Episodes
Oct. 30, 2024
On the Front Lines of DUI Enforcement with Traffic Officer Zach Azari
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! According to one recent study, South Carolina leads the United States in DUI related fatalities. https://www.automotive-fleet.com/10224992/which-states-are-the-worst-for...
Oct. 22, 2024
Take Me To Your Leader
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! On today’s episode, the guys talk about some of the leadership differences between Police Chiefs and County Sheriffs and how those differences can impact the law enforce...
Oct. 17, 2024
How Do YOU Handle a Hurricane?
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! Chris returns to tell us how he, his agency and the State of Florida have handled Hurricane Milton. Email: 3copstalk@gmail.com Website: https://www.3copstalk.com Youtube...
Oct. 8, 2024
A Short Stack
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! On this smaller-portioned episode, Chris is again occupied with hurricane duty, while Scott witnesses the decline of civility in an pancake house. Shaun also touts his l...
Oct. 1, 2024
Restraining Reality
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! We offer our thoughts on yet another media investigation and the subsequent Police Executive Research Forum recommendations regarding the tactics utilized by the police ...
Oct. 1, 2024
Restraining Reality
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! We offer our thoughts on yet another media investigation and the subsequent Police Executive Research Forum recommendations regarding the tactics utilized by the police ...
Sept. 24, 2024
Puff, Puff, Pass the Responsibility
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! With the shifting opinions and laws regarding the criminalization of marijuana possession in the United States, there have been some significant changes to several socie...
Sept. 19, 2024
Whoever Fights Monsters
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! Today the full crew discusses how some of the efforts of an organization created to address the perceived bias in law enforcement seems to heavily rely upon the very thi...
Sept. 10, 2024
Debates, Diets and Other Debacles
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! With the second (or was it really the first?) Presidential Debate for 2024 in the books, the boys take on one of the more interesting topics covered by the candidates; I...
Sept. 7, 2024
Trouble in Transit
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! Scott and Shaun get together to talk about some professional, personal and Public Safety transportation preferences, issues and events. Police Officer Darron Lee Burks O...
Aug. 30, 2024
Protecting Elections with Deputy Director Chris Harvey
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! In the build up to the highly sensationalized Presidential election in November, Scott and one of our former guests, Deputy Director Chris Harvey of the Georgia Police O...
Aug. 23, 2024
Out on Meal Break with Registered Dietitian Megan Lautz
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! As a regular part of the job, cops are regularly fed a “line of crap” or have to take a bite of a “shit sandwich." Ironically, our real dietary choices often reflect tha...
Aug. 16, 2024
What a Tangled Web We Weave
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! O, what a tangle web we weave, when first we practise to deceive! -Sir Walter Scott We return to Ferguson, Missouri to discuss how the lies of a high-profile, decade-old...
Aug. 9, 2024
Rained Out - A Programing Note
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! Tropical Storm Debby has changed the course of this week’s episode. Stat safe and stay tuned…. Email: 3copstalk@gmail.com Website: https://www.3copstalk.com Youtube: htt...
Aug. 2, 2024
That's Not Helping
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! https://www.odmp.org/officer/27106-senior-corporal-segus-r-jolivette We discuss how the defund and de-fame the police movement has proven to be so unhelpful that it has ...
July 26, 2024
Do We Have to Talk About This Again?
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! On this episode, we are again discussing some topics that we’d rather not. However, this is a podcast and our show’s title says we talk, so we persevere. Corporal Mohame...
July 19, 2024
Probable Flaws
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! The recent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump has us considering how many of the current political and social factors impacting local law enforcement...
July 12, 2024
Godspeed, Good Sergeant
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! On this episode, we take the time to honor and reflect upon Scott’s safe and successful retirement from law enforcement. For nearly 24 years, he set his own course larg...
July 4, 2024
A Crisis of Leadership: Exposure and Accountability
Let us know what you think of this episode with a text! If America’s 246th birthday has brought us anything, it has definitely been the much needed exposure and accountability of the bad executive leadership within some of ou...
June 28, 2024
A Fountain Drink Felony
Send us a Text Message. During her tenure as Cook County’s (IL) top cop, States Attorney Kim Fox has often left many cops and crime victims frustrated with the impossibility of career criminals ever facing a felony charge. ...
June 18, 2024
A Police Advocate Like No Other with Meagan McCarthy
We talk with retired Deputy Sheriff, wife and mother, Meagan McCarthy, about the circumstances that gave rise to her police advocacy work in California. Meagan’s survival story epitomizes the horrible impact of the continued ...
June 11, 2024
Drawing from Our Retirement
With Scott formally announcing his retirement from our original agency and after decades of serving together, we take this opportunity to discuss what retirement has brought us, so far. As usual, we talk about a bunch of thin...
June 4, 2024
You May Be a Felon but at least You're OUR Felon
Ideally, with a government of the people, for the people and by the people, we should all be held to the same standards of behavior, oath and accountability, regardless of title or standing. This past week has yet again shown...
May 29, 2024
The Changing Tides of Common Sense
Talk to most cops and they’ll tell of the ancient superstition that a full moon will be a guarantee for an active shift. Although we’re not completely sure of that urban legend, we definitely know of the lunar impact on the t...