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Hello I am a 20 year old physically fit woman. I'm very interested in becoming a police officer but I have absolutely no idea how to begin. I'm turning 21 at the end of this month and after this summer is over I would like to begin training to get a job as an officer. How do I start to go about this in the state of Pennsylvania? My brother said there's an officer school but I don't know how to contact them. I don't want to go through a normal college I want to go to a school specifically for police training. Any info you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! (link)
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Before you go sign up, I have a few things for you to read/watch.
http://videosift.com/video/The-Largest-Street-Gang-in-America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE
-Don't talk to cops lecture-
Cops are an organization who's sole purpose is to uphold the laws. All of them. We have some very stupid laws. Some you might personally disagree with. You will still be responsible for feeding people to the prison industrial complex to keep your job like everyone else.
Congress recently ruled that officers have no obligation to help people in distress. Increasingly, police offices across the nation are becoming insular brotherhoods meant to protect their own, keep their jobs, and destroy as many lives as possible outside their own community in the process. "To protect and serve" is history.
If you become a cop, it is guaranteed you will encounter corruption. If you do not go along with it you will face repercussions from the crooked cops who feel they cannot trust you to have their back. You will be taught that cops and cop families are allies and the general public is the enemy. You will not be sufficiently trained to handle the stress of the kind of fucked up situations you encounter as a police officer, and your pay and benefits won't really cover the therapy you will end up needing.
Fifteen years ago things were different. The friendly "walk a beat" cops who are in touch with the community are dead now. You will see the world through the glass of a police cruiser and you will be a part of one of the most justifiably hated organizations in existence on US soil. You will be a representation of the power of government to abuse it's citizens for money, fun, and even by accident, and you will have to live with that.
Do something else with your life. Educate yourself on what police culture is and how pervasive it is in America. Educate yourself on the completely broken system of criminal justice in this country and the for profit prisons who drive officers to arrest and convict so that they can stay in business making money.
Once you've learned all these things for yourself with a little research, look into activist groups for police reform. Go be a part of trying to change the system so we aren't living in a police state anymore where paramilitary no knock midnight swat missions to homes where someone is guilty of misdemeanor pot possession aren't the norm.
Then maybe your grandkids can become cops and have it be a decent thing to do with your life again.
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Im really sorry but i asked for advice on how to start my career...not your personal opinion on why police officers are corrupt.
Heads up, my older brother is an officer and is most definitely not corrupt.
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