Stoneleigh Fellow Kevin Bethel and the Diversion Program are featured in the Chestnut Hill Local.
As a Philadelphia policeman and later, deputy commissioner, Kevin Bethel, 54, a 2008 graduate of Chestnut Hill College’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies (SCPS) and Mt. Airy resident until moving last month to North Wales, knew what he would not do:
“I didn’t become a police officer to arrest, fingerprint and put 10-year-old children in dimly lit holding cells,” says Bethel, who spent 29 years with the department before retiring in 2015. Children can be arrested for bringing something to school that could be construed as a weapon, such as a pair of scissors, he adds.
