When the badge and gun just aren't enough"-Officer Retention Rate Problems
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Authors
Moore, Kristen Leigh
Issue Date
2020-05
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Academic theses , Burn out (Psychology) , Employee retention , Georgia--Gwinnett County , Police--Suicidal behavior , Police-community relations , Police , Wages
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Officer retention is a major problem across the United States of America. The deficit creates problems within the agency itself, and for the citizens those officers serve and protect. I created a literature review from previous scholars on reasoning’s for officer retention with the focus being on income, suicide, and burnout. I also created a questionnaire that ran from September 2019 to March 2020 with respondents being sworn officers within my own department. The data was gathered anonymously and put into a bar graph for comparison. After consideration from previous scholars and the data gathered from the questionnaire the number one reason for officer retention problems is money. Officers feel the work they provide, and the dangerous path officers must walk do not equal to the pay they are currently receiving. My thesis represents a detailed snapshot into the problems of officer retention.
Keyword 1: Officer; Keyword 2: Law Enforcement; Keyword 3: Police; Keyword 4: Uniform; Keyword 5: Patrol; Keyword 6: Retention;
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