On Being a Police Officer

Ep. 11 San Diego County Detective working robbery investigations; started his career with Seattle PD

Feb 10, 2021

37:59

A Detective from a San Diego County agency with 15 years in LE talks about his current role in robbery, home invasion, kidnapping and carjacking investigations. He started out with Seattle PD in 2005 and shares stories of his time there including the interesting aspects of working undercover. For the first time in this podcast, we discuss the impact of line-of-duty deaths. We also talk about the challenges of the current anti-police environment, the importance of giving people a chance to be heard in any interaction, and the impact of CA state policies on LE’s ability to protect the community. And of course, we talk about the rewards of the job and why he became a police officer.

Listed below are the line-of-duty deaths we discuss. If you can, take a minute to read their stories. There are many moving news articles about each of these incidents and the impact on those they were forced to leave behind. To these officers and the many others not mentioned here, we thank you for your service. Gone But Not Forgotten.

Seattle PD Officer Tim Brenton

https://www.odmp.org/officer/20104-officer-timothy-q-brenton

Lakewood Police Department Officers

https://www.odmp.org/officer/20137-sergeant-mark-joseph-renninger

https://www.odmp.org/officer/20140-police-officer-ronald-wilbur-owens-ii

https://www.odmp.org/officer/20139-police-officer-gregory-james-richards

https://www.odmp.org/officer/20138-police-officer-tina-gail-delong-griswold

Seattle Police Officer Joselito Barber

https://www.odmp.org/officer/18435-police-officer-joselito-alvarez-barber

Dallas Police Department Officers

https://www.odmp.org/officer/22894-senior-corporal-lorne-bradley-ahrens

https://www.odmp.org/officer/22895-police-officer-michael-leslie-krol