Hey Chaplain: The Police Wellness Podcast

The United States has a long history of first generation immigrants filling the roles of first responders, both police and fire.  As long as there has been police and fire stations, there have been uniformed personnel with a bit of a foreign accent.  So I wanted to bring you a modern example of someone who was born in a foreign country and immigrated here, overcoming language and cultural barriers ...

Between his trips criss-crossing the country, I asked Dr. Barry Young to stop in my office and cover an important topic:  Death Notifications.    It's shocking how little and how poorly this subject has been taught because it directly affects the relationship between a community and its police department.  Every death notification leaves a permanent mark on at least two people:  the recipient… and the notifier...

How do you get the bad guy to offer up  a confession?  It may be part science but it's also largely an art, managing not only the psychology of the suspect but also your own emotions, like pride, anger, disgust, and impatience.  For most officers it helps to have someone dialed in who can mentor you and help you find that balance that produces results.  Today I'm talking to Mike Baldwin who was a cop from Maricopa County, Arizona for over 20 years...

Today we continue our conversation with Jim Dudley from San Francisco.  Jim was involved in an officer involved shooting as a patrolman in which he and his partner were nearly killed.  We talk about how that incident has influenced him over the different parts of his career...

Today we have an officer involved shooting story from San Francisco.  Our guest is Jim Dudley, who you might know as the voice of the Policing Matters podcast from Police1.com.   Jim is also a retired deputy chief from San Francisco PD and offered to tell his story from when he was a patrol officer in the City by the Bay.  Take note of what a close call this fight was for both Jim and his partner, and notice how he describes the effect it had on him immediately afterward...

Officers are asked to go investigate all kinds of things that go bump in the night.  Spooky houses, hospitals, funeral homes, churches, and cemeteries are all have to be checked out.  But at the department that I serve, there are multiple people who believe our headquarters is haunted.  It's a old building where you feel the history, with lots of long dark hallways and questionable lighting...

Marriage in law enforcement seems like a doomed subject sometimes.  It's difficult so people talk about it as if it's impossible.  But I know several long time married, wise and successful couples where one or both have been cops and they prove that it absolutely is possible to survive an LEO career and keep your marriage.  So today we're talking to Erica Davis...

Today we're talking again to Jonathon Westbrook, from episode 011.  Now, two years later, Jonathon is running for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Because he's making a first time run for congress, I wanted to put his story in front of you, to give you a glimpse into the process, and to talk about what it means for a cop to run for public office...

Surprise! It's the 100th episode of the Hey Chaplain podcast… if you count every "part two," bonus, and update. So today let's talk about where the podcast is at and what's coming in the future...

Naturally, I think every cop should listen to every episode of Hey Chaplain.  But this one… this is really important.  It's about leadership and integrity, corruption and gaslighting… it's a about a type of dishonest supervisor who can destroy the culture of a police department and then walk away looking like the only hero.  Warren Wilson calls that character a Münchausen Manager and he wrote an article about it for Police1, which is how I found him...