BUT?????????
So why is worthy of print -- unless it is doing the old agenda-pushing thing, 'eh?
“It’s pretty cool. It’s sort of like a game.’’ -- Michaela Peterson, a 15-year-old from North Cambridge who, like the other teens, is getting paid $8 an hour for the six-week summer program.
What, NO LAID-OFF COPS you can CALL BACK?
WTF? COACHES, STUDENTS and OLD FOLK, and NOW the COPS get insulted!
Btw, kiddo, POLICING -- like WAR -- AIN'T A GAME, as much as the agenda-pushing authorities would want you to think it.
"Police reaching out to stem a drop-off in young recruits" by Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff | August 3, 2009
CAMBRIDGE - .... But Peterson, like many of her fellow investigators, has little interest in turning this game into a career, an obstacle that many police departments across the state have been facing in their quest for future officers.
Today’s youth, and even many adults, aren’t thrilled by officers’ relatively low pay, long hours, and dangerous line of work. And they don’t see policing as a long-term career....
While hiring has become a moot issue for many communities because of the recession....
“The interest [in the job] is really starting to wane.’’
For instance, he said, only one Wellesley resident who took the civil service test last year said he wanted to join the force. Brookline also saw a sharp decline. More than 60 residents took the test several years ago, but only seven took the last exam, said Brookline Police Chief Daniel C. O’Leary.
Jack McDevitt, associate dean at Northeastern University’s college of criminal justice, said departments already dealing with budget woes are also confronting new challenges in recruiting and retention. Recruits aren’t rushing to join the force and they don’t want to stay long.
“This doesn’t seem like a well-paid career to people who want to go into business, law, or even government service,’’ he said.
Boston has also seen a fading interest in policing, said Sergeant Michael O’Connor, who coordinates the department’s Junior Police Academy, for children ages 8 to 12, and its Explorers Program, geared to high school-age youths.
But, but, but... ONLY TERRORISTS recruit KIDS!!!
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"Vice Admiral Jeffrey Fowler, the Naval Academy’s superintendent, said a big part of the increase in applications in Annapolis is due to the school’s summer seminar. The program brings students who have finished their junior year of high school to the academy for six days to show them what life would be like at the picturesque riverside campus. For 2,250 spots in the program, the academy received more than 6,000 applications this summer.The Naval Academy also has been reaching out to students in seventh and eighth grades"
Oh, HOW EVIL, ‘eh, America?
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See: Playing War at Summer Camp
While more youths participated the Explorers Program this year than in previous years, more youths are also dropping out of the program. Last fall, only 28 of 54 youths ages 14 to 18 who signed up finished the six-month Explorers Program. The year before, he said, only 17 graduated. O’Connor faulted a lack of commitment and discipline on the part of some teens....
Oh, COME ON!!!! So this article is a TWO-FER!
Cops AND high-school kids slammed.
Holly Brenier, a neighborhood coordinator for the Cambridge police, said she conceived the youth academy to reach teens early to generate interest in policing. But even she concedes it’s a tough sell. “It’s just not something people are interested in anymore,’’ she said.
Well, after the Gates thing; who wants to be accused of being a racist for doing their job?
Youth policing programs are critical in helping to counter negative perceptions teens may have about the force, said Kurt Schwartz, the state’s undersecretary for law enforcement and fire services. “This is a way to start building that relationship,’’ said Schwartz.
Oh, so it's a PR PROGRAM? Tax dollars for this?
At Cambridge police headquarters recently, reporters were flocking to one room where officials were fielding questions about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. In another room, more than a dozen teens were waiting for their work to begin.
The teens have spent the past four weeks being put through the wringer. They built muscles in physical fitness routines, built critical thinking skills as they learned how to work a crime scene, and built an understanding and appreciation of how officers do their jobs.
Okay, kids, here is your first question: HOW DO STEEL BUILDINGS FALL because of FIRE into their OWN FOOTPRINT three times in one day, and WHY did the FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR and NYC MAYOR Guliani quickly destroy the crime scene?
Why was all that steel shipped to China and melted down, and HOW could those buildings fall IN CONTRAVENTION of the IMMUTABLE LAWS of PHYSICS??
For some, the message hit home. “Some of the officers here really inspired me,’’ said Patrick Sweeney, 15, of North Cambridge, who now wants to be a police officer. “Coming into the camp . . . I thought that officers are grouchy. But now I know they are different - they are nicer.’’
Yeah, remember that when you are taking a club to the head and being hauled off to a camp -- if you are lucky.
Oh, yeah, sig heil (with as much sardonism as I can muster).
