In the section “Dear Other Side,” many of the police officers wrote letters to “the bad cops,” revealing tension that exists within law enforcement. In the 91 original poems in Picture Me Thriving, some themes emerge. “Particularly for young Black men, that is not a normal thing for them to be in charge of the conversations.” Leland Gilbert of the Hillsboro Police Department. “What I think is special about Word is Bond is the emphasis on the youth voice,” says Picture Me Thriving writer Sgt. At their final event with the officers, the youth meet them for a social event at Dawson Park in North Portland, where the officers attend in uniform for the first time during the program and the ambassadors wear their typical street clothes, rather than business attire.ĭrury believes that poetry is a deeper, more effective way to get the group sharing their life stories than telling them to sit in a circle and get to know each other.
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