Summary: MPD’s Summer Youth Academies The MPD is working hard at breaking down barriers between young people and police by improving trust with middle school students. This summer officers of the Community Outreach and Resource Education (CORE) Team will be holding the Black Youth Academy and a Latino Youth Academy. In this podcast CORE Officer Deon Johnson talks about how his team is helping change lives and perceptions even among some who started out with very unfavorable opinions of police. He expects some attending this summer’s academies to very likely go on to join the Madison Police Department.
