Police culture and subculture: limits for the peaceful conflict resolution

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This article investigates the reflexes of subcultures in police institutions, and how they limit attitudes towards community police and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. As an initial stage of the study, the scope of the police mandate and the problem of enforcement are analyzed. Then, the article analyzes the challenge of police culture and subculture, from training in the academies to the professional routine. In addition, it observes the influence of the Law and Order Movement and the Zero Tolerance Program, thus determining the maintenance of a traditional policing model, which is eminently reactive and repressive, which sometimes affects the violation of fundamental rights and guarantees. Based on these subsidies, we seek to present elements that strengthen the mechanisms of community action as an alternative to overcome these entrenched cultural processes. With a focus on the community perspective and oriented towards problem- solving, a change in the model of police action is expected to move towards a proactive approach based on peaceful conflict resolution.

Keywords: Subcultures. Community police. Peaceful conflict resolution.