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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us Dwight Mitchell for the final time for me. Dwight,
I love you. You're a great brother.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
How are you, man, I'm very well tony, And I
told you the only person that I will come out
this early in the morning and brave the storm and
walk in. This is one of the few times, if
not the only time I've ever become in studio to
be with you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But I thought this was a very appropriate day to
do that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I'm just happy for you and for your family
that you're starting your new journey in life, and everybody
doesn't get that opportunity and to have it in the
right mind, and you certainly have your right mind. And
I hope it gets even clearer now that you get
out and find out what your new mission in life is.
And I'm sure you still have much more to give
(00:42):
to your family, to the community that you've served so well,
and we'll hope that that continues in a new vista.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well see how articulate he is. He wants you to
come on and try some radio. But you know, it's
always been a delight talking to you, and it's very tough.
I mean, the job that you have. More times than
not you have to talk about things that aren't so great,
(01:11):
you know, except for the times that we get to
talk about, you know, police campaigns, you know, recruitment, those
kind of things. You know, we like hearing that. And
it looks like the numbers are going up more and more,
you know, thanks to y'all's efforts, your efforts and the
mayor and the police Chief, Paul Humphrey and everybody. I've
(01:33):
really enjoyed the relationship that we've had with the l MPD.
And we know you guys have a really tough job.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well we do. But like any any vocation in life,
it has to be a calling. That's how come it's
it's a little difficult to recruit right now because you're
looking for the caliber of individual that can do this
type of work. The unfortunate thing about being in law
enforce and as you catch people on the worst day
(02:01):
of their lives.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Many times that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And you have to make what's an unpleasant situation a
little pleasant, even though I guess it's the equivalent back
in the day you just have to drink cast or
Nobody wanted to do that, right, but the end result
was going to get you well.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So that's kind of where we are.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So you're a spokesperson for the Louisville Metro Police Department,
but you are an officer as well. And to your point,
what is that?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like last you mentioned maybe the worst day of that
person's life for what's going through and how do you
how do you process that?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
For me, well, you know, actually I retired in two
thousand and seven, so I've retired officer, but right, I
was only gone six months. Since this, I've been back
eighteen years right as a civilian, but still doing the
same thing. But to answer your point, to your point,
for me personally, it's because of my parents in the
(03:06):
deep religious background that the foundation that I had, and
I've carried that on through my adult life and through
my job. You know, I'll be sixty four years old
in September, but I came on the police department when
I was twenty two. So I've been in law enforce
in my entire adult life, and many people older than
me that I've had to deal with in bad situations
(03:28):
that I had to have the wisdom and my colleagues
had to have the wisdom to bring some closure to
whatever they were dealing with. On that particular day, and
sometimes we got some great joy out of it, because
sometimes it was saving a person from maybe making a
catastrophic mistake or saving them from being in one. And
one of the highlights of my whole career was when
(03:49):
I started teaching there. I was one of the original
DARE officers and getting to be involved with kids. My
mother told me when I got on the police department,
she said, Dwight, you know you're going to be on
the street for a while, But I have a premonition.
My mother, she'll be eighty nine years old, and I've
been one of the wisest women that I was. She's
the only wise woman that I really know, next to
(04:10):
my wife obviously. But she told me I was going
to deal with kids and I didn't think much of it,
and I did. And what's interesting is through those years,
if you stay around long enough, they end up becoming
your bosses. Because our deputy chief of Police, Emily McKinley,
was one of my DARE students when she was like,
are you Washington who was a spokesperson a few years, Yes,
(04:34):
he was one of my DARE students. He ended up
being my direct supervisor a few years when he was
in the PIO office, and Brian Eatlin, who's a major
on police story, Joey Keeling, there's several and Matt Gilhouse.
Those are the ones that come right off the top
of my mind. And when they found me, that's the
first thing they say, you are my dare officers. So
when people talk about officers being involved in the community
(04:56):
and doing things like that, it's those moments. It's not
a day that I go by that somebody didn't say
when they addressed me as officer Mitchell. I know I
was there there teaching at forty something years old now,
and so the impact of that particular thing, but I
don't know if it was the program. I like to
think it was a little bit of what I tried
to pour into it, even though the emphasis was about
staying off drugs. But that's not what I did. It's
(05:18):
talking about trying to molde good people and there are
many of them coming from great families, some not. But
as a result of that relationship, they haven't forgotten me
to this day.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And you know, great there were some There was some
research I was reading one time where there I guess
they got rid of it for nationally, but I think,
I know dere had an impact on my sons and
(05:50):
the people in Oldham County. We saw, we saw that
back when we were living there, and I wish they
still had that program today because I think it at least,
if nothing else, if you have and I know you're
a compassionate person, if kids could see the way officers
do care about their communities and care about these kids,
(06:14):
you know, and it takes a special person to be
a DARE officer, you know, to do that. I think
I think it'd be something that they could recount and say,
you know, the police cops, they're good.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Right, And that was what the whole thing was. One
of the things we are doing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In Chief Humprey talked about it in Is Precious and
introduced Mike Bogan, who was a retired officer who was
a retired major on the department.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Has come back and he's going to head up.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Our power program again, our Police Athletic League and dealing
with young people from five to eighteen. Now the eighteen
year olds that has to be in high school at
that point, but there's many things that they're we're going
to be pouring in to them to'll be exposed to officers.
Again in that type of light, you know, everything evolves
as much as I love there, and I think it
would be effective or whatever program.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
They want to do.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Uh, it's always good and I'm always looking to Bob
to try to elevate whatever we're doing because we are humans.
We have children, you know, and some of us grandchildren
and things of that nature where you still want to
pour into other kids because everybody doesn't have the opportunity
to have the the great family that some of us
(07:22):
have been fortunate to have. And if we can extend ourselves,
and I think that's what it's all about. It's spreading
and say it takes a whole village and guess what
it does.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It does. We've got some traffic issues. We're going to
get to that and we'll be right back with Dwight
Mitchell from the Louisville Metro Police Departy coming out on
news Radio eight forty whas. I got a chance to
meet Tom and Dick Gabriel a week ago. Last last
week they bought me lunch. It can text barbecue and
(07:52):
Shelby Kenty they cauty.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Have you been to kin text all I have?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, man, amazing, Yes, everything's good like that I'm swine
as a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, then you need to come out and get a
free lunch today with the hog Fathers.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, you know when you were calling off what they
had earlier, it reminded me of that Grandpa What's for
suffer on he Haw and you were going down the
list of what was there, and uh, it kind of
took me back.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We watched those stupid shows.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Man, The worst sh it was.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It was a staple of my household when I was
growing up on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
White Mitchell and he Haw.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well you know, but he had some wisdom in it
and it was fun. Oh yeah, no gloom to spare
and agony on me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So we're gonna be a grill Master's supply with Tony
and Dwight today starting at nine all the way till noon.
The hog Fathers are cooking ribs, pitt beans with brisket
and coleslaw. I know you're coming now, Oh yes.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Mitchell ring my child.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So as we won't be talking this way, but we'll
call each other on the phone. Will I'll finally get
a lunch together? Probably really because of our schedules have
been so different for all these decades. Yes, let's talk
a little bit. You know, you talked about the chief yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
What it was yesterday that, Yes, we had a bi
weekly yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Tell us a little bit more about his pearls wisdom
for us that were.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know, one of the things that we're really touted,
I guess is the big thing is the consent decree.
That's not the consent decree, right, and one of the
things our community partnership that that we have been putting out.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's the main thing we want to do.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Many elements that were negotiating with the consent decree had
it been signed, we're going to do anyway. We recognized
early on the fact that some changes needed to be made,
and we already started doing it. We didn't need a
court or judged to come in and tell us to
do what was right.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know, we have wonderful leadership.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And this is the first time, you know, I've served
almost fifteen or sixteen chiefs of police doing my career.
This is the first time the millennials have been running
the police department.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And so that's you interesting, yes.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And so therefore they have a whole different look on things,
and it's they're going to question some things and you should,
and there's nothing wrong with questioning things because sometimes the
answer is, how can we do it this way? And
it's because this is the way we've always done it.
Nobody has a real, real reason. So we're exploring some
new ways of power to do this job. Although for
(10:39):
two hundred years that the police department has been around
in this city, some things are still the same even
in the twenty first century from when we started. So
with some of the elements, you know, our basic thing
is to.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Protect people's constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I think that was one of the main things that
started this whole thing, the viiation of civil rights, and
it's always going to issue.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It has. But the men and women who serve this community.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Through the Low Metro Police Department, I believe they come
to work every day to try to serve and protect
and do what they've been called to do. It is
a difficult thing. We say that all the time, but
you only have a few seconds to make a wonderful decision.
I don't think people really realize that how things can
change on the dime. Because we're coming in one way
(11:24):
when everybody else is running away.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We're coming in.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Right and you have to stop because people sometimes are
the worst of their lives. Is I keep saying that
because that's where we're meeting them at that point, and
it's unfortunate that sometimes the situation is not the way
we'd like it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
To be well. And that's why.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, when you see somebody being arrested, you know,
if they're not complying with the officers or whatever the
case may be, it doesn't look it doesn't look right
or look good because you don't see that all the time.
And my point being is that a lot of people
will get out through video, you know, or their phone
to video something that they think is absurd or or something,
(12:08):
and it's like, you know, you guys, anxiety levels through
the roof. The person that you're trying to make an
arrest is anxiety is through the roof, and you just
don't know what you can expect at any moment or
any time if somebody doesn't comply.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, And I don't care what training you have. Sometimes
they don't train you for everything because you can't because
thanks you know, they elevate quickly. One of the things
that came out of the press conference yesterday was the
fact that we had an incident I think in the
Highlands last weekend where it looked like they were trying
to take over and in the section they did, and
it was a very large crowd that we weren't prepared for.
(12:50):
But when we got there and had to use our resources,
that crowd dispersed really quick. It wasn't because of where
it was, because automatically you might think it was a
lot of white peop it really wasn't. It was African
American people on and Bochtown at that point, but they
moved peacefully. We got it out and they went on
their way because of the way our officers handled that
(13:12):
situation well as two weeks prior to that, we had
a young lady who was coming through a shooting scene
and they showed a video somebody had made where our
officer had to get physical with that young lady and
get her out of the situation because she was not
being compliant with the situation and what was going on
at the time. But in the end she ended up
(13:33):
apologizing to the officer officer because he was doing what
was right. And yes, it got a little elevated on
most says, probably where it shouldn't have been, but there
was also peace at the end. And that's where we're
trying to move to the center of this whole thing.
You know, you know in society, you know, oftentimes law enforcement,
(13:53):
and I call it low hanging fruit because with my
job as the police department dealing with the media.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I know what it's about now.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is when I first became a spokesperson two thousand and two,
we didn't have social media to the level that we
have today. And what you just said, people with cell phones.
Everybody has a live action cam. I know I'm dating
myself using that term, but everybody has has a phone
camera and you can get things just started, and we
got all of these different entities with y'all that come out.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I know my time is up, but I want to
say this before we go.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
God love your real good and your family, and Lord
bless you keep you real good.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
With your family.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You too, you move on to the great celestial shores
of retirement.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
You're awesome. I love you, Dwight.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You're just And just one more thing. You know, a
lot of us that may have gray hair or whatever.
You know, there's things to learn from the millennials too.
Just and this is a credit to you. If you're
if you're a parent. Hopefully you're a better parent maybe
than maybe your parents or whatever the case may be.
Everybody wants to be. You know, well, I'm going to
(14:58):
do this a little bit different, right, So in other words,
you were a millennial once to write, well, whatever whatever
category you want to define it. So maybe the you know,
let's get the millennials a break, and the generation extency
and all these other.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, It's also we have young people that I'm exposed to,
and I'm gonna give them. Here's what I do. I'm
just gonna only suggest and say. But it's tried, true
and tested what I'm telling.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
All Right, you're right, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I love you, man, God to bless you, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There is Dwight Missile here with us here on news
Radio eight forty HMS. Mark come about up here on
Kitect Cannas What He News
Joining us Dwight Mitchell for the final time for me. Dwight,
I love you. You're a great brother.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
How are you, man, I'm very well tony, And I
told you the only person that I will come out
this early in the morning and brave the storm and
walk in. This is one of the few times, if
not the only time I've ever become in studio to
be with you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But I thought this was a very appropriate day to
do that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I'm just happy for you and for your family
that you're starting your new journey in life, and everybody
doesn't get that opportunity and to have it in the
right mind, and you certainly have your right mind. And
I hope it gets even clearer now that you get
out and find out what your new mission in life is.
And I'm sure you still have much more to give
(00:42):
to your family, to the community that you've served so well,
and we'll hope that that continues in a new vista.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well see how articulate he is. He wants you to
come on and try some radio. But you know, it's
always been a delight talking to you, and it's very tough.
I mean, the job that you have. More times than
not you have to talk about things that aren't so great,
(01:11):
you know, except for the times that we get to
talk about, you know, police campaigns, you know, recruitment, those
kind of things. You know, we like hearing that. And
it looks like the numbers are going up more and more,
you know, thanks to y'all's efforts, your efforts and the
mayor and the police Chief, Paul Humphrey and everybody. I've
(01:33):
really enjoyed the relationship that we've had with the l MPD.
And we know you guys have a really tough job.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well we do. But like any any vocation in life,
it has to be a calling. That's how come it's
it's a little difficult to recruit right now because you're
looking for the caliber of individual that can do this
type of work. The unfortunate thing about being in law
enforce and as you catch people on the worst day
(02:01):
of their lives.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Many times that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And you have to make what's an unpleasant situation a
little pleasant, even though I guess it's the equivalent back
in the day you just have to drink cast or
Nobody wanted to do that, right, but the end result
was going to get you well.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So that's kind of where we are.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So you're a spokesperson for the Louisville Metro Police Department,
but you are an officer as well. And to your point,
what is that?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like last you mentioned maybe the worst day of that
person's life for what's going through and how do you
how do you process that?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
For me, well, you know, actually I retired in two
thousand and seven, so I've retired officer, but right, I
was only gone six months. Since this, I've been back
eighteen years right as a civilian, but still doing the
same thing. But to answer your point, to your point,
for me personally, it's because of my parents in the
(03:06):
deep religious background that the foundation that I had, and
I've carried that on through my adult life and through
my job. You know, I'll be sixty four years old
in September, but I came on the police department when
I was twenty two. So I've been in law enforce
in my entire adult life, and many people older than
me that I've had to deal with in bad situations
(03:28):
that I had to have the wisdom and my colleagues
had to have the wisdom to bring some closure to
whatever they were dealing with. On that particular day, and
sometimes we got some great joy out of it, because
sometimes it was saving a person from maybe making a
catastrophic mistake or saving them from being in one. And
one of the highlights of my whole career was when
(03:49):
I started teaching there. I was one of the original
DARE officers and getting to be involved with kids. My
mother told me when I got on the police department,
she said, Dwight, you know you're going to be on
the street for a while, But I have a premonition.
My mother, she'll be eighty nine years old, and I've
been one of the wisest women that I was. She's
the only wise woman that I really know, next to
(04:10):
my wife obviously. But she told me I was going
to deal with kids and I didn't think much of it,
and I did. And what's interesting is through those years,
if you stay around long enough, they end up becoming
your bosses. Because our deputy chief of Police, Emily McKinley,
was one of my DARE students when she was like,
are you Washington who was a spokesperson a few years, Yes,
(04:34):
he was one of my DARE students. He ended up
being my direct supervisor a few years when he was
in the PIO office, and Brian Eatlin, who's a major
on police story, Joey Keeling, there's several and Matt Gilhouse.
Those are the ones that come right off the top
of my mind. And when they found me, that's the
first thing they say, you are my dare officers. So
when people talk about officers being involved in the community
(04:56):
and doing things like that, it's those moments. It's not
a day that I go by that somebody didn't say
when they addressed me as officer Mitchell. I know I
was there there teaching at forty something years old now,
and so the impact of that particular thing, but I
don't know if it was the program. I like to
think it was a little bit of what I tried
to pour into it, even though the emphasis was about
staying off drugs. But that's not what I did. It's
(05:18):
talking about trying to molde good people and there are
many of them coming from great families, some not. But
as a result of that relationship, they haven't forgotten me
to this day.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And you know, great there were some There was some
research I was reading one time where there I guess
they got rid of it for nationally, but I think,
I know dere had an impact on my sons and
(05:50):
the people in Oldham County. We saw, we saw that
back when we were living there, and I wish they
still had that program today because I think it at least,
if nothing else, if you have and I know you're
a compassionate person, if kids could see the way officers
do care about their communities and care about these kids,
(06:14):
you know, and it takes a special person to be
a DARE officer, you know, to do that. I think
I think it'd be something that they could recount and say,
you know, the police cops, they're good.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Right, And that was what the whole thing was. One
of the things we are doing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In Chief Humprey talked about it in Is Precious and
introduced Mike Bogan, who was a retired officer who was
a retired major on the department.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Has come back and he's going to head up.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Our power program again, our Police Athletic League and dealing
with young people from five to eighteen. Now the eighteen
year olds that has to be in high school at
that point, but there's many things that they're we're going
to be pouring in to them to'll be exposed to officers.
Again in that type of light, you know, everything evolves
as much as I love there, and I think it
would be effective or whatever program.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
They want to do.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Uh, it's always good and I'm always looking to Bob
to try to elevate whatever we're doing because we are humans.
We have children, you know, and some of us grandchildren
and things of that nature where you still want to
pour into other kids because everybody doesn't have the opportunity
to have the the great family that some of us
(07:22):
have been fortunate to have. And if we can extend ourselves,
and I think that's what it's all about. It's spreading
and say it takes a whole village and guess what
it does.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It does. We've got some traffic issues. We're going to
get to that and we'll be right back with Dwight
Mitchell from the Louisville Metro Police Departy coming out on
news Radio eight forty whas. I got a chance to
meet Tom and Dick Gabriel a week ago. Last last
week they bought me lunch. It can text barbecue and
(07:52):
Shelby Kenty they cauty.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Have you been to kin text all I have?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, man, amazing, Yes, everything's good like that I'm swine
as a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, then you need to come out and get a
free lunch today with the hog Fathers.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, you know when you were calling off what they
had earlier, it reminded me of that Grandpa What's for
suffer on he Haw and you were going down the
list of what was there, and uh, it kind of
took me back.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We watched those stupid shows.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Man, The worst sh it was.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It was a staple of my household when I was
growing up on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
White Mitchell and he Haw.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well you know, but he had some wisdom in it
and it was fun. Oh yeah, no gloom to spare
and agony on me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So we're gonna be a grill Master's supply with Tony
and Dwight today starting at nine all the way till noon.
The hog Fathers are cooking ribs, pitt beans with brisket
and coleslaw. I know you're coming now, Oh yes.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Mitchell ring my child.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So as we won't be talking this way, but we'll
call each other on the phone. Will I'll finally get
a lunch together? Probably really because of our schedules have
been so different for all these decades. Yes, let's talk
a little bit. You know, you talked about the chief yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
What it was yesterday that, Yes, we had a bi
weekly yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Tell us a little bit more about his pearls wisdom
for us that were.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know, one of the things that we're really touted,
I guess is the big thing is the consent decree.
That's not the consent decree, right, and one of the
things our community partnership that that we have been putting out.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's the main thing we want to do.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Many elements that were negotiating with the consent decree had
it been signed, we're going to do anyway. We recognized
early on the fact that some changes needed to be made,
and we already started doing it. We didn't need a
court or judged to come in and tell us to
do what was right.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know, we have wonderful leadership.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And this is the first time, you know, I've served
almost fifteen or sixteen chiefs of police doing my career.
This is the first time the millennials have been running
the police department.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And so that's you interesting, yes.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And so therefore they have a whole different look on things,
and it's they're going to question some things and you should,
and there's nothing wrong with questioning things because sometimes the
answer is, how can we do it this way? And
it's because this is the way we've always done it.
Nobody has a real, real reason. So we're exploring some
new ways of power to do this job. Although for
(10:39):
two hundred years that the police department has been around
in this city, some things are still the same even
in the twenty first century from when we started. So
with some of the elements, you know, our basic thing
is to.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Protect people's constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I think that was one of the main things that
started this whole thing, the viiation of civil rights, and
it's always going to issue.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It has. But the men and women who serve this community.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Through the Low Metro Police Department, I believe they come
to work every day to try to serve and protect
and do what they've been called to do. It is
a difficult thing. We say that all the time, but
you only have a few seconds to make a wonderful decision.
I don't think people really realize that how things can
change on the dime. Because we're coming in one way
(11:24):
when everybody else is running away.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We're coming in.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Right and you have to stop because people sometimes are
the worst of their lives. Is I keep saying that
because that's where we're meeting them at that point, and
it's unfortunate that sometimes the situation is not the way
we'd like it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
To be well. And that's why.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, when you see somebody being arrested, you know,
if they're not complying with the officers or whatever the
case may be, it doesn't look it doesn't look right
or look good because you don't see that all the time.
And my point being is that a lot of people
will get out through video, you know, or their phone
to video something that they think is absurd or or something,
(12:08):
and it's like, you know, you guys, anxiety levels through
the roof. The person that you're trying to make an
arrest is anxiety is through the roof, and you just
don't know what you can expect at any moment or
any time if somebody doesn't comply.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, And I don't care what training you have. Sometimes
they don't train you for everything because you can't because
thanks you know, they elevate quickly. One of the things
that came out of the press conference yesterday was the
fact that we had an incident I think in the
Highlands last weekend where it looked like they were trying
to take over and in the section they did, and
it was a very large crowd that we weren't prepared for.
(12:50):
But when we got there and had to use our resources,
that crowd dispersed really quick. It wasn't because of where
it was, because automatically you might think it was a
lot of white peop it really wasn't. It was African
American people on and Bochtown at that point, but they
moved peacefully. We got it out and they went on
their way because of the way our officers handled that
(13:12):
situation well as two weeks prior to that, we had
a young lady who was coming through a shooting scene
and they showed a video somebody had made where our
officer had to get physical with that young lady and
get her out of the situation because she was not
being compliant with the situation and what was going on
at the time. But in the end she ended up
(13:33):
apologizing to the officer officer because he was doing what
was right. And yes, it got a little elevated on
most says, probably where it shouldn't have been, but there
was also peace at the end. And that's where we're
trying to move to the center of this whole thing.
You know, you know in society, you know, oftentimes law enforcement,
(13:53):
and I call it low hanging fruit because with my
job as the police department dealing with the media.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I know what it's about now.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is when I first became a spokesperson two thousand and two,
we didn't have social media to the level that we
have today. And what you just said, people with cell phones.
Everybody has a live action cam. I know I'm dating
myself using that term, but everybody has has a phone
camera and you can get things just started, and we
got all of these different entities with y'all that come out.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I know my time is up, but I want to
say this before we go.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
God love your real good and your family, and Lord
bless you keep you real good.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
With your family.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You too, you move on to the great celestial shores
of retirement.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
You're awesome. I love you, Dwight.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You're just And just one more thing. You know, a
lot of us that may have gray hair or whatever.
You know, there's things to learn from the millennials too.
Just and this is a credit to you. If you're
if you're a parent. Hopefully you're a better parent maybe
than maybe your parents or whatever the case may be.
Everybody wants to be. You know, well, I'm going to
(14:58):
do this a little bit different, right, So in other words,
you were a millennial once to write, well, whatever whatever
category you want to define it. So maybe the you know,
let's get the millennials a break, and the generation extency
and all these other.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, It's also we have young people that I'm exposed to,
and I'm gonna give them. Here's what I do. I'm
just gonna only suggest and say. But it's tried, true
and tested what I'm telling.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
All Right, you're right, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I love you, man, God to bless you, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There is Dwight Missile here with us here on news
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