When discussing stress this idea of police officers having stress is foolish. Some people may say police officers job is to protect and serve they don’t know what stress is, that idea is ignorance on level 10. Stress on a police officer can come from several different aspects like home life or being on line of duty. In the eyes of the public police officers tend to “emphasis on bravery, secrecy, machismo, and isolation from the general public” (Burns 207). These characteristics combine eventually wears down an officer; officers will develop coping strategies to deal with the stressful nature of policing according to Burns. But these coping strategies may not work all the time. It’s in policing nature that “officers exposed to high levels
