Episode 994: After the Injury - Survival, Recovery, and the Future w/ Colin Ledbetter

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

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4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Colin Ledbetter shares the story of his on-duty shooting that left him needing 39 pints of blood to recover. He discusses his family's reaction, collecting his pension, and his hopes for the future.

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Teaser

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Intro

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Colin’s background

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Colin’s on-duty shooting

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The shooting’s toll on Colin’s family

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Colin’s rehabilitation process

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The desire to return to work after an injury

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Workers’ compensation & the pension-collecting process for injured officers

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The flaws in police training

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Colin’s ongoing recovery

00:37:21:10 - 00:38:39:03

Colin’s future

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Having an identity outside of law enforcement

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Colin’s advice for fellow injured officers

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Outro

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0:16.4	streetcop.com. So January 26th of 2022, started talking to to my partner. He goes, hey, there's this car
0:23.4	sitting up all the way up on the north side. And he said, do you want to go check it out? He said,
0:27.2	it's probably the car wanted for the homicide from last night. He said, yeah, let's go. And we get
0:31.1	into this place and we come around the back and see the car. And we just see all four guys hop into the car take off. So we started pursuit from there.
0:37.9	They ended up going up in embankment and busted all four of their tires. Driver and passenger got out
0:43.5	and took off running. I ended up getting shot twice, just once in my foot through and through.
0:47.6	And then the second one went into my abdomen and went down and through and hit my femoral artery.
0:52.6	There's days that I feel like I could hop right back out there and do the job again.
0:56.2	And then there's days that I feel so distant and far away from the job that I don't even know how
1:00.3	that was the same person, you know?
1:02.1	It's the mapping and staying grounded and figuring out who you are outside of the job, but also
1:06.5	when you were with the job.
1:07.7	I'm still that guy and I'm a molded piece of another guy, too. You know, it's all kind of mesh into one.
1:12.6	One of 11. One of them, one.
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1:16.6	you're trying to be a street cop.
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