The Pandering Pandemic

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🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rizzo explains how pandering to an antagonist that is looking to cancel you is an exercise in futility, and how to better direct your energy toward your staff instead of falling victim to appeasement.

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0:00.0	One, I can't get a way.
0:02.0	A lot of the way. H-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Hey good evening street cop. I am coming at you guys in a video as I was requested to
0:19.4	because I just got off the telephone with a fellow colleague who was asking me some crazy questions
0:25.6	and how I could help to get his blood pressure down because of some things that he found out
0:32.4	about and was just asking me what my thoughts were on it.
0:36.2	So I'm going to tell it to you like the only way I know how and that's just to be honest.
0:40.2	The first scenario is having to do with a county commissioner,
0:44.8	retired police officer, who was instituting or I guess putting together some type of
0:50.7	extravaganza for countywide for officers to get together and
0:55.3	meet with the community they serve for the sole purpose of apologizing.
0:58.8	Apologizing for what you may ask and I can only give you the synopsis that I understand it to be in that they are apologizing for being police officers and everything that comes along with that.
1:11.0	The second scenario is a command level officer of a large city area who thought that wearing face shields and any type of helmet or protective gear for the head would be overbearing as
1:25.8	platoons of officers walked into something that people would call a protest
1:30.9	but it was abundantly clear that it was a riot as, from what I understand, 40% of the officers
1:36.5	that went in were injured. Thankfully, none of them were fatally injured, but some of them did sustain injuries.
1:46.0	I ask of you this, the next time that you read the
1:49.0	that you read a post or you watch the news or you hear of something going on that's crazy that has to do with somebody
1:55.7	who's not law enforcement politicians private industry whoever whoever you're
2:02.3	critical of I would tell you to take a deep breath, stop for a moment,
2:06.2	and think of all of the damaging actions and the backward actions that are being taken right now by men and women who are police officers or who are tired, who are taking on positions, who are being elected into positions with law enforcement
2:26.5	background that are making decisions such as the ones I just mentioned to you.
2:32.2	I would beg you that if you are one of these people who
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