Episode 780: What We Perceive is Reality with Lt. Kory Flowers

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On today's episode, Dennis speaks with 22+ year law enforcement veteran, national law enforcement trainer and writer for police publications, Lt. Kory Flowers. Lt. Kory Flowers is a 22-year veteran with the Greensboro (NC) Police Department. Flowers trains law enforcement officers nationwide on various subversive criminal groups, leadership, and tactical communication. He is a frequent contributor to police and a true believer in great leadership, setting the right examples and supporting each other.

Today, Lt. Flowers discusses the truth of news outlets and media, the importance of morale in a police department, showing compassion when people make mistakes, finding the right people is the most important resource in law enforcement and the love for the job.

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0:00.0	one of the dark aspects of human nature is, you know, people like, like, you know,
0:04.7	whether it's tragic or just negative news, it captures the mass attention better than a lot of
0:10.4	these positive stories. So you got you got negative perception, negative news,
0:14.8	which then drives people to click,
0:17.2	and then you have the algorithm which continually feeds that.
0:20.6	And, you know, honestly, we've always, we know, we all know this.
0:23.6	Perception is reality, right?
0:25.8	Reality is not necessarily, you know, all about facts.
0:28.2	It's about how people perceive it.
0:29.8	So when you have a generation of young folks entering into our profession, you know, against great odds.
0:36.7	But they've only and always been digesting these feeds.
0:39.9	Think about that.
0:40.9	We call it a feed.
0:41.9	You know, it's interesting what you feed your mind is
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