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202 Do I Stay or Do I Go?: An Application of the Socio-Ecological Model to Police Attrition
Key Words
Workplace attrition, Socio-ecological model, community, attitudes towards the police, policing, company culture
Short Description
Police attrition represents an issue with important implications for public safety and responsible management of taxpayer contributions. Training police officers is expensive. Recouping that cost after placing a new officer takes time. While police officers are leaving the police force at high rates, insights into the reasons for attrition have been examined in more of a piecemeal fashion. Our study employs the socio-ecological model to organize and prioritize possible reasons for attrition. Our research aims to inform policies and programs to reduce officer attrition built from an understanding of the interrelated drivers of an officer’s decision to leave. Our findings suggest that individual and organization factors have the greatest affect on such a decision. Resonant with any other employee’s decision to leave a position, a combination of the officer’s mindset and the organization’s culture or ways of working seems to have the greatest effect. One implication of these findings is a need for police agencies to consider the adoption of psychographic characteristics in hiring and the assessment of agency culture and ways of working in day-to-day working conditions.