Subculture Law Enforcement

Law enforcement have several different levels from local, military, and federal. No matter which level of law enforcement is achieved an officer or agent has ethics that must be up held. However, the police subculture may contend the high standards that are viewed by the public. Therefore, law enforcement deviance whether accepted in police subculture or not is wrong. Law enforcement officers have a large amount of discretion while preforming their duties, the officers’ integrity must be paramount when making a decision. Police corruption must be control there are several methods in correcting this epidemic; establishing reasonable goals for the department would be a start. The police subculture has a “unwritten handbook” if you are a rookie cop you better grab a copy or look for employment else where. Well, maybe not else where, but a new officer must adapt to a stressful work environment in a homogenous social group that is simply a closed social system. The rules behind the blue wall consist of rule from the same as the “no snitch policy” in the street to not leaving work for the next shift. The code of silence better known as the blue curtain of secrecy where officers do not tell on other officers. However, this curtain has been pulled back by several other up standing officers who …show more content…
They also believe that it will cause derogatory ideas from lower to the higher ranking officers. This article that explain this also stated that supervision was out numbered to keep up with all the subordinate assign to them. However, there are several things that the article failed to mention, such as hiring officers with high standards of ethics. Then agencies could focus on reachable goals for the agency, then select leader with high ethic morals, give the officers a code of ethics, set up protocol that ensures fair treatment for everyone, and ensure employees receive the proper