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Street Cop Podcast

Episode 990: Exceeding Expectations - The Highs and Lows of Law Enforcement w/ Nick Perna

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9933 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Detective Sergeant Nick Perna shares his story of joining law enforcement, what makes a good supervisor, and his experiences working in the Street Crime Suppression Team with the Redwood City Police Department in Northern California.


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00:00:00:00 - 00:01:25:23

Teaser


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Intro


00:01:50:08 - 00:05:55:18

Nick’s background


00:05:55:18 - 00:17:41:23

The highs and lows of working in law enforcement


00:17:41:23 - 00:33:02:26

Being respectful & your reputation as a police officer


00:33:02:26 - 00:33:26:29

Midroll


00:33:26:29 - 00:42:21:29

Doing more than what is expected & policy


00:42:21:29 - 01:09:55:29

Good and bad supervisors


01:09:55:29 - 01:13:11:02

Outro

Transcript

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0:17.9

I wanted to go out there and chase bad guys. And I never lost the passion the whole time

0:21.5

I was doing the job right out of the academy, just couldn't wait to get to work. Love to working

0:25.7

those midnight shifts trying to go out there and catch crooks, you know, at two, three,

0:29.6

in the morning. Life's pretty simple at three, four in the morning. It's the only people that are

0:33.5

out are newspaper delivery guys, taxi drivers, cops, crooks,oks and victims so i used to just like to do that

0:39.7

difference between good cops and great cops good cops they enjoy like the black and white aspect of

0:46.9

law they enjoy the black and white aspect of policy great cops man you look at the penal code

0:52.1

or you look at your policy manual and you say, okay, I get it.

0:55.1

But how can I work around this stuff? You know, how can I push the envelope a little bit?

0:58.8

Kind of work the gray areas. I think the big thing really that defines who's going to be a good chief or a good sheriff,

1:04.6

how much they don't change from when they start to where they get to their chief spot.

1:09.6

I hit the ground running,

1:14.0

and I never really stopped running right up to the time I left last year. Hey guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast.

1:28.1

My host, founder and CEO of Street Cop Training.

1:30.4

My name is, Janis Benino.

1:32.6

Some of you guys don't know that, but that's who I am.

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