{"id":390585,"date":"2025-11-19T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:44:10","slug":"center-city-district-trains-future-changemakers-in-cops-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390585\/","title":{"rendered":"Center City District trains future changemakers in &#8216;COPS&#8217; program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; For local youth who hope to one day be police officers, this program has them covered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Center City District, in partnership with Allied Universal Security Services,  launched a program titled &#8220;Community Oriented Public Safety,&#8221; also known as &#8220;COPS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">COPS provides 18-20 year olds an employment opportunity before they&#8217;re ready for the Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This involves participating in bike patrols around Dilworth Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Trying to help them grow into a better person, but then also help their police career because they&#8217;re already ahead of the game,&#8221; said John Crichton, Senior Manager of Public Safety with the Center City District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We can give them real life experience talking to people, how to de-escalate situations. All the things that you learn in the police academy. You&#8217;ll get real life here,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/centercityphila.org\/pressroom\/center-city-district-allied-universal-partner-on-new-recruitment-initiative-for-public-safety-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; For local youth who hope to one day be police officers, this program has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[185915,5229,8185,1448,2830,1311,7207,5292,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,11108],"class_list":{"0":"post-390585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-185915","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cops","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115578082140191528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}