As a future Chicago police officer sociological imagination definitely gives you a better sense of what is going on around you and helps you better understand the people in which you are helping. Knowing what the individual is going through and what they may have experienced in their past helps shape them as human beings. My intentions are to hopefully one-day get onto a drug unit in some of the harshest areas of Chicago. The job calls on a lot more then one officer may see throughout his career.
So with a grasp on sociological imagination, I believe that it will lead me to better understand whom it is I am helping and to better assess what is truly going on around me. With a hold on sociological imagination and everything that is coming up about officers abusing those that they are helping, I believe that having an understanding about the past and now will lead me to being a better officer. Sociology 2000 has been quite eye opening for me in many ways. First off all that the department that I have chosen has to offer.
Whether it is resume building, studying abroad, and so many other clubs and events that are held to being a well-rounded student. Secondly I wish that I had taken the class last year to truly get a grasp of how things are meant to run smoothly in a class schedule. And most off is that all of my teachers around me are a person just like I am. It is interesting knowing my professors on a more relaxed side. My favorite part also is also when my favorite speaker came in to talk. My favorite speaker was the police officer.
I have worked along side many police departments in the past with underage liquor buys and being a police cadet. Hearing all the stories and pointers that officers have to offer is truly an amazing experience in its self. It is actually what landed me as a sociology major. Hearing that particular officer speak about what patrolling around this area is interested me beyond belief. The officers I rode with in the past had only city stories to tell and were definitely much different then what he had.
As for what he had said about becoming an officer and how much it wears you down, as a person is something that not everyone on a force will tell you about, it truly takes a lot for someone to say that. I am so glad that the sociology department offers this course, as a whole for the fact that it is not bookwork, but real day-to-day connections for the degree has to offer. There isn’t much I would do to change the course; it is nicely laid out week-to-week, and what is expected of you. My future ambitions are after college with being on so many police hiring lists to get into police training and become a Chicago Police Department.
I do not care where it I am placed as long as it offers day-to-day calls. I would actually prefer to be placed into some of the places that not all officers would. With doing so I want to get onto either a gang unit or drug unit. After some time on the force I would like to one day make it to be a United States Marshal. On that no with all that has been said to me and doing the first assignment, no there is not another thing I could ever see myself doing. Being an officer is a whole different monster in itself.
Saying that it is not meant for everyone and there are those that hold the special skill of working with others and holding such a position with pride that make the occupation so enticing. Cheating and plagiarism is rampant throughout the educational world and without a doubt can be slowed, but never stopped. There are those out there that will do anything they can to just slide by. Whether that is cheat in taking answers from others that may have taken a course before them, or upright stealing the answers from someone who has worked to achieve.
For those of us out there who hold any form of pride in our own work and have honor in what we do, the amount of cheaters out there will cloud our achievements. The idea very much spreads in the career I hope to hold one day. Being a police officer comes with pride, respect, and honor. There are those out there that take advantage at any form of power they hold. So cheating or in a form or another plagiarize, are truly cheating society. Any loss in trust in officers is an awful thing. People should be able to trust those that are out there protecting them.
