<p>Hello,</p>
<p>My cousin is a very hard working determined student and he has a lot of ambitions in life. He wants to first become a lawyer however he also wants to become a police officer. He would like to go to undergrad school either in New York City, Chicago or Washington D.C.
Apparently many officers have law degrees (for example NYPD commissioner Raymond Kelly etc)
Do you think that is possible?
what should he do?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>He should stop aspiring to be Judge Alex and get real!!!! Nah, seriously, why get a law degree to be a police officer? seems like over doing it... especially if you do the law degree before the police officer, it's more logical the other way around.</p>
<p>Just get his law degree</p>
<p>dont become a pig.</p>
<p>The Police Officiers with Law Degrees start out as Police Officiers. The NYPD requires 2 years of college for a new recruit. Many i nthe City use community college to reach this goal. They continue with a four year college-in NYC-mostly John Jay-best school for criminal justice.<br>
After achieving their BAs-many continue to CUNY Law School. If they have the means to finance, some go to private law schools such as New York Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Columbia, etc.
I am not sure how it works in other cities.
But yes-the combination of being "on the job" as NYPD and then receiving a law degree is quite formidable.</p>
<p>HoldenMCaulfield is a complete moron. Next time you need help dont call the "pigs". I hope his mother is raped or their house is invaded by a psychopath. Then he can handle the business himself. </p>
<p>As for the Police Department and then a lawyer its a good idea. You are not only helping the community but you are getting a valuable insight into police procedure and can help put ****bags away.</p>
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HoldenMCaulfield is a complete moron. Next time you need help dont call the "pigs". I hope his mother is raped or their house is invaded by a psychopath. Then he can handle the business himself.
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The problem is that when your mother is raped or his house is invaded by a psychopath calling the cops will not do you any good because when the cops show up the damage would have already been done and they are only going to be writing reports after the fact.</p>
<p>Thats why he should support Pro-Gun candidates. I am licensed to carry a firearm. Unfortunately the liberal morons who run my state will not let me carry here in IL. I carry regularly in my outlying states on my out of state permits. I refuse to be a victim and I agree with you Polo but the fact is that you should not condone him calling police officers pigs.</p>
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Thats why he should support Pro-Gun candidates. I am licensed to carry a firearm.
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Amen. CHL/CCL is great except the state that I live in is not shall-issue. Its funny how the states with the strictest gun control laws also have the greatest number of violent crime per capita (People's Repulic of New Jersey, PRNY, Kalifornia, and Washington, D.C.) I thought gun control would reduce crime...I guess it doesn't work in the real world.</p>
<p>I understand your pain. All of the states I am looking at are in CCW states.</p>
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I thought gun control would reduce crime...I guess it doesn't work in the real world.
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<p>Correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation...</p>
<p>So now that guns are no longer allowed in San Francisco it is safe to say that gun crimes are gone? No one is shooting each other? In Chicago we have no guns yet it still seems that we lead the country in murders.</p>
<p>Do you even understand the precepts of my previous statement? Gun control may or may not be a contributing factor to murders, but there are many other sociologically important variables to consider when trying to understand the cause of something.</p>
<p>In the case of violent crime, it's important to consider poverty, social mobility, ethnic strife, prevalence of organized crime, social stratification, as well as how well funded and spread police are.</p>
<p>No one single factor can be decidedly stated as being THE cause of violent crime.</p>
<p>Ethnic Strife? Social Mobility? </p>
<p>I murdered you because I am poor. That is a crock of ****. You cannot blame social ills for murder.</p>
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Ethnic Strife?
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<p>So you don't think that ethnic strife contributes to murders worldwide?</p>
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Social Mobility?
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<p>Why are murders less common in societies with greater social mobility, then? It may not be a causative factor, but it definitely shows that societies that provide citizenry with economic options tend to lower murder rates. Look at the rising murder rates in Japan post-economic bubble as an example of how this may work.</p>
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You cannot blame social ills for murder.
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<p>Right. It comes out of nowhere. :rolleyes:</p>
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Correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation...
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I never said correlation was causation. But if it is causation, then there must be correlation. Since there is NO correlation as you have said, then I was right in saying that gun control does NOT prevent/reduce crime.</p>
<p>What? Do you even know what "correlation" and "causation" even mean?</p>
<p>Would you like me to explain it to you?</p>
<p>Polo,</p>
<p>If there is NO correlation, then there's no causation. However, it can only rarely, without a doubt, be proven that one factor is THE cause of anything in social science.</p>
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If there is NO correlation, then there's no causation.
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That is exactly what I said, in a different way.
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But if it is causation, then there must be correlation.
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