Something that has had a major effect on my life is the articles I read in my criminal justice classes. They talked about all the kids in jail and the reasons they are in jail. This blows my mind because the ages of these kids are so young and their minds haven’t even developed yet. They are ruining their lives before they are even started. There are kids that have murdered people and some that are transporting drugs. I cannot even imagine being an adult and knowing that I did something that made this kid ruin his life. The reason most of the kids do these things is because the people they look up to do them or they are forced too. There are girls as young as 8 and maybe even younger that are selling their bodies on the street for money. I could never see a girl that young and pick her up for a night. That just makes me sick. I also couldn’t imagine giving a kid a lot of drugs and telling him to take them somewhere for me. What if you were in a fire fight and there was a 9 year old kid pointing a gun at you getting ready to shoot? As a cop, what do you do? Do you kill him before he kills you or do you let him take your life and give the opportunity for him to do it again? These things go on everyday in this world.