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Welcome to Citizen, we got a very special guest today.

Adam Hadari, please introduce yourself and tell people who you are, what you do, a little bit of your background, so on.

Absolutely. First off, thanks for having me. My name is Adam Hadari. I'm a former law enforcement officer in South Carolina.

Left Law Enforcement in 2020 to help better the profession. I run a page called Police Post on Instagram.

I also own and founded two companies, Effective Fitness Training and Effective Fitness Combatives.

And there we seek to train above the standard for law enforcement officers.

As you've seen in the past couple of years, particularly law enforcement has kind of been under attack, politically, as for some of their responses to certain situations.

And so our job is to make sure they're getting the proper training in order to be more prepared for the job.

And what is it, I guess if you were trying to diagnose the issue aside from the symptom itself, what would you say the root causes of the lack of training are?

Well, you could always say budget. Budget is always one. But I would also say it's lack of understanding and education from leadership and the ability to want to change.

Change is, change is hard and it takes time and effort as it pertains to like an agency, like a government entity, as you're probably very familiar with.

Takes, takes time, effort to change it. And sometimes people are just frankly lazy. They don't want to do so.

And so it's easier just to keep doing what you're doing than to actually affect change that is beneficial for the agency.

So I would say leadership and budget, probably the two biggest role players and why things aren't changing as quickly as they could.

Do you think there's, I guess, let me see how to say this, are there agencies out there that you're familiar with that are doing things the right way?

Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

Could you give me some examples of those and what they're doing that other people aren't doing?

Yeah, you know, there are a few examples mostly in states like Florida, Texas, South Carolina, where they have, I would say,

they have more conservative states for lack of a better way to put it. And that's just because of, of, I guess their values and what they hold important to them.

Right. So, you know, obviously, keeping criminals away and putting them away is extra, plays a role on society. Right. And so, I'll give an example of one agency.

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