How Does Police Stress Affect Policing
Personal Side of Policing Response
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Stress plays a big part in people lives. Police stress, however, comes from the negative pressures related to police work. Stress can come from a lot of things such as, threats to officers’ health and safety, boredom alternating with the need for sudden alertness and mobilized energy, responsibility for protecting the lives of others, continual exposure to people in pain or distress, and the need to control emotions even when provoked and etc. (Dan Goldfarb www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/cases/police_stress.htm) Stress affects the policing community because it makes it difficult for them to perform their duties. For example, if an officer that is stress comes into contact with a violent
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Stress plays a big part in people lives. Police stress, however, comes from the negative pressures related to police work. Stress can come from a lot of things such as, threats to officers’ health and safety, boredom alternating with the need for sudden alertness and mobilized energy, responsibility for protecting the lives of others, continual exposure to people in pain or distress, and the need to control emotions even when provoked and etc. (Dan Goldfarb www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/cases/police_stress.htm) Stress affects the policing community because it makes it difficult for them to perform their duties. For example, if an officer that is stress comes into contact with a violent