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<br />4d <br /> <br />One of our most important goals is to continue to foster and promote ethnic <br /> <br /> <br />harmony and cooperation of racial and cultural differences in an attempt to deflate <br /> <br /> <br />bias in the City of Paris and to continue to work with alternative classroom students <br /> <br />and county wide school personnel in order to maintain the at-risk students basic <br /> <br /> <br />educational goals. We will continue to work with every available resource to <br /> <br />accomplish the goals and objectives of keeping kids off the streets in a safe and <br /> <br /> <br />crime free environment and in establishing a better relationship with law <br /> <br />enforcement and all of the citizens in this community. In 1996 the Paris Police <br /> <br /> <br />Department arrested 2,402 persons and of those 439 were juveniles. That is <br /> <br /> <br />approximately one (1) out of every six (6) arrests was for a juvenile. Additionally, <br /> <br /> <br />there were 143 juvenile curfew violations (both day and night) cited, up from 36 last <br /> <br /> <br />year. The P.A.L. officer also works with the School Resource Officers, the Drug <br /> <br /> <br />Abuse Resistance Education Officer, Community Oriented Policing Officer, Crime <br /> <br />Prevention Officer, Boy Scouts and local juvenile authorities and school districts in <br /> <br /> <br />an effort to bring about a holistic community approach involving parents, teachers, <br /> <br /> <br />law enforcement and citizens from all walks of life to assist with this program. We <br /> <br /> <br />feel that we are making great progress and we appreciate this funding. We thank <br /> <br />you for your consideration of this most important project. <br />