Hey guys, if you're not a member of the street cop community, you are missing out.

It is where you can find all the e-books and all the resources that I put out to help you do your job better. Check it out at streetcop community or streetcop.com. Just look for the link there and we'll see you inside the community. I didn't have any luck initially. It was one of those things didn't know what I was doing. I was shy. It was tough talking with people and it was just so awkward, which you have to be awkward to get unawkward.

That's one of those things that, now that I'm a... didn't know what I was doing. I was shy. It was tough talking with people and it was just so awkward,

which you have to be awkward to get unawkward. That's one of those things that, now that I'm a field trainer, now that I'm able to kind of mentor a little bit to younger cops, you're going to be fucking weird at first. It's going to happen. Like, you just got to fucking stumble through. And eventually, you will figure out your own methods. You'll figure out the phrasing that that you need you'll figure out how to talk to somebody and it not seem like hey but

I'm the police I want to look in your car like you've got to get it to where it's just a conversation

and it took me so long to figure out One 11. One second. I'm trying to be a street cop.

Hey guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast.

You host, founder and CEO of Street Cop Training.

My name is Dennis Benino.

And today with us, a guy who has been stabbed a lot, crash cars, like, there's all sorts of shit going on in your life.

And he tells his story to people at academies.

He's been doing a lot of good with the bad that happened to him.

And we're happy to have me here on the podcast.

You guys probably don't know this,

but when he came on just minutes ago,

he was rather caught off guard and elated to see yours truly, which I appreciate.

But anywho, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Nate McLean. What up, dude? How are you?

Hey, I'm good, man. Thanks for having me on.

So tell us about you. Where did you grow up? How did you get to law enforcement before we get into the whole story about what the fuck happened?

Man, so I grew up pretty normal. I was raised in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It's kind of one of the largest cities up northeast. I was, I had a relatively regular childhood. I ended up. I did have my mom pass to play whenever I was eight years old, though. So I switched over into, you know, living with my dad. And he worked for the prison, you know, for Arkansas Department of Corrections at the time. And he essentially got into law enforcement whenever I was, I was around 12 or so. And so I kind of consider myself second generation on that end.

And that was definitely something I showed interesting,

but it wasn't something I ever really, you know,

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