Breaking With the Law: The Story of Positive Tickets
CATCHING KIDS DOING THINGS RIGHT.
Catching kids doing thing "right", instead of wrong. Positive Tickets are issued to youth by caring adults for staying out of trouble or performing good deeds
Positive Tickets is a program where you catch kids doing good things and reward them with a voucher or coupon to some fun, free activity. The purpose of Positive Tickets is to build relationships of trust with youth in your community and encourage good behavior.
Breaking With the Law: The Story of Positive Tickets is now available.
My community, like so many others, struggled with the number of calls for youth disturbances and crime. The reactive approach to solving this problem was not working. Kids saw us as the "hunters." With that mindset, the good kids shied away from us, and the marginal kids turned it into a game of "cat and mouse" to see how much they could get away with before getting caught. So I thought, what if we flipped things around? What if we catch and reward kids for doing good things instead of focusing on only the negative things? What if we start handing out Positive Tickets instead of only violations or warnings? It totally went against the old reactive, post-incident, corrective policing model.
The results of the Positive Ticket program have been remarkable.
The book is divided into two sections. In the first section, I share an inspirational journey from being a typical cop "hunting" criminals to an officer who "hunts" for the good behavior as a way to provent crime from ever happening. My unique perspective, proactive law enforcement initiatives is illustrated through a series of stories, quotes, and visuals.
The Positive Tickets program began with the police.
However, any community organization can begin this program and bring others on board; it does not have to begin with law enforcement.
The PositiveTicket concept can also be used to recognize and reward your employees, customers and community for good deeds. The principles of this innovative approach have been proven to significantly boost morale and increase the bottom line.
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