Criminal justice student

[LittlePinky82]

Hi all. I'm a criminal justice student and I love my major and am currently working on my bachelor's. Once I graduate I hope to work for NCIS and if that doesn't work then Secret Service or US Marshals. I love everything I'm learning with my classes dealing with my major. For those of you who are currently student's what are your classes like? Do you get any actual training or is it just a class room setting? Mine is just a classroom setting sadly. For those who are in law enforcement now do you think these classes really help prepare you or the real world academy type training?

[CityOfChicago]

They will help you understand the CJ system, as well as agency structures. You may even learn a bit about law and specialized units (white collar crime, organized crime). But you will not learn patrol tactics or firearms usage, nor will you most likely learn state laws, and you certainly won't learn the local ordinances of any municipality that may haire you one day, nor the paperwork and procedures for any specific department.

It can give you a good understanding of what the police, as an organization, is. But you will learn to BE the police from an agency.

[LittlePinky82]

Originally Posted by CityOfChicago

They will help you understand the CJ system, as well as agency structures. You may even learn a bit about law and specialized units (white collar crime, organized crime). But you will not learn patrol tactics or firearms usage, nor will you most likely learn state laws, and you certainly won't learn the local ordinances of any municipality that may haire you one day, nor the paperwork and procedures for any specific department.

It can give you a good understanding of what the police, as an organization, is. But you will learn to BE the police from an agency.

Right. That's what is going on now. I just got done this last term with Correction's and Crime & Media. I'm sure they probably don't do that since everyone has their own goals with organization's they want to go with. Majority of my classmates want to work for Correction's but I don't think so for me. The term before I took a class about internet crime that was very interesting.