Brentwood Boy Scout partners with Metro Police for service project
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Brentwood Boy Scout partnered with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) for a service project to make South Nashville more peaceful.
Will Brothers reached out to Commander Kevin Lovell with MNPD’s South Precinct to discuss issues in the neighborhood near Greater Mount Zion Church-Nashville in 30 block Trimble Street. The 17-year-old’s Eagle Scout service project is to ramp up beautification efforts on the south side.
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“We’re focusing on bringing the community together because we’re in a gentrifying neighborhood, and that can always lead to some kind of tension between groups of people,” Brothers said. “We just aren’t doing our best, and part of doing our best should be putting aside our pride and differences and coming together just to work for the common good of humanity.”
After a couple of meetings with Brothers and other South Precinct residents, Lovell decided to add more resources to the area. He said he recently assigned a field intelligence team to the area to help crack down on crime.
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“They live here, but we work here, and we need to know who we’re working with and who we’re working for,” Lovell said. “We serve the people.”
On Saturday, Lovell and a few other MNPD officers from the South Precinct joined Brothers and community members at Greater Mount Zion Church for Brothers’ first Beautification Project. The group planted multiple trees and cleaned up around the outside of the building.
“I want to take what I have and use it to make sure that other people can live the best possible life that they can live,” Brothers said.
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As a 28-year veteran police officer, Lovell said enforcing laws is only a small part of the gig.
“It’s not just I come to write a ticket or I come to enforce trespassing, I come and I’m a part of your neighborhood,” Lovell said. “I’m a part of your community, and that’s how we grow.”
Brothers said Saturday’s event was the first of several more beautification projects he plans to have to make South Nashville a better, prettier and safer place.
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