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Originally Posted by flat5
Citizen’s Police Academy
Why do the police offer this?
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Public relations, mostly. It's a chance to show ordinary citizens what they REALLY do all day everyday (not anything like police and forensics TV shows), and an opportunity for officers to interact with normal citizens instead of criminals for a change.
It's very eye-opening. In a lot of ways, police work seems to be similar to the red pill/blue pill debate in
The Matrix. Most people go on about their lives without ever realizing that there is another world just below the surface that is very nasty, cruel, bloody, and horrible. The police have to live in that world everyday, and once you've seen it you can never go back again.