Criminal Justice Degree Online?

Can't do it. Simplest solution is to stop answering calls.

 

When I was in police academy I had a black instructor (well, it's Atlanta - so all but one of my instructors were black) who asked the white cadets to answer questions about rappers, NBA players, and other questions that related more to black pop culture - then she asked the black cadets to "name one hockey player" or questions about rock and roll, NASCAR, etc.

The results were that the white cadets had more general knowledge about "black" culture - even though many strongly disliked rap music, or could care less about basketball - than vice versa. She challenged that the black cadets had best learn all they could about things outside of their interest, to better relate to and understand the people they would encounter on the street.

She stated that so much has been said about the need for white people to embrace diversity and understand other cultures - while many of them had done so to varying degrees - while many blacks had still insulated themselves from other cultures, and that it only harmed them.

Anyway - not completely scientific - but interesting.

Otherwise police academy kind of sucked, was probably psychologically harmful to the weaker cadets, and was almost a waste of time academically. I was #1 in the class - and never studied, nor did I ever open my "PORT" textbook. Except for the benefits of push-ups and running I gained little from the experience there - but that's criminal justice in Georgia for you: a sickly pastiche of real police in the Northeast.

I wouldn't recommend cop jobs in the South to anyone as anything but a few lines on your resume, onto bigger and better things.

 

You are right about one thing....being a cop ain't for everyone.





Notice the usage of the vernacular "ain't" thus signifying me as a cop in the South, though I am a little cushioned by being in Federal work.

 

I'm now a supervisor in a federal "law enforcement activity" - and carry different badges depending on what I am doing and for who. No guns, no body armour, no chasing people...

Everytime local law enforcement make the news around here for something illegal, stupid or dangerous it's people from my academy class or who I worked with in some capacity. Bottom line for me is I can't live in cop pay in GA (mid 30s is considered high for starting salaries...and you might make 40 in a few years of 1% annual raises) and I feared my co-workers ineptitude more than the skills of any thug.

In the span of a few weeks, we had TWO accidental discharges of firearms IN my stationhouse! An instructor at police academy shot and killed a cadet in the classroom. One of my classmates allowed a rap VIDEO to be made in the jail. And don't get me started on the shooting at, and outside, of the Futon County Courthouse. I knew that would happen sooner or later. We all did.

We spend more time and energy on backgrounds for typists and clerks in the Federal system than many local and state agencies do on their cops.

I did cop stuff in TX and GA for a combined six years - that's plenty - now to get the MBA and move on to executive management in the frighteningly fast growing "homeland security" industry.

What was this thread about again?

 

I've been doing it for about 4 years now...I can't imagine doing anything else....but I wish I could.

I think this thread was about school or something.