With many people going to school to become police officers it is important to know exactly what the job is about and the effects it has on a person. Many people think it is just sitting in your car and giving speeding tickets. In fact there are many life threatening things that occur while a person is on the job many of which can cause a severe amount of stress. Stress on the job can cause a person to become severely depressed and cause ones home life to fall to pieces. It is important for anyone interested to find out all the details of law enforcement before jumping into it and getting a career. This study is dealing with police stress will be a good source for anyone looking to get into the law enforcement to see what the mental stresses are, and not just the physical ones. In providing a study on the stresses that police officers go through and the potential dangers it has on that person. This study may deter many people who want to become police officers because they feel that becoming a police officer is a very easy job with no physical or mental stresses, and by reading something like this doing so may even save someone's life. There are many things that stress can lead to one is suicide even a police officer killing another person because he or she is too stressed out about the situation. Also in this paper we will see what departments are doing to deal with this very common problem that effects many police officers today.According to Police Stress, Time on the Job, and Strain. Stress was defined as "the feeling of being faced with demands that could not be met". Strain was defined as "the negative mental, behavioral, and physical outcomes of stress." This paper will discuss a few of the stressors that police officers deal with every day. In this article police officers were paid to fill out a questionnaire and to have their blood pressure taken to see if long-term employment as a police officer reduced stress. The ar...
