Seven students enrolled in Hennepin Technical College's law enforcement training program dropped out before the start of the spring semester.
It's something that the school's director says is unprecedented.
"That's the first time this has ever happened to me," said Mylan Masson, director of the law enforcement program. "And I've been here 20 years. They said that 'my family, my spouse, has decided that they don't want me to go into this profession.'"
Masson says the drop-outs are a direct result of the fear associated with the job.
Every semester, about 195 students begin Hennepin Tech's law enforcement program. The students receive training on how to be police officers for the city, county and DNR.
Instructors also emphasize to the students that every person has their rights, which need to be upheld and protected, and in today's climate where racial tensions are high between police officers and members of the public, officers shouldn't look at race when they're making a stop or an arrest.
"We look at each individual person, and that's what we really want to train," Masson said. "We don't really know what race they are when we pull them over. We just want to look at them as a human being. Either they need to be educated, we need to arrest them, or just stop this without anybody getting hurt."
As for whether the recent dropouts could signal a future trend, Masson says they hope it's just a blip on the radar because we need to be protected by people with the proper training, rather than vigilantes.
Delane Cleveland
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