{
  "source": "Cooked Index — occupational AI risk register",
  "page": "https://cookedindex.com/jobs/criminal-justice-and-law-enforcement-teachers-postsecondary/",
  "methodology": "https://cookedindex.com/methodology",
  "notice": "Verdicts are re-examined as evidence accumulates. Re-fetch before relying on this; the page above always carries the current score.",
  "scored_at": "2026-08-11",
  "model": "claude-opus-5",
  "occupation": {
    "title": "Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary",
    "soc_code": "25-1111",
    "category": "Education",
    "us_employment": 13150,
    "median_annual_wage": 76590
  },
  "verdict": "EXPOSED",
  "risk_resistance": 43,
  "contested": false,
  "near_boundary": false,
  "dimensions": {
    "task_resistance": 9,
    "embodiment": 9,
    "liability_shield": 3,
    "trust_premium": 13,
    "judgment_accountability": 9
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "task_resistance": "Roughly half of the workload — building a 15-week corrections syllabus, updating lecture decks on Terry v. Ohio or the 4th Amendment, writing multiple-choice banks from the textbook, and marking rubric-scored incident-report exercises — is already deliverable by a model at community-college quality, which is what pulls this to 9 rather than into the teens; what keeps it off the floor is the live use-of-force scenario, the mock interrogation you have to interrupt and redirect, and the internship site visit where you tell a sheriff's captain whether your student is placeable.",
    "embodiment": "You are physically in a classroom, a scenario room, sometimes a firearms simulator or a mock crime scene with evidence tape and casts, and you drive to jails, dispatch centers, and agency ride-alongs for practicum oversight — but none of that is uncontrolled the way a patrol shift is, and a large and growing share of these sections run fully online, which is why this sits at 9 and not 14.",
    "liability_shield": "Nothing in this job requires a licence you can lose: a state POST instructor certification matters if you teach in an academy, and regional accreditation cares about your credentials on paper, but the community college — not you — carries the liability, and an 18-year practitioner with an MS can be replaced in the catalog by an adjunct or a courseware package without any board hearing.",
    "trust_premium": "The badge-and-years credibility is much of what students are buying — they enroll to be taught by someone who has actually worked a shift, and they need you specifically for the recommendation letter, the background-check conversation, and the phone call to a hiring sergeant — but the relationship is one semester in a required course with 35 other students, not a career-long book of clients, which caps it at 13.",
    "judgment_accountability": "Real calls exist and they are not procedural: whether a student with a juvenile record should be steered toward corrections instead of sworn patrol, how far to let an ethics debate about a shooting go before it becomes unsafe, mandatory Clery and Title IX reporting on things students disclose in class — but curriculum outcomes, grade scales, and academic-integrity processes are set above you and appealable, which is why this is 9 rather than mid-teens."
  },
  "rationale": "The modal worker here teaches criminal justice, corrections, and policing courses at a community college or regional university, often part-time and often with a prior career in law enforcement. The document layer of the job — syllabi, lecture decks, case summaries, quiz banks, discussion prompts, rubric-based grading of student papers — is squarely inside what current AI does at usable quality, and online course sections are the most exposed of all. What holds is the live classroom: scenario-based training, use-of-force and ethics debates that require a credible practitioner voice, field placement supervision, and the mentorship that gets students hired into agencies.",
  "outlook": "Enrollment-driven consolidation plus AI-generated course content will thin out lecture-only and online adjunct roles, while faculty who run scenario training, field placements, and agency relationships stay in demand.",
  "what_would_raise_it": {
    "levers": [
      {
        "dimension": "liability_shield",
        "change": "POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) commissions increasingly certify academy and college-based pre-service curricula; if state POST rules require a named, POST-certified instructor of record to be physically present and to sign off on each student's use-of-force, defensive tactics, and firearms competency attestation — as California and Texas commissions already do for academy modules but not for most academic CJ degrees — the signature becomes non-delegable. Extension of POST instructor-certification requirements to degree programs feeding academy admission is the specific thing to watch.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 5
      },
      {
        "dimension": "task_resistance",
        "change": "Task-mix shift: this occupation genuinely has two tiers. If institutions accept AI-generated syllabi, quiz banks, case digests and first-pass paper grading, what remains is scenario/simulation facilitation, de-escalation role-play debriefs, internship and field-placement supervision with agency liaison, and background-sensitive advising. Accreditor or POST rules requiring documented live scenario hours accelerate this concentration.",
        "plausibility": "already happening",
        "would_add": 4
      },
      {
        "dimension": "embodiment",
        "change": "If programs expand mandated in-person practical hours — scenario villages, simulator (VirTra/MILO) sessions, defensive tactics mats, ride-along coordination — the instructor's day shifts into unpredictable physical spaces requiring hands-on safety supervision. Watch for state POST minimum practical-hour mandates being applied to college CJ programs.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 4
      },
      {
        "dimension": "trust_premium",
        "change": "Agencies hiring from feeder programs already screen for named practitioner instructors; if hiring agencies or state POST boards formalize preference for graduates of programs staffed by sworn-experienced faculty, or if union/FOP-affiliated training partnerships specify practitioner instruction, the human credential is priced explicitly rather than assumed.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 3
      },
      {
        "dimension": "judgment_accountability",
        "change": "If programs formalize instructor responsibility for fitness-and-suitability referrals — flagging students with disqualifying conduct or psychological concerns to agency backgrounds units, a call already made informally — the role owns a consequential, contestable decision about who enters policing.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 3
      }
    ],
    "ceiling_note": "Adjunct-heavy staffing and online section growth cap most of this: a shield or premium attached to an 'instructor of record' concentrates value in a few full-time faculty while the part-time majority teaching online lecture sections gains nothing. Realistic ceiling for the modal worker is mid-50s."
  },
  "adjudication": null,
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        "y": 2018,
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        "y": 2019,
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        "y": 2020,
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        "y": 2021,
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        "y": 2022,
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        "y": 2024,
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    "change_pct": -7.5,
    "comparable_from": 2019,
    "spans_soc_revision": true
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      "title": "Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary",
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