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1849 Foundation Memorial Scholarship Application 2025
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Minimum 2.5 GPA (transcript must be provided)
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Graduating senior enrolled in a Sacramento City High School
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Graduating senior in the Sacramento City School Criminal Justice Academy
Criminal Justice Academy students, attach a copy of your signed “community service” form.
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Select one of the following essay questions:
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During a major catastrophe or crisis, how has the Sacramento Police Department positively helped aspecific neighborhood, group, family or individual?
If you have a parent or relative in law enforcement, what is a positive story or lesson you learnedfrom him/her that affected you?
Interview a Sacramento Police Department retiree. What is the most positive memory that retiree hasabout policing and why?
Interview a family member related to an officer that was killed in the line of duty. What is the mostpositive memory or characteristic about that fallen officer and why?
Interview a retired Sacramento Police Department police officer, dispatcher or crime sceneinvestigator. What is the most positive police story the individual remembers and why?
Think back to the earliest police department in California. What challenges did police officers faceduring the beginning years, after the Gold Rush of 1849? Did they overcome those challenges, and if so, how?
If you were to go back in time, which time period in Sacramento would you want to be a SacramentoPolice Department officer? What is interesting about this time period and why?
The Sacramento Police Department recognizes 16 officers for giving their lives while serving thecommunity. If you were to pick only one officer, describe how you would relate to him/her, thecircumstances that led to his/her death, information about his family and how he/she is remembered today.
How has the Sacramento Police Department positively affected your life?
How does the Sacramento Police Department positively serve the Sacramento community?
Have you ever visited a police memorial facility or funeral? Where was the facility/funeral? Why didyou attend and what did it make you think about, either while you were there or afterwards?
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