– scour Twitter for offensive language and throw the perpetrators behind bars.
What the police actually do:
– attend violent domestics, stabbings, perform CPR, attend suicides and other deaths in the community, fatal road collisions, murder scenes, persons in crisis, violent individuals intent on harm. All of this, whilst dealing with day to day policing business.
I think people need to realise that for many many people, their encounter with the police may well be at the most distressing time of their year/life. Assault, murder, car accident, robbery, burglary, sexual abuse etc etc. Many people will take many years to get over the impacts of such events.
For a police officer, that will could be the 3rd, 4th, 5th, such interaction or event of that magnitude they have dealt with that week/day.
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Link to the study (open access):
https://academic.oup.com/policing/advance-article/doi/10.1093/police/paac054/6717934
What the media think police officers do:
– scour Twitter for offensive language and throw the perpetrators behind bars.
What the police actually do:
– attend violent domestics, stabbings, perform CPR, attend suicides and other deaths in the community, fatal road collisions, murder scenes, persons in crisis, violent individuals intent on harm. All of this, whilst dealing with day to day policing business.
I think people need to realise that for many many people, their encounter with the police may well be at the most distressing time of their year/life. Assault, murder, car accident, robbery, burglary, sexual abuse etc etc. Many people will take many years to get over the impacts of such events.
For a police officer, that will could be the 3rd, 4th, 5th, such interaction or event of that magnitude they have dealt with that week/day.