Episode 135: Policing in America w/Ex-NYPD Officer Edwin Raymond

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

That Sounds Fun Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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I FINALLY FINISHED MY MANUSCRIPT!!!! This book I turned in has taken it OUT of me but it is off to the editor and I feel breath in my lungs again!

Today, speaking of books, we have Edwin Raymond, author of An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America.

Since 2020, I have had a lot of people asking me to put a black police officer on the show. I wanted someone that was well versed, not emotive but also understands that there IS work to be done, and I found that in my new friend Edwin.

He served in the NYPD for over 15 years and was born and raised in East Brooklyn. He gives a very important perspective on policing in America. He shares why he became a police officer, why he stepped away and what he thinks can help the system.

I am SO grateful for this conversation with Edwin Raymond and think you will be too!

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey.
0:03.2	Men, women and children hope is in the building.
0:09.5	Hey, welcome to the Human Hope Podcast, episode 135, 135.
0:16.3	My name is Carlos Enrique Guzman
0:19.4	to Vocabillo.
0:21.2	Barlois, for short.
0:25.0	Do-dd-dd-dddd-dada-dada-dada-dada-dada-dada-dada-dada-dada,
0:28.0	and uh, oh my goodness,
0:32.0	first of all, you guys are going to be the first people to hear this.
0:34.4	I think, unless between today and tomorrow I tell the rest of the world, but I would like to let you
0:40.9	know that I finished my freaking manuscript.
0:44.4	You know as an author I love the writing process I love to write I love to just type I love to put the
0:49.6	chronicles narnie soundtrack in my ears and I love to just go. This book that I just turned in, now take it, it's just the first draft, so I got a lot of work to do left after he edits it. But this book has taken it out of me and if you were at any of the VIP
1:09.0	meet and greets on the on the tour was at the here for You tour with myself in Annie if Downs,
1:15.0	then you may know what the book is about and you may understand why it took me so
1:19.3	freaking long to write this book. I probably had spent upwards of 20 full days set aside like at cabins and
1:30.6	hotels and air B&Bs and all the places to get this book out of me over the last year.
1:37.0	And it wouldn't come out.
1:40.0	Words just wouldn't come out.
1:41.0	They'd come out, like they sputter a hundred at a time and then nothing.
1:44.0	What I what I realized is that was just the hard work of digging and excavating the words because once once
1:49.7	I kept doing that and as frustrating as that experience as an author where the words aren't coming out.
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