Criminal Justice Major

 The most controversial part of the academic major criminal Justice is how little the major seems to matter anymore with police departments all across America struggling to fill the ranks many just now just require any sort of college degree, even if it has nothing to do with law enforcement. Some don't even require a college degree anymore. This raises a very serious question of why get a criminal justice degree at all. especially since that degree can't really be use anywhere outside the field of the law enforcement.  

At this point in time most police departments in America will hire you if you have any college degree at all. I personally know cops with degrees in Zoology and percussion. Now this isn't to say that there aren't other degrees that would be of value in the field of law enforcement. Law enforcement, specifically policing, is such a huge and complex field with a million different specialties that there are several different degrees that could be of value to a police officer. psychology is a big one right now since police to deal with a fair number of calls involving mental illness. having the knowledge and expertise to at least calm some of these people down so that you can then guide them to the help they need is a valuable skill. business degrees can also be very help when you start to get into higher ranking positions. 

the problem is that since you don't need to a criminal justice degree to go into law enforcement many police officers are now encouraging young people to literally any other degree. Many recommend getting a degree that you can use as a fallback career if you decide you don't like law enforcement. Some just recommend getting a degree in something you like even if it's more "useless" than criminal justice. The problem is that criminal justice does a lot of good research for law enforcement and there's a lot of good information in criminal justice class that CJ major can take and use to be better cops in the future. Unfortunately, law enforcement has completely devalued its own degree even though it could be just what the field needs to fix the problems it faces today.   

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