Blog #9
The requirements for being a cop are about a 4 year degree in criminal justice
The school that has criminal justice that I would mostly want to go to is Michigan state university the reason I would like to do that is because my sister is up there right now and I think it would be a place that I could probably get into easily if I try and want this job a lot and try my hardest. But some other schools that have the degree that I need are Adrian College, Albion College, Alma College, Andrews University, Calvin College, Ferris state university and Lake Michigan College.
It will take about 4 years then an additional 3 years of related work time experience
It costs about 16,687 to get your bachelors degree to become a cop at a university that is not that expensive so at Michigan state university it would probably cost even more than that.
As a police officer you could be sitting at an office working on a case or something or sitting at a station with your partner who knows or you could be out on duty at a place where a lot of crime goes on you could be doing a lot of things.
They make a little over 45,000 a year but agents who relocate to New York are entitled to locality pay over 26% of their base salary or around 11,700 which results in a salary of 57,000 a year
Many people have said being a police officer can have the least majority of work or it can be a lot of work because you really don’t know what is going to happen it’s not like people are going to tell you when they’re going to do crimes. So you basically have to always be on patrol looking out for people doing bad things in the city.
Now after looking over of being a cop it was pretty cool I liked some stuff and I didn’t like some things, like I did like how you always have to be on patrol looking out for what is happening in the city. I would love to be on patrol just sitting there most likely knowing something will happen it even could happen and second so I really would enjoy that. Other things that disappointed me was like the wage like how much money you make a year I thought you would make more money a year but I guess you don’t make as much as I thought but it doesn’t make me not want to be a cop though. But after researching it makes me think of me being a cop more and more as I research and it shows me more what it’s going to be like. But I thought I would not want to be a cop after I research but I actually want to more and more. The work you have to do to become a cop is a lot though you have to go to college and get your bachelors then go to a police school or academy to train for your job and get experience so yeah now I want to be a cop even more.