Surely every kid has played some version of “cops and robbers” at some point in his/her childhood.
I remember my elementary school classmates and I modified the classic game of “tag” to include teams (of boys versus girls, of course — boys had cooties!) and jailtime. It was a playground classic that we played every day after lunch until the recess ladies told us to stop because we were getting too rowdy.
The next year, we weren’t allowed to play soccer. That was too rowdy, too.
Anyway. For one week this summer, some kids got to learn more about the cops’ side of things, and I got to photograph them.
© 2010 by The Atlanta Journal-Constutition. (Click on the image above to view the full photo gallery at ajc.com.) Max Waterhouse, 15 of Decatur, leads fellow junior police academy students, Captain W.S. Richards (in black) and Sgt. Christopher Clark (in red) up the stairs in the Decatur City Police Department station on Tuesday, June 19, 2010. The Decatur police department offered its first-ever junior police academy, for which Decatur students of middle-school age could apply.
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Really enjoyed reading your archives, and the chosen images on your website. I think part of it is being Australian, and just being entranced by the similarities and differences between here and there.
I hope you have a long and successful career ahead of you!
Thank you! I appreciate that.