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I address two issues about police and policing that David Sklansky has raised in two important papers one (as yet unpublished) on what he calls ‘the police subculture schema’ (Sklansky 2007 Sklansky, D.A. 2007. “Seeing blue: Police reform, occupational culture, and cognitive burn-in”. In Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions, Edited by: O'Neill, M., Marks, M. and Singh, A. Amsterdam, , The Netherlands: Elsevier. Google Scholar); the other about the impact of the new demographics of law enforcement (Sklansky 2006). The two are clearly related in the following questions: What aspects of police culture are enduring? How and in what ways has police culture been impacted by the new demographics? Have the new demographics increased police relations with the black and brown communities?
Jerome H. Skolnick (Thu,) studied this question.