Thoughts on Law Enforcement from a Christian Cop
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What is the nature of Law Enforcement that makes it necessary for any culture or society? What does this nature require of its employees? What challenges do officers face when it come to the use of force? J. Warner answers these questions as he provides a few insights from the perspective of a Christian police officer in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Jay Warner Wallace is a cold case homicide detective who's been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.2 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, Incor TV. |
| 0:13.0 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills |
| 0:15.6 | to making a case for Christian. Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity. I am Jay Warner Wallace. I'm |
| 0:27.9 | going to do a show today that I thought long and hard about whether I |
| 0:30.9 | should do this show, but I get asked so many questions on other people's shows, |
| 0:36.0 | either on radio or on someone's podcast or on a television show, |
| 0:40.0 | about what is my take as a police officer in light of the climate we're in right |
| 0:46.0 | now as a nation the call to defund the police the general perception of police right now in 2020. |
| 0:55.0 | And really it's something I thought about writing a number of years ago. |
| 0:59.0 | After the Dallas shootings, I began to think about what a response or Christian response would be. |
| 1:04.4 | And since I am a Christian who happens to be a police officer and is part of a three generation family of police officers. |
| 1:11.0 | We've been in this business now for about 60 years and all the same name. |
| 1:16.4 | My dad had the name Jim Wallace, I had the name Jim Wallace and my son has the name Jim |
| 1:20.2 | Wallace doing the same work. So that means there was somebody there named |
| 1:24.2 | Jim Wallace who was deployed in the summer in Watts in the 60s. There's an |
| 1:29.8 | uprising, but again if somebody was there named Jim Wallace who was deployed following the Rodney King verdict, following the Rodney King beating. |
| 1:37.0 | And there's been some of their named Jim Wallace who was deployed after George Floyd and the protest that took place in Los Angeles after that. |
| 1:44.4 | So we've been in Los Angeles County. |
| 1:47.0 | We've seen this cycle, continue and continue and kind of loop through. |
| 1:51.2 | And I get asked this question a while. Well, what is your perspective as somebody who's both a police officer and is a Christian about what's happening in culture right now? |
| 1:58.0 | Well, it's a tough question. And I thought about, do I ever even take a public stand on this because we're so |
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