{"id":763,"date":"2005-07-29T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/setting-his-sights\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T01:30:38","slug":"setting-his-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/setting-his-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting His Sights"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Setting His Sights<\/a><\/p>\n


\nRoberto Rosales\/Journal<\/p>\n

Scott David Benson, 12, practices his aim with a paintball gun at a shooting range on Wednesday, the first day of the three-day Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety’s “Cop Camp”.<\/p>\n

During a three day “Cop Camp” sponsored by the Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety, kids got to “practice their aim with paintball guns and used prop guns in a SWAT class…. Other camp activities include … booking and arrest procedures…. The camp was created to promote team building and unity among students and police<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

If you are bothered with military recruitment on college and high school campuses, note they are digging deeper (there is no difference between the military and police anymore).<\/p>\n

I think it’s fine for the cops to work with kids and develop some “unity.” I think it’s wrong to train them to be cops\/soldiers at ages 12 to 15. Not just cops — SWAT cops. mjh<\/p>\n

PS: As an aside, this picture is about 4 by 6 in the paper, with a 72pt headline. There is a second picture that shows cops are soldiers now. Plus a 6 paragraph article with no byline. I could not find the article or second picture online. In an interesting coincidence, the bottom of that page (B2) features a billboard that uses a small child to recruit for Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department (couldn’t find that online, either).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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