Sep 20, 2019
Ashlie: (00:18)
Welcome back to another episode of Tactical Living by LEO
Warriors.
Ashlie: (00:22)
I'm your host, Ashlie Walton
Clint:
And I'm your co-host Clint Walton.
Ashlie:
In today's episode, we're going to talk about how one bad seed might try to ruin it all. So just sit back, relax and enjoy today's content.
Clint:
So today, I want to really dive deep into talking about the LA
Sheriff's deputy who claimed he was shot being shot at by a sniper.
This occurred in an unincorporated area of LA County and a few days
ago he claimed that he was being shot at by a sniper from an
apartment complex right outside the police station. And it got a
huge response from outside agencies, from the helicopter, from air
support, from just everything that we would expect to be there if
that instance were to happen.
Clint: (01:26)
And so after the response, after everything calmed down, they
started really investigating this. This deputy had a hole in his
uniform, claimed he took the round to his chest. But after further
investigation they discovered he had actually cut holes in his own
uniform with his knife. And that no one in that area even heard any
shots go off and this is a few days after the actual incident and
come to find out he lied about everything and then lying about it.
He drained our tax system for the fees of, of having all of these
officers respond, having all these support systems in place that
really just took away from other emergencies or other needs that
the county, the cities could have used. And what I want to get into
on this is now of course he's fired. He's going to face criminal
charges for making a false police report even though he's a police
officer, but us as police officers are going to have to repair this
image even harder now than it was before.
Clint: (02:45)
I mean people for the most part don't trust police officers. They
think we're liars and I shouldn't say most people, there's a large
number of the population who think we're, we lie about what do say
or conduct our ways in their daily basis and so now we're going to
have to swim upstream once again just to recover from this. This
guy will get a slap on the hand. He was young. I think he was only
21 years old, but it has turned into something where if one of us
do it, all of us look bad and there's so many instances of one bad
officer, one bad incident that makes all of us look bad. We're not
set apart just in as individuals, we're looked at as a whole, and
so everything that we do on a daily basis of course goes unnoticed.
And for the most part, we don't mind that we're not heroes. We're
not those people who feel that we need that accolade, but the
public perception is very important. When I go to court, I have to
testify. I have to testify based off of what the victim, the
witness, the suspect just told me. And if I don't have any
integrity behind that, no jury will ever find anyone guilty of a
crime. And so that's why it's just so important to have that
integrity backing us. Wow.
Ashlie: (04:28)
Where do we begin with this? The first thing that comes up for me
is that it's so rare for somebody with that type of mentality to
even make it halfway through the screening process. It is so
vigorous to even become a police officer and that's something in,
unless you've experienced that or you know somebody who has perhaps
might be difficult to wrap your mind around. The type of detailed
investigation that goes into a background for a potential officer
takes a great deal of time and the process that an officer has to
go through as an individual is incredibly pain, stinking
painstaking. It's to the point of interrogation almost to where
it's very difficult to slip through the cracks. So I want to point
that out because he was a young officer, so for whatever reason
something was missed and maybe not. Maybe something developed here
on out, maybe something developed as a consequence of being an
officer. Maybe something developed that had nothing to do with his
profession that created this type of behavior. Like you just don't
know. If you were to sit back and look at a lot of the mental
health statistics, there are a lot of things that manifest in your
early twenties so maybe that had something to do with it. It's just
speculation, right? Like who the hell knows why this happened? Why
this ludicrous guy decided to do something? You know, it's
attention, right? Like why the hell would somebody decide to do
something so stupid like it's for attention
Clint: (06:14)
And that's absolutely right. I think the attention factor of trying
to make the news, trying to get noticed, trying to become big, the
next social media star for whatever reason has backfired on
them
Ashlie: (06:28)
And that could be, Clint and I talk about this all the time, how
this generation that is up and coming is so different from anything
that the world has ever experienced before. Perhaps that has
something to do with it. Only time will tell and hopefully not.
Hopefully there's not more of these bad seeds picked out of the
entire generation and the upcoming,
Clint: (06:55)
Well, there's always going to be bad seeds and law enforcement and
firefighting and anything and everything that we do. There's always
those bad seeds that will slip through the cracks and that's what
this goes to show is no matter what profession you're in, there's
always gonna be those people. I know you as the listener right now
could name someone who you work with that you're like, yeah, they
shouldn't be doing this job
Ashlie: (07:24)
For sure. And the problem is that there's, there's such a bright
light that's shown on police in particular right now that having
that one bad seed, like that's all that's going to be seen for such
a long time and that's the problem. That's the problem because
nobody's paying attention to all of the other nuances that take
place in every individual officer's day to day job and none of it's
bad. It's difficult for the officer. There are many officers that
question whether or not they can keep doing this because of the
pressure that things like media keep putting on them and instances
like this just magnified even more and it's too bad. It's too bad
because they're not getting that, that praise. They're not getting
that light shown on them in a positive way except for when it comes
down to what really matters. And what I mean by that is if you can
recall any time that you've actually had to pick up a phone and
look at it and feel your hand trembling as you, you are about to
dial nine one one until you know what it feels like to have an
officer finally greet you at your door when you're dealing with
something that is the most tragic or the most uncomfortable, the
scariest, the most painful element that's ever taken place in your
life.
Ashlie: (08:55)
You've experienced that. And you know that element of peace and
surrender and like thank God, like I'm not alone with somebody
here. They're here, they're going to help me, my protectors here.
That's all that it feels like. And unless you've experienced
that,
Ashlie: (09:14)
I don't think that you know anything else because you only know
what you see on the news.
Ashlie: (09:22)
And there's a caveat to that. Does that mean that I want everybody
to have to experience calling nine one one with their hands
trembling, barely eating, even able to remember the fucking number
nine one one of course not. Has It happened to me? Yes. That has
nothing to do with you Clint, as a police officer, that has
something to do with me as a civilian, as a member of the community
who needed help in a dire time where I felt like my life was in
jeopardy and I dialed those three numbers and in a matter of
moments I was surrounded by these really saviors. They were there
to save me. I couldn't do it on my own and who. Who else can you
call? If you're putting law enforcement as the enemy, you're always
going to call them still. It's a cop out to me when I hear people
talking so negatively about police as a whole because when it comes
down to the brass tacks of you needing somebody in that moment,
that dire moment, the one where you have nobody else to turn to,
nobody else to call, you're not going to call the national
guard.
Ashlie: (10:30)
They're not going to come. This is your resource. Respect that
resource. Why is it so difficult? And I think when we're able to
understand that it really doesn't matter what profession you're in.
Look at how many doctors look at that Jack Ass with the Olympians.
Like there are terrible doctors out there, but we say that there
are terrible doctors. But the truth is there are terrible people.
There aren't terrible doctors. There are terrible people who are
doctors. That's the difference. There are terrible people. Very
Minute Lee slipped through the cracks that our officers just as
there is an every other profession
Ashlie: (11:18)
and when you're able to understand that and you know that there's
an actual human behind that profession, then you're able to get,
get past the stigma of that profession and the generalization of
the negative or positive connotation of that profession as a
whole.
Ashlie: (11:36)
And by grasping that and understanding that, it allows you to
connect from human to human and know how you feel about that person
and not that profession. That's the key. It has nothing to do with
the profession. And when you that, and you know that there's a
human being that exists behind that white coat, behind that badge,
behind the fire hose, then you're really able to enjoy your
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