Police Organizations and Culture

<p>Sworn to protect and serve police officers who stray into deviant behavior may become a citizen's worst nightmare. An honest look at the formal and informal processes of becoming blue Police Organizations and Culture is a unique combination of Chief Scott Silverii PhD's academic research and more than 25 years in law enforcement.The book seeks to answer the ultimate question: Why do police organizations and individual cops behave the way they do. Right or wrong there is a powerful culture that controls behavior and expectation. Chief Silverii explains how personal and professional lives are changed and what effects that has on a public dependent upon their police agencies maintaining an ethos of Serve and Protect.<br /><br />Police Organizations and Culture is the first of its kind to combine an anthropological lense for examining policing's cultural expectancies with real-life experiences. By exploring the subculture of policing in vivid detail it exposes the causes behind the separation from organizational ideals and a false sense of organizational entitlement. <br /><br />Chief Silverii's decades in police special operations groups and administration also lends a guiding perspective to officers or would-be officers who want to make law enforcement their chosen profession.</p>