{"id":5360,"date":"2018-05-04T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:29:17","slug":"ride-alongs-and-escape-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/05\/04\/ride-alongs-and-escape-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride-Alongs and Escape Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CJ Students in the Portland PD<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>University day is a fun event that only comes once a year.\u00a0 <\/span>Normal classes are not held on University day, but students who dare to enter a classroom voluntarily have a chance to learn something new. \u00a0 <\/span>One lecture focusing on UMPI\u2019s criminal justice program was called \u201dCJ in ME.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>CJ in ME gave criminal justice students, led by Dr. Lisa Leduc, a chance to share some insight into what they have learned and experienced.\u00a0 <\/span>These students can\u2019t learn all they need to know from textbooks, so they got opportunities to gain some hands-on training at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. \u201cThe students in the CJ Club had a packed long weekend going up and down the state, from Augusta to Portland and back up to Bangor. They always get a lot out of the trainings and ride alongs,\u201d Lisa Leduc, CJ professor said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>There students had the unique challenge of breaking out of a mock escape room.\u00a0 <\/span>The students agreed that this was not an easy task.\u00a0 <\/span>The room only has a 10 percent escape rate, but that didn\u2019t stop one UMPI group from earning its fictional freedom just in time.\u00a0 <\/span>They were able to decipher the riddles and clues provided by the academy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Students also got the option of riding along with an officer on duty.\u00a0 <\/span>Nobody knows what kind of ride they will get, ranging from mundane traffic stops to suicide attempts, unintended deaths and robberies.\u00a0 <\/span>No doubt learning some invaluable tips on what it takes to be a successful officer, these students can get a feel for the everyday duties required of them once they wear their own badge.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>By talking to police officers, UMPI\u2019s CJ majors learned that recruits won\u2019t need to be pepper sprayed to end up on the force if they become certified in Bangor.\u00a0 <\/span>Some academies require trainees to get sprayed so that they know what it\u2019s like to be on the other end of the commonly used weapon.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Whether or not these up-and-coming members of law enforcement end up on the painful end of pepper spray one day, they are all tough cookies.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 University day is a fun event that only comes once a year.\u00a0 Normal classes are not held on University day, but students who dare to enter a classroom voluntarily have a chance to learn something new. \u00a0 One lecture focusing on UMPI\u2019s criminal justice program was called \u201dCJ in ME.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}