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“One of the things that we need to do is to help the people who are juvenile probation officers. Their caseloads are ridiculous. I think certain of these retired NCOs ... we ought to be able to contract with them ... and set up kind of a ... project, the net effect of which will be that when we see youngsters who are delinquent, who are truants, who are runaways, who are in trouble, that they be assigned to a probation officer like that — a retired NCO whose purpose is to kind of get to the bottom of a young person’s problems,” Dolan explained.
“Their [NCO’s] expertise is that they have dealt with young people in a structured environment that is essentially a training and educational environment, and they have done it over a long period of time,” Dolan argued.
“Many of them came from environments or lack of opportunities that some of these kids experienced, so you’ve got an adult who, on a daily basis is intervening actively, under the aegis of th6 court, with what you’re doing,” he said.
If he is willing to give juvenile offenders a second chance in a tightly structured environment, Dolan insists that his sympathies don’t extend forever.
“Once we have that narrow band of people who will not [reform], then we’re going to pay whatever it costs to get them off the Street and keep them off the street. It has to be serious time in their view, and they’ve got to age. The old police theory is that once you’ve got a really bad young criminal, the only thing that will ultimately change him is old age,” he said.
“Unless we have a vision that we’re all in this together and that we have a great stake in the success ... of those fellow citizens that we think ought to behave themselves... [a belief that] if they don’t succeed, then we don’t succeed, we’re going to be bifilding these prisons ad nauseam, and then we can’t fynd the community colleges, and we can’t improve the job skills for the market, we can’t compete in the European economic community ... and then we’re all standing around looking at one another and saying ‘why don’t we grow and thrive as a community?’ It’s really not that difficult when you unpack it all,” Dolan explained.
Dolan continued to hit upon the theme that former President Bush migtft have called “the vision thing,” for the entertainment and edification of his audience at Airlie.
“Einstein got on a train in Washington, going back to Princeton,” Dolan told the group. “He got bn and settled down. He had multiple briefcases, threw them underneath the seat and in the overhang, and sat down and started to go through his
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