AJ 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Knapp Commission, Extortion, Selective Enforcement

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 4
• Professor: Watkins

Document Summary

External stressors, such as verbal abuse from the public, justice system inefficiency, and liberal court decisions that favor the criminal. What are perceived to be antipolice judicial decisions may alienate police and reduce their perceptions of their own competence. Organizational stressors, such as low pay, excessive paperwork, arbitrary rules, and limited opportunity for advancement. Duty stressors, such as rotating shifts, work overload, boredom, fear, and danger. Individual stressors, such as discrimination, martial difficulties, and personality problems. Combating stress: the more support officers" get in the workplace, the lower their feelings of stress and anxiety. Controlling fatigue: review scheduling so that officers don"t work too much overtime, assess the level of fatigue and quality of sleep, and inform officers of sleep. Police brutality: actions such as using abusive language, making threats, using force or coercion unnecessarily, prodding with nightsticks, and stopping and searching people to harass them.