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From YouTube: BPD Graduation Ceremony 2022
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Members of Boston Police Academy Recruit Class 62-22 were officially sworn in as Boston Police Officers by Mayor Michelle Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox.
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I
would
also
like
to
acknowledge
Joe's
joining
us
today
on
the
stage
for
the
ceremony
mayor,
Michelle,
Wu,
Police,
Commissioner,
Michael,
Cox,
Chiefs,
Robert
frullo,
the
executive
director
of
the
municipal
police
training
Committee
in
the
department,
chaplain's
Father
John
Conley,
Reverend,
Gregory,
groover
and
grand
rabbi.
Korff.
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Also,
on
the
behalf
of
the
academy
and
the
recruits,
I
would
also
like
to
express
my
thanks
to
Mr
David
Givens,
the
executive
director
of
the
Massachusetts
Convention
Center
Authority
and
his
staff
are
hosting
us
today.
The
staff
has
been
fantastic
and
we
once
again
grateful
for
their
hospitality
and
support.
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It's
100
individuals,
step
up
to
the
plate
and
recognize
that
there
they
were
called
to
a
far
greater
purpose
than
their
own
individual
interests
and
so
God.
We
pray
that
you
will
honor
their
call
to
become
Protectors
of
our
city,
to
walk
through
the
streets
with
Community
people
and
to
help
oh
God
keep
our
streets,
our
elders,
our
adults,
our
children,
safe.
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We
thank
you
for
superintendent
Master,
for
her
entire
Academy
staff,
for
for
training,
for
teaching
for
preparing
this
incredible
class
now
bless
the
entire
police
department,
the
top
brass,
the
superintendents,
the
deputies
superintendents,
the
sergeants
of
the
Lord
tenants,
the
police
officers.
Oh
God,
the
captains
have
your
way
touch
each
other
and
blessed
and
blessed
hear
your
people
who
have
gathered
family
friends.
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It's
also
special
being
here
today
because,
while
I've
been
here
for
almost
a
year,
commissioner
Cox
is
now
in
this
role
for
just
a
few
months,
and
so
we
get
to
Mark
our
first
graduation
ceremony
together,
he's
presided
over
these
in
the
past.
As
head
of
the
academy
he's
known
every
single,
Bureau
and
level
of
service
within
the
department,
but.
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Of
you,
this
might
have
been
a
lifelong
dream,
something
you
started
thinking
about
when
you
were
really
little
for
others,
it
might
be
a
family
tradition
or
a
conversation
with
a
mentor
that
happens
unexpectedly,
but
for
all
of
you,
no
matter
how
long
you
serve
or
where
life
takes
you.
This
community
will
always
have
your
back.
The
city
will
always
have
your
back
and
today's
war.
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We
can
become
better
stronger
braver
versions
of
ourselves
devoted
to
service,
so
I
want
to
say
two
things
about
that.
First,
thank
you.
Thank
you
to
everyone
in
this
room,
and
especially
those
at
the
Academy
and
superintendent
Boston
and
her
team
who
have
worked
so
diligently
and
poured
themselves
into
your
preparation.
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Thank
you
for
all
that
you've
done
to
get
this
class
to
this
moment
and
on
behalf
of
the
entire
city
of
Boston.
Thank
you
for
choosing
to
invest
in
our
city
in
this
way,
and
second
I
want
all
of
you
to
carry
this
experience
of
what
it
feels
like
to
go
through
this
incredible
personal
growth
and
journey
in
just
28
weeks
as
a
reminder
of
what's
possible,
as
you
go
out
into
our
communities,
a
reminder
of
what
happens
when
we're
all
given
the
opportunity
to
work
hard
succeed
and
be
on
a
team
supported
by
community.
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Carry
that
with
you
in
your
interactions.
In
those
moments
when
you
are
called
to
serve
because
you
will
be
the
ones
who
step
in
when
our
residents
are
in
the
deepest
most
intense
moments
in
their
lives,
moments
of
worry
or
Mourning
of
joy
and
celebration,
the
middle
of
the
night
calls
that
no
one
wants
to
make
unexpected
events
that
happen
during
the
day.
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Duck
boats
and
everything
in
between
you
all
will
be
there
to
ensure
that
our
community
continues
to
grow
and
thrive.
Bring
that
lens
of
community
policing.
That
I
know,
commissioner
Cox
and
everyone
at
the
Academy
has
helped
open
up
and
I
will
join
you
in
this
responsibility
as
part
of
this
historic,
City
and
institution
to
not
only
protect
and
serve
but
Empower
our
communities
and
I
know
you
will,
because
these
are
your
communities.
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You
come
from:
Austin
Brighton
and
Charlestown
Dorchester
East,
Boston,
Fenway,
High,
Park
Mattapan,
the
North
End
Roslindale,
Roxbury,
West,
Roxbury,
South,
Boston
and
the
south
end
the
people
you
are
already
serving
protecting
empowering
are
your
family
members
and
neighbors
teachers
and
coaches
friends
and
Faith
leaders
there's
not
a
more
important
job
in
the
city,
and
we
thank
you
for
choosing
to
step
on
this
journey
with
us.
Congratulations.
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Your
training
in
the
academy
has
taught
you
how
to
safely
and
respectfully
enforce
the
law.
Taking
procedural,
Justice,
equity
and
inclusion
trauma
informed
information
into
consideration
and
all
that
we
do
and
you've
learned
to
interact
with
the
neighborhoods
we
serve,
and
that
is
the
critical
part
of
doing
the
job
successfully,
while
practicing
community,
policing
and
engagement
as
part
of
your
training.
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Here
at
the
Academy,
you
spend
time
with
members
of
our
community,
as
the
mayor
mentioned
earlier,
including
older
adults,
younger
people
that
are
reflective
for
our
community,
coming
from
all
kind
of
diverse
backgrounds,
racially
culturally.
To
as
far
as
gender
identity,
sexual
orientation,
physical
and
cognitive
challenges
and
individuals
from
varied
Faith
communities
to
do
our
job
effectively,
you
must
know
and
partner
with
our
community
and
understand
and
embrace
our
differences.
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They
work
with
the
Richard
Martin
Richards
foundations
for
inclusion
programs,
assisted
in
Taekwondo
community
events
and
visited
our
City's
older
adults
at
various
times.
These
are
just
named
a
few
events
they
participated
in.
None
of
these
activities
were
mandatory.
They
did
this
on
their
own
in
between
their
studies
and
their
fatigue.
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Of
622
are
the
future
community
policing
in
Boston,
and
when
we
talk
about
community
policing,
I
want
to
be
clear
of
what
that
really
means.
Community
policing
is
a
tool.
It's
a
solution.
It's
all
about
building
and
growing
trust
with
the
residents,
so
we
can
keep
them
safe.
We
are
experts
to
Sovereign
as
police.
We
believe
we
are
at
least,
but
our
mission
is
to
interview
and
permit
crimes
never
happening
in
the
first
place
and
through
community
policing
and
getting
to
know
our
citizens
and
renewing
and
strengthening
the
bonds
to
the
community.
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You
have
to
be
there
in
good
times
and
bad
times
in
order
to
build
and
continue
Trust
law
enforcement
is
a
crucial
part
of
our
society,
and
we
must
evolve
with
the
times
that
we're
living
in.
We
believe
this
class
is
an
embodiment
of
that
evolution.
In
many
many
ways,
I've
been
privileged
to
be
a
police
officer
for
over
30
years
three
years
and
most.
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That
time
it's
been
here
at
Boston,
Police
Department
in
a
city
that
I've
called
homes
since
birth,
I
look
forward
to
working
with
each
of
you
in
the
coming
days
and
years
and
I
look
forward
to
seeing
all
that
you'll
do
to
serve
the
great
residence
of
our
city
in
closing,
I
want
to
remind
you
of
something
that
gets
lost,
sometimes
as
a
police
officer,
she
wrote
about
your
job
each
day.
Remember
to
take
care
of
yourselves,
both
mentally
physically,
spiritually.
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To
get
was
being
the
change
we
want
to
see.
If
you
want
to
see
change
in
our
city
in
our
community,
we
must
make
it
happen.
Waiting
for
waiting
for
change
will
not
work.
The
change
will
not
come
if
we
wait
for
another
individual
or
another
time
we
are
the
ones
we've
been
waiting
for.
We
are
the
change
to
receive.
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Through
the
rigorous
academic
curriculum
of
the
daily
testimony
of
physical
standards
through
the
constant
mental
challenges
every
day,
a
choice
is
made
to
be
the
change.
We
want
to
see
by
being
leaders
in
the
community
by
strengthening
our
connection
with
our
youth
at
community
events,
by
developing
a
rapport
with
his
parents
of
our
youth
by
establishing
a
relationship
with
community
members
by
providing
a
positive
initial
encounter
with
an
awesome
of
our
adolescents,
we
choose
to
be
the
change.
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We
want
to
see
to
the
individuals
in
this
class
that
focus
on
what
can
be,
rather
than
what
is
to
never
give
it
up
and
never
give
an
end
to
feeling
tired
with
another.
Looking
time
to
always
remaining
functional,
we
choose
to
be
the
change
we
want
to
see,
because
that
was
a
choice
we
made
prior
to
me,
because
everyone
in
this
room
can
be
the
change
we
want
to
see,
because
if
each
individual
positively
impacts
another
10
individuals
who
impact
another
time
so
on
and
so
forth,
we
can.
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Lord.
We
ask
that
you
bring
to
fulfillment
the
good
work
you
have
begun
in
these
officers.
We
thank
you
Lord
for
the
courage
and
their
commitment,
their
perseverance,
their
compassion,
the
way
in
which
they
have
taken
the
gifts
with
future
with
which
you
have
given
up
and
offer
them
loving
and
generous
service
to
our
city,
our
Commonwealth
and
our
country.
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We
thank
you
Lord
for
their
parents
and
families,
their
spouses
and
children,
their
siblings
and
relatives,
their
friends
who
have
helped
them
become
the
people
they
are.
We
thank
you
for
the
Academy
staff
under
the
direction
of
the
superintendent,
Bastion
and
Captain
Durante,
who
have
helped
them
grow
in
their
capacity
as
police
officers.
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We
ask
you
Lord,
as
you
bless
these
new
officers,
who
will
take
their
ranks
among
the
first
and
finest
police
force
in
the
country
to
continue
to
bless
them
as
they
grow.
Make
them
Protectors
of
the
peace,
make
the
messengers
of
your
mercy,
give
them
the
courage
and
the
commitment
they
need
to
persevere,
endure
and
overcome.
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May
they
truly
become
Lord
by
their
service,
the
instruments
of
the
change
they
want
to
be
and
the
instruments
of
the
change
you
want
them
and
need
them
to
be
bless
them
and
protect
them.
Lord
is
saved
by
their
service
blessed
to
protect
our
sin.
Conscious
and
respectful
of
the
many
ways.
All
of
you,
pray
I.
Ask
you
dear
Lord,
to
the
bless
these
new
offices
and
all
of
us
in
the
city
of
Boston,
in
the
name
of
the
father
and
of
the
son
and
of
the
holy
spirit,
amen.