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A couple years ago I met a woman, she was in her 30’s. She squinted at me and said “You used to be that cop at the high school
when I was there. I remember you used to try and catch kids smoking in the woods.” She took a deep drag on her cigarette that
she was holding. “You never caught me though!” she smiled and she filled her lungs again with smoke, feeling proud of herself.

When the school district wanted a levy passed, they mailed a propaganda flyer to all of the local taxpayers, of course it included
a fluff piece about school safety and security:

Because I had been a DARE Officer and an SRO Officer, I was the go-to-guy for hosting tours of the police department. Boys
scouts, cub scouts, girl scouts, Brownies, pre-school groups, home-school groups, etc. etc.

Here’s what I looked like rounding up three desperados; if I remember correctly it was after finding out three little rascals in the
high school had warrants for probation violations. Off to Juvie we go!

Officially it was called the “Youth Service Center.” I went there a lot. Remember, this was back in the days before the internet
was invented and so kids had to make their own fun; none of them had cell phones or social media and console video games
could not play multiplayer yet and there was no social media or fortnite, so kids met up in person with each other a lot more,
and got into a significantly higher rates of criminal mischief than they do nowadays.
In fact, the juvenile delinquency rate – at least in my observable corner of the world – has dropped very dramatically in the past
twenty years. And I attribute about 90% of that to the internet. It’s much easier for kids to talk smack to each other via snapchat
now; they don’t have to meet up in parks and face off and get in fights and smackdowns. Also it seems like less teens have drivers
licenses than in the old days. The differences between then and now is really quite remarkable, actually.