Police Culture in Pop Culture
Americans are obsessed with crime, deviance, police, and the law. Turn on the television at any given time and you will find any type of “cop show” you could ever want. These shows highlight trends in crime, interesting deviant behavior, police in action, and the interpretation and enforcement of law. Many things we witness during a typical episode include types of police misconduct, strategies, practices, and subculture including but not limited too; brutality, the token police woman, and racial discrimination. Blue Bloods is no different. Tasked with drawing comparisons from the required readings and Blue Bloods episode “Forgive and Forget” there are multiple overlapping trends. Three main comparisons between the readings on police culture and how police are depicted in “Forgive and …show more content…
Officer Eddie summed up the ideology of the police force when she said to Officer Jamie, “I 'm saying she should 've done what she had to do to protect her partner.” Parilla and Wyatt state that in a study of police the vast majority of cops agree that “the most important obligation that a patrolman has is to back up and support his fellow officers’ (Brown, 1981:93). This “code of silence” is valued above all. Officer Walsh broke this code when she testified against her partner and whether we as civilians agree or not, she reaped the repercussions that came with it. Police culture is not something that is taken lightly, as for the most part; police dedicate their identity to the task force which can even lead to forms of social isolation in personal relationship and in the community as a whole. This form of socialization begins at the Academy and is ingrained in officers. Officer Jamie Reagan was really the odd man out because he did not think Officer Walsh was a
Americans are obsessed with crime, deviance, police, and the law. Turn on the television at any given time and you will find any type of “cop show” you could ever want. These shows highlight trends in crime, interesting deviant behavior, police in action, and the interpretation and enforcement of law. Many things we witness during a typical episode include types of police misconduct, strategies, practices, and subculture including but not limited too; brutality, the token police woman, and racial discrimination. Blue Bloods is no different. Tasked with drawing comparisons from the required readings and Blue Bloods episode “Forgive and Forget” there are multiple overlapping trends. Three main comparisons between the readings on police culture and how police are depicted in “Forgive and …show more content…
Officer Eddie summed up the ideology of the police force when she said to Officer Jamie, “I 'm saying she should 've done what she had to do to protect her partner.” Parilla and Wyatt state that in a study of police the vast majority of cops agree that “the most important obligation that a patrolman has is to back up and support his fellow officers’ (Brown, 1981:93). This “code of silence” is valued above all. Officer Walsh broke this code when she testified against her partner and whether we as civilians agree or not, she reaped the repercussions that came with it. Police culture is not something that is taken lightly, as for the most part; police dedicate their identity to the task force which can even lead to forms of social isolation in personal relationship and in the community as a whole. This form of socialization begins at the Academy and is ingrained in officers. Officer Jamie Reagan was really the odd man out because he did not think Officer Walsh was a