Police strikes are studied as social events, albeit stressful, having "natural histories. " Using this perspective, four stages of the strike are identified: the decision to strike, the breakdown offormal and informal social control, the replacement of the striking police, and the resolution of the strike. A model of the police strike is developed that temporally orders the variables that may be operative during the various stages.
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