d feelings. When asking anyone personal questions about themselves there is always the possibility of ethical dilemmas. Political dilemmas include problems with the higher ranking officials. If my study finds that the police organization causes more stress on the officers than the actual police job itself, the police agency may have to figure out a way to correct the problems. If the officers are aware of this then they might demand more from their agency, which intern causes stress to the higher ranking officials, especially the chief.Internal validity problems include selection bias, and maturation. Selection bias may occur due to the fact that I am picking the officers at random. The officers who are most likely to fill out my survey are the younger officers. If it happens by chance that I randomly pick officers with more time on the force, and they have no interest in my survey or my study, then this causes and internal validity problem. Maturation my become a problem if the officers decide that my survey is pointless, and they become bored with it. I am trying to control for this problem by giving the officers an incentive with the movie tickets and the letter from the chief. External validity brings up the issue of generalizability. I have to make sure that the research I am collecting will be able to be used by other researchers in future studies about police stress. I do not want this study to only benefit the Amherst and Buffalo police departments.My proposal is to find out the main cause of police stress, whether it is job stress or organizational stress. In finding out this information I hope police agencies will take corrective measures in fixing the problem at hand. Police agencies should offer assistance to officers who are in need of it, and it should not be thought of as a bad thing to need help. If agencies can correct these problems than the officers performance on the job should improve. Everyone has to...
