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The Effect of Stress on Police Officers

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How would you describe police culture? How does stress affect the policing community? What hypothesis can you make between stress and police officers who have to make difficulty/easy situational decisions?

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The more difficult the situation is, the more stress that may be put upon officers. Working everyday as a police officer in very intense situations causes stress. The solution discusses police culture, explains how stress affects the policing community, and helps develop a hypothesis about stress and police officers who make difficult/easy situational decisions. The explanation is given in 232 words.

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Problems: How would you describe police culture? How does stress affect the policing community? What hypothesis can you make between stress and police officers who have to make difficulty/easy situational decisions?

The environment to which police officers are apart is often a dangerous and sometimes fast-paced. Police officers are often the first responders to several different types of ...

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