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"Many are calling for more police officers to patrol the streets of Milwaukee, and that's about to happen.\u00A0Thirty-five new recruits were sworn in Monday morning, and they couldn't be more eager to get to work.VIDEO:\u00A0Milwaukee police recruits ready to meet challengesOne of them is 27-year-old Brittney Mason-Gordon. She said she sees the violence that's going on, but she's running to the problem, not from it.\"I think there's crime everywhere. There are challenges throughout life, and somebody has to do it,\" Mason-Gordon said.Her younger brother, sister-in-law and her father, Tyrone Gordon, said they have her back.\"I'm excited for her, you know? It's something that she wanted to do. I just stuck by her side,\" Gordon said.\"I've been wanting to do this since high school, and now older in my life here, I just decided to chase that dream,\" recruit Michael Ward said.l Ward is 34. He's spent much of his life in construction, but steps into a police uniform with no fear.\"I feel that they will equip me with the right knowledge to handle the situations, and like they said earlier, it's about courage and what you do with the courage,\" Ward said.He's backed up by his wife of 13 years, Rita Ward.\"I know God will protect him, you know? We're really big in our faith so, I'm just really proud,\" Rita Ward said.The recruits said it's not about the money. They start out with a little more than $37,000 a year.Their training started Monday and lasts for 25 weeks. Then, they hit the streets.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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