From the CAPS Community Organizer:
CAPS COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
Please share this with parents or student looking for community service hours.
The 016th District has recently received numerous inquiries from high school aged students requiring community service hours.
The 16th District would be happy to assist in this worthy effort. Please find various dates, times and locations in the attachment of CAPS Beat Community Meetings available monthly throughout the entire 16th District.
We would like to invite your high school children to attend the meetings which are about one hour long.
All meetings start at 7 PM. Students should be at the meeting site by 6:30 PM
The students will assist in setting up the room before the meeting and distributing and collecting CAPS materials. The students will receive approximately 2 hours community service credit for each meeting attended.
The students will receive their service hours from the attending officer right after the CAPS beat meeting.
Attach is a CAPS Beat Meeting Schedule.....
Questions? Call 016 CAPS at 312-742-4521
or e mail:
this is a community service project, sitting through a CAPS meeting? Sounds like detention to me.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I'd rather pick up litter in the park
ReplyDeleteA kid isn't going to learn diddy squat at a CAPS meeting.
ReplyDeleteHigh School students SHOULD attend a DAC meeting to really understand how things get done within the precincts & communities they serve.
Readers,
ReplyDeleteA District Advisory Committee (DAC) exists in all 25 police districts. The DAC is comprised of community leaders, community residents, CAPS liasons, religious leaders, business owners, school officials, social service agencies, etc. The meeting is usually run by a DAC elected member with the Commander of the District.
The purpose of the DAC is to assist the District Commander with identifying priorities and securing committments & resources from the community in order to work on solutions to district crime issues. The Commander is suppose to give a crime status report, listen to the reports from beat CAPS reps, residents, other community leaders and work on problem solving.
Whatever happened to the peer jury program, or the youth group? That was a fine way for high school students to earn community service hours. Wait...I know...not enough manpower. Bring back some of these worthwhile programs. Setting up chairs and cleaning up after CAPS meetings doesn't really seem like useful community service work.
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