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Published on March 27, 2023

ARLINGTON, Va. Due to the popularity of last years inaugural Teen Police Academy, the Community Engagement Divisions Youth Outreach Unit (YOU) is pleased to announce the expansion of the Summer Teen Police Academy for Summer 2023. The application has opened for two sessions being held in the months of July and August focused on education, relationship-building and positive youth development.

Program Overview

The Teen Police Academy is for rising 10th 12th grade students who want to explore a career in law enforcement. Through classroom presentations, hands-on learning, scenario training, and field trips, the Teen Police Academy will educate participants about a career in law enforcement, while also giving them a better understanding of how the police department operates and its role in the community. Participants can ask questions of presenters and share their insights throughout the program. Topics covered in the Teen Police Academy curriculum include, but are not limited to, crime scene investigation, traffic stops, K9 demonstrations, and criminal investigations.

Academy Schedule

The following two week-long sessions of the Teen Police Academy will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Long Bridge Aquatics and Fitness Center (333 Long Bridge Drive).

Session 1: Monday, July 10 Friday, July 14

Session 2: Monday, July 31 Friday, August 4

Applicants

Interested applicants must be rising 10th - 12th grade students who live in or attend school in Arlington County. There is no cost for students to attend. Every effort will be made to maintain a balanced enrollment reflective of Arlington's diverse community. Online applications are due no later than Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.

Contact Information

For more information about the Teen Police Academy, contact Corporal A. Brown or Corporal P. Malone of the Departments Community Engagement Division.

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The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence could lead to the automation of a quarter of the work done in the US and eurozone, according to research by Goldman Sachs.

The investment bank said on Monday that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, which can create content that is indistinguishable from human output, could spark a productivity boom that would eventually raise annual global gross domestic product by 7 percent over a 10-year period.

But if the technology lived up to its promise, it would also bring significant disruption to the labor market, exposing the equivalent of 300 million full-time workers across big economies to automation, according to Joseph Briggs and Devesh Kodnani, the papers authors. Lawyers and administrative staff would be among those at greatest risk of becoming redundant.

They calculate that roughly two-thirds of jobs in the US and Europe are exposed to some degree of AI automation, based on data on the tasks typically performed in thousands of occupations.

Most people would see less than half of their workload automated and would probably continue in their jobs, with some of their time freed up for more productive activities.

In the US, this should apply to 63 percent of the workforce, they calculated. A further 30 percent working in physical or outdoor jobs would be unaffected, although their work might be susceptible to other forms of automation.

But about 7 percent of US workers are in jobs where at least half of their tasks could be done by generative AI and are vulnerable to replacement.

Goldman said its research pointed to a similar impact in Europe. At a global level, since manual jobs are a bigger share of employment in the developing world, it estimates about a fifth of work could be done by AIor about 300 million full-time jobs across big economies.

The report will stoke debate over the potential of AI technologies both to revive the rich worlds flagging productivity growth and to create a new class of dispossessed white-collar workers, who risk suffering a similar fate to that of manufacturing workers in the 1980s.

Goldmans estimates of the impact are more conservative than those of some academic studies, which included the effects of a wider range of related technologies.

A paper published last week by OpenAI, the creator of GPT-4, found that 80 percent of the US workforce could see at least 10 percent of their tasks performed by generative AI, based on analysis by human researchers and the companys machine large language model (LLM).

Europol, the law enforcement agency, also warned this week that rapid advances in generative AI could aid online fraudsters and cyber criminals, so that dark LLMs may become a key criminal business model of the future.

Goldman said that if corporate investment in AI continued to grow at a similar pace to software investment in the 1990s, US investment alone could approach 1 percent of US GDP by 2030.

The Goldman estimates are based on an analysis of US and European data on the tasks typically performed in thousands of different occupations. The researchers assumed that AI would be capable of tasks such as completing tax returns for a small business; evaluating a complex insurance claim; or documenting the results of a crime scene investigation.

They did not envisage AI being adopted for more sensitive tasks such as making a court ruling, checking the status of a patient in critical care, or studying international tax laws.

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Police were called to Avondale Road, Farnworth, nearits junction with Mount Pleasant Road at around midnight on Sunday.

They found a man had been attacked.

Police confirmed no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

A GMP spokesperson said: We were called to a report of an assault from a group with weapons of a man on Avondale Road, Farnworth at around midnight on Sunday, March 26 2023.

Injuries sustained are believed not to be life threatening.

No arrests made at this time and enquiries are ongoing.

Police maintained a presence on the street into the afternoon on Monday.

Crime scene investigation teams were called with part of the streetsealed off by police.

Later in the day Bolton Councils neighbourhood team were called to clean up the blood which had remained on the pavement.

Nearby residents spoke of their shock at what had taken place.

Lloyd Burgess has lived in the area for two years.

He said a friend had told him he saw CCTV where there was a disturbance with some thought to be armed with some form of bats.

He added: "It happened in the early hours.

"There police were here.

"I used to live on Highfield road before I moved here, most of the stuff happened there before they got rid of the cashpoint, that got done in a lot.

"There is a good community here, everyone speaks to everyone, we are good friend and we look out for each other.

"It is a bit unusual for it to happen here."

Another nearby resident said she was up all night as a result.

She said: "Somebody got assaulted in the middle of the night.

"It must have been about 1am or something like that.

"The crime scene investigation were here this morning, they had cones out."

She said she had been up all night as a result, adding: "It is a bit strange them being here all night.

"The crime scene investigation left around 1.45pm."

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Police and crime scene investigation units descended on Sackville Close,a smallcul-de-sac off Drakes Way, in numbers on Friday after the incident on March 23.

A man was left with potentially life-changing injuries after being shot in the arm on Thursday evening.

The victim took himself to the hospital from the scene at around 9.15pm with a gunshot wound, where he was treated for his injury.

Following this, an investigation into the shooting was launched by Wiltshire Police, and the small street has been a crime scene since.

Several police cars were spotted parked along Drakes Way, and in Sackville Close itself, with police officers, PCSOs and detectives overseeing the scene.

Police tape was put up at the end of the cul-de-sac, strung from fences at either side of the street, blocking off public access to the row of homes at the end of it.

A forensics officer taking a picture of the front door of a house at the crime scene of the Sackville Close shooting in Swindon (Image: Newsquest)

A forensic police van was also in attendance, withinvestigators wearing white suits and masks concentrating their efforts on one of the houses.

As of 1pm one of these forensic officers could be seen going in and out of the house carrying boxes of various things.

At one point photographs were taken of the house's front door, and the two cars in the driveway at the front of the house.

A wheelie bin was searched as well.

A short while later a flatbed truck arrived to help police seize a vehicle as part of their investigations. Itloaded one of the two cars at the property - a white Mercedes -onto the back of it and then drove away.

Wiltshire Police are now appealing for any witnesses who may be able to shed some light on the incident.

A spokesperson for Wiltshire Police said: "We have launched an investigation after a man suffered a potentially life-changing injury to his arm in an incident near Sackville Close, Swindon, [Thursday]evening

"We are still in the early stages of our investigation and our enquiries are ongoing. No arrests have currently been made.

"A scene is currently in place in Sackville Close and members of the public are likely to see an increased police presence in the area while we investigate.

"Any witnesses or anyone with information is urged to contact us on 101 quoting reference 54230031363"

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Actress Karen Bethzabe is known for portraying Elena Reyes in seasons 2 and 3 of The Walking Dead spinoff seriesFear the Walking Dead.Deadline reports that Bethzabe will star in a new series, Casa Grande.

The limited bilingual series, created by Lauren Swickard and Ali Afshar, follows the reality and conflicts experienced by Californias migrant workers and the landowners who employ them. Casa Grande is described as an upstairs/downstairs story transposed from turn-of-the-century English countryside to rural America.

Casa Grande was recently picked up by Freevee and will premiere on May 1, 2023. The English and Spanish language series consists of 5 one hour episodes.

In addition to Bethzabe, the cast includesJohn Pyper-Ferguson (The 100, Suits), Christina Moore (That 70s Show, 90210), Madison Lawlor (Juniper), Karen Bethzabe (Babylon), Javier Bolaos (All American), Raquel Dominguez (Chicago Med), James Marsters (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Kate Mansi (Days of Our Lives), Daniel Edward Mora (Coco), Loren Escandon (The Baxters), and Ali Afshar (Hes Just Not That Into You).

Bethzabe shared the news on social media.

Fans of Fear the Walking Dead remember her characterElena who lived at the Rosarito Beach Hotel, where at the onset of the outbreak, during a wedding, one guest reanimates. Elena and her nephew locked the doors to prevent the spread, closing the remaining guests inside with the walker. She had to live with this decision, and she attempted to redeem herself by caring for others. Her performance in this role would gain her international recognition.

She is also known for her roles in Babylon, Listen, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dead Men, and more.

Next, Bethzabe will star in a short film that she writes and stars in, The Carnival King.

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