Full Transcript for School Resource Officers

like that. 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:42.560 And I'm not saying that sometimes use of force is necessary, but it shouldn't be the first thing we go to when we can. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:51.279 And we'll hit on some de-escalation here in a little bit, but um wanted to bring you on and talk a little bit about school resources, school resource officers. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.240 This is fairly a new concept. 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:54.879 It is. 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.920 Um, when can you tell us a little bit about a background of school resource and how it got started? 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:20.160 Um, I think it was just out of the need of the incidents that happened in schools itself that the need arose for having someone there as a guardian for our students to make sure that they're safe, to make sure that the staff is safe, and to be a deterrent for crime that happens in the schools. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:33.519 There's a lot that goes on in our buildings that people don't know about, that the general public doesn't know, but we intercept most of those things and we handle it at a a level that meets the child where they're at. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:50.959 And a lot of what we do is to educate staff in the the protocol and what they need to do to handle certain things, to help them feel as though um as though they have someone that's gonna be there that has their back if if something happened. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.560 We're just there to make sure everybody goes home at the end of the day. 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:55.040 Yeah. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.360 Now me and you, I don't think we remember having police in schools. 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.319 I did not have police, I had Coach Jackson. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.000 And who's who was that? 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:11.519 Coach Jackson was the assistant principal of Tullahoma High School, and he spoke softly and he carried a big paddle. 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.480 Okay, so he was your law in order back then. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:18.399 He was the law in order and he ruled his domain. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:19.279 Wow. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.079 I'd like to I'd I mean I'd like to get to know more about him now as well. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.319 But you know, he probably would have been a good school resource officer back in the day. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:29.360 I think so. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:30.160 What do you think? 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.279 I mean, is it is it kind of talk about the times? 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:39.439 I know we're probably getting a little deeper than I intended, but I mean does it talk about the times of where we're at now? 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:44.480 I mean, versus then because I don't remember having these issues back in school. 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:49.680 A drive-by shooting meant somebody pulled their pants down when they went past you back in the day. 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:50.560 You know? 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.519 The what why

do we why do you think we're having these problems now? 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.560 I think people just the compassion is gone. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.879 The care for each other is gone. 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:06.240 You know, we live in an instant world where everything that you want you can have at the tips of your finger on your phone. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.759 So you don't have to interact with per se person to person. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:13.279 You can do it um via cell phone. 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.120 And people have lost that connection. 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:20.879 And in losing that connection, I think that people have gotten braver to say what they really think. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:27.040 And it just seems to transpire hate sometimes or discontent or confusion. 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:47.759 And in a nutshell, here's what I think is a lot of times for our students, the ones that come to school that are violent, that are angry all the time, this is what they see at home, this is what they see on television, this is what they see in video games, and they don't have a lot of people that would be able to steer them in another direction. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:53.839 I think that people are just getting more violent because that's just the way the world's going. 00:07:54.079 --> 00:08:01.279 It seems like everybody is hateful, everybody is angry, everybody is having disturbances, driving down the highway, people can't get along. 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.439 In Walmart, people can't get along. 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:05.839 It's just the way the world's gonna go. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:10.160 It's not gonna get better, but we have to learn to manage it better. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:27.600 Well, that that's uh you know, when you said that, I can't I remember I'm thinking now about how, you know, but back in the day you was to how how you doing, shake your hand, shake your hand on like that, but I do know online you see some of these groups and stuff, it I mean, it just gets plum hateful. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:27.920 Yeah. 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.360 You know, I I uh that's almost depressing. 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:33.919 Well, here's one thing I tell people when I talk to them. 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:36.480 I always ask them, what do you watch when you watch television? 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:43.360 Do you watch shows that have a good moral base to it that'll leave you better when you watch it? 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:49.279 Or do you eat popcorn to car crashes, police chases, and people getting shot and killed and eaten? 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.919 You know, is that the kind of stuff that you put in you? 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.759 Because if that's what you're looking at, that's all that you have that's gonna come out. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:04.000 And I think that Hollywood, I'm sorry to say it, but the more violent, the more gory, the more people watch it. 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:10.559 And if you put garbage in you all the time, you can't expect to extract anything else out except garbage. 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.440 So you think it's uh desensitizes us in a way? 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:21.840 Because we sit and we'll have dinner to people getting killed, to people uh being hurt, and we don't think anything of it. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:37.759 So I I've witnessed it firsthand with um the high school there was a student that had a seizure out on the sidewalk in front of the building, and she's laying on the ground, full-on seizure, and this kid walks over her and he's got his cell phone in his hand and he's just a texting away. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.759 Never stops to say, Hey, are you okay, or to see if she's good. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:50.879 It just showed me that that compassion and that thought for someone else's life and someone else's safety and well-being is an afterthought. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.120 That would have never happened back in the day. 00:09:53.279 --> 00:10:10.399 No, you would have always tried to do something to help, and now they're actually showing videos of the and and I and a matter of fact, now that I think of it, I think I see like every once in a while videos of fights at school where people will actually record this, and this is to to them entertainment. 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:12.720 Which I guess I guess it is entertainment. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:22.080 I mean it is it's kind of hard to look away from a car crash, so you know well, but to not even be able to go in there and help somebody having a seizure. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:23.679 And I've never understood that. 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:24.960 You know, you said car crash. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.879 People will stop at a crash and they'll take pictures and videos and post it on Facebook. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:36.000 Well, you just might video someone losing their life or the last moments of their life, and this is how their family's gonna see it. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:37.600 I say people don't think about it. 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:46.240 They they might not get that call just then, but they'll see something pop up on Facebook and it's like, oh my goodness, that's my husband's car, that's my wife's car, that's my child's car. 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:54.080 And this is how they find out that their loved one's been hurt, is through other people's uh insensitivity for something. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:55.679 I guess they don't think about it. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:08.639 You know, but I mean that that doesn't enter their mind, and I'm not giving them an out or an excuse, but are they just like, this is something that is quite incredible, so therefore I'm already conditioned to take my phone out and record something that's not of the norm. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:08.960 Yeah. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:20.480 And now um and now we're going to be doing something that inadvertently could cause more damage to somebody from seeing their loved one being extremely hurt

or killed. 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:26.159 I I get maybe maybe people just don't really get that this stuff actually happens. 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:26.559 Right. 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.200 You know, it's surreal to them, you know. 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:34.320 But instead of getting involved and giving a hand, we'll we'll take a video of it. 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:46.240 Well, so you are actually perfect to be in the position that you're in because you know, uh, of the the kids that obviously could use that mentoring, right? 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:53.279 Whether it be on the religious side or whether it just be on just the just getting through life side there on their own way. 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:57.120 Um how many and now you you're you're with Telehoma. 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:01.440 You're the sergeant of Telehoma, and it should have been should have been a long time ago. 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.960 That's awesome that you've made it made it to that point. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.000 Um how many schools are there in Telehoma? 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:08.879 There's seven. 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.360 And are there SROs in all the schools? 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.600 There are SROs in all the schools. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.080 That is so and awesome and also depressing. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:19.519 Why do we have to have it? 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:20.240 You know? 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:21.360 We have to have it. 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:21.840 Yeah. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.159 I mean, it's just the way that people are. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.799 We want to make sure that our future is safeguarded. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:35.759 And that's sad to say we didn't have that, as you said, back in the day, but now it seems to be necessary to protect our most important asset, which is our children, our future. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:42.559 Sergeant, if you don't mind me saying so, you've taken a negative and turned it into a positive, most, most, most definitely. 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:49.279 Uh, tell us what the role is of an SRO, because I think there's some confusion on that, even the basics of that. 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:56.799 Because when I think of an SRO, are you like, are you just there for the bad guy coming in to hurt the kids? 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:00.080 Are you into the disciplinary action of the kids? 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.480 Or can you tell us what your job is on a basic SRO day? 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.960 Basic SRO day is presence. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:12.480 Just being there is a deterrent enough for other things that might happen. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.320 I always tell people that I'm police first, friend next. 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.960 We'll work on that relationship when we get there. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.879 But my main job of being there is to make sure that everybody goes home. 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:30.720 The relationships that are forged in the midst of doing that, they happen just because you're there. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:36.320 But I'm friendly, but you can't be everyone's friend, if that makes sense. 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:36.960 Oh, absolutely. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:38.559 You have a job to do. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:56.639 And me, I might walk five, six miles a day in West Middle, checking doors, checking classrooms, making sure that things are locked up, making sure that uh the staff closes their doors, making sure that areas look like it did when I first got there. 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.159 And when I'm done with that, you have lunch duty. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.600 That's the time that I interact with most of our students at West Middle. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:11.600 I do trivia with them, just little things to interact, to let them know, hey, I'm a real person, I'm not a robot here, although I seem to do things methodically. 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:16.879 So I'll ask them a question, you know, and I'll give them little medals and things like that. 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.879 That's just how I bridge that gap between me and them. 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:31.840 And eventually it opens up the door for conversations and for students to come to you with things and you have an opportunity to mentor to them or just impart a little bit of who you are. 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:42.399 I am I'm that tool that you have on the shelf that you hope you never need, but I'm always available whenever you need me for whatever situation. 00:14:42.960 --> 00:15:01.200 That's the role of every SRO is to protect first, mentor second, and somewhere along in there, teaching gets mixed in with it because I want our children to understand what it's like to um show compassion, to speak to people in the hallways. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:02.240 That's the first thing I do. 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:04.000 Hey, real person just walked by you. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:04.480 Good morning. 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:16.000 Oh, good morning, is to change the culture the way that our young people think and hopefully create uh a better world for them later on where they can look at someone and say, you know what, that's a real person just walked by. 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.639 Maybe I need to shake their hand and find out what their name is. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.679 I just want people to be able to love on one another, and that's what I do. 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:34.480 And I know the other SROs that we have, they do the exact same things in the buildings in their own capacity, and they're an awesome group of guys, and I couldn't be more proud to have them. 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:35.440 Awesome. 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:36.000 Absolutely. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:37.200 I mean, incredible. 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:44.320 I mean, it's like I said, you've taken a something that we hate that we have to have and turned it into a positive thing. 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:53.200 How do you go back and forth as far as okay, I want to be a friend and all like

that, but I've also got to show that you know, that discipline part out there. 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.200 I mean, how how do you separate that? 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:56.559 Consistency. 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.559 You just have to be consistent in what you do. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:09.840 Um I can't, so to speak, I can't be your buddy one day and then the next day you mess up, I'll still be the same. 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:18.639 If I have to talk to you or deal with you in a compassionate way, even though you've messed up, I'll still deal with you the same way. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:20.879 I'll still talk to you with compassion. 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:31.600 I have to meet people where they're at because I don't know what kind of storm you went through before you got to school or before you drove down the road or whatever situation it may be. 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:35.919 Everybody's going through something, so I try to meet them with love, even if they've messed up. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:44.799 So flipping back and forth, it's not hard because I'm always gonna stay in the same same groove that I'm gonna be in, which is to show love. 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:46.399 You mentioned storm. 00:16:46.559 --> 00:17:11.920 That that is a perfect opportunity to talk about something that I know you are passionate about and harp about is this program they've come out with in Tennessee about um, I'm trying to remember what it's called, but it's where if an officer goes out to their house, to that, to that kid's house, and then let's say their mom, mom or dad are in a domestic or something of that nature, and I can report to you through a system, it takes about two minutes. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:20.319 I can report through this system, and it tells the school, hey, this kid was just involved in a pretty serious police matter the night before. 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:26.880 He's if he makes it to school today, it's probably not uh, he's probably not gonna be in a very great mood. 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.480 Can you explain that program to us? 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.160 Because I know it's fairly new as well. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:31.039 It is. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:40.319 Um, what we have is a program that I've tried to get out to every officer where all you've got to do is scan a QR code and you enter that child's name into it. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:51.039 What that system does, it will send an alert to the school and let them know that something has happened with this child, um, that law enforcement has been there. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:18:02.559 Um it doesn't give specifics on what happened or anything like that, but it just lets them know that the next day that they need to handle that child with care. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:20.240 Because, like I said, we don't know what they go through the day before or the night before, but I know that there have been children that have came in that have had things happen in their house, law enforcement's

been in there, someone's been arrested, and they don't sleep at night, and they come in the next day, they're groggy, they're angry, they're agitated, and no one knows. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:29.279 And the next thing you know, we're calling the SRO into the office to talk with this child, not knowing that something has happened with that child before. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.480 So it puts us further back with making a positive impact in that child's life. 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:45.279 So um what we're doing now with that is that alert system helps the school set up the people in place, the counselors to go to that student. 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.839 Hey, um, what's going on with you today? 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.079 Do you need a day to just relax? 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:55.359 Do you need a day to have um a place to go just to sit, talk? 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:56.640 We're here for you. 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:03.920 So I enjoy the fact that we are now able to do that, and I like the fact that every officer does it when they have contact with a child. 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:08.880 It lets all of us know so that we can do what's best for that child when they get to school. 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:10.079 That is so amazing. 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:18.400 The communication that you can have there, which if it wasn't for the school resource officer program, that probably wouldn't have been implemented. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.480 I'd have to I'd have to guess. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.839 Uh is that Tennessee wide or is that telehome only? 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:25.759 Uh I think it's Tennessee wide. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.559 Yeah, but I I know it's um I think it's actually on the Meth Task Force. 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:31.039 It is. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:34.960 Um, you know, it's really it's related to that, which is obviously Tennessee. 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:36.640 Well, of course they don't call it the Meth Task Force. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:37.039 Right. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.759 It's a little weird looking when you get into it, but you know. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:49.440 But that but so so if a kid, you know, unfortunately, and I don't and I guess people who don't have these issues of having police called and all that don't think about it. 00:19:49.759 --> 00:20:08.960 But when it happens that they've been involved in these issues, now the SRO knows what is going on that something happened the night before with this child that is you know could have been very traumatic, or I mean having a police officer show up at your house has to be traumatic anyway, regardless. 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.079 So well that that's cool that y'all have that. 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:19.519 Yeah, it's just one more thing to help bridge the gap between us and our students so that they can not see us in such a negative way. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:19.920 Right. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:21.759 And y'all stay at the schools the whole time. 00:20:22.000

--> 00:20:22.880 We're there the whole time. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:28.240 And y'all have and do you do the ball games and we do all the events that are school related. 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:40.880 Um we're there for our children, we're there for the the uh parents so that they can have a safe environment to enjoy the ball games because with everything that goes on in satellites around us, we want to make sure that everybody's safe. 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.960 Do y'all travel with the teams and all like that? 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:49.279 We now have started traveling to some of the games that um touch the surrounding counties here. 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:50.400 Oh, that's cool. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:50.960 Yeah. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:57.200 Because I mean I see like, you know, whenever whenever you watch football, you see, you know, like Tennessee, Alabama, for example. 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:02.720 And I didn't ask you what fan you was because that before before I let you on the show, so it's already done now. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:04.240 Neither, I don't watch football. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:06.720 Well, that's even worse. 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:13.920 No, uh you'll see a you know, you'll see a Tennessee state trooper there with with the Tennessee people regardless of where they're at. 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:17.119 So y'all are actually out with them as long as it's touching the county. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:18.240 Yes, yes. 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.039 Yeah, uh does there a lot of problems at the schools? 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:41.680 I mean during I mean during I mean I'm sure there has to be some like I mean, no more than what you would normally expect with people getting uh a little bit excited, but just your presence there, it helps keep things on an even keel, keeps things kind of um what's the word I'm looking for? 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:49.759 Um It just kind of keeps people from getting to the point where they're screaming, shouting, agitated and angry, especially at the officials. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:50.799 Those guys have a tough job. 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:58.000 Oh, I can imagine they don't always make what we think is the right call, but in that moment it's right to them. 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.759 I now I do remember that. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:04.240 As a kid, having people just go crazy when an unk makes a call. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:04.799 Right. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.640 And these people don't know if he was out or safe. 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:10.799 I mean, from their vantage point. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:16.079 They just don't want the wrong, they just don't want the call made against their team, and it can really make them mad. 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:18.559 But maybe that's maybe that view of a police officer. 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:21.680 Okay, well, I'm gonna I'll voice my opinion or something like that. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.720 I'm gonna have some fun, but I'll keep it under control. 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:28.559 I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna overboard it or or something like that. 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:29.039 Right. 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:29.839 Wow. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:31.920 I mean, I could I could do this all day. 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:40.079 You're like so full of knowledge, you know, so full of of knowledge and stuff with how this uh program goes. 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:41.759 You've been in the SRO how long? 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:44.079 This is year eight. 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.680 That's that's a while. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.079 Because I remember when you were on like the road. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:56.720 I mean, you're you still are from time to time, but I know you know we couldn't live without you sometimes as well. 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:07.599 But um like I said, when when just to explain a little bit more of what I was talking about before with the Swiss Army knife, I've seen you in all roles. 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:28.559 Um I you know, I've I have literally been with you while you were de-escalating, literally getting down on somebody's level, and I have seen you behind me uh in a uh situation where a firearm was involved and you were ready, you know, to do what you none of us wanted to do, but you were there. 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:38.000 So is is is do you find that a difficult transition for you to go from one to the other, or do you just say this is another day at the office? 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.519 Uh I wish there was another day at the office, man. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:48.240 We never know what we're gonna get into from day to day, but you just have to be mentally prepared for whatever it is. 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:51.599 And me, I always try to meet people where they're at. 00:23:51.759 --> 00:24:05.839 I mean, if you're up here, I still want to come underneath there somewhere because I know that there's a person I'm talking to that that um has a heart, has some understanding, has some reasoning, and I want to meet that person. 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:10.240 And I always try to leave people better than I found them. 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:12.400 It doesn't matter the situation. 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:14.640 I always try to look for the good somewhere in it. 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.920 And, you know, not trying to throw well, I have to. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.119 I throw my faith in there because that's what God did for me. 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:22.720 You know, He throw it in there. 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:27.359 He looked at my mess and what I used to do, and He He found the best in me. 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:28.960 And I try to do that for people. 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:34.480 I try to let that compassion that was shown to me shine out here. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:35.759 That's just who I am. 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:39.440 I I want to be the best representation of my father that I can be. 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:45.200 Well, I can knowing you and knowing the peers at the police department, I can definitely say that's what you've done. 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:49.359 Well, and it's very, very noticed and very appreciated. 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:50.400 I'll tell you that. 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:53.359 Uh, Sergeant Young, we're about uh done with our time. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:25:05.680 Is there anything that you would like to add uh to this or anything you would like to tell people as far as uh what you do or what what goes on with an with uh with the SRO or policing in general? 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:10.720 I'd just like people to realize that, you know, we're not perfect. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.160 We make mistakes sometimes. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.680 We don't always make the right call, but we do our best. 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:23.759 And I would love for people to realize that we're out here to do a job because we love our community. 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:28.160 We love the people in it, we love this town, we love what it stands for. 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:44.720 And that's the the greatest gift that we can give back is that gift of servitude to our community, to make sure that they have a safe environment, to make sure that they can walk out their doors and not have to worry like they do in some of the bigger cities. 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:50.559 We do our best to show people that we love them and to be there for them. 00:25:50.799 --> 00:26:00.160 Even if if we have to stop a car, we want to be the best on that traffic stop because it might be the only time that that person has an interaction with a police officer. 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:02.640 And we don't want to be what they see on television. 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:05.359 We want to be the best in all things. 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:18.720 I think that people um need to realize that what they see in these two-second videos on social media does not represent the Telehoma Police Department. 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:24.160 It does not represent the compassion and the love that we want to show to the public. 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.720 And me, I just want to be an ambassador for that. 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:33.519 I want people to look at me, to look at everyone else that is around me, officer-wise, and say that this is the best of the best. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.160 Not just one person, but all of us. 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:40.559 And I think that is an accomplishment you have reached. 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:42.960 I'm still striving. 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:43.839 I know. 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:46.960 Sergeant Young, thank you so much for being with us today. 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:53.359 And everybody out there, y'all know why now this was my bucket list to have you on on the program today. 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:54.240 Thank you, Sergeant. 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:54.720 Thank you. 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.279 All right. 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.720 From the sea room.