Police Personalities

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This paper discusses the personalities that police officers either enter the job with or develop over time. The paper specifically discusses the unique personality traits versus the socialization and experience traits and discusses the difference between these traits, particularly as they relate to police work. It also includes viewpoints from the writer's job experience.

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Abstract
Introduction
Personality Trait Viewpoints
Socialization and Experience: My Viewpoint
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"There are two types of personality trait designations that are used to describe police officers. Some two types are the unique traits viewpoint, and socialization and experience viewpoint. Those who believe in the unique traits viewpoint are often referred to as predisposition personality traits. Also in this viewpoint, insists that law enforcement attracts a certain type of individual to the job. Within this viewpoint, some of the traits included are authoritarianism, cynicism, racism, hostility, secretiveness, and loyalty. (Dantzker, 2003). These are the type of qualities that law enforcement agencies and security companies do not wish to have."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, T & Munoz, H. (2007). Hartford Officer Commits Suicide. Retrieved from: http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-hfdofficersuicide-0402,0,4578534.story?coll=hc-headlines-local on April 2, 2007.
• Dantzker, M.L. (2003). Understanding Today's Police, Third Edition. Published by Prentice-Hall, INC. an imprint of Pearson Education, INC. Retrieved from University of Phoenix Eresource on March 22, 2007.

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