Quinn,
Thank you for the information and I appreciate you spending the time looking that up when you could have been studying - I hope your exam went well. I looked through the links you provided and found some great info on the effects of job-related stress on police officers and their families. Alcoholism, divorce, abuse, ptsd, suicidal ideations...
What I could not find though was the "proof" that you said supported your claim that police are more likely to abuse their spouses and children than any other occupation. It may just be that I've lost my knack for research
. I feel that a person could write a paper on the negative affects of being a long-haul trucker or a stock trader and I'm sure they would also find a lot of relevant articles. If you could please direct me to a study that says that police officers and prison guards are "more likely to engage in child and spousal abuse than the general population" I would really like to read it. Thanks in advance.
- good point about community policing, I always suspected that much of it was just posturing.
- Chad