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Expand the NYPD Cadet Corps and/or Explorers programs to students 9 years old and older.
Participants will attend daily after-school sessions, one Saturday per month and summer classes to learn community engagement, paramilitary, fitness police and leadership skills.
Participation in the program throughout JHS and HS will earn testing credits for the Police Officer Exams when the students reach appropriate hiring ages and free tuition to John Jay College.
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Great idea!
Great idea!
Conversation with Desreen Burnett
We must invest in our children by creating community centers such as YMCA or opening public schools during the summer and weekend with activities. I grew up in such system, where the public schools had activities such as swimming, arts and craft, basketball, dance ETC during the summer months. Our children are our future, to neglect them is to create other avenues of activities such as gangs.
These programs are also a great way to develop teamwork skills and mapquest driving directions be a part of a community.
Agreed! Our daughter was the trail blazer that open the age change from 16 to 14 year old. Younger ones can benefit.
Once accepted, the brand-new cadet goes via classroom retro bowl instruction, police training as well as one-on-one mentorship with law enforcement agent. Cadets are appointed to among the 3 Portland precincts, where they function in different departments alongside law enforcement officer.
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