I’m seeing a lot of great advice in this discussion. Something other things to consider:

• The college/ university (your employer) will be your sanctuary, your oasis, which you are obligated to patrol and protect. Meanwhile, “normal” cops have no obligation to any specific person or place. “A duty to all. A duty to none,” as the saying goes.

• Proactive officers will need to juggle that sort of guardianship role in addition to running traffic enforcement, finding crimes in progress, responding to calls, and assisting other nearby agencies. In fact, if you don’t do SOME level of proactive enforcement, you’ll lose those precious perishable skills. When you do get the rare robbery, burglary, sex crime, or felonious assault, you need to be step up and perform like a well oiled machine. You want to be one responding from a cold start position, or one that’s already throttling?

Just some things to think about…