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The Takeover: Millennials Vs Everybody
SESSION INFO
Monday, August 29, 2022
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Session Type: Workshop
Both probation and parole grow with the culture. Social media, music, movies, family and friends play a huge role in our ever-evolving careers. As the time changes so does people’s perception of community supervision. As controversial news involving law enforcement agencies hits the headlines, the relationship between officers and community becomes very fragile. Millennials are becoming fearless – they use social media and technology to create movements to spread awareness, but often this awareness paints a bad perception of what we do as POs (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 to ~1979) and Baby Boomers (born between ~1944 to ~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?
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Jude David
Probation Manager, MA Probation Service/MA Trial Court/Office of Commissioner of Probation
Jude David is a national speaker, community liaison and a life skills coach that brings awareness, entertainment and education into every speech or presentation he delivers. After graduating with an Undergraduates Degree in Criminal Justice, Jude started his career in Arizona as a group home manager for at risk youth. He soon moved back home to Massachusetts and began working for the Department of Youth Services Juvenile Detention Center as a unit supervisor. Advancing his career, he accepted a job at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in which he was able to completed his Master’s Degree in Public Administration with a focus on the Public Sector. In 2018, he joined the Massachusetts Probation Service where he served as a probation officer for 3.5 years before being promoted into his current role as a Statewide Program Manager for the Probation Training Division. 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 youth in basketball and in life skills by sharing his perspective of growing up in the inner city’s poverty and hopelessness to becoming a role model and law enforcement personnel. He prides himself on being a “Millennial” and a “Caribbean City Kid”. He has appeared on numerous podcasts and radio stations in the Boston area
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