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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law and Crime author series, Tennessee Police officer turned movie producer Jaron Lockridge

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Police officer and movie producer Jaron Lockridge interviewed. #JaronLockridge #Stix #tennessee Growing up in Bolivar, Tennessee, a small town 45 minutes east of Memphis, Jaron became interested in filmmaking as a high school sophomore in 2002. Believing a career in Hollywood was nothing more than a far-fetched dream, Jaron graduated the police academy in 2010 and became a commissioned peace officer in the State of Tennessee in 2010. As an outlet from the stressors of the job, Jaron began writing again and in 2016, he started his production company, Misguided Perceptions Media Group. With no formal training or film schooling, he began to teach himself how to produce independent films, primarily self-financing his films, saving his paychecks from his job as a police officer. He has since produced 11 feature films such as Betray, The Reaper Man, & Down Bad: Life In The Hood. He believes his niche is telling human stories from an authentic perspective using his experiences of working the streets in uniform as a police officer. His latest film, The Stix, is a promise fulfilled to a close friend and former cast member, whom the film is dedicated to.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

0:11.1

Actually, this is our Law and Crime Author series, and I sort of deviated a little bit today

0:16.9

because what we have today is something I'm really excited about. We have a police officer

0:22.7

who's also a movie director, producer. He wears all the hats. And I think that's amazing because

0:30.9

first of all, any of you guys that know about police work, there's many talented people in

0:36.9

police work. And not just in law enforcement.

0:39.7

They're talented singers. They're talented actors. In this case, he's a talented movie producer,

0:45.1

director. And where do you get all that grit from? And where do you get all that talent from?

0:51.2

And where do you get all that know-how from? Well, seeing the reality

0:56.0

of the streets. And that is one of the places that we get this from. I remember when we

1:02.6

interviewed Chaz Pomerty, he said, cops are natural actors because they have to be actors

1:10.6

to do the work they do. And I somewhat

1:13.6

agreed with them. I said, that's pretty, that's correct, but you know, something, you still need

1:18.7

to study acting if you want to, if you want to be good at it. But yeah, we're all natural actors

1:23.6

because we have to use that in the work we do. And sometimes to save our own lives,

1:30.0

we are able to act in a certain way. And think about being a movie director slash producer,

1:38.7

all the hats that Geron Lockridge has to wear. And because not only is he producing and directing, he's hiring

1:46.0

the actors. He's making sure the actors show up on time. He's hiring his crew. And all of this

1:52.0

probably has to be done in a small budget, because Hollywood's not behind Geron at this point,

1:58.6

but you know something? That's not bothering him. He's one busy

2:02.3

dude. So with that said, I want to bring up, I'm going to show you the thumbnail. Here we are.

2:08.1

This is Geron. Law and Crime Series Tennessee Police Officer Turned movie producer,

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