The Inglewood Police Activities League (PAL), is a 501(C)(3) non profit corporation that builds partnerships between youth, police, and the community through recreational, athletic, and educational programs designed to instill positive life principles and character building tools in an effort to reduce juvenile crime and delinquency. Inglewood PAL is a joint effort between the Inglewood Police Department and the Inglewood Parks
Recreation and Community Services
Department.
Our Mission
Cops working with Kids
TheInglewood PAL is committed to working to reduce juvenile crime and delinquency by engaging Inglewood community youth in positive, wholesome and character building activities under the guidance and constructive influence of responsible law enforcement officers and other adult role models.
PAL Today Today, PAL is a network of 1,700 facilities and serves more than 1.5 million youth ages 5 to 18 years of age.
Over 350 law enforcement agencies serving 3,000 communities throughout the U.S. including the U.S. Virgin Island, Puerto Rico and Canada are currently operational.
Girls Circle
Our purpose is to encourage the development of strength, courage, confidence, honesty, and communication skills for girls. Our goal is to enhance girls’ abilities so they are able to take full advantage of their talents, academic interest, career pursuits, and maintain potential for healthy relationships
Our National History
PAL Background
PAL was started in 1915 in New York City and is based in the earliest community policing concepts. This richly integrated past began with the simple premise of offering youth attractive alternatives to criminal behavior. These original police officers that built the PAL programs founded the organization with a two-fold purpose:
One was the understanding of the importance of children playing and
The second was to reduce tensions between police officers and youth through mentoring and sports activities.
An advisory committee studying delinquency in the early 30's recommended the formation of a national bureau, the Juvenile Aid Bureau, to assist with these original grass roots efforts linking them directly to police departments.
In the 1940's and 1950's, following national social science trends, PAL began hiring trained social workers. These efforts added the therapeutic component to the treatment of troubled youngsters. Around this same time, growth in the program garnered awards and brought inquires from police departments and government officials from all over the U.S. and overseas about how to replicated PAL's successful programs.
Inglewood PAL Office 330 N. Centinela Ave Inglewood, CA 90302 310-330-5307