Spanish is becoming important police tool (article from Minnesota but applicable in many places)

Posted on: September 7th, 2006
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“some organizations are making concerted efforts to try to communicate better with Spanish-speaking communities, including local police departments. Spanish is becoming an increasingly important police tool in some suburbs. “

“Every Wednesday night about 20 police officers from several Twin Cities communities meet up in West St. Paul for Spanish class.

The class isn’t the way you may remember it from high school or college; there’s no conjugation of verbs or discussions about the rules of grammar. Instead, the cops here are learning Spanish phrases that they hope will allow them to communicate with the Spanish-speaking people they run into while on patrol.”

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