Polisliğin Kronik Hastalığı: Kinizm
The Chronic of Police: Cynicism

Summary/Abstract: In police administration, the main agenda of police seniors-rather than their personnel in their command- is to fullfill tasks very efficient and effective which are defined with the certain legal texts. However, the “human” element” is the very first subject which has to be considered in the police administration like in the other disciplines. The police whose task is to provide security are the ones who are socially interacting with the society whom they are serving. In this interaction their perceptions of society is very important. That perception accommodates such police sub-culture elements like auhoritarian personality, machismoism, suspiciousness, ferocity, solidarity, conservatism, confidentiality, alienation and social isolation. When those elements are examined in detail, it can be understood that they go on to exist with the casualty among each other. The cynicism which occurs in these kinds of relations is a negative behavior which is very common among police personnel and is created by the perception which has a relation with not only their interactions with the society but also with their personality.From this point of view, cynicism is a organizational chronic illness whose treatment could not be found so far. Therefore in this article the location of cynicism in police behavioral models as a negative behavior of personnel who are working in police services and why its treatment could not be found will be focused on by taking the “human” element as a base.

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