring within the law enforcement culture has paved way for police watch among them. The study demonstrates that the absence of policies and enforcement policies within law enforcement institutions makes domestic violence challenging to treat and resolve among law enforcers (Shockey-Eckles, 2010).

This research uncovers the level of lethality included in domestic violence perpetrated by police officers as the most deadly manifestation of domestic violence. This might be attributed to accessibility of weapons and training. Furthermore, police officers work inside the precise framework where the victimized person will report the abuse and endeavor to look for justice (Rushkoff, 2013). The solidarity arrives at far past the police branch. It arrives at into the legal framework where judges frequently favor the police officers. Police officers engaging in domestic violence always display some element of legal biasness. While working within the framework, it is recommended that the criminal justice department and members must be devoted in helping victims seeking to protect themselves from the abuse. Judges frequently deny personal protection requests as an aftereffect of federal laws.

Amendments to the Gun Control Act deny any individual declared guilty of domestic violence from holding guns, incorporating police officers. A law enforcement officer with such a conviction ought not to carry a gun. This represents a critical danger to the officer's position since carrying a firearm is part of the devices of the police work trade. Different professions do not have the same danger of a potential loss of business when accused of domestic violence (Chambliss, 2011).

The study has displayed a common theme of occupational stress associated with police work. In addition, a number of the studies performed incorporated studies analyzing large police sections vs. rural or smaller police divisions. These studies uncovered that bigger police divisions had more exposure to critical events like shootings and more negative stressors at work as potential for continuing work identified stretch into the officers family life, bringing about domestic violence (Shockey-Eckles, 2010). Then again, different studies uncovered a much distinctive perspective of the issue to incorporate individual personality qualities of the officer, substance misuse, police training and strategies as variables answerable for violence within the police community. The study recognized negative stressors identified to police function as a potential hazard components to domestic violence within police community.

This study identifies the risk factors and causes for domestic violence, to incorporate police training and tactics, police culture and police personality. These factors have been broadly discussed in the literature. However, the threat to lose jobs and internal police policing, because of the Lautenberg Amendment, protects police officers implicated in domestic violence. There are evident gaps in the study including lack of empirical studies. In addition, the study is based on a vast majority of publications written between 1990 through 1998 (Rushkoff, 2013). This topic is sensitive, and the decade long gap provides extremely little reliable information. Limitations on empirical data, scholarly resources, and research are significantly scarce. This is because the emergence of police psychology was highly regarded at a time when domestic violence was still at infancy (Shockey-Eckles, 2010).