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Jason
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What affects, given the current political unrest being experienced by citizens today, will the current administration in Washington D.C. have on my future desire to enter into the Criminal Justice area after I graduate from college?
What affects, given the current political unrest being experienced by citizens today, will the current administration in Washington D.C. have on my future desire to enter into the Criminal Justice area after I graduate from college?
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Kim Igleheart
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Jason,
There will always be jobs in the CRJ field.
How the political climate will affect your desire to be a part of that field is a difficult question. Like the military, law enforcement officers are expected to do their jobs and follow orders. If those orders happen to be that you will arrest people for obstructing a sidewalk even though they are walking in a single file line while holding up protest signs, that's what you will do. Even if you disagree with those orders. If you are unwilling to carry out those types of orders, you may want to go into a support role, such as criminal analyst, rather than an enforcement role.
Four years may seem like an eternity, but, it is not. Focus on your schooling, and keeping a clean social media presence. Background checks are pretty thorough. We have weathered worse storms than this. We'll get through it!
There will always be jobs in the CRJ field.
How the political climate will affect your desire to be a part of that field is a difficult question. Like the military, law enforcement officers are expected to do their jobs and follow orders. If those orders happen to be that you will arrest people for obstructing a sidewalk even though they are walking in a single file line while holding up protest signs, that's what you will do. Even if you disagree with those orders. If you are unwilling to carry out those types of orders, you may want to go into a support role, such as criminal analyst, rather than an enforcement role.
Four years may seem like an eternity, but, it is not. Focus on your schooling, and keeping a clean social media presence. Background checks are pretty thorough. We have weathered worse storms than this. We'll get through it!