Episode 1023: After the Bullet - Hali Bradford’s Hidden Battle
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we sat down with Hali Bradford to discuss the unimaginable challenges she has faced since being shot in the line of duty while responding to a domestic violence call in Lafayette, Louisiana. Officer Bradford opened up about the physical, emotional, and mental toll of surviving a near-fatal shooting, the long road of rehabilitation, ongoing health complications, and the reality of rebuilding life after trauma.
We talked about the struggles many people never see after the headlines fade — chronic pain, multiple surgeries, financial stress, identity struggles, recovery setbacks, and the emotional weight carried by officers and their families after critical incidents. Despite everything, Hali’s resilience, honesty, and determination to keep moving forward make this one of the most powerful and important conversations we’ve had. This episode is about survival, purpose, perseverance, and the human side of policing that too often goes unseen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, if you're not a member of the street cop community, you're missing out. |
| 0:02.6 | 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.com or streetcop.com. Just look for the link there and we'll see you inside the community. The only thing that I saw was the barrel of the rifle. And I was like literally looking down it. Like that's how close we were and so um you know i think just like |
| 0:23.6 | tunnel vision or whatever you want to call it i i really like honed in on that the barrel of the rifle |
| 0:29.8 | and i told myself oh fuck i'm about to get shot and like i kind of had to admit that to myself because |
| 0:36.4 | like what am I going to do? |
| 0:52.4 | Hey, guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast. |
| 0:52.4 | My name is Dennis Bonino. And a lot of you know that already. Have with me. Haley. Hey guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast. My host, founder and CEO Street Cop Training. |
| 0:54.2 | My name is Dennis Bonino. |
| 0:55.2 | And a lot of you know that already. |
| 0:56.9 | Have with me, Haley Bradford. |
| 1:00.6 | And she has a fucked up story. |
| 1:04.8 | So before we get into it, some context of how I came across Haley. |
| 1:09.2 | I just saw your, to keep you real, I just saw your Instagram profile and I saw like |
| 1:15.5 | paralyzed with a purpose and I was like, what the fuck is this? |
| 1:18.6 | And I saw you're a cop and like, oh, this bitch got shot. |
| 1:20.8 | So I was like, I got to reach out to her and get her on the podcast because it's always |
| 1:25.4 | like these are the best episodes typically that we do |
| 1:28.6 | that and when I get like psychoanalyzed but with that being said thank you for taking the |
| 1:33.4 | time out of your day to be on the show can you just let's start by going over like where you're |
| 1:38.3 | from where he grew up how he became a cop and then we'll go into the meat and potatoes why we're |
| 1:43.3 | here yeah so I'm haley bradford uh I'm a former Lafayette um how you became a cop, and then we'll go into the meat and potatoes why we're here. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, so I'm Haley Bradford. |
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