Actually, you generally don't need a college degree to become a police officer. Some states may require a 2 year degree, but not all do. To enter the police academy there will likely be an entrance exam that you need to pass and most will have both a physical fitness test to pass as well as proving you have knowledge of law, law enforcement, plus passing a mental health fitness side to the exam. They usually also require speaking to references so it's not like you can just lie about things in order to pass.
Darkwings, it's certainly a career path you could look into. But think you would need to be honest with yourself as to whether or not you could pass the physical and mental health fitness portions of an exam. Generally if you've had past issues with mental illness you would not be able to pass, even if you are no longer struggling with them.
These fields tend to be pretty strict, ableist and pretty discriminatory in general, and not super friendly towards anyone with any type of difference like a disability or who is lgbtq+.
Police offiers also don't just go around fighting people, so don't really think this would accomplish what you are thinking it might. Also don't know if you've ever seen or read any statistics, but the vast majority of crimes as well as sexual assault and other attacks go both under reported and under solved. These systems and those who run them are very broken and don't function as you might like to believe.
Want about looking into other careers or volunteer jobs for helping marginalised folks? Things that are more on the philanthropy and social services side of things? You have a great deal of empathy, so it makes sense you want to help people. But it really doesn't currently sound like you have a good enough handle on your own issues to do so.
Maybe trying to work on being stable enough and independent enough to do some of these things would be good motivation for you to focus on yourself first?
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