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Street Cop Podcast

Consensual Contact

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9933 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this archive episode, Dennis explains how consensual encounters and mere inquiries are powerful tools that are often overlooked. Recorded on 03/12/2019.

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One another great

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one.

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A-1-1-1-1-h-h-h-h-h-h-hoc-a-huh.

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You trying to be a street cop?

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Are you trying to be a street cop?

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All right, that's a great... Another great two days of training North Huntington

0:18.8

Pennsylvania right outside of Pittsburgh. 80 wonderful men and women who came to take the class.

0:25.0

A lot of people would go out and do some great stuff.

0:28.0

A lot of great folks. We had a great time.

0:31.0

On to Rookville, Ohio, Florida and half hour drive west through the

0:38.4

heartland of America here, consider it. And we had some discussion in class today. I talked about some

0:44.9

situations where people aren't taking any action at all because they feel like

0:47.9

they have no constitutional grounds to stand on regarding actually seizing or compelling identification.

0:55.0

And there's one thing I want to talk about to everybody that I find interesting that people can't even wrap their mind around at this or thought about it at all.

1:02.0

It's the consensual encounter and the power of a... their mind around at this or thought about it at all.

1:02.5

And the consensual encounter and the power of a handshake, right?

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So I've heard stories of like,

1:08.8

we didn't know what to do, so we just let them get away.

1:10.5

We saw them, but we didn't know how to content. Like walking up to

1:13.4

somebody and shaking their hand and introducing yourself is one of those

1:17.3

powerful things you can do as a law enforcement officer, especially when

1:20.0

somebody's engaged in real activity. When you shake somebody's hand, you're

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