Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

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And please stations across the country. Officers start their shifts in the briefing room. It's a place where law enforcement can speak openly and candidly about safety, truth, and safety.

We think it's time to invite you in. So pull up a chair. Welcome to the briefing room.

Hi, I'm Detective Dave and I'm Detective Dan and we have of course dance better half yardly welcome. Hello, dad is a like to call you great to have you here. So today on the briefing room, we're going to be talking about school shootings. We're going to focus on school safety, specifically how prepared or unprepared our classrooms are for an active shooter.

You're going to hear from two teachers who work in the state of Texas where policymakers have found themselves in the tragic shadow of the mass shooting in Evol day, the left 19 children and two adults dead.

We're asking these teachers how safe they feel. What could be done better to prepare them, what kind of training they're getting and what is their relationship to local law enforcement.

But before we get into the bigger conversation, I think you two should explain what the briefing room podcast is about.

It was Dave's idea he should talk about it. Happy to think for us small town dicks is so focused on individual cases, you know, they might be two or three episodes long, but in individual case, we talk to the detective who explains their investigation.

Through this process, we were getting a lot of questions and we had broader subjects that we wanted to talk about that impact law enforcement and their communities, but they're not case specific. It's a topic.

And it reminded me of sitting in briefing before your shift where the watch commander provides background on what's happening in our city since your last shift.

And in this instance, it's an opportunity for us to really talk about what cops are doing out on the street from day to day.

Why cops do what they do and also to discuss where cops go out of bounds.

I agree. I think an unintended benefit that we've gotten out of this podcast is having an opportunity in a platform where we can educate the public a little bit on how we do business and why we do it the way we do it.

Also, you know, like they pointed out, you know, there are plenty of examples of when it goes wrong.

And I think this is a unique opportunity in platform to address some of those things.

And hopefully we can provide the answers to our listeners.

Do you worry that the briefing room might be two inside baseball, so to speak, like only for those who are in law enforcement or really fall law enforcement?

Basically, who is the briefing room for?

The briefing room is for anyone who wants to understand the perspective of law enforcement.

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