Johnny Bravo is a young police officer who just graduated from the police academy. He has an idealized view of society and the police but he has zero street experience. Johnny has now entered the probationary phase of his career and is given a FTO to train him for 18 months. Over these 18 months, Johnny learns that police officers on the street do not always act "by the book", or rather, in ways the police academy had trained them to do. For example, the academy taught Johnny to arrest and cite a person with 2g of marijuana for a misdemeanor. On the streets, Johnny learns most police officers destroy the small amount of marijuana they encounter and release the suspect with no arrest or citation depending the suspect's history and good behavior. In addition, the academy taught Johnny to arrest and secure two people engaging in a fight regardless of the backstory. However, he learns most police officers break up fights, talk to the two suspects, and release the suspects if they are teenagers, are no further danger to each other, and have no history of violence. Johnny begins to change the way he does policing based on these social interactions.

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Johnny Bravo is a young police officer who just graduated from the police academy. He has an idealized view of society and the police but he has zero street experience. Johnny has now entered the probationary phase of his career and is given a FTO to train him for 18 months. Over these 18 months, Johnny learns that police officers on the street do not always act "by the book", or rather, in ways the police academy had trained them to do. For example, the academy taught Johnny to arrest and cite a person with 2g of marijuana for a misdemeanor. On the streets, Johnny learns most police officers destroy the small amount of marijuana they encounter and release the suspect with no arrest or citation depending the suspect's history and good behavior. In addition, the academy taught Johnny to arrest and secure two people engaging in a fight regardless of the backstory. However, he learns most police officers break up fights, talk to the two suspects, and release the suspects if they are teenagers, are no further danger to each other, and have no history of violence. Johnny begins to change the way he does policing based on these social interactions.
What is the process called concerning Johnny's character change from his interactions with the police subculture?
cultural diversification socialization blue curtain
affirmative action

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The process concerning Johnny's character change from his interactions with the police subculture is called **socialization**. In this context, socialization refers to the way Johnny learns and adopts the norms, values, and behaviors of the police subculture that differ from what he was taught in the police academy. Through his experiences on the street, he begins to adjust his understanding and approach to policing based on the realities of the job and the behaviors observed among his fellow officers.