Exploring police occupational subcultures within Latin America through an atypical case
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores how the experiences of atypical police officers can deepen our understanding of police occupational subcultures within Latin America. Specifically, the article examines the narrative of Gigliola Cortés, a former officer in Mexico’s Federal Police. Over the course of her career, she participated in transnational policing initiatives, worked in militarised, anti-organised crime operations, whilst navigating challenges associated with being the only woman in a highly masculinised environment. Using a narrative inquiry approach, we explore how her unique position – at the intersection of gender, elite tactical roles, and international collaboration – influenced her professional identity and values. Our findings show that such atypical cases can shed light upon hidden tensions, contradictions, and alternative forms of identity formation within dominant police cultures. We argue that including these narratives allows for a more critical and context-sensitive analysis of policing, particularly within regions that remain underrepresented in academic literature.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it