Sneaky Tactics: Inmates Manipulating Officers

How Inmates Manipulate Officers? #training #corrections #leo
I have seen inmates manipulate staff and correctional officers. I've seen staff with tremendous potential fall victim to an inmate's con game. Inmates have a process they use to manipulate staff to get them to do what they want. It's similar everywhere. Authors Bud Allen and Diana Bosta refer to this as "downing a duck." The "duck" refers to staff who are easily manipulated or fooled.

The simple requests a staff member complies with are the hook. Once hooked the inmate uses these as bargaining chips to get the officer to do bigger and better things: bring in cell phones, drugs or get involved in a sexual relationship. He gets the staff member to over-identify with the inmates and under-identify with his professional peers.

Sometimes, by virtue of a staff member's job, they can over-identify with the inmate population. They begin to see the inmates as peers, not people under their care, custody and control. You see this in non-security positions as well. For example, a maintenance staff member who has been working with an inmate welder for months begins to see him more as a co-worker and less as a convict. This opens the door for the "duck to be downed."

Inmates watch every move we make; they see our strengths, but they also see our weaknesses. They prey on those weak points. They learn our personalities and they squeeze us when they can. As corrections officers, we need to take steps to stop the downing of ducks and to make sure our co-workers are always practicing integrity.

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00:00 Introduction
00:31 Inmates Groom a Staff Member
00:55 Lower Their Guard
01:07 Example Of the Beginning
01:32 The Hook
02:17 Example of Staff begin to see the inmates as peers
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