ADMJ 0500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Knapp Commission, Subculture, Third Enforcement Act
11 Jul 2019
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Police subculture: set of informal values which characterize the police force as a distinct community with a common identity. Formal departmental policies and the legal constraints learned in the training academy. Informal socialization that takes place as officers interact with older, experienced officers who teach how formal rules are interpreted on the job. Clannishness: only the police understand the police, loyalty to one another is paramount. Secrecy: rule of police subculture is you do not talk about the police subculture. Isolation from others: a distinct social group, a coherent we in contrast to the they of the broader public, there are 3 kinds of people: cops, friends and family of cops, and a**holes. The blue wall (or the blue code of silence): an unwritten rule among police officers not to report on another colleague"s errors, misconducts or crimes. Police personality: either already exists that draws them towards police work, some aspects are socialized.
