Code 33 continued for a year after the performance. Actions included a performance requested by students at a population impacted public high school to create a “Code 33” type arbitration between students and teachers—Eye to Eye at Fremont High; a youth video documentary workshop; the development of art projects with students at Rock La Fleche court school; and making a video documentary. The one-hour documentary, edited by Michelle Baughan, was premiered in the City Hall Council Chambers. To order, click here.

Like TEAM’s other projects, Code 33 continued for years, one activity eliding into another, raising consciousness through art, engaging youth in presentations and public speaking, providing leadership development and art training, and calling upon the mayor, police chief, school superintendents, politicians, teachers, and others to developed more enlightened youth programs and policies. For Code 33, our targeted intervention, short lived but effective, was to create a model training program for police officers and to support the department’s development of youth-centered policing practices. Subsequently a Chief’s Youth Advisory Commission was established.