Episode 228 - Scott DeFoe

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Scott DeFoe is a retired Los Angeles Police Department Officer who began his career as a Special Agent for USCS assigned to a DEA TF in San Francisco. His last assignment was as a Sergeant at Special Weapons and Tactics. Throughout his career, he worked in Patrol, Vice, Gangs, Narcotics, and K9.

Post LEO service, Scott entered the world of executive protection/corporate security and eventually opened his own consulting company. Over the past 8 years, he has been retained on over 700 police practices/premises liability matters and testified as an expert in the use of deadly force, K9, pursuits, SWAT, Crisis Negotiations, Barricaded Subjects, Protests, (Less Lethal Force-40mm. 37mm, Remington 870 BB Shotgun, Taser, Neck Restraints (Carotid/LVNR, Air Choke)Baton, and OC Spray). Scott has testified/qualified as an expert over 40 times in State and Federal Court. He has been retained on multiple high-profile cases, some involve him representing the Plaintiff who is suing LE, (George Floyd, Marcus Smith, Daniel Prude, Kelly Thomas, Danny Ray Thomas, and many more).

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
0:02.7	Another best way to start off your morning is actually a cup of amazing coffee.
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0:17.8	If you just look across the top, they have a variety of subscriptions from coffee to
0:23.0	Merch to the ECS exclusive coffee subscription, which I'm pretty sure Evan hand selects the
0:32.0	roasts and beans.
0:34.5	Stickers, all sorts of stuff.
0:35.9	Regular coffee, right next to that apparel, they have gear, they have an about section,
0:40.0	so you can actually find out more about the organization.
0:43.7	I highly recommend you don't get your news from memes or your information about organizations
0:48.6	from memes, but I digress.
0:51.2	Someone can be more proud to support the brand.
0:55.1	If you're a fan of brown water, go to blackriplecoffee.com and get your coffee fixed in, and that's
1:01.1	it.
1:02.1	My guest today is Scott DeFoe.
1:06.6	It would be largely impossible for me to try to describe his background.
1:12.5	Fortunately, he does a great job of doing so.
1:14.7	What I can't say is that he retired from the Los Angeles Police Department, and what
1:19.4	I'm going to describe him as is a use of force expert when it comes to law enforcement.
1:26.7	Worked in a variety of positions, patrol, vice, gangs, narcotics, canine, to list a few.
1:34.1	What's he been doing since he retired from the LAPD?
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