Jimmy Meeks - Cop / Minister
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steve sits down with 35 year copper and minister, Jimmy Meeks! Jimmy brings some great stories to the podcast and also shares how his Christian faith has seen him through the hard times. If you had to describe Jimmy in one word it would be soulful. This man cares about the coppers out there and is doing his best to help them get through these troubling times. He currently leads the Cornelius Project (Blue Life Support) supporting officers through outreach and encouragement. Learn more about what Jimmy is doing below!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. Welcome to the podcast interviews, police officers active |
| 0:12.4 | and retired about their most intense, humorous and bizarre moments on the job. I said that |
| 0:18.4 | backwards and from what I usually do, but I don't have my piece of paper I usually read. |
| 0:22.7 | Just got I flew home guys from shift. I was I was working. I got here as quick as I could |
| 0:27.2 | to interview this guest. I'm super excited to have him. I felt bad. He had to wait a little bit, |
| 0:32.5 | but it's you know how it is with with police work sometimes you get held up and things don't go. |
| 0:38.3 | Go as planned. I can tell you one thing. One idea for the new police reform ideas that are |
| 0:43.2 | floating around more time off and more money. That would I think that would change the mental |
| 0:48.5 | state a lot of people. That would that would be great. We'll throw that out to the taxpayer. See |
| 0:51.9 | what they think because I as of right now I work about right around 60 hours a week to to support |
| 1:01.3 | a family and do what I need to do. You know keep the bills paid. So it's kind of a lot of hours, |
| 1:07.1 | especially when some situations you deal with as police officers can be pretty serious. So just |
| 1:11.6 | just a thought if there's any lawmakers out there that want to you know bump up our pay make a |
| 1:16.2 | federal bill for that. I'd be for it. I'd vote for that. Let me get to our guest. Our guest name |
| 1:22.0 | is James Meeks. He's I don't usually do this, but this guy's got such a long career and he's done |
| 1:28.7 | he's involved in so much stuff. I actually have I'm going to read his bio before I bring him on. |
| 1:34.4 | So Jimmy served as a police officer in Shawnee Oklahoma from 1980 to 1985 began work with the |
| 1:41.6 | Hearst Texas Police Department in December 1985 and retired in 2015. Obviously he's a retired |
| 1:49.0 | police officer now. He's served 35 years in law enforcement. He's also been a minister for 47 |
| 1:55.4 | years, which a man to that. I love that. That's so cool. As an officer he served as a hostage |
| 2:01.1 | negotiator field training officer school resource officer detective supervisor and crime prevention |
| 2:06.4 | officer. And he's also been certified in crime prevention specialist. So he's the founder of |
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