Officers offer a unique solution for youth crimes

Christian Federation of Police Officers Police Athletic League

Unique approach – a athletics organization with the aim of preventing crimes against custody.

The police authority of the Christian Federation of Police Officers has the task of reducing crime in their jurisdiction. The police authorities of Central Texas contribute to the fact that three police officers were founded in the 1990s in the nineties, and operated four sports for children from the age of 12 in spring and autumn.

The director of operations Frank Calabrese is one of these three founding policemen and has seen how it grew from the four football teams with whom they started today with the dozens. With the unique mix of Christian values, sporting possibilities and the connection with authority, Calabrese focuses on the efforts of the CFPO PAL to develop the young athletes of central texas.

“I always like to think these children who go here that they are better people than at the beginning,” said Calabrese.

In the organization, over 30,000 young athletes took part in their almost four decades of the company and even saw a handful of their members to play professional football.

For football, the main focus of the organization, there are dozens of teams in central texas and the Interstate 35 corridor. Games are played in San Marcos in the CFPO PAL complex in the Reimer Avenue. The age groups are divided into four different levels, with Cutoffs at 6U, 8U, 10U and 12U.

A team that is trained and coordinated by Johnny Ramos is Kyle Outlaws, a team of senior citizens from CFPO-Pal. Ramos has been working with CFPO-PAL for over two decades and focuses on teaching athletes football findings and keeping them out of difficulties while preparing for Junior High Sports.

“Today and age with which they keep around, they really get them into trouble,” said Ramos. “Our main goal is to help everyone. I know that you cannot help everyone, but you know that you have to.”

The Outlaws recently recently used the field against the bears, another team that competed in CFPo-Pal, in a senior 12u matchup.

James Rodriguez, father of quarterback James V. Rodriguez Jr., was present when his son headed the Outlaw offensive.

“It's more of a family than a team,” said Rodriguez. “To come here every day and see the children grow is pretty amazing.”

Rodriguez Jr. is with CFPO PAL in his fourth year. He grew as a player that he started, but has also matured as a person. In his early childhood, he shouldn't do physical sport at all due to medical complications. During his time in the CFPO PAL, he learned the football game and how to overcome the adversities that oppose him in life.

“When my son started for the first time, he couldn't even attack. Now he is out there and makes a shot of 10 yards,” said Rodriguez. “It doesn't just grow out there in the field, it grows physically and mentally.”

The Outlaws defeated the bears 32-0 in this excursion, led by Rodriguez Jr. during the quarterback. As a member of the 12U Senior Division in CFPO-PAL, his next stop in football in Junior High Interscholastic Play is. Whether football is his future or not, the lessons he learned to play youth sports will follow him far beyond the soccer field.

“The competition is great out here, it's great for children,” said Rodriguez. “More youth organizations are needed to keep these children, especially today with what is going on in the world, they have to keep them busy.”

For more information, see the CFPO-Paly OuthSports.com website.