An innovative new program in an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, pits cops against teenaged kids on a PlayStation 2 console spinning Gran Turismo 3, Tiger Woods Golf and Pro-Evolution Soccer, according to the DailyRecord. Said one cop who participated in the program, "It showed them we're not just cops in uniforms."
No surprise that Grand Theft Auto: LCS wasn't one of the chosen competition games, but why not? Might exposing kids to more mature games in the presence of a responsible adult help them better understand the distinction between fantasy and reality? In the same way that the kids came to understand that racing through cities at unsafe speeds in Gran Turismo is just good clean fun, might playing GTA in the presence of an officer help kids develop a more sophisticated, mature view of other crimes?
Regardless, we hope that the boys in blue elsewhere see fit to give this idea a shot
stab try.
