“Some things, you can put in the past...but they do change you.” This quote is from Olivia Benson, a character from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. This show is about a group of detectives in New York who solve crimes related to sex offenses and child abductions. Each episode is a new case for the team. Olivia Benson is one of these detectives and she tries to do her job well. Both the show and the character have had a large impact on my life. Without me realizing it, I had already chosen to become like Olivia Benson. All of the reruns and new episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have caused me to pick the career path I seek for today. My mom and nana watch shows based around crime like it is the only thing on television. They …show more content…
For a while, I thought I wanted to study computer science and become a website designer. This job would have eventually paid well but I would have gotten bored fairly quickly, so I looked into my other options. Later on, when criminal justice became an interesting point of study, I did more research on becoming a detective. It felt right to consider my future as a police officer or detective. I had found the perfect thing for me to do with my life. Ever since this breakthrough, I have thought night and day of how much I will enjoy this career. How I will get to the place I want to be. I get excited for the days when I will be learning how to do my job and where I will learn this at. This past summer I went to CSI camp where I and some others learned some of what training officers would learn. Like how to look at the blood splatter and tell what happened from it. We learned how to collect evidence and how to analyze a crime scene. We even had a mock crime scene that we tried to solve as a group. It was the best thing that happened to me this summer. It gave me a glimpse into what I will be able to do if I continue on this path and it reassured me that this was exactly what I wanted to do. If I had any doubt before this camp, it was completely gone