Prince George's County Partners

Our JAFinancePark® Prince George County Partner provides this innovative experience to 9,000 young people annually. Together, we can offer economically competent tools to these students. If you would like to discuss opportunities appropriate for you or your company, please contact Rachael Doss (202-777-4486) or Rachael.Doss@ja.org, Vice President of Development.

The Comcast Foundation recently announced in 2017 that it provided grants of $ 265,000 to 16 non-profit organizations in Washington, DC. This grant helps increase the effectiveness of programs that aim to expand digital literacy, promote services, and lead future leaders.

Greater Washington's main achievement is one of many local organizations that play an important role in the community and is supported by the Comcast Foundation this year. Comcast is committed to working with organizations like JA to shape the future of such employees, customers, friends, and families.

In the summer of 1978, a 15-year-old African-American teenager, Terrence Johnson, and his brothers were taken over by Prince George County Police Department. Prince George County is a suburb of Washington, DC where their police were considered ruthless and racist. It is neither happy nor respecting that most of us who grew up in Washington, D.C. and around them have met the police many times. Johnson was arrested and taken to Hyattsville station where he and he remained cruel. County Police Some people say it is torture. Unfortunate episodes are very bad. Johnson ultimately controlled the officer's pistol and killed two policemen (Albert Claggett IV and James Brian Swart) at the station. This incident still affects the attitude of Washington DC police.

The story of police brutality and resistance to it in Prince George County has been many twists and experiences over the past 45 years. The death group in the 1960s, the Terence Johnson incident in the 1970s, the Gregory Habib incident in the 1980s, and the Elliot incident in the 1990s (and over ten years) dozens of incidents consisted of racist patterns and police It shows atrocities. County residents have resisted through many organizations and mobilization, and eventually the federal government intervened in county police affairs through long-term sector supervision. In the county - police station and police officer imprisonment of Stephanie Moore - a modest victory in the resistance to police brutality came from federal intervention promoted by large protest action. Meanwhile, the leaders of counties and states of all levels failed to respond positively to the publicity of local communities.

Working in a police force that looks like a community: "The nature of our work at the Prince George County Public Security Bureau - the law enforcement agencies and police work - is rewarding in my county and country, or violence, police The use of force by force, attack, the confidence of citizen and police, can safely live without worrying about each other, but this is possible, leadership has played a leading role.We are now I have to do. "