迪克西·里德

2021年10月27日

在担任萨克拉门托警察的18年里，谢尔比·莫法特处理了数千起谋杀、盗窃、抢劫、家庭暴力事件和交通事故。

He remained an officer even after he began teaching part-time in 萨克拉门托 State’s Division of Criminal Justice (CJ)。 Before long, Moffatt realized most students hoping for a career in law enforcement simply weren’t ready。

“My (police) colleagues said the majority of young women and men coming into the department weren’t prepared for the rigors of the job because their perception of law enforcement came from watching television,” Moffatt said。

他说，学生们在文化上也没有准备好与多样化的公众接触，他们在基本的执法概念上也有困难。

• 该计划旨在帮助执法人员熟练掌握西班牙语

To fill those gaps, in 2016 Moffatt founded 萨克拉门托 State’s Law Enforcement Candidate Scholars (LECS) program, believed to be the  first scholars-to-officers program in the United States。

其影响是立竿见影的，200多名博彩平台校友从LECS毕业，其中50人目前在萨克拉门托警察局（SPD）或加州公路巡逻队担任警务人员。 此外，LECS毕业生的受聘率是执法部门求职者的两倍。

10月27日星期三，在自由港大道的公共安全中心举行的仪式上，社民党局长丹尼尔·哈恩给了他的前巡逻伙伴莫法特一个惊喜。 LECS的在校生和几位目前在SPD工作的LECS毕业生出席了会议。

“Recruiting has always been a challenge, to find good people to serve our community,” said Hahn ’95 (Marketing)。 “We’re here to recognize the five-year anniversary of the program that helps us not only recruit good officers but good, diverse officers。

“We’re also here to recognize someone who is special to me and to this program, because it was his brainchild。 This was his idea, to partner the greatest university in our region with the greatest police department in our region, to develop and find great people to become police officers。”

该项目是大学、卫生防护中心和萨克拉门托警方之间的合作项目。 Potential future partners include the Elk Grove Police Department and the 萨克拉门托 County and Placer County sheriff’s offices。

莫法特说，他的目标是在科罗拉多州立大学的所有校区建立LECS或类似的学者到官员的项目。

When LECS was launched Oct。 12, 2016, then-萨克拉门托 Police Chief Sam Somers called it “a model program” that will “get people into the (law enforcement) profession and ready to hit the streets。”

LECS是开放给全日制Sac州立大三和大四学生，无论他们的专业。 The program’s goals include increasing retention and graduation rates, creating strong partnerships between the University and law enforcement agencies, and ensuring law enforcement personnel and leadership mirror the state’s diversity。

2014年，在密苏里州弗格森一名名叫小迈克尔·布朗（Michael Brown Jr。）的黑人少年被一名白人警察枪杀后不久，莫法特把他的论文研究和LECS的想法交给了玛丽·马奎尔（Mary Maguire）。马奎尔当时是CJ分部主席，现任卫生与公共服务学院（College of Health and Human Services）临时院长。

“From my previous work as a social worker,” Maguire said, “it was clear that students considering law enforcement needed a stronger grounding in the communities they were about to serve。

“Local agencies talked about wanting to hire more diverse law enforcement, but our students were not getting hired。 As a unique, holistic preparatory program that instills understanding of and respect for diversity, LECS not only serves our students and partners but 萨克拉门托 communities at large。”

2019年LECS典礼

From the beginning, Moffatt has worked with 囊状态’s 职业中心 and its director, Melissa Repa, who calls LECS “a whole new paradigm of career development。”

“Dr。 Moffatt has helped to bridge many gaps between law enforcement and our communities,” Repa said。 “He is helping our students be the difference in their communities and become the best and brightest officers in the state。”

So far, LECS’s enrollment has been 60。1% male and 38。8% female。 超过一半的学生认为自己是拉丁裔。 超过一半的LECS学生来自低收入家庭，超过40%的学生是家中第一个上大学的人。

“Joining LECS was definitely one of the greatest decisions I made in college,” said Martha Negrete, who graduated in May 2020 with a CJ degree and hopes to begin training at the CHP academy in November。

“LECS not only opened many doors and opportunities, but also helped me meet some of the best individuals I have ever known。”

Negrete is a recipient of 囊状态’s Tara O’Sullivan LECS Legacy Scholarship, which honors the 26-year-old 萨克拉门托 Police officer fatally shot in June 2019 while helping a woman flee domestic violence。 O’Sullivan, a Child Development major, was one of the first four students to complete LECS and was the only female among them。

“She has inspired me to pour my heart not only into my future career as a police officer but in helping those who are in need,” Negrete said。

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执法候选人学者（LECS）人口统计数据，自2016年起

性别

Male – 60。1%

Female – 38。8%
 

种族

Latinx – 50。5%

White – 24。5%

Asian – 10。1%

Black – 5。9%

Other – 9。2%
 

有资格获得佩尔助学金（低收入） – 55。3%

家里第一个上大学的 – 42。6%