Caveny et al police reform, austerity & cop culture

• Key argument of the article:

  • How the police force is punished for discrepancies or lack of punishment
  • Issues such as discrimination and the lack of attention to certain types of crime
• Affect of austerity on police culture:

  Reiner identifies a cop culture with a number of core faucets

  • Mission action - Cynicism - pessimism
  • Suspicion
  • Isolation solidarity
  • Conservatism
  • racial prejudice
  • Pragmatism
• Affect of politicisation on police culture:

  The more conservative the prison system has become, the worse it has become. Prisons are extremely overpopulated and courts are backed up (strikes over wages etc) and some is down to policy made by the government.
• Affect of modernisation on police culture:

  Increasing police diversity (Chan) more women and ethnic minority officers.

  Authors conclusion of police culture in 2019:

  • it is possible not to make a significant change in the structural conditions within policing
  • It is significant enough to have created a different contextual manifestation of police culture, and in doing so, challenges its monolithic credentials.