Enlightement of My Future Career

At the age of five, I was so bad that my mom put me in a summer police academy camp for three years. For those three years even though the police academy camp was supposed to make my summer boring, however it did not. Majority of kids hated camp back around my age which made their summer boring, but my summer great. The police academy camp shaped my life from when I was young up until my current age now which is nineteen. Everything in this Police Academy Camp was interesting to me. The cops in this academy took a group of kids my age at the time up to age twelve, and made us a unit in the same way they teach cops to be. As a unit, these cops took us to the gun range, a police school, a firehouse, the history of Law enforcement Museum, jail cells, New York for the police museum, and many more fun things that involved the teaching stage of becoming a cop. Not Just becoming a cop, but an Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent, an undercover detective, a lawyer, a judge, and any other law enforcement position. Out of these positions I learned about throughout this camp, my attentiveness within the system grew upon the position of an FBI Agent.

Now that I am nineteen in college studying under the major of Criminal Justice, I dugged up deeper research on becoming an FBI Agent, and realized that there are four different jobs FBI Agents can do. According to William Adkins writing on “The Different Types of FBI Agents” one job is Intelligence Analysts. Intelligence analysts for the FBI gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as people, documents, cyberspace, and electronic surveillance. The choices that intelligence analysts makes after gathering all of their sources impacts how the case that the criminal justice system is working on will go. My professor Margaret Henderson, Ph.D well told me that evidence is the main key when dealing with cases in the system. Without no evidence, there is no proof for a person who committed a crime to be put away or do the time for the crime they committed. Therefore, even if the evidence is false evidence, intelligence analysts still have to prove why the evidence is false. The second out of the four different jobs FBI agents can do that I came across is Surveillance Professionals. One of the few things I learned about this field for my future knowledge is that FBI jobs calls surveillance professionals the “eyes and ears” of the FBI. Surveillance Professionals take photographs, videos, sound recordings, and other types of electronic surveillance for analysis, and admission into a legal proceeding. They are chosen for their ability to blend in with a crowd, follow the commands of the lead agent, and perform the challenging responsibilities required to monitor criminals, and terrorists. Going down the list, next up will be the Forensic Accountants professionals. Here Accountants identifies, and track suspicious activity. In other cases, forensic accountants trace illegal actions by following a trail of questionable transactions. They also produce new clues that help investigators catch criminals, and counter threats. Last at the list is a position job called Linguists. FBI linguists use their knowledge of languages, and cultures to interpret information and communicate with persons of interest.

Out of these four field specialist jobs, I can see myself more likely in the Surveillance Professionals field. I enjoy solving mysterious, puzzles or any equation in life looking for the solution. I truly believe back to what my professor said in class once that “evidence is the main key when dealing with cases in the system. Without no evidence, there is no proof for a person who committed a crime to be put away or do the time for the crime they committed.” As an FBI Agent gathering information, facts, and evidence to solve crimes is the main purpose of every position under this title known to the world under the departments of the U.S government. These goverments are three branches (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial).