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Police - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 2/13/26

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

News, Society & Culture, Science

4.12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Connie Willis and former Chicago police officer Kameryn Rein Schwarz discuss her career in law enforcement, the trauma and depression of being a police officer, and the burden that led her to consider suicide when her supervisor wouldn't offer her assistance.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Now here's a highlight from coast to coast

0:06.8

A.M. on IHeartRadio. Connie Willis here. You can find me at Connie Willis.com. Sign up for my

0:12.6

newsletter. See what's going on. And join me because I like to do a lot of active things and I'd love

0:18.0

for you to be a part of it. All righty. good music tonight, open lines tonight, a lot of fun.

0:24.6

But we're going to start it out with Cameron Rain Swartz, a former Chicago cop who witnessed

0:31.6

countless traumatic deaths in humanity at its worst, as you can imagine, especially Chicago

0:37.1

cop.

0:37.6

Holy cow.

0:39.6

So many horrific events that she went down into the darkness, but then also came out into

0:46.9

the light.

0:47.3

So we're going to hear her story of what happened.

0:51.0

Really nice lady.

0:52.0

I think you're going to like her a lot.

0:53.7

Let's bring her on, Cameron. Thank you so much for being here on coast to coast a.m nice lady. I think you're going to like her a lot. Let's bring her on. Cameron,

0:54.9

thank you so much for being here on coast to coast a.m. And your first time, too. Thanks.

1:00.8

Well, Connie, it's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you so, so very much. Well, I know it's got to be

1:06.4

tough for you to bring this story up again. You lived it. You didn't want to live it anymore, but then things turned around, and now you're kind of

1:15.3

helping other people that go down that low, too.

1:18.5

So instead of me just talking vaguely, let's let you go ahead and do this.

1:23.4

Tell us, because I know it's going to be tough for you, but we're right here with you,

1:26.5

and we appreciate that you're going to do it. By the way, you can find her at Chicago Copseesethlight.com. Chicago Copseeselight.com. All right there, Cameron, because a police officer, as you were growing up, did you say, hey, I'm going to be a cop one day. I'm going to be this hero.

1:45.2

I'm going to save some lives.

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