Keeping people safe without a badge: violence interrupters, victim advocates, crisis responders, and prevention experts.
Top pay: highest pay, longest training
Office of Violence Prevention Director: Leads a city office that reduces violence through community programs instead of only policing. Typical pay $125k.
Mid pay: solid pay, degree or apprenticeship
Criminologist: Studies why crime happens and which policies actually reduce it. Typical pay $100k.
Anti-Human Trafficking Specialist: Identifies and supports victims of human trafficking and helps investigators build cases. Typical pay $62k.
Crime Prevention Specialist: Helps neighborhoods and businesses prevent crime through design, lighting, and community programs. Typical pay $58k.
Highway Safety Program Manager: Runs programs to cut traffic deaths through campaigns, enforcement grants, and safer streets. Typical pay $72k.
School Safety Specialist: Plans how schools prevent and respond to emergencies, from fires to threats of violence. Typical pay $70k.
Restorative Justice Facilitator: Brings together people who caused harm and those harmed to repair it, often instead of punishment. Typical pay $56k.
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Coordinator: Trains police officers to safely handle people in mental health crisis and connects them with treatment instead of jail. Typical pay $75k.
Safe Routes to School Coordinator: Gets more kids walking and biking to school safely by mapping dangerous crossings, running bike rodeos and pushing for sidewalks. Typical pay $58k.
AMBER Alert Coordinator: Decides when a missing-child case meets the rules for an AMBER Alert and pushes it out to phones, highway signs and TV within minutes. Typical pay $70k.
Starter: fastest way in
Violence Interrupter: Works on the streets to stop shootings before they happen by mediating conflicts and mentoring at-risk people. Typical pay $45k.
Victim Advocate: Supports crime victims through the aftermath, from the hospital to the courtroom. Typical pay $48k.
Domestic Violence Advocate: Helps people escape abusive relationships and find safety, shelter, and legal protection. Typical pay $45k.
Victim-Witness Coordinator: Works in a prosecutor's office helping victims and witnesses through criminal trials. Typical pay $52k.
Gang Intervention Specialist: Helps young people leave gangs or avoid joining them through mentoring, jobs, and support. Typical pay $45k.
Downtown Safety Ambassador: Walks downtown streets helping visitors, reporting problems, and connecting people experiencing homelessness to services. Typical pay $38k.
Youth Diversion Coordinator: Runs programs that keep teens who commit minor offenses out of the court system through counseling, community service, and teen courts. Typical pay $50k.
Rape Crisis Counselor: Supports survivors of sexual assault through hotlines, hospital visits, and court, and connects them with help. Typical pay $45k.
Safe Passage Worker: Stands on street corners along routes to schools in high-crime neighborhoods so kids can walk to and from school safely. Typical pay $25k.
Child Passenger Safety Technician: Teaches parents how to install car seats correctly and checks seats at events, since most are put in wrong. Typical pay $45k.
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