Episode 1002: Recognition, Fulfillment, and Courage: Kory Flowers on Law Enforcement and Life
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Officer Kory Flowers shares his experience leading a new narcotics team, the pursuit of recognition in law enforcement, and the challenges of balancing manpower with fulfillment. He opens up about being overlooked, the importance of taking control of your own path, treating people right, and the role of courage in both policing and life.
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Teaser
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Intro
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Kory’s new narcotics team
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Awards in law enforcement
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Midroll
00:29:45:12 - 00:40:19:00
Allocation of manpower & the desire for recognition
00:40:19:00 - 00:49:53:00
Fulfillment & getting looked over
00:49:53:00 - 00:53:32:18
Taking control over your life
00:53:32:18 - 01:02:09:02
Treating people right
01:02:09:02 - 01:13:19:14
Courage
01:13:19:14 - 01:14:32:11
Outro
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| 0:00.0 | If you haven't checked out the street cop community, you are missing out. |
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| 0:02.4 | I mean, I tell people that all the time. |
| 0:03.6 | Like, what we're doing here is real. If we want to debate auto signatures on emails and, you know, what color the carpet should be and the flat, like, that's fine. Like, that's fine. But this is real. Like, what we're doing is real life and death. And so yeah, when I see, like when I |
| 0:38.3 | see a dancing cop video, you know, sponsored by a police department, I just start doing math. I'm like, |
| 0:43.6 | okay, that, that thing took five, six, seven hours times 50 folks there dancing, 50 man, woman hours |
| 0:50.4 | equals this at tax expense. And I'm thinking, again, crime is afoot. |
| 0:55.3 | Golly, we did that? Why did we do that? And I think a lot of times, you know, agencies are doing it for, you know, for recruiting. Who are you trying to recruit? You're trying to, you're trying to recruit people that enjoy dancing. All we're talking about is, you know, police isn't is just life. And life is, you know, what we're talking about today, life bleeds over and life's too short to not take a stand. |
| 0:55.0 | Life's too short to not take a stand. |
| 1:13.4 | Life's too short to not tell the truth. |
| 1:15.0 | And life's too short to not be courageous. |
| 1:16.6 | That is a universal truth. |
| 1:19.6 | One 11. |
| 1:19.9 | One second. |
| 1:22.6 | Woo. |
| 1:23.6 | You trying to be a street cop? |
| 1:30.0 | Send me a tank top, bro. |
| 1:33.2 | I don't have enough tank top. |
| 1:34.0 | These are not street cop tank tops. |
| 1:36.2 | But I will say this. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah, you're good. |
| 1:38.4 | I will say this. |
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