Topic: S.E.C.U.R.E. Website

SECURE: not just another website

By David W. Shelton | October 8, 2007 |

When Terry McMoore asked me to help out with a new website he had in mind, thought it would be just another online brochure or nonprofit website presence. I wasn’t sure if it would be something I really wanted to do at first.

Then he explained the purpose of this proposed website, S.E.C.U.R.E. or Safe and Effective Community Using Resources for Empowerment. It would be a site that would provide critical information to local parents and schools on gang awareness. He didn’t have to twist my arm anymore. I was sold.

After all, this wasn’t my first exposure to working to help promote gang awareness. When I attended the Citizen Police Academy back in 1998, I was astonished as to just how much of a problem it really was, even nine years ago. I didn’t know what a Crip or a Blood was, or even that there was a difference between ‘people’ and ‘folk.’ It was a bone-chilling evening for all thirty-plus people in that class. «Read the rest of this article»

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