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MEADOWLARK MODS ([personal profile] larkers) wrote 2019-02-23 07:14 pm (UTC)

Hi Alison! Thanks for the questions.

Most of the public practices involve two venues: they recruit from local law enforcement in various cities, and they recruit young men and women who show physical promise and discipline, often between the ages of 16 and 18, but never exceeding 24. The promise of joining involves job security, a place to live, and an opportunity for family and unity that they might not be able to find elsewhere. Scrutinizing the latter information will find that the efforts increase for low income parts of cities - where many people grow up without a promise of a home, have trouble finding a job, and often lose family to sicknesses and addiction because of their poor living conditions and struggling incomes (free health care has its limits when someone can't remain healthy because they have nowhere to live).

From their jobs, Clarke and Kate would learn that a lot of people might know someone who joined up. In Clarke's line of work, it would be someone whose family likely shouldn't have been approved for a child (they received retroactive approval) or a teenager whose family was frequently brought in for care. For Kate, it would be rarer at that income bracket, and most likely to be known among her coworkers. There would be the occasional customer who'd know of an officer who got brought in to the upper echelon, so to speak.

A UNA assignment is for life, so people joining up don't have a life outside of that. That means no social media, no contact with their families, or anything else.

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