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Street Cop Podcast

Prioritize What's Important

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this archive episode, Dennis reminds officers to prioritize what's important instead of wasting time on petty violations. Recorded on 09/25/2020. If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining

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0:00.0

I should have turned the ringinger off before I started this but it's a

0:15.4

possibility the phone's gonna ring during this video I was driving just had a

0:18.4

thought and I want to pass it along everybody and I was going back to the days when I first

0:21.8

started law enforcement and

0:24.4

namely on the road. Many of you know I was in corrections for two years before I got started

0:29.3

very hard to get on the job here in Jersey and then eventually I got into the road a couple years later I was

0:33.2

22 when I hit the road. It was 19 when I started corrections. One thing that was interesting

0:41.2

was because nobody gave me any direction on what I was supposed to do and I had downtime

0:45.8

I just did what I thought I was supposed to do right I just did what I thought made sense.

0:51.8

I did what I thought was important.

0:55.0

And you need to start really thinking about what is important

0:58.0

as a law enforcement officer because only have so much time and energy in the day to use that appropriately.

1:07.0

My advice is, you know, pick and choose your battles, but also, like prioritize how you're going to spend your time.

1:17.0

Guys I can tell you right now that I was actually...

1:22.0

Look, Tom Rizzo is watching,

1:24.0

Tom Rizzo, you want to bring you on live?

1:25.5

I can invite you in, you want to come live?

1:26.7

Let's do this.

1:29.7

Accept that, I added Tom Rizzo.

1:31.3

Let's see if you're gonna join us.

1:32.2

Are you at work time?

1:32.9

You can't answer the note is?

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