Episode 829: A New Generation of Police Officers with Lt. Kory Flowers
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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, Dennis and Lt. Flowers give their advice to new officers to the profession, the do's and dont's when on and off duty, advice to veteran officers to motivate and increase morale for their younger officers and the responsibility of the new generation of officers moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | The best leaders that I've seen are, you know, first line leaders are the ones that are not intimidated by that fire coming in and they just feed it. Just feed it. Continually feed it, continually hand off more ownership, hand off more |
| 0:13.0 | responsibility, you know, start from a position of go for it as opposed to know. |
| 0:17.0 | Those kind of things make a big deal with young folks that already have the right spirit. |
| 0:22.0 | They just kind of need to be, they need to be stoked in my opinion. What do we talk about today, Lieutenant Corey Flowers? |
| 0:37.0 | I don't know, what do you want to talk about, man? |
| 0:40.0 | First line, maybe some first line, how to lead young impressionable folks. |
| 0:46.0 | That's it. |
| 0:47.0 | We've hit on it in the past about how to extinguish those folks. |
| 0:49.8 | I think we could talk about, you know, how to fire them up that's the other side I think that makes sense because you know we're getting we everybody gets an influx of impressionable folks and it's up to us I think that'd be cool. I think there's first line bosses that need to hear what we would talk about. |
| 1:05.4 | So I think some people who are hearing us aren't bosses yet, but when they become bosses, this stuff |
| 1:09.3 | really resonates with them and they remember some of the stuff that we discussed in this podcast and they go, |
| 1:14.0 | when I become a boss, I'll remember some of those things. |
| 1:16.5 | So we're constantly planting seeds, you know, all over the place to ensure that the crops get raised and grown appropriately. |
| 1:25.0 | That's right. |
| 1:26.0 | So we'll just roll right into it, dude. |
| 1:27.0 | So what are you seeing in today's newer cop and how do they have to be led differently |
| 1:32.1 | than the previous police officers. |
| 1:34.5 | They're actually going to say that if you're listening to this and you're not a police officer, |
| 1:38.1 | this is probably something that's applicable to you as a new generation of people arise and then I'll give you my |
| 1:44.0 | thoughts on it as well. Yeah for sure I mean in my opinion so I got into this I got into the |
| 1:48.6 | profession in the 1900s barely but 1999 so but what I've seen just in the last 20 years or so like |
| 1:56.4 | gone are the days of the the young person coming into the profession that |
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