The Sacramento FBI office has created a Teen Academy to give youth opportunity in law enforcement and to change the face of the FBI to become more inclusive.
I make this statement on inclusivity because we all know, poor kids grow up to be poor adults.
"It's a building prisons, bed count, thang."
Of course, this is not a blanketed truism, it is statistically sound when you review the data.
Domestic policies are increasing the rates of child poverty, stripping the resources of targeted populations, for the purposes of, basically, taking over the land. Therefore, youth are not presented with very many opportunities as an adult.
Just take a look at foster care and what happens when you age out, it is not pretty.
The FBI does not only need to see the future through the eyes of youth, but so does DHHS, IRS, USDA, USPS, HUD, DOE (<== education) and any other federal law enforcement program.
When I worked for the Detroit Police Department, we had, or at least I tried to make it so, a similar youth program called the Detroit Police Junior Cadet Program.
Unfortunately, there were no data collected to demonstrate its effects (another story), but I am going to say that it was an amazing program for youth.
Instead of doling out these so-called community grants, why not partner with the youth and give them direct opportunities to bring back to their communities and families.
I also worked on U.S. DOJ Community Orientated Policing Services grant programs. They sucked.
Now, allow me to tell you why these COPS grant programs sucked.
A group of "could-not-make-it-in-the-real-world" university Ph.D.s would get together and pump out some fancy pants Response For Proposal which ended up generating lots of pretty pictures called charts and graphs so they could:
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- Meet their quota of mandatory university publications so they could get tenure;
- Pad a CV;
- Cash that much needed supplemental income paycheck;
- Cosign on the RFP crap; and/or,
- Suck up to get a federal administration or NGO job to keep the money rolling in for everyone except those for which the RFP was generated in the first place.
The time has come to depart from the pseudo-scientific RFP model and let the people tell us what needs to be examined.
Besides, technology is open source and instant.
Let youth get paid for their research; it is practical and cost efficient, in many, many ways.
I am hoping that law enforcement, and I am not going to marginalize this to strictly federal, but also state local, and dare I say, international, collaboration to engage and train youth in the art of fraud detection.
We need to start our whistleblowers out young.
Whistleblowers are the original law enforcers.
Rock on, #Superfans, rock on.
"Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur"
Sacramento FBI Teen Academy Applications Available Online
Class Offers Information, Experiences, and More to High School Juniors
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Sacramento Field Office is accepting applications for the Spring 2017 FBI Teen Academy. This unique opportunity is open to all high school juniors attending any school—public, private, and home school—in the 34-counties the field office serves.
The application package is available for download now.
The application package is available for download now.
Students selected to participate will spend an entire day at FBI Sacramento Field Office headquarters in Roseville on Friday, April 7, 2017. Applying and attending the FBI Teen Academy program is free; however, families are responsible for travel to and from the class.
The FBI Teen Academy is a unique opportunity for any student—regardless of career interest—who is curious about the FBI, what the FBI investigates, and how it serves the community. FBI Teen Academy participants engage in activities and discussions about what the FBI does and current topics relative to FBI investigations. Activities may include discussions about cyber safety, terrorism, active shooter situations, and color of law and civil rights investigations; participation in simulated evidence response team and bomb techs scenarios; and frank conversations about online communication and staying safe in an always-connected world.
After completing the class, participants better understand the FBI’s role in their communities, grasp the complexity of FBI investigations, can make lifestyle choices to be safer in their day-to-day lives, and what FBI career paths are available. FBI Teen Academy students often remain connected with the field office to facilitate presentations, mentorship, and more.
Counties served by the FBI Sacramento Field Office:
- Alpine
- Amador
- Butte
- Calaveras
- Colusa
- El Dorado
- Fresno
- Glenn
- Inyo
- Kern
- Kings
- Lassen
- Madera
- Mariposa
- Merced
- Modoc
- Mono
- Nevada
- Placer
- Plumas
- Sacramento
- San Joaquin
- Shasta
- Sierra
- Siskiyou
- Solano
- Stanislaus
- Sutter
- Tehama
- Tulare
- Tuolumne
- Trinity
- Yuba
- Yolo
About the Sacramento FBI Teen Academy:
Each spring and fall, the FBI Sacramento Field Office hosts the FBI Teen Academy for 20-36 students who spend a day in FBI facilities to learn about the agency, what it investigates, how it serves its community, how students can make wise lifestyle choices to be safer in their day-to-day lives, and what FBI career paths are available. The opportunity is available to any high school junior in the region the field office serves and can create a lasting connection between the students and the FBI. More than 250 students have attended the FBI Teen Academy in Sacramento to date.
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