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Volume 11
Boys with a Dream
Sheriff Brown has taken ‘community policing’ to
a level that has been recognized by the NAACP,
NSA, and Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Chair-
man, House Judiciary Committee.
April 2017 Edition
communities to emulate this group, or even start
a chapter of Boys with a Dream. They have been
invited to the winter conference of NSA in DC
this February.
Boys with a Dream evolved from a group of
young men playing basketball in the afternoon
and decided to start a group to stop violence in
the community and work with law enforcement
for a solution.
The Sheriff recognized the importance of this ef-
fort by these young men and immediately began
helping organize their organization by convinc-
ing a local attorney to handle all of their legal
work needed to formally register as an I.R.S. 501
(c) (3) entity.
After hosting this group
of African American
young men last year
for a luncheon at
the sheriff’s of-
fice, the Sher-
iff, with the
assistance
of the Vir-
ginia Sher-
iff’s
Asso-
ciation’s was
able to take
the group to
Washington,
and they took
in a Nationals
game and Con-
gressman
Good-
latte arranged for a
special VIP tour of the
Capitol and lunch for the group
in the Capitol’s restaurant.
Boys with a Dream in Washington, DC (WSET)
This exposure has led to other sheriffs, across
the state and country, encouraging youth in their
The National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) is one of
the largest associations of law enforcement pro-
fessionals in the United States, representing
more than 3,000 elected sheriffs across
the nation, and a total membership of
more than 20,000.
NSA is a non-profit organiza-
tion dedicated to raising the
level of professionalism
among sheriffs, their depu-
ties, and others in the field
of criminal justice and pub-
lic safety.
Throughout its seventy-
five year history, NSA has
served as an information
clearinghouse for sheriffs,
deputies, chiefs of police, oth-
er law enforcement profession-
als, state governments and the
federal government.
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