时代周刊:美国警局将为黑人敞开大门(6)

The program runs 25 weeks, on evenings and Saturdays.

这一项目持续了25周，仅在晚上和周六。

Students learn how to shoot a firearm and when to use force, as well as how to respond to domestic-violence and child-abuse calls and how to deal with death encountered on the job.

学生们学习如何开枪和何时使用武力，以及如何应对家庭暴力和虐待儿童的电话，以及如何处理工作中遇到的死亡。

Hill says the academy steers¹ away from the military-style teaching methods that traditional police academies have been criticized for using.

希尔说，该学院避开了传统警察学院一直被批评使用的军事风格的教学方法。

He says that a chunk² of the curriculum focuses on de-escalation strategies and that he has personally vetted³ the instructors⁴, who are all local law-enforcement officers.

他说，课程的大部分内容都是关于缓和局势的策略，他亲自审查了教官，他们都是当地的执法人员。

Recently, the students picked apart a seven-minute video of a police officer in McKinney, Texas, pushing a bikini-clad Black teenage girl to the ground at a pool party and kneeling on her back to restrain her.

最近，这些学生们仔细分析了一段7分钟的视频。视频中，德克萨斯州麦金尼市的一名警察在泳池派对上将一名身穿比基尼的黑人少女推倒在地，并跪在她的背上将她控制住。

It's one of many now notorious police-force incidents that the class studies.

这是这个班学习的许多臭名昭著的警察事件中的一件。

When Lincoln's seniors graduate from the academy on June 24 and pass the required state exam for a license⁵,

6月24日，林肯大学的毕业生从学院毕业，并通过了国家规定的执照考试。

Hill says they'll have a leg up on competitors because of their college education, academy training and lived experiences.

希尔说，由于他们的大学教育、学院训练和生活经历，他们将比竞争对手更有优势。

"They need African-American cops," says India Stelzer, a 21-year-old academy cadet from Hayti, Mo. "I'm hopeful I'll be offered at least three jobs."

“他们需要非裔美国警察，”21岁的印第安纳·斯特尔策说。“我希望自己至少能拿到三份工作。”

Hill hopes many of the roughly 100 other HBCUs across the nation will soon follow suit.

希尔希望全国其他大约100家HBCUs(黑人院校)也能很快效仿。

However, many can't because of state laws that prohibit independent police academies from existing outside of official law-enforcement agencies;

然而很多院校却无法效仿，因为州法律禁止独立的警察学院存在于官方执法机构之外；

Washington State, for example, requires police recruits to go through its state-run Basic Law Enforcement Academy.

例如，华盛顿州要求新招募的警察必须通过州立的基本执法学院。

So far, Hill says he's working to open a branch of Lincoln's police academy at Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU in St. Louis.

到目前为止，希尔说，他正在圣路易斯哈里斯-斯托州立大学开设林肯警察学院的一个分支。

And following a 2020 executive order for racial equity⁶ in criminal justice, North Carolina's department of public safety established a paid internship⁷ program for HBCU students interested in going into law enforcement.

在2020年一项关于刑事司法中的种族平等的行政命令之后，北卡罗来纳州公共安全部为有兴趣从事执法工作的HBCU学生设立了一个带薪实习项目。

In December, nine students from HBCUs throughout North Carolina completed the 12-week program, and an additional eight began a new internship rotation⁸ this February.

去年12月，来自北卡罗来纳州HBCUs的9名学生完成了为期12周的课程，另有8名学生今年2月开始了新的实习轮转。

1 steers   

n.阉公牛，肉用公牛( steer的名词复数 )v.驾驶( steer的第三人称单数 )；操纵；控制；引导

参考例句：

• This car steers easily. 这部车子易于驾驶。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Good fodder fleshed the steers up. 优质饲料使菜牛长肉。 来自辞典例句

2 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

3 vetted   

v.审查（某人过去的记录、资格等）( vet的过去式和过去分词 )；调查；检查；诊疗

参考例句：

• The recruits were thoroughly vetted before they were allowed into the secret service. 情报机关招募的新成员要经过严格的审查。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• All staff are vetted for links with extremist groups before being employed. 所有职员录用前均须审查是否与极端分子团体有关。 来自辞典例句

4 instructors   

指导者，教师( instructor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
• He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份，被邀请到主席台上。

5 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

6 equity   

n.公正，公平，（无固定利息的）股票

参考例句：

• They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
• To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。

7 internship   

n.实习医师，实习医师期

参考例句：

• an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
• a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习

8 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。