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This article details a method of listening gradually discovered during years of interviewing police officers. The method is especially revealing of the role that control, and giving up control, plays in listening. The use of narratives allowed the author to focus on the function “core stories” serve to keep unwanted/fringe members in line and perpetuate organizational culture. Thus, using a qualitative method, the article discusses the importance of giving up control in listening.
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