Personal Essay: Growing Up In East Los Angeles

The School Resource officer program provides the use of trained full-time Police Officers who will work within the educational system. The objectives of the School Recourse Officer Program is to promote and assist schools in providing a safe learning environment which will also improve relationships between law enforcement and the youth of today. The program attempts to promote a better understanding of the Law Enforcement Officers' role in society while educating students, parents, school personnel, and the community on important issues such as gangs, violent crime, drugs, and other related topics. The program also provides a positive role model in the educational system. The Primary focus of this program is

Growing up in the Rio Grande Valley was an experience like no other. The RGV is full of Tex-Mex, laughs, and the most random things you can think of. Despite all its quirks it’s a beautiful place to live in, and it’s home to me.

Growing up in San Francisco was not easy. My life has been a up hill battle. I’vealways been a free spirited person. Always loved sometimes loved the wrong people. I grew up in San Francisco. Most people think of San Francisco as this wonderful free love place. Well it’s not this wonderful free love place. Fillmore is what my neighborhood was called. This Fillmore place was a very dark violent place. Many don’t make it out. Either you die young, or you go out on drugs. I always wanted more out of life. I always felt that if I could escape this dark unkind place I would be a better person. Sometimes as a child I would dream of living in a real family setting. You know a father that lived with my mother and I. “A real family not a dysfunctional one”. School has always been a outlet for me. I could go to school and learn, learn, learn. I’ve always been

On the other hand, Holland, Michigan has an exorbitant amount of wealth. But, the dynamic of the culture is not as intense as New Jersey’s. Overall, while living in Michigan I have noticed less of a social battle in who has the better clothes, houses, lives, or friends. Here in Holland, I see people using a tote as a backpack, but this is rare occasion. In general, Michigan is not as materialistic as New Jersey is. Many people in Michigan could care less about what you are wearing and do not have even close to the quantity of clothes that me or my friends do.

Growing up in Long Beach, CA 90804, there would be various ethnicities that were my neighbors. According to 2010 Census, Long Beach population consists of 40,311 people. Long Beach contains 38.6% of whites, 16.9% of blacks, 14.8% of Asians, and 37.8% of Hispanics, as we can see in Long Beach, Hispanics and whites make up a great percentage in the population and I think this is true. For example, in high school half the school consisted of whites and the rest were Hispanics, Asian, black, and others. Long Beach is a diverse city, but it can also depend exactly what part of Long Beach people live.

I don’t remember much, I just remember not wanting to leave. The place I would be spending the rest of my life I had only visited a few times. I, only being two at the time, was absolutely terrified of moving. Moving. It seemed like the worst possible thing that could’ve happened then. At first, when we left, it felt the same as the last time I had gone there. Then the realization that I would be gone forever kicked in, and the fact that this time, my dad wasn’t coming with us. Just my mom and I.

Obama once said, “ we need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice farrier- our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.” The world needs people that are willing to make it a safe environment to make sure to try and stop all the crimes out in the streets and the drugs being influenced out their. A Criminal justice career can have many advantages, even though it has its disadvantages, its problem trying to join in.

Growing up in Dallas, I have always been interested in my city’s diverse culture and rich history. Not too long ago, I learned about one of the most tragic events to occur in the Dallas area, an event that not only impacted the future of Dallas, but also affected Texas, the United States, and the world as a whole. No, this is not the unfortunate shooting of John F. Kennedy, but the untimely cancellation of what physicists planned to be the most significant and largest science device in recorded history - a 54-mile circumference particle accelerator named “Superconducting Super Collider.”

Growing up in Arizona has sparked my interest for biology and nature. I love to hike in the mountains and watch wildlife and learn about new plants. This is why I am interested in interning here. I love to learn about plants and they have always intrigued me. I am interested in learning about pollinators in the Chicago area, such as bees, and wanting to understand how their decline has effected plants in the area.

Upon returning from my deployment to Iraq, I applied and was accepted into the New York City Police Department Cadet Corps program. I worked with the Community Affairs Unit as a liaison to youth and elderly residents of New York City Housing Authority and as an administrative assistant organizing crime statistics. Wanting a broader understanding of the systems and policies that directly and indirectly influenced people, I pursued a degree in social work. Rather than just enforce laws, I hoped to collaborate with civilians to find more sustainable, practical solutions to their domestic problems, recidivism, alcoholism, and general discontent. Immediately after graduating with my Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, I began the NYPD police academy. I was eager to incorporate social work and police work. I felt I could concurrently enforce the law, provide counseling, help families resolve conflict, and get youth the services they required.

City street lights mark the edges and corners of blocked off territory. Land labeled “ghetto” and “dangerous” translates to land that was ignored for the profit of the few. This land exists a short drive away from us, they are backyards to the neighborhoods we chose not to stray from. They are West Garfield Park, East St. Louis, Englewood, The Ville, and every impoverished community that suffered in isolation while those around watched. Our generation can be quick to judge the actions of oppressors or the lack of necessary change in our history, however a lot of these remarks can be made about today’s segregated neighborhoods. In cities such as St. Louis, where segregation is deep rooted and has allowed further issues to stem from such divisions, the voice of the community is often silenced by quick, misguided assumptions on such areas. These are not “bad neighborhoods” they are not populated by “bad people”, but are rather neglected portions of a city that has found it easier to accept these stereotypes than look beyond the superficial. We have the tools and knowledge to solidify that there is more to these neighborhoods than gangs or torn down houses, the question is now what do we do with them?

My current plan for graduate study is to acquire a Master’s degree focusing on the fields of “Corrections, Reentry, and Restorative Justice” and “Violence Prevention and Control.” The areas of Criminal Justice program I am interested in are varied at this moment, but I expect to develop a deeper understanding of my options through the course of my continued education. During my undergraduate years, I was able to vastly improve my leadership and interpersonal skills working with the help of a variety of excellent students. Besides a summer internship at the USA Treasury Department (Washington DC, 2015 Summer) to fulfill a deeper understanding of the potential economic crimes, I also completed a few of fundamental and mid-level courses to enrich my professional knowledge which include Introduction to Criminal Justice, Introduction to Sociology, Criminology, Criminal Procedure, Policing, Juvenile Justice, Comparative and Historical Criminal Justice, and Social Problems.

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was privileged to attended some of the best public schools in the nation. I am blessed to have been born into a family that provided me with the resources necessary to become successful. Although no journey ever goes as planned, my experiences have led me to believe that I am destined for great things. I hope that my journey towards success will continue by being accepted into the Masters of Arts in Criminal Justice program at Mount Mercy University for the Fall of 2018. My decision to study Criminal Justice can be traced back to the day I discovered the importance of the events that have shaped me into the young woman that I am today.

Growing up in Chicago has shown me a lot of hardships and struggles that many people go through everyday. Myself personally, have not been a victim of any racism, violence or many family problems but I witness these situations through friends and other relations commonly. My parents originally come from Ghana, a country in Africa and came here to raise me not based upon the stereotypes of many African Americans. Nevertheless, my main stress drives me to become better than the average person. My mother deals with diabetes daily and occasionally if she was preoccupied with many task within the house, she would forget to eat on her based diet leaving her sugar level to go drastically low. This brings many concerns and

INTRODUCCTORY SUMMARY: The Police Department proposes to implement a new community-based policing program for young men and women in police operations and law enforcement practices. The program will serve students from ages 18 to 21 years old. The recruited students will receive college credit for their participation in the program.