NYC Police Veteran and Educator Pens Picture Book That Shares a Positive Connection with Law Enforcement and Community
LONG ISLAND, N.Y., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For children's author Adrian S. Goodwin, writing a picture book that invites a healthy dialogue about police officers and the community they serve has a personal significance. A Black female eighteen-year veteran of the New York City police department, educator at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a current Detective Investigator and Hostage Negotiator, Goodwin is also a mom who wanted to answer her daughter's question of what do police officers do? Her positive and informative picture book, Twins in the City: Let's Learn About Police Officers, focuses on the varied diversity that represents police and the people that they serve.
- LONG ISLAND, N.Y., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For children's author Adrian S. Goodwin, writing a picture book that invites a healthy dialogue about police officers and the community they serve has a personal significance.
- Her positive and informative picture book, Twins in the City: Let's Learn About Police Officers, focuses on the varied diversity that represents police and the people that they serve.
- The story shows some police officers wearing a turban or hijab, while others interact by speaking Spanish or other native languages of the community.
- The story's young character is happy to share, "I can see a police officer who looks just like me.