The Takeover! How the Millennial Mindset has Switched our Ways of Community Supervision

SESSION INFO

Wednesday, August 25, 2021
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Session Type: Workshop

Probation and Parole grows with the culture. Social media, music, movies, family and friends all play a huge role in our always evolving career. As the time changes so does peoples perception of community supervision. As controversial news revolving law enforcement agencies hit the headlines, the relationship between officers and the community become very fragile. Millennials are becoming fearless using social media and technology to create movements to spread awareness but often this awareness paints a bad perception of what we do as probation / parole officers. Fun fact: recent studies show that millennials (born between ~1980 to ~2000) are more likely to get arrested than their predecessors of Generation X (born between ~1965 - ~1979) and the Baby Boomers ( born between ~1944 - ~1964) even though crime has drastically declined since the 1980s. Is it their use of technology, social media or new methods of protest. Is it the economy, gentrification or their lack to conform to old ways?

SESSION PRESENTERS

Jude David
Probation Manager, MA Probation Service/MA Trial Court/Office of Commissioner of Probation


Jude David is a motivational speaker, community liaison and a life skills coach that brings awareness, entertainment and education into every speech or presentation he delivers. Jude started his career in Arizona at the sheriff’s department. He soon moved back home to Massachusetts and began working in the juvenile detention centers as a unit supervisor. Advancing his career, he accepted a job at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and he now serves as a probation officer for the Massachusetts Trial Court. Outside of his professional career, he sits on the board of a nonprofit organization geared at reviving, teaching and motivating youth of the African diaspora to explore their heritage, especially in the Haitian community of Boston. He mentors and coaches the youth in basketball and in life skills by sharing his perspective of growing up in poverty and hopelessness to becoming a role model and law enforcement personnel. He has appeared on numerous podcast and radio stations in the Boston area ( itsLitBoston podcast, SParkFM radio, The Urban Collective Podcast, Boston’s 88.5 Big City radio) discussing the state of affairs between Boston’s urban community and law enforcement.