At work, we have access to the Waukesha Police Department's police radio and scanner. It's kinda cool because I get to hear about everything that's going down in the city. It's also incredibly sad because for a town of not even 100,000 residents, a lot goes down. Drug use, gang fights, theft, even murder is more common here than I'd thought. But, I think what it's shown me the most is that there isn't exactly going to be a grace period for my career when I (hopefully) start my criminal justice career. It's not like certain crimes are only assigned to me for the first few days, or that they've planned out certain crimes to happen that I can handle.
Second, holy poop: Just as I write this, my boss came and introduced himself to me. He worked for the Secret Service for 20 years and asked if I wanted to talk more about my future in the criminal justice system.
Yay! Amazing how God puts these things in my life, no?
Continuing. I've really started to question what I want to do with a Criminal Justice degree and a Spanish language minor. I've thought of a list of why I want to be a cop, in some form and shape:
1) Interest. For some reason, I've always been interested in that career field. But aren't we all interested in our majors/minors?
2) Work enviroment. Every day is different, and you're not confined to a cubicle or office like a lot of other jobs. Working all around town, taking calls, and interacting with the populous is guaranteed every day.
3) The ability to help people for a living. I'm a caring guy, and with this authority that a badge brings comes responsibility, but also privilege. Even in my busy college schedule, I look for ways to help even one person improve their situation.
4) I get to legally carry and use a gun. Okay, it's by far the shallowest reason to be a cop, but it still is one. Guns fascinate me, and having them as part of the job is a plus.
5) Having authority over matters that matter today. Drug and alcohol use, curfew, murders, crimes, you name it, I'll have to deal with it. That's important to me because all of these issues are critical to our society today. Considering I'll have to deal with them all, I'll have knowledge and authority on the matter, knowledge that can be used to educate others.
6) It's a gateway to many other careers that I'm interested in. The military, Federal jobs, foreign jobs; all of these are very much more possible because of my CJ job. While right now, I am very content having a simple Cop job, down the road I definately hope to have something a little bigger.
I reserve the right to modify, edit, or do whatever I want with this list! :P
Jacob
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