Deputy Down, Shots Fired! Sgt. Craig Johnson - San Diego Sheriffs Department (Ret)

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode of the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with retired San Diego Sheriffs Department Sgt. Craig Johnson to discuss a harrowing shootout between him, his partners and a suspect armed with a rifle. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	Detective Perez. He was shot again a second time while he was pinned down in the apartment,
0:05.9	and we were unable to get to him because the suspect was firing at us.
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0:45.6	Hello and welcome to the active self-protection podcast. I am your host, Mike Williver.
0:49.6	With me today, Craig Johnson, retired sergeant for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department
0:53.3	in California. Craig, welcome. Thank you for having me, Mike. Now, full disclosure, Craig and I have worked together on a few occasions in my former, his and I former life as law enforcement in Southern California, and I have nothing but good things to say about him. What did you want to be when you grew up? Oh, I always wanted to be a cop. Yeah, me, me too. Do you remember what sparked that?
1:13.8	Well, my dad was a lieutenant with Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 27 years, and I always
1:20.0	wanted to follow in his footsteps, and we moved down here to San Diego when I was 12, so my choice
1:26.9	was to get into law enforcement down here in San
1:29.4	Eagle County. My father wasn't in law enforcement, but I have a grandfather and an uncle who were
1:33.5	and my dad was a sub-skipper in the Navy. So I guess it's just public service runs in the blood.
1:38.1	Yeah, I had a cousin who was also a L.A. County Sheriff's Sergeant. He was older than I am, but he was also,
1:47.3	you know, just part of that whole family bloodline kind of thing. Craig, I know we have a large
1:52.1	group of law enforcement officers here and on the YouTube channel that watch and listen,
1:56.5	or hopefully find this podcast and listen to it. And I firmly believe that you telling your story might inspire some of them,
2:03.6	if they're ever in a critical incident, to stay in the fight.
2:06.1	So I can't thank you enough for being here.
2:08.1	When did you start with the law enforcement and where?
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