Town of Carrboro

The Carrboro Police Department will be running our next Citizen's Police Academy on September 10th, 2016 at the Carrboro Police Department.  I'll be the lead instructor during the academy and numerous other officers will be on hand to assist with different blocks of instruction.  The basic format for the Citizen's Police Academy is listed below:

• Classroom lecture on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, law enforcement operations & procedures and vital department statistics.
• Hands-on activities including fingerprint lifting, K-9 demonstrations, vehicle demonstrations, etc.
• Scenarios involving roleplayers where participants will get to act as police officers and respond to calls for services based on real calls we've responded to.

Lunch will be provided as part of the Academy.

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are related but they have significant differences. I love them both like family. I feel like their little brother constantly annoyed with one or the other but will remain steadfastly in love with them both 'til the day I die. Many of my fellow Chapel Hillians do not understand these differences. They see Franklin Street and Main Street in Carrboro as one long business thoroughfare. It's not. I don't mean to pick on Chapel Hill residents, both students and townies, but if you don't spend a lot of time in Carrboro you wouldn't know. The Towns have very unique histories that contain deep seated differences forged in race, class, and ideology. All fueled by the money and intellectual power of the University of North Carolina.   Yesterday I had a great conversation with several Chapel Hillians. They were a retired Town of Chapel Hill employee, a downtown business leader, a few University employees, and others who I do not know well.