Tooth Shot Out, Pulling Suspects From Burning Car, These Aren't My Pants
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Great conversation with Sergeant Matt Porter! Really great stories from the job.
Sergeant Matt Porter is a 16 year veteran Police Sergeant and an active SWAT Team Leader. He holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology and a graduate degree in business. He helped develop the curriculum for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission SWAT Basic school and is a lead instructor there. He also teaches First Level Supervision in his spare time. In 2019 Matt developed the Emotional Intelligence curriculum for the LETCSA Patrol Tactics course which is a mandated course for all 11,000 officers in Washington State. Matt serves as one of the three original Patrol Tactics Master Instructor's. Matt's private business provides leadership, emotional intelligence and wellness training to civilians and mission critical teams. He's happily married and the proud father of 2 teenage girls!!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast to interview's active and retired police officers both are most intense, |
| 0:12.2 | bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job. |
| 0:15.9 | I am Steve Gould, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:17.8 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.8 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:19.8 | Thank you for coming back. |
| 0:20.8 | If you're bingeing the episodes, I truly, truly appreciate that. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for all the five star ratings and reviews at a recent question about Spotify |
| 0:30.9 | I notice a shift in the podcast audience where Apple used to be like the line share of |
| 0:35.8 | everybody's podcast downloads. |
| 0:38.0 | Starting to shift a little bit, it's more of like a 50-50. |
| 0:40.4 | So there is a lot of you out there using Spotify, which is great. |
| 0:45.5 | And I will happily take five star reviews there. |
| 0:48.2 | Also, we're so close on Apple, Spotify actually needs a lot of love. |
| 0:52.7 | So if you are on Spotify, I would really appreciate that. |
| 0:55.2 | But Apple is almost to a thousand, almost to one K where I want to be. |
| 0:59.8 | I want to say, I always say like I deserve it. |
| 1:02.8 | This is the best podcast ever. |
| 1:04.4 | We should do that. |
| 1:05.4 | And I've gotten some comments recently that I should be more humble and that I shouldn't |
| 1:09.5 | be so braggadocious. |
| 1:10.5 | But I'm joking. |
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