Group 2

Having a career in the Criminal Justice field has always been my dream. Coming from a Law Enforcement family it would mean a lot to me to follow in their footsteps, mostly my dad's. I have always been so proud of him and all of his accomplishments throughout his career. I would not trade my interest in law enforcement for anything! The Criminal Justice field interests me in so many ways and has so many oppurtunities for me to be able to have a successful career. One day I hope to make my dad as proud of me and my career like I am of him and his career. 

I am an intern for the City of Mesa at the Mesa Police Department for the Crime Analysis Unit at the CAFV (Center Against Family Violence) And I absolutlely love it! As a 

Crime Analysis Intern my duties are 1) to assist Crime Analysts by reviewing police reports and preparing data for crime trend bulletins; 2) research criminal activity in Mesa; 3) compile and enter data into various databases; 4) use computer databases, electronic spreadsheets and other applications to manipulate, analyze and present data.

I do whatever I can to make my supervisor's life a little easier! 

This intern has been a real eye opener to me so far as in what I want to pursue as a career. Crime analysis really interests me because I like compiling data and trying to make sense of it. I have always been a really organized person and even in a sense have my own OCD tendencies. I like crime analysis because you have to be organized and have to want to data scrub to make sense of things and to also be able to provide the information that will be useful. I have always been a list type of person, I make a to do list, a grocery list, a packing list, basically a list for whatever I am doing and in crime analysis I have found that lists are very helpful and can mean a lot. 

A typical day at my intern... Hmm lets see. I go in from 7am-2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I talk with my supervisor and see what has happen over the weekend or since that last time I was there. She updates me on cases and things we need to be looking out for. So after that I begin my work. So far in my internship I have learned to run searches in R.M.S ( Records Management System) and use the calls for service module. I review the calls for service for certain criteria i.e.. child and adult contacts. I have learned to summarize a large amount of date into a smaller amount that gets right to the point and to the cogent details. With this I have been utilizing my excel skills and have been getting pointers and short cuts from my supervisor. I have learned how to scrub data and to get data in a raw form to standardize it and make it so everyone knows what it means and make it useful. 

I have also have been given the assignment to update the metal list for the whole city of Mesa. The metal list is a list that contains all the crimes that happen with scrap metal, vehicle batteries being stolen, shoplifts of metal goods, street wire, copper wire thefts etc. I enjoy doing this because I am practicing my skills to one day become a crime analyst. I update this list every week and pull data from RMS and review data from other districts and put all the data into one giant city list. 


I really do enjoy going to my internship and being able to learn hands on and have the real life experience. I was not too sure about what career I wanted in law enfacement but now that I have had the chance to explore a career and find one that I love and have a passion for I will be keeping my eyes on the prize and doing whatever I can to become a crime analysis tech and then one day become a crime analyst.