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From YouTube: Summer Youth Employment Program
Description
Summer youth employees interview a police officer and a detective from the Evanston Police Departmetn to learn what its like to protect and serve in Evanston
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Second
year
we
cleaned
around
all
the
evidence
parks
as
well
as
the
alleys,
including
beaches,
all
the
public
parks
and
picnic
areas.
We
met
a
lot
of
good
people,
we
clipped
branches,
we
had
heavy
garbage
cans
that
we
had
to
carry
and
we
cleaned
and
raked
up
garbage
with
our
hands.
They
gave
us
like
these
gloves
that
we
had
to
use
and
we
always
had
to
get
some
new
gloves
because
they'd
be
worn
out
and
dirty
and
stinky.
So
we
we
did
a
lot.
We
did
a
lot
of
clean
and
we
worked
real
hard.
B
Syep
program
prepares
people
to
be
responsible,
being
a
work
on
time
clocking
in
on
time,
so
that
you
don't
get
dot
being
responsible
for
your
actions,
because
if
you
cut
up
in
the
program
when
you
acted
out
or
did
some
type
of
behavior,
that
was
unacceptable,
you
got
fired,
you
got
written
up,
I!
Think
it
prepared
me
for
life,
prepares
you
kind
of
to
be
an
adult
and
to
get
ready
for
work.
What
to
expect.
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C
Were
they
were
hard,
but
in
the
loving
sort
of
way
it
was
like
a
family
I
mean
the
friends
that
we
had.
Then
I
still
see
them.
Now
you
know
no
matter
what
we're
doing.
We
can
always
go
back
to
the
times
on
that
one
bus.
We
had
one
yellow
bus
and
they
packed
us
in
there
and
it
was
hot.
You
know
there
was
no
a/c,
we
had
to
pull
those
windows
down
and
they
would
drop
us
off
in
the
worst
alley.
C
B
Actually
didn't
grow
up
with
dreams
of
becoming
a
police
officer.
No,
when
I
was
working
on
my
master's
degree,
I
was
working
at
the
police
department
and
I
ended
up
applying
to
be
a
police
officer,
because
I
seen
it
was
about
community
service,
it's
more
giving
back
to
the
community,
especially
here
in
evanston.
Since
I
grew
up
here
you
want
to
help
people,
but
you
also
have
to
protect
the
city
as
well.
When.
C
B
Sometimes
you
hate
coming
through
and
seeing
stuff
happened
here
in
the
city,
but
it
is
rewarding
when
you
see
people
from
five
years
ago
who
you've
ran
into
and
you
they
tell
you
that
you've
helped
them
some
type
of
way
and
in
their
lives
some
type
of
way,
and
it's
also
helpful
when
you
go
to
a
call
as
a
police
officer
and
you're
able
to
kind
of
diffuse
a
situation
without
it
getting
really
out
of
control,
because
the
people
here
know
you,
so
it
helps.
What
is
your
ring?
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I'm,
a
detective
with
the
evanston
police
department,
so
I
work,
all
over
Evanston
I
did
graduate
from
evanston
township
in
96,
but
I
work
everywhere
from
Isabella
to
Howard,
Street,
so
I'm
in
the
detective
bureau,
and
we
solve
everything
that
you
know
whether
it's
cold
cases
or
batteries
or
even
homicides,
occasionally
which
are
unfortunate.
But
that's
what
I
do
well.
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Evanston
it
so
it's
easier
for
me,
because
I'm
from
here
I
know
the
people.
I
know
the
areas
you
know
everything
that
you've
done
or
doing
now.
I've
already
done.
So
it's
easy
for
me
to
be
late
to
you
as
well
as
someone
who's
been
here
forever,
so
it
hasn't
been
too
much
of
a
challenge.
You
know
you
have
your
days,
but
overall
I
think
that
evidence
is
pretty
much
a
progressive
department.
So
we
don't
have
too
many
issues
where
me
being
a
woman
or
media.
B
Just
to
add
to
that
being
a
woman,
and
sometimes
you
know
being
a
black
woman
here,
african-american,
we
are
looked
at
a
little
bit
as
kind
of
like
the
matriarch
Slyke
mother's
to
some
of
the
youth
here
and
to
just
people
here,
because
we've
been
here
for
so
long,
I
was
at
a
police
department
before
evanston
out
in
the
south
suburbs,
where
you
know
it
wasn't
as
diverse.
It
was
a
little
bit
different
and
you
know
no
matter
where
you
go.
It's
pretty
much
the
same
thing
you
always
need
you
know
mama
there.
C
I
mean
I,
don't
know
if
I
can
say
what
the
worst
thing,
but
I
would
say.
Anytime
someone
passes
away,
you
know
in
any
whatever
the
situation
is
to
have
someone
lose
their
life.
That
is
probably
the
most
difficult
and
being
from
here
and
knowing
so
many
people
were
only
so
many
degrees
of
separation.
So
if
something
happens,
I'm
usually
connected,
you
know,
if
there's
an
offender,
we
probably
grew
up
with
them.
C
We
may
have
been
in
the
Summer
Youth
Employment
Program
with
them,
so
sometimes
it
hits
us
where
it
might
not
hit
another
officer,
or
we
may
think
a
little
further
than
what
some
officers
may
think
because
we're
so
connected
to
where
we're
from
so
that
would
probably
be
the
hardest.
When
there's
someone
you
know
and
something
tragic
happens,
that's
when
it
becomes
a
little
difficult
but
I
think
we're
both
professionals
and
you
know
we
did
with
it
accordingly.
B
Tasha
actually
summed
it
up
pretty
good.
It
does
probably
hit
us
a
lot
harder
than
everybody
else
when
you're
actually
from
here
grew
up
here
lived
here,
pretty
much
all
your
life,
it
makes
it.
You
know
a
little
bit
easier
to
talk
to
people,
though
dealing
with
the
situations
with
the
family
with
friends
who
know
these
people,
because
they
may
not
reach
out
to
somebody
else
at
the
police
department,
but
they
may
reach
out
to
somebody
like
Tasha
or
myself.
B
You
know,
Tasha
has
a
large
family,
so
she
might
even
be
related
to
some
of
the.
You
know
a
lot
of
people,
but
regardless
it
does
help.
When
we
are
from
here,
it
kind
of
will
help
us
sometimes
solve
crimes.
Actually,
you
know
some
things
have
happened
recently
where,
because
etosha
knowledge
of
you
know
some
of
the
individuals,
it
has
helped
Mike's
awesome
addition
crimes
like
lately
last
month
too,.
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C
Don't
have
too
many
difficulties
with
actually
enjoy
it,
because
I
can
stop
by
mostly
any
corner
in
the
city
and
just
have
a
conversation
with
people,
because
I
think
being
real
and
being
yourself
makes
you
a
good
police
officer.
I,
don't
take
anything
personally
once
I'm
done
with
the
case,
I
have
to
move
on.
You
know
I
don't
hold
anything.
You
know
to
heart,
so
I
don't
think
it's
difficult.
It
has
its
difficult
moments,
but
overall
I
don't
think
the
job
is
difficult.
I
think.
B
The
most
difficult
thing
for
me,
which
is
not
going
to
you,
know,
stop
me
from
doing
my
job
is
arresting
somebody
that
that
I
know
that
that's
difficult
to
me
personally,
but
professionally
in
my
job.
That's
what
I
have
to
do.
People
know
that
if
I
have
to
arrest
them
is
because
they
have
to
go
to
jail,
may
I,
treat
everybody
fairly
and
and
I
said
that's
one
of
the
key
things
to
doing
this
job.
You
treat
everybody
with
respect
and
you
treat
everybody
fairly
and
usually,
when
that
happens,
things
will
fall
on
your
corner.