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Street Cop Podcast

Different Colored Headlights

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this rerun episode, Dennis reminds officers to use their time and efforts for things worth their attention, not petty violations. Recorded on 01/13/2021. If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining

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0:00.0

One, one, I can't get a way,

0:02.0

I don't have a way, uh-huh.

0:04.0

H-huh.

0:06.0

You trying to be a street cop?

0:10.0

Oh, good morning everybody I'm here at class a little early because the journey

0:16.1

traffic it really sucks and I'm driving up and just sparks a thought and

0:21.6

you know maybe many of you will see this later today.

0:24.4

Imagine many of you're not up at 7 12 in the morning, eastern standard time.

0:29.5

But if you have to catch this one, it actually has not much to do with the title of it, which is different colored headlights.

0:36.0

Because I'm driving up the parkway this morning, I saw somebody with something we used to see many, many years ago, right?

0:42.0

We used to see these people buying and

0:44.0

installing other vehicles like yellow and red and blue very obnoxious headlights

0:50.0

and at that time I really had no direction. I had nobody kind of guiding me or giving me advice as a younger patrol officer on what my efforts were going to be or what my mission statement was or things along those lines.

1:07.0

Then I began to write tickets, right? I began pulling people over, I thought to myself,

1:15.0

we'll give so many tickets that this annoyance of these yellow or purple or blue or red headlights

1:22.4

would begin to subside.

1:25.0

So that's what I did. I began to write tickets.

1:30.0

And I wrote tickets and I wrote tickets and people weren't happy to get the tickets so I spent

1:34.7

a lot of time writing tickets for these headlights as if I've heard lights.

1:39.9

And one thing I'll never forget is I pulled a guy over and I know exactly where I pulled him over into.

1:46.5

And when I pulled him over, I said, hey, did you modify your headlights?

1:51.1

He goes, yeah, I bought H-I-D ones, and they were like,

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