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Youth, growing up in this generation, are understanding that law enforcement may not

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be their friend, it might be their enemy.

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And we don't believe that's the case at all, so what we're trying to do with the Community

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Trust Officer Program is change perspective by doing programs that influence kids and

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help benefit their lives, and that's what we're trying to do every day.

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Bringing art to youth is so valuable because a lot of youth are looking for ways to express

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themselves.

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In the past, we've done music so often, and how they could take music and use that as

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a way to express their pain or express their feelings or emotions.

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So now bringing art, that's another avenue.

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We're teaching youth a whole new art form on graffiti art, on mural art, on paintings,

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on illustrations, and it's just a way for them if they're going through pain, if they're

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going through loss in life, if they're trying to figure things out, they can express that

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in a whole new way, and grow in their gifts and grow in their talents if that's something

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they want to pursue one day.

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It's been a blessing to me, it's a gift, but I think it's honestly one of the best gifts

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you can have because I can honestly create whatever I want, whatever I want to see,

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whatever I can imagine, and you can also put it to good use, say a message without having

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to tell somebody to just show them.

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I think having more art in Fargo 1 will just make the city brighter, and it's going to

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make the city more modern.

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Our city is growing at a fast pace, and it's going to be really wonderful to see just as

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more art goes up, our cities are going to become more modernized and more influential

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because I think each art piece will tell a story, and for us at our police department,

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we want our piece to tell the story of the Community Trust Officer program, and how we

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love to work with youth in the community, how we seek to influence them and impact them,

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and just introduce them to new avenues and ways to express themselves and their creativity.

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Our hope is that when youth see art, they become inspired to become artists, in whatever

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form of art that is, music, painting, dance, you name it, we just want to inspire youth

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to become creative and walk in their full potential in life.