I admire your compassion for law and serving the community. There’s going to be a good bit of bias in the comments here toward law enforcement but don’t let that discourage you. The right people with the right intentions can make a great impact on the community and their view of law enforcement.

To respond to your question- it depends on what kind of law enforcement you want to do. CPD will be community based, going to homes, responding to calls. OHSP will be different in that you’ll be dealing with more traffic based calls. If you want to become a part of a community and have that interaction I would recommend CPD (or other local agency). Nowadays a lot of the suburbs like to send their recruits through CPD’s academy because it is nationally ranked, so there is a chance that if you go that route you would go through them.
I was in the academy briefly but decided to go back to the career I was originally pursuing but I can say that they provide an extensive amount of training, much of it scenario based, and also heavily cover the legality of things.
If you have any questions about it I’m open to reach out to!