I learned a lot from my class at skyline. The class was called Intro to Administration of
Justice 100.We had lesson plans each week and had different guest speakers that came
into the class and talked about their first-hand experience on the job and the requirements
to be in that law enforcement profession. I interacted with a lot of them to see if I might be
interested in pursuing the career that was talked about by each speaker that was in that
profession. The different types of speakers that came in was from the very bottom of law
enforcement careers enforcement such a policemen to the top money making job such as
an FBI agent or Detective. We also had chapter quizzes from week to week that covered
material in a book that was issued to us for the class.
One of the Very first guest speakers was a probation officer and he talked about the
requirements to be a probation officer which included needing a bachelor's degree and
going through a state and training program. Then he began to tell us all the Job duties
including meeting with offenders and documenting their activities to ensure that they obey
the court's probation requirements. Probation officers work for state and federal
governments, agencies and jurisdictions. He talked about a few of his encounters with
inmates, but nothing he talked about really did not have anything that caught my interest. I
don't think I want to work closely with inmates and just work in a jail all day.
One of the other guest speakers was a forensic scientist and she worked a lot with
collecting evidence and analyzing it from a crime scene and she talked about some horrific
stuff that was very traumatizing but yet intriguing to her but to me it really just grossed me
out. She talked about how one time she got a call to go to a crime scene were a dog was
nearly starved to death so the dog decided to eat the human and killed him by eating his
butt... the dog threw it up outside and they found the dog dead on the ground outside in the
backyard just skin and bones It really grossed me out. She talked about all the schooling
she had to go through to get to this position and almost immediately I cancelled this of my
list because I am basically not good in math. She also talked about all the detailed reports
and all the evidence she analyzes that made me even more not interested.
The guest speaker that had me interested was a street-policemen from Daly City, that
had a lot of first hand of experience of dealing with criminals on the streets such as thugs,
gang members and a lot of shootouts and arresting them. There was a story that he told us
about a bouncer from San Francisco that lived in Oakland and he was about 6'5 and he hit
his girlfriend which was only about 5 ft tall. He got the call and drove over there and dealt
with the situation and said that he had to take him to jail, luck fully the guy agreed to go
with him. Otherwise, he would of had to call for back-up but the guy was nice and agreed
to go with him to the station. The requirements for this job include having training or state
training and passing a background check which was like most of the other jobs but not to
exclusive such as the FBI agent position where they had files that nobody ever knew about
and u had to pass a long lie-detector test that would last around 7-8 hrs. For me that
sounded like to much commitment so I decided that i might pursue just to be a regular
street officer that worked with and in all the action. The only thing that gets me stuck on
what position in Law enforcement in passing the background checks. I'm not sure they
would even review my file because of the thing i did that might stay with me forever.
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