Ladies and gentlemen, why am I wearing a NYPD hat just before Christmas?

Well, on my way to Jordan and Israel a couple months ago, I was in JFK Airport and I was just looking for a hat and I said,

I'd really like to have an NYPD hat.

So I picked up this NYPD hat, kind of the first time I'm wearing it here.

And I'm wearing it here for a reason.

Because I think there's a lot of not just skepticism, but cynicism about law enforcement.

And when we get to a point in our society where we don't just have skepticism, but we have cynicism about the foundational vocation that allows you and me to be safe in what we do every day, our country's in a very bad way.

Some of this goes all the way, of course, back to, at least in recent memory,

the George Floyd fiasco. But some of it has been more recently brought up with all the skepticism

around our friend Charlie Kirk's murder. Is the FBI hiding something? Is local law enforcement

hiding something? What is going on? How can we make sense of all this?

And what should our real attitude be about law enforcement? And there's nobody better to talk about that than my friend Jay Warner Wallace, who, as you know, has been a police officer for many years and then a cold case homicide detective.

He's retired now, but his dad was at the Torrance PD as well as he.

And his son is currently at the Torrance PD right now, just made Sergeant, by the way.

So we want to talk about this because this is foundational to a civilization.

We don't realize it.

But law enforcement is the ground floor that makes civilization possible.

And too often we don't look at our law enforcement officers with the kind of respect and the kind of gratefulness we should have because there are a few bad apples out there. So let me bring Jim in. Here he is, ladies gentlemen, the great Jay Warner Wallace, all the way from the once great state of California. It still has great weather, but other things are going to my way. The weather here is so good. It's so good. I know. It can't be bad enough in the other way to make up for the good weather.

I'm sorry. I just can't be. I was born and raised on blue skies, you know, 15 minutes from the beach. I'm going to, basically, I'm going to die here. Okay? That's a choice I'm making, all right, to see. Jim, I got to, before we get into a detailed discussion about this, I want people to know what you're doing with certain law enforcement couples. You know, a husband is a police officer and his wife, you know, spends every day wondering if her husband's going to come home and that creates strain on a marriage but during

the summer you're really doing a ministry regarding that can you tell our listeners and viewers about that

yeah we started a number of years ago um because let me just go back and give you some of the back story

i don't think you and i ever really talked about this but when i got saved at 35 i was a cop already about

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