Federal Bureau of Investigation

     Since I have informed you on certain college courses that apply to criminal justice and colleges that are good for this degree, I now want get to the fun part: talking about the jobs themselves. In order to be able to effectively explain each job, I received a book a few weeks ago that analyzes each career of the criminal justice world. The first one that caught my eye was the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Here are pictures of the FBI field office in Washington D.C., and of FBI agents gathering evidence.

    
     This book told me a nice overview of the FBI. To start with the basics, it's the main investigative organization of the federal government. As a result, the FBI has a lot of responsibilities, such as investigating organized crime, bank robbery, financial crime, espionage, terrorism, extortion, kidnapping, drug trafficking, and having to inquire into the violations of over 260 laws. If you were to become a special agent, you could conduct surveillance, track movement of stolen property, and participate in undercover assignments. The FBI does provide important services to other law enforcement agencies in the country, such as providing their laboratory (the largest criminal laboratory in the world) without cost to other police organizations. Hopefully after reading this, you now have a better understanding of the FBI or have a new interest in joining it. Next week, I will continue to explain certain criminal justice careers.