Youth, growing up in this generation, are understanding that law enforcement may not
be their friend, it might be their enemy.
And we don't believe that's the case at all, so what we're trying to do with the Community
Trust Officer Program is change perspective by doing programs that influence kids and
help benefit their lives, and that's what we're trying to do every day.
Bringing art to youth is so valuable because a lot of youth are looking for ways to express
themselves.
In the past, we've done music so often, and how they could take music and use that as
a way to express their pain or express their feelings or emotions.
So now bringing art, that's another avenue.
We're teaching youth a whole new art form on graffiti art, on mural art, on paintings,
on illustrations, and it's just a way for them if they're going through pain, if they're
going through loss in life, if they're trying to figure things out, they can express that
in a whole new way, and grow in their gifts and grow in their talents if that's something
they want to pursue one day.
It's been a blessing to me, it's a gift, but I think it's honestly one of the best gifts
you can have because I can honestly create whatever I want, whatever I want to see,
whatever I can imagine, and you can also put it to good use, say a message without having
to tell somebody to just show them.
I think having more art in Fargo 1 will just make the city brighter, and it's going to
make the city more modern.
Our city is growing at a fast pace, and it's going to be really wonderful to see just as
more art goes up, our cities are going to become more modernized and more influential
because I think each art piece will tell a story, and for us at our police department,
we want our piece to tell the story of the Community Trust Officer program, and how we
love to work with youth in the community, how we seek to influence them and impact them,
and just introduce them to new avenues and ways to express themselves and their creativity.
Our hope is that when youth see art, they become inspired to become artists, in whatever
form of art that is, music, painting, dance, you name it, we just want to inspire youth
to become creative and walk in their full potential in life.