Elsewhere on this forum (in the General Discussions area) is a survey entitled "Law Enforcement Via Security" and I find the results so far to be both informative and fascinating.
The survey isn't "scientifically designed", of course (which costs $thousands to do!), and the sample is admittedly quite small. Even with these limitations in mind, I still think it's significant that 40% of the respondents have entered the field of security as a stepping-stone to law enforcement careers. If this sample is at all representative of the larger population of security officers, we can learn something here.
I started to write a long post about just what we can learn, but long posts to this forum are received with such hostility that I'll leave it to you to think over the implications. Yes, we always knew some of our folks want to become cops, but 40% - even if it might be a little high (or low?) due to some accidental peculiarity of the responding sample - is really rather astonishing, and suggest both important implications as well as intriguing possibilities.
The survey isn't "scientifically designed", of course (which costs $thousands to do!), and the sample is admittedly quite small. Even with these limitations in mind, I still think it's significant that 40% of the respondents have entered the field of security as a stepping-stone to law enforcement careers. If this sample is at all representative of the larger population of security officers, we can learn something here.
I started to write a long post about just what we can learn, but long posts to this forum are received with such hostility that I'll leave it to you to think over the implications. Yes, we always knew some of our folks want to become cops, but 40% - even if it might be a little high (or low?) due to some accidental peculiarity of the responding sample - is really rather astonishing, and suggest both important implications as well as intriguing possibilities.
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