This week’s episode features co-host Dotan Baer who sits down with the Hounds from Hell, James H. Lilley, former Marine, Police Sergeant, and author, and Ricky Lee, a former Army veteran and James' right hand man in the squad. Today they share their successes as law enforcement officers, the innovative tactics they used to get the job done (and be hated by their peers for it), and the values they imparted to each other to become the best at what they do as officers and people behind the badge. However, James and Ricky also comment on the environment of law enforcement today and how bad leadership is causing the rot from within. The lack of training and half-minded thinking that abolishing the police is the solution are prime causes for the deterioration of police work which is vastly different from past decades. #lawenforcement #badcops #DefundThePolice #Politics #election2022
HIGHLIGHTS
04:33 James takes over a squad and finds a right hand man in Ricky
08:12 Ricky's skills get focused and James molds him to be effective
12:41 Remaining fearless in the streets and using innovative tactics
19:03 Getting more arrests in uniform versus plainclothes officers
25:57 Police today: Vilified for doing their jobs and lacking training
36:07 An environment of inefficient police is caused by bad leadership
40:55 Sharing police stories and thinking on your feet
QUOTES
13:17 "I can control you up to 99, that 1% I can't control. You going to go crazy, you going to go off, I can't control that, but I can dictate what your actions going to be just through my interactions with you."
26:01 "The problem right now is when for whatever reason, the police suddenly became the bad guy and you take one or two bad apples and the media will not leave it alone. They play that 24/7."
30:47 "I used to be a field training officer. And the first thing I would tell you is this, start down here, because if you start up here, you've got nowhere else to go. You have nowhere else to go... we're our own worst enemies nowadays."
33:37 "15 minutes may not sound like much, but when you're working and going and getting an hour and another hour and a half each week of that, just as the refresher, it keeps your reaction time sharp, it keeps your mind sharp."
36:20 "If you're in an area where it's not great, it's not because of the police. It's not the police that failed you. It's the mayor and the chief. The fish rot from the head first, the commissioner and the mayor."
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