Episode 833: The Courage to Take Action with Rick Fink
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with Orlando Police Officer, Rink Fink. Rick transitioned from professional military and law enforcement training to the private sector. Rick was one of the first responding officers to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.
Today, Dennis and Rick discuss family dynamics and the struggles of keeping people in your lives, how to deal with toxic family members, Rick's personal struggles and how he took the leap to help others with their mental struggles, leading by example and taking action.
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| 0:00.0 | For years I picked my career over my kids, |
| 0:03.4 | and I think of all the times I missed out. |
| 0:05.6 | Now, he's only five, so unfortunately enough that, |
| 0:07.4 | you know, he's still young, but like when I made the decision |
| 0:10.9 | and gave up all the running and gun and I went to day shift and I come home every day to my wife and kids and I wouldn't trade that for anything now. 11, 110.1,000,000,000,000,000,000, |
| 0:25.0 | you trying to be a street cop. |
| 0:29.0 | You trying to be a street cop? |
| 0:30.0 | Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop Cop Training podcast, we're your host, |
| 0:33.6 | founder and CEO of Street Cop Training. My name is Dennis Benino and today I have with me a |
| 0:37.4 | gentleman who is here to share a story and I think that everybody in the country is familiar with the incident that we're about to talk about and it's the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. |
| 0:50.0 | But I appreciate you taking the time, Rick, and we kind of talked about a little bit about what brought you to the podcast here today. |
| 0:56.5 | It happened to be one of our employees who did the podcast with us, who subsequently retired after an officer involved shooting due to mental health issues, |
| 1:06.3 | you guys connected and you got on the podcast and you're going to hear to share some of your story. |
| 1:10.2 | So maybe we start off by you explaining about a little bit about who you are and how |
| 1:16.9 | one yet on the job we grew up things like that. |
| 1:19.2 | First off I want to say thank you for having me. It's an honor to be on this podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | So my name is Richard Fink from Orlando, Florida. I grew up with the All-American family. |
| 1:31.0 | My dad was a police officer for 25 years. He was he left he retired with the |
| 1:37.6 | rank of deputy chief. I mean he was the SWAT team commander. He was you know a cops cop. So I that's ever since I was born or that I can remember that's always what I wanted to do. |
| 1:49.0 | But unfortunately, my dad became addicted to opiates when I was in high school it kind of destroyed our family a little bit and after high school I had no plans. |
| 1:57.0 | Wasn't really going to college so I figured hey I'll join the military. |
| 2:02.5 | So I joined the United States Army. |
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