shot-peened<\/a> with all the stress build up and that can cause trauma.<\/span><\/p>\nOperational stress<\/span> is like Mr. Fantastic<\/span>, able to change shape and form on a seconds notice.\u00a0 It is the stress that comes from dealing with doing the work of policing. Every profession has a different version of operational trauma. For someone involved in financial analysis and investment banking, the stress may be more related to stock options and investments. For a teacher, the operational stress is how to deal with some of the more outspoken kids, or how to help bolster the children who are struggling. With cops, operational stress is how you arrest someone, or how to diffuse the tension of a situation, or how to break up a domestic spat, or how to disarm someone, or shoot someone. \u00a0This is the day-to-day horrors of being on the job.\u00a0 Suppose an officer next to you is killed, or you get in a roll around.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t strong enough to cause a trauma, but it wears on you a little.\u00a0 Hostage crises are always very stressful, and that is operational stress.\u00a0 Now they may be a little fun and exciting also, but fun and exciting can be stressful as well.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Role of Training on Stress<\/h3>\n
Now for the good news (said sarcastically).\u00a0 The #1 stressor on police officers is their life outside of work.\u00a0 The number one on-the-job stressor on police is dealing with bosses and the drama at work.\u00a0 Then comes trauma then operational, actually doing the job is less of a stressor than anything else.\u00a0 Most cops will say, \u201cI can deal with the dirtbags on the street, but my own boss is crazy,\u201d or \u201cI would rather go to a gun fight than deal with my own wife screaming at me.\u201d \u00a0But the stress that is number one is not trained first.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen it comes to law enforcement, police officers tend to get trained in the reverse order of how these stressors are felt.\u00a0 Their training first focuses on operational issues, then trauma, then institutional, then lifestyle. \u00a0This means cops are being taught how to shoot a gun, to do their daily work, but not how to balance their work life and their home life. \u00a0It means they are being taught how to organize a crime scene, but not how to deal with workplace drama. It means they are being trained how to stop a riot, but not how to read their own kids or their spouse. \u00a0In order to develop a police force that is balanced, skilled, and in their prime, both physically and mentally, we need to train people by the need they have.\u00a0 We need to train our warriors how to live, how to deal with the institution, how to deal with trauma, then how to do their job.\u00a0 Good luck convincing anyone of that.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nBut that\u2019s why I have my job.\u00a0 Maybe this site can help officers with their real needs.\u00a0 So bring others in your department to join us.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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together as a team to stop crime.\u00a0 Not one of their powers is complete, but together they are unstoppable.\u00a0 In fact in each adventure, at least one of them is in jeopardy, but gets saved by the other.\u00a0 They are effective as a team and that is why we like them so much.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n