When it comes to police officers, people often think of times they have been pulled over or the television show “COPS.” Just like anything else, a person's perception of police officers and their work depends on previous interactions with them and what they have seen in the media. What is often overlooked by the general public are the stressors that police officers face in their line of work and how that stress can affect their personal lives. There are several cases where researchers have studied the cause and effect of work-related stress and what effects there are on people who work in law enforcement. In a study by Can, Hendy & Imbody (2013), research was conducted to improve police officers' understanding of aggression in close relationships. Researchers compared “models” of aggression for police officers based on Albert Bandura's social learning theory (Bandura, 1977). Bandura's research focused on observational learning or modeling, which is learning that occurs through observation of others (Santrock, 2014). They found that police officers often display aggressive characteristics regarding conflict resolution, as noted by their fathers and/or supervisors. These findings represent 35.5% of the incidence in romantic partner aggression and 59.1% of the incidence in police partner aggression (Can, Hendy & Imbody, 2013). Every police department should organize mandatory conflict resolution workshops at work and home, to develop non-aggressive means of conflict resolution as suggested by researchers (Can, Hendy & Imbody, 2013). There are a few reasons why this research might be misleading. First, this study was limited to Caucasian Pennsylvania police officers. This does not allow...... half of the paper......-62. doi:10.1027/1016-9040.14.1.51McCreary, D. R., & Thompson, M. M. (2006). Development of two reliable and valid measures of stressors in policing: the Police Operational and Organizational Stress Questionnaires. International Journal of Stress Management, 13(4), 494-518. doi:10.1037/1072-5245.13.4.494Santrock, J. W. (2014). Adolescence. (15th ed., p. 32). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.Symonds, M. (1970). Emotional risks of police work. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30(2), 155-160. doi: 10.1007/BF01874038 van der Velden, P. G., Kleber, R. J., Grievink, L., & Yzermans, J. C. (2010). Comparisons with aggression and mental health problems in police officers: The role of organizational stressors, life events, and prior mental health problems. Psychological trauma: Theory, research, practice and policy, 2(2), 135-144. doi: 10.1037/a0019158