Police are the only real crime fighters. ... Only the police understand police. ... What Accounts For the Police Personality?

Presents results of a questionnaire in which police actors give mixed reactions to the usefulness of infotainment.

By contrast, an informant paid by the D.E.A., for example, may freely roam about southwestern Florida, working his way into any corner of the drug subculture, ... 28. Ernest J. Hopkins, Our Lawless Police:

"Bikers: Wild Pigs and Outlaws- What's the Difference and are the Police a Deviant Subculture?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC),

The self-protectiveness of the police subculture and the fact that little concrete depends on the evaluations mean that many departments have abandoned them, or they have become empty rituals,

Police subculture reconsidered ... Attention is turned instead toward the informal norms developed within the police subculture. These discussions, however, tend to overstress the chasm between the

Although the survey may not be generalizable beyond police officers, its findings seem to corroborate the view that there is a racial divide between whites and blacks in American society-

These included leadership, command behavior, supervision, organizational structure, selection, hiring, training, the disciplinary system, the police subculture, community values,

Police as Life World. An Ethnography of Police-Officers' Identity ... To understand the behavior and the thinking of police officers, one must regard their exclusive possession of power and

Sadly, in our early tenure as cops, we are instructed on the "code" of the police subculture. These are norms that are almost always perverse. Two such norms were operable in the Jones mob attack.