- I always ask the students
on the first day of class,
why are you taking this class?
29 out of 30 students say,
"This is exactly what I wanna do."
What we try and do is give
them the full foundation
of what they are gonna need
and prepare them so by
the end of the semester
they're already saying,
"Okay for sure I wanna be
a homicide crime scene investigator
or for sure I wanna work
in the field division
or for sure I wanna lean
towards the federal government
and have a wonderful federal career.
So they're gonna now where they stand
at the end of the semester
and the goal is that they know that
by the time they graduate.
- Well one of my classes
we had to interrogate someone
and she was talking to us
about one time in class
how she interrogated one
for like 16, 17 hours
and she just made us do it for an hour
and you know it's very stressful and hard
and just yeah to be on point
and you had to follow a certain techniques
and if you follow certain techniques
then you would have a
successful interrogation.
- I was invited to come and instruct
on what the first responders role is
in law enforcement
and some of the experiences
in a specific case
that I worked on.
So instead of just
reading it out of a book,
they can have someone stand there
who's experienced to them live
and it's not necessarily their professor
and it's not you know
the dean of the program
or whatever it's somebody
who works everyday
currently in the job field.
- Being in the heart of Raleigh,
everything is centered here.
That's an extremely advantageous
thing about our program
is when you intern and you have to intern,
when you intern you're going
down the street to work
you know in the capitol
district the state bureau
of investigation like you can't beat that
and Raleigh PD is one of
the elite police departments
in the country.
So we've had a couple interns there
and a couple interns with the CCBI
so their internship set them up right
to get those sort of jobs.
- I would love to be a homicide detective.
That is my main goal for leaving here,
jumping straight into that
but I'm pretty sure that I you know
working my up I'll get there.
- We did a surveillance project
which was really fun.
Get it outside the joint house.
We had to watch a drug deal go down
and make a affidavit off of that
so we had a mass group.
Everybody was in their own little area
watching, working around
doing surveillance
and learning the actual
steps for surveillance.
- In terms of learning from the agencies
that surround out campus,
the students have a broad reach
in terms of the knowledge
that they're gonna gain
from practitioners that are
literally within two long block
away from this institution
so there's a benefit to being here.
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