Worn by the presenters, children could earn the badge by writing in a letter to theprogram team with something interesting and worthwhile (or appearing on theshow).
Tucson police officials declined to discuss the gun programor public safety concerns, but statistics published by the department show violent crime was at a 13-year low in 2010, with 3, 332 incidents.
In the fall, Judge Scheindlin presided over a hearing during which lawyers for the New York Civil Liberties Union and several legal and community groups attempted to show that police mistakenly believe theprogram gives them license to automatically detain anyone leaving or outside participating buildings.