Episode 870: Mitigate The Suck with Tommy Brooks
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis sits down with SCT Instructor, Tommy Brooks who teaches "The Gun Game", "The Gang Game" and "The Honor Game".
Today, Dennis and Tommy discuss the future of police training, the basic principles you need to master to be a good cop and human being, stories on the job, having good intentions while doing this job and mitigating the suck and focusing on your job.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'd said I met a guy years ago at a trainee and I don't want to get any credit for this because it was his not mine. |
| 0:05.2 | But he had said, he said, you know, he goes, I have a very simple metric. |
| 0:10.4 | He's a supervisor by the way. And we were talking about like when your men and |
| 0:15.4 | women are in trouble, you're cops who work for you. He's right. When do you decide |
| 0:18.9 | it's time to actually like, I think to say punish, but really say like this is, |
| 0:24.2 | your heart was the right place, but you screw it up, |
| 0:26.1 | versus no, I'm gonna defend you on this because it's nothing you do. |
| 0:29.9 | And he said this metric was combined for a few sources, |
| 0:31.8 | but they basically were do no harm, do your best, do the job, and don't be a dick. |
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| 1:25.0 | Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop |
| 1:28.0 | training podcast, I'm your host founder and CEO of street cop training |
| 1:30.0 | and today we have with us your favorite street cop instructor, the legend, the man who they travel |
| 1:38.4 | miles and hundreds of miles to see, the most entertaining instructor in our company, |
| 1:43.7 | none other than your favorite, Tommy Brooks. |
| 1:46.6 | I can tell you that for me when we're talking about |
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