{"id":522415,"date":"2010-04-09T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f80\/lapd-officers-make-positive-difference-inner-city-kids-lives-42062\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:34:29","slug":"lapd-officers-make-a-positive-difference-in-inner-city-kids%c2%92-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522415","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Officers Make a Positive Difference in Inner-City Kids\u0092 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.09.10 09:54 AM<br \/>\n<b><i>Los Angeles:<\/i><\/b>&#0160; Five Los Angeles Police Department  officers and a group of 10- to 15-year-old kids from a Watts housing  project are headed to Cleveland, OH, to meet and have dinner with NBA  player Lebron James and his teammates. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Captain Phillip Tingirides, Sergeant James Linder, Detective Donna  Wheeler and Police Officers Keith Linton and Maribel Plascencia are  involved in a South Los Angeles mentoring program called Project Dream.&#0160;  The program\u0092s purpose is to give inner-city kids a chance to interact  with the police in a positive way and stay out of trouble.&#0160; It also  strives to inspire productivity and the achievement of educational  goals\u0085objectives officers believe are the building blocks of safer  communities.<\/p>\n<p>Officers Linton and Plascencia can relate to the enormous obstacles  these children face on a daily basis, having been raised in poverty in  similar environments yet overcoming their challenges through  determination and perseverance.&#0160; And now, as living examples of life\u0092s  possibilities, they\u0092re helping kids by sharing their experience and  inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>On April 9, 2010, all four LAPD personnel and 10 children from the Watts  area are scheduled to travel to Cleveland with officers to meet All  Star basketball players, watch an NBA basketball game, visit several  places and meet with the mayor of Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p>Opportunities for media coverage:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 6 p.m. media opportunity to interview officers at Southeast  Division<\/li>\n<li> 7 p.m. media availability to interview kids at Southeast  Division<\/li>\n<li> 8 p.m. kids depart in limo from Southeast Station <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nA five minute video footage of Watts 180 is available below. <\/p>\n<p> For more information, calls may be directed to the LAPD Media Relations  Section at&#0160;213-486-5910.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lapdonline.org\/assets\/image\/ray-badge.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapdblog.typepad.com\/lapd_blog\/2010\/04\/lapd-officers-make-a-positive-difference-in-inner-city-kids-lives.html\" >LAPD News and Information &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.09.10 09:54 AM Los Angeles:&#0160; Five Los Angeles Police Department officers and a group of 10- to 15-year-old kids from a Watts housing project are headed to Cleveland, OH, to meet and have dinner with NBA player Lebron James and his teammates. &#0160; Captain Phillip Tingirides, Sergeant James Linder, Detective Donna Wheeler and Police Officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}