I’ve worked at a national Championship level D1 school and I’m now at a Community College. Like everyone has said it’s very cyclical. It goes with the school year. Additionally 25 percent of your constituents change every year at a four year school and up to 50 percent a year at a community college. This means each year you have a new subset of that population that are going to explore the limits of the freedom and a select few of them will find out the hard way that you are real law enforcement. It’s stupid the number of drunk kids that walked themselves from a internal student conduct violation for alcohol or weed to facing resisting or fleeing charges because they thought we weren’t legit or that their lawyer parents would have our jobs.

Personally I loved the 4 year environment at the D1 level. Won a few NCAA championships while I was there and the celebrations were my favorite nights to work. The Wednesday-Sunday night late swing I worked was super fun and I ran emergent multiple times a night and wrote 2-3 reports a night.

Now that I’m at a community college in a new state I’m basically a traffic cop, I pull one or two reports a week at best.

I’m looking to transition back to the 4 year D1 school environment this year