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(Add Creative Title Here) by:Tijuan White “The First 48.” “James Patterson.”.” “Crime Watch Daily”. These shows have one thing in common, they are all murder mystery. I have always loved the thrill of a good murder mystery. So, I asked myself “Why not be in one.” That was when I came into the idea of my career choice. I had some questions to ask first,“What tools would you use to solve a crime scene?” “What would be the first thing you would do when you arrive at a crime scene?” and “What are the biggest challenges of this job?” All of these questions racked my brain. So, I said, “Why would I want to be a police officer besides all of the crime shows?” It was quite simple, I wanted to help out the community can solve cases using logic and …show more content…

It was about helping out the community whether it was from saving citizens cat from a tree or quieting a dispute between two neighbors in a civil and reasonable way. In 2012 an officer saw flames coming out from the top of a house. So, he did a life-saving act. He ran to the door and knocked with all his might. He ended up waking up the five civilians that were sleeping inside the house. He ended up saving them. He didn’t use force to just run and panic and break down the door and scream for help. He used reasoning and logic. He used logic by looking at the house and seeing that it was on fire and decided to do what most of us wouldn’t and ran towards the fire to help the citizens stuck inside. He helped out the community by that simple act of …show more content…

They should be able to work shifts since law enforcement is required twenty-four hours. As I interview my police officer and asked him about how many shifts was her required to take and he said: “it depends on what I am assigned to, sometimes it is as much as 16-18 hours and shift.” When I heard about this my reaction was “wow” are you serious 16-18 hours! That would be a lot of work! I began to think about how hard it must be for him, so I asked him what was his least favorite part about his job and he said, “It has got to be arresting people and putting them in jail, because there is a lot of good people and everyone has potential and most people throw it away.” When I thought about that I began to realize what he meant that, people spend most of their time doing wrong when they could make history. When I decided to ask him what he would think would be the best suited background for this job he said, “That would be hard to say, I personally think it would be to get a bachelor's degree and an few years at the police academy.” My first thought was that was going to easy, but when I researched how many years it would take to get an bachelor's degree it said it would take four-years to get a bachelors in college. I asked was there any other way beyond that, and he said, “No, that is what you have to do, I thought it was going to be hard to, but all the work I did payed off”. That

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