Due to the potentially inimical outcomes (e.g. negative perceptions of police legitimacy) linked to higher levels of job frustration, understanding the impact of education on job satisfaction could render revelatory insight into the longstanding police-education argument. Yet, despite the fact that job satisfaction and attitudes are related to job performance, the intersection of these factors and motivations, both intrinsic and extrinsic, is critical to performance outcomes (Chomal & Baruah, …show more content…
That is, the commission’s endorsement of education as a prerequisite of employment was intended to improve both police-minority relations and the public image of America’s police force. Yet more educated POs tend to be career-centered (Cascio, 1977) and less community-oriented (Gau et al., 2013), which in turn, may result in the overuse of aggressive enforcement tactics to inflate productivity statistics (Johnson, 2011). Moreover, officers’ motivation to further their education is primarily based on the desire for advancement (Buckley, McGinnis, & Petrunik,