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Camden youth get recruit training to break down barriers with police

Camden City youth participate in training at police academy in program that seeks to break down barriers with the Camden County Police Department.

Officer Danielle Colon, left, and Sgt. Raphael Thornton, right, prepare Woodrow Wilson High School junior Stanley King, 17, to try a use-of-force simulator at the Camden County Police Academy in Blackwood, N.J., on Friday, March 2, 2018. Camden County police and Woodrow Wilson students are participating in a youth-police engagement program facilitated by the New York University School of Law’s Policing Project.
Officer Danielle Colon, left, and Sgt. Raphael Thornton, right, prepare Woodrow Wilson High School junior Stanley King, 17, to try a use-of-force simulator at the Camden County Police Academy in Blackwood, N.J., on Friday, March 2, 2018. Camden County police and Woodrow Wilson students are participating in a youth-police engagement program facilitated by the New York University School of Law’s Policing Project.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer