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Given the times we live in, we prepare for the worst when we see articles about police running social experiments. Thankfully, the New Zealand police weren't up to anything sinister when they hired a child actor to pose as a homeless boy for an ad. It's just a recruitment video.
"Hungry Boy" is part of a series that illustrates different aspects of police work and interaction with vulnerable communities. In this installment, they had a boy pretend to eat out of a public garbage can in central Auckland, and filmed him for over 35 minutes to see if anyone would stop and help him.
The question posed by the ad—"Do you care enough to be a cop?"—is a totally different tone for police recruitment than we're used to seeing, and it threw us off a bit, in a good way.
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