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May 29, 2024
Leading From The Heart with Chief Jim Franklin
Imagine strolling through the bustling streets of Rochester, Minnesota, where every uniformed officer is a beacon of innovation and compassion in policing. That's the vision Chief Jim Franklin has turned into a daily reality, and we had the privilege of uncovering his approach to law enforcement in our latest conversation. As the torchbearer of a family steeped in police work, Chief Franklin draws on a wealth of experience to empower his team and uphold principles that resonate with every call they answer. Striding alongside officers who take pride in their service and leaders who embrace change offers a glimpse into the heart of progressive policing.
Our dialogue with Chief Franklin ventures into the impactful programs reshaping the relationship between the police and the community they protect. Hear the story of how a simple fix—a lightbulb change for a car—can illuminate the path toward trust and safety.
Lastly, brace yourself for a narrative that grapples with the physical and the philosophical, as we examine the role of Brazilian jiu-jitsu in police training. Chief Franklin articulates how this martial art transcends physical conditioning to refine officers' control, technique, and mental acuity. It's a testament to a culture that values confidence, respect, and the ability to resolve confrontations with a calm, measured response. Through these stories, we learn that the true strength of a police force lies not in its grip but in its unwavering commitment to serve with honor and heart. Join us for this journey through the lanes of leadership and the alleys of innovation in modern policing.
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Welcome to Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates, where leaders find the insights, advice and encouragement they need to lead courageously.
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Today's guest is Chief Jim Franklin from Rochester, minnesota.
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He served before that role.
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He served five years as a lieutenant with the Metropolitan Transit and he has several years, many years, of street experience working as a patrol officer and detective with the Plymouth Police Department.
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He has a master's degree in public administration and a law enforcement degree from Metropolitan State University and he's an adjunct instructor for Rutgers University.
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You're going to love what he has to say.
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I love talking to him and so enjoy and thanks for listening.
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Well, it is a pleasure to have Chief Jim Franklin on the show today from Rochester, minnesota, chief, how are you doing this morning?
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Wonderful Thanks for having me, Travis.
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So kind of give us a quick update, quick bio.
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You know you're there in Rochester I'm sure it's in the very comfortable wintertime.
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Just kind of tell us how you ended up in Rochester and how long you've been there and some of the things you've been doing up there.
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Yeah, so I've been in law enforcement about 25 years.
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It's really the profession that I've always wanted to do.
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I grew up in a cop family.
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My father was a police officer.
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In fact my father was a police chief, so I'm a second-generation police chief.
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I'm very proud of that.
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A lot of different cousins and relatives in law enforcement, so we do kind of call it a family business, if you will, but it's really been my calling ever since high school, Got into law enforcement, just kind of worked my way up in a couple different agencies and I've had the distinct honor of serving as the police chief for the city of Rochester, Minnesota third largest city in the state of Minnesota, for about the last four and a half years.
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So that's interesting, your father was a chief.
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Did you grow up wanting to go into law enforcement from that calling?
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And that's what I've always said, especially when it comes to recruiting, because now we're having to actually recruit when I said really before, we really didn't.
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We recruited from agency to agency, because most people that come into this profession I ask this in my seminars all the time they knew they were going into this profession.
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It's a calling, like you said, which I think is the men and women that we really need in the profession.
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But did you ever think to yourself you'd be a chief one day, or did it just kind of happen as a career went on?
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Yeah, I would say that just happened.
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You know I got into law enforcement.
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You know, really, watching my dad growing up and just watching him interact with people, seeing him in a leadership position, and so you know, just, it was a natural progression of my career.
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Was it ever a career goal to be a police chief?
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Not at first, but perhaps later on.
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You know, about the middle of my career I said, all right, I think I can do that.
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I really enjoy the leadership of running an agency.
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It's really what brings me joy is leading the men and women that continue to put on this uniform, put on this badge and serve this community at the highest possible level.
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I couldn't be more proud of the troops, could not be more proud of the officers in this department and what they do on a daily basis.
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It really is an incredible profession.
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It's an incredible opportunity to be a chief.
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Yeah, I've often said, if I teach a lot of cadet training, academy training, if someone says my goal is to be a chief in the academy, I always think, man, something's wrong with this person.
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Right, it probably should never be the initial goal, but you recognized early on that you had the competency and the skills.
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You think you could offer something to it.
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You're doing it for the right reason.
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I think that's why you are often talking about things sort of outside the box.
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I mean, law enforcement has this real bad habit of why do we do it this way?
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Because we've always done it this way and we don't always seem to think outside the box, because change can be difficult and hard.
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But you've had a lot of success there in Rochester, chief, and you often talk about something I really love.
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Of course, you're doing the traditional crime fighting.
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That's our main mission is to reduce crime and create safety in your community.
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But, man, you talk about some things that I think a lot of our leaders should be talking about, which is we need to not only do the traditional means but we need to look at the root causes of crime.
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Kind of talk to us about what you've done, about that and some of the successes you've seen.
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Absolutely.
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When I first became chief here, you know, we wrote our core values and I said, you know, put together an internal task force and said let's come up with.
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You know, what do we, what do we really believe in, what defines us as our core values?
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I said but there's going to be one core value that I insist and that's the innovation.
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And so we're very much a department that takes a lot of pride in innovative ideas, outside-the-box thing.
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It's okay to fail fast, you know, if you're going to fail, fail fast, fail forward right and move on to a different program.
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So when I talk about getting to the root cause of crime and poverty, I mean there are so many different socioeconomic factors that go into that, quite frankly, that law enforcement's not equipped to solve or handle by itself.
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And that's why another one of our key tenets here is relational policing.
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Collaborative policing come alongside of, you know, non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, in identifying problems, getting to the root cause of problems and then really attacking it in a collective, relational matter, making this community better and safer.
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And I'll give you a quick example of that is we're one of the few agencies actually there's only one other agency in the entire state of Minnesota that has what's called a PAR program or a police assisted recovery program and one of the things that we saw when we were dealing with people specifically substance abuse, people suffering from that particular aspect out on the street is they'd go in and they'd fill out county paperwork.
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It is about a 30-day referral process.
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You know, when somebody's at the end of their rope I want to get into substance abuse services, I need some help they go in and fill out the paperwork.
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There's about a 30-day delay and we found that about 70% of the people never came back and actually got services.
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So what we did is we contacted with Doc's Recovery House and Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge here locally and we have a bed-on retainer for females and a bed-on retainer for males.
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So if we come in contact with somebody that truly does want help at the end of the rope, we'll get them the paperwork filled out and we'll get them a bed in treatment immediately, right away, bridging that gap.
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That's root cause problem solving kind of collaborative, relational policing efforts, and that's one of several different programs that we're initiating here at Rochester PD.
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Yeah, that's excellent stuff.
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And what I think a lot of leaders don't understand is because we get stuck in this mindset of just throwing people in jail.
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Throwing people in jail, throwing people in jail.
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Now listen, that's obviously a part of our job, but by doing what you're doing, Chief, you're actually mitigating the need to throw so many people in jail.
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It actually helps resource-wise.
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So I know you're having to take resources on the front end, but it actually helps with resources on the back end, and I'm sure you've seen that there not the case and it's that perspective change, that change in viewing things through the lens of hey, there's a lot of nuance to problems.
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There are a lot of, like I said, those socioeconomic factors that drive people into poverty and crime.
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Lack of education, lack of stability in the home, lack of food security, lack of transportation, all of those factors go into kind of those root cause analysis of crime.
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And until we can start collectively attacking those with a multitude of agencies, we're not really going to solve the problem and solve crime issues.
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But we can collectively start attacking those issues together and chipping away at it.
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And that's, I think, that's really the future of law enforcement is dealing with those root cause factors.
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Yeah, and I think that's something that I call the reform movement because it's got such a bad name.
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But people throw these ideas on the wall just to think it's going to work.
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But it's the wrong they're focusing this is my opinion, Chief but they're focusing on the wrong entity.
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By the time someone gets to law enforcement and they're committing a criminal act, it's gone way too long, Like we're the last resort.
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So you're getting involved on the front end and I have to imagine this is a pretty big paradigm shift for law enforcement and for police officers, other leaders, to get involved in this, because I see that socioeconomics and all the issues including poverty, lack of education, lack of opportunities that sends people into criminal activity.
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So we need to get involved on that front end.
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So how were you able to sort of pull your followers into that mindset and how has that gone?
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Yeah.
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So that's always a challenge in any agency and with any bit of leadership, is getting that buy-in and I will say that I have been incredibly fortunate here.
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I cannot speak enough again to just the character and integrity of the cops that work here and to get them incredibly proud of them.
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I think how you get that buy-in is you build success cases.
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Let me just give you a quick example too.
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Another program that we started is called the Lights On Campaign, and that's where we worked with a nonprofit organization and a local Rochester motor cars entity that fixes cars and so when we pull people over for, let's say, a headlight out or taillight out or blinker out or something like that, we can give them a coupon and we've got this partnership where they can go get their taillight headlight fixed, their blinker light fixed, and Rochester Motor Cars will fix that for them through this nonprofit entity.
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That's all paid for.
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And I'll tell you, I rolled this program out and I still remember this today.
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I had one officer.
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He sent me an email after I rolled this program out and the email read something to the effect of Dear Chief, when you first rolled this program out, I thought this was the dumbest idea on the planet.
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I thought this was ridiculous.
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I thought this is silly, foolish, whatnot he said.
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But tonight I pulled over a young lady and I gave her a Lights On coupon to get her headlight fixed and she broke down in tears and she shared with me.
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Officer, I truly had to make a choice tonight Am I going to go buy groceries or am I going to get my headlight fixed?
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And this officer has been a champion ever since.
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He's like thanks for doing that, appreciate you having the courage for stepping out and doing that.
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We're making a difference in this community and people's lives.
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So it's little success stories like that that I think you just build on and build momentum and then again willing to try other incredibly innovative ideas of, and it's about relational policing.
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It's about coming alongside the community that, quite frankly, wants everything that we want.
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They want a safe community, they want a crime-free community, they want a police department that is responsive to their needs, and so we have the same shared goals.
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It's about coming alongside of each other.
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Yeah, I think we get too caught up in the extremes in our society because the media keeps pushing it right.
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You have the extremes on one side, the extremes on the other side and most of the people, the vast majority of people, are ever going in the middle.
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They just want to raise their families.
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They want their kids to go out and play and be safe.
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They want the same thing everybody else wants.
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That doesn't matter how you vote.
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It doesn't matter how you vote.
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You want a safe community and I think we get too focused on the extremes out there.
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And I think that's a prime example.
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And, Chief, I think I know the answer to this.
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But I have to assume that some of your own officers have probably come up with some ideas that and kind of tell us about and maybe example that and kind of how you have have kind of helped that along with those resources.
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Absolutely so.
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This, this particular departmental initiative we started up again to make that handshake between non-governmental organizations and the officers at the front end of their career.
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So we run a 10-week academy when you get hired here at the City of Rochester.
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We're fortunate that we can do that.
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But as part of that we started a program called Beyond the Badge where we require our rookie officers to do one day of volunteer service either at the Boys and Girls Club or Minnesota Adult Team Challenge, doc's House or Salvation Army, battered Women's Shelter, and the officers then go to these non-profit organizations, volunteer for a day and then they come back and they present to the command staff.
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You know what they learned, what they learned about the entity, how that could help them in their career, and then they present to the command staff and then how it relates to our core values.
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But one particular officer that we sent to the Banner Women's Shelter and it was around Halloween time and one of the things he learned is he said you know there's a lot of women there that we talk to that are not going to go trick-or-treating with their kids because they're afraid to go out on the street, they're afraid that their assailant might be right around the corner and his idea was hey, chief, do you think it'd be okay if I grab a couple of cops and we take some women and their kids trick-or-treating this year?
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And I just beamed with joy and I said make it happen.
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I said that is a great idea and that's actually turned into a legacy program where we've done it for the last three years where we're like, hey, we're coming to take you guys out to trick-or-treat and come alongside you guys, and so taking a program that we had and then plugging a brand-new rookie cop and coming up with that idea, that's one of my favorite stories and success cases, I can tell.
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Well, I don't want you to get too cocky about this, but if you have officers that are developing ideas and pushing forward, you've got your culture in a really, really good place.
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But you need to keep going right.
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I don't want you to lay on your laurels there, but that's really, I think, should be the goal of any chief.
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You know is to I want my department to almost be self-sufficient in the creativity and the new ideas, because that's only just going to make you such a better department.
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That's pretty cool, and the reason I actually came across you Chief was I saw a post on LinkedIn about Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and why this appealed to me was when I read this I was about a month into my own jiu-jitsu journey and I couldn't hardly walk and I was very sore and what you talked about was pretty incredible stuff and I just kind of wanted to just for you to lay out to our audience kind of how this came about and what you've seen from it and the decision you made going forward, because a lot of Chiefs wouldn't have made this decision A lot of.
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For some reason, we have some nervousness about trying especially defensive tactics things.
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I mean, we can't get chiefs sometimes to do general defensive tactics, but this is kind of an outside-the-box training.
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I'm obviously a big fan of it.
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I do it myself and I see the value in law enforcement.
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In fact, I am a little bit upset that I waited 30 years to see the value in law enforcement, because it's really incredible.
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And I came to it, chief, because I got into an altercation and I thought to myself this should not have taken that long, like this, should not have been this difficult and there must be a way out there.
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So I confided in a couple of friends of mine and they said you need to get to the jujitsu gym.
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I'm having trouble saying that today for some reason, but I said what?
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And they said, yeah, you got to get to the gym, come on out with us.
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And man, it was.
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It has been crazy, but I wanted to sort of get your mindset on it because this was one of the coolest stories I've seen in a long time.
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Just kind of tell us about it.
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Yeah, absolutely so.
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Um, prior to kind of us starting our program, we had we had about three officers Uh, we have 150 cops, uh, three officers, we have 150 cops, sworn officers.
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We had about three of them that did jiu-jitsu at a local gym, mario Roberto Jiu-Jitsu Academy, and a couple of them are use-of-force instructors.
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And I think one of the first things that stood out to me is, you know, watching them instruct as part of the use-of-force and them talking to the cops, specifically the new cops and the smaller-statured cops you know, talking about, hey, you know, don't worry about kind of getting.
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You know you got to have good officer safety, but you know, don't panic, relax, control yourself first and then the situation, and don't panic if you go to the ground, right, that's not the end, all be all here and there's ways to handle yourself on the ground.
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And so, kind of just looking at that, I did have a group of officers kind of approach me and say, hey, can we send a bunch more use of force instructors to the Gracie Survival Tactics School?
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And so I said, sure, go ahead and do that.
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And they came back and they said, chief, this is incredible.
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And then and now, just for our audience, that's a week-long school, correct?
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They went to it, so you let them go to a week long school.
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Yep, it's a week long school.
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It's very law enforcement perspective specific.
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And you know how do you, how do you handle yourself, how do you do takedowns, do double takedowns, things like that, and it's really, you know, trying to use that, that minimal force necessary Right and also reducing any sort of harm to the officer initiating that force and the subject.
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You know, reducing all that.
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But yeah, just, it's all your Brazilian jiu-jitsu tactics really.
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And if you actually go back to like the BJJ historical roots, you know it's rooted in ground control tactics for self-defense.
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And so if you couple that with what is our desired outcome and any use of force in couple first encounter, rather, what's a desired outcome?
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It's compliance, right, but absent that absence, compliance, it's we're trying to reduce that risk, minimize that risk to harm to the subject or the officer.
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And so here's what I love about jiu-jitsu and here's what I think it teaches.
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And here's the takeaway is it enhances the officer's ability to remain calm, to operate effectively under stress and I'll come back to that in just a quick second because that's a key point.
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But it trains our officers how to use their body weight.
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You know, regardless if they weigh 150 pounds or 250 pounds, it gives them understanding of takedowns, control techniques, leverage and at the same time it gives them understanding on how to counter the same techniques that could possibly be used against them on the street.
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So let me go back to the stress part really quick, and here's one of the primary benefits as I look across the landscape of this country and examine bad police citizen encounters, you know there's a common thread that really begs several questions.
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One is why are cops so bad at dealing with that acute onset?
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You know that stress of the moment, dealing with that acute onset, you know that stress of the moment.
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And why are they so vulnerable to making mistakes in that moment?
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And I think it's because we're not training correctly.
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We're not training and that's one of the most important things that I like about jiu-jitsu, right is it directly reflects that high stress, that instant acute stress of the real world police encounters that occur, allowing the officers to train through that work, through that visceral stress response in a safe arena, which increases the likelihood of better police community interactions out on the street.
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Yeah, I could not have said that any better.
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And going through this journey, I mean I walk into the gym with, you know, 30 years of experience, practically 20 of those in the street patrol doing these things, and 12 year olds are wearing me out Right and and, and it took a long time to figure out exactly what you said.
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Hey, you don't have to go all out, it's just about control, it's about breathing, and to me it has been a game changer and I immediately have thought to myself why is not every cop in America doing this right now?
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Use of force videos that either are legally bad or look bad, because we're sometimes equally concerned about that.
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This fixes it all, this changes it all.
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This is everything.
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And the vast 99% of the public cannot win.
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If you have some experience in jiu-jitsu I mean there's going to be occasional if you want to run into somebody that may know something about it.
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But the study of this martial art and what it takes it takes to do it there's not a lot of bad guys studying this martial art.
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I mean most people.
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This is a very honorable type sport.
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Uh, I'm very, I've been very impressed in every gym I've walked into, and so the the chances of you being able to literally control your opponent with no injuries whatsoever are very, very good, and it's actually a lot better than what we've been taught in the academy, which is basically brute force, right and get them cuffed as quick as possible.
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When the jujitsu teaches you really the opposite, that quickness is not necessarily what's going to win the day.
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No, and I think it also teaches.
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You know it teaches what I call the quiet confidence.
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You know, the quiet confidence that cops need to effectively respond to subjects that are either actively resisting or passively resistance.
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And I want that confident officer on the street.
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I need them to be out there.
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I need them to be confident out there.
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Just the escape techniques alone are invaluable.
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You know, getting heaven forbid, you find yourself with somebody in mount position on top of you.
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You know that is bad.
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You know you've got to know how to escape from that.
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As a white belt gym, I know very well that's very bad.
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It's very bad.
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Hey, you know I'll tell you this, travis.
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I took my blue belt test and I'm honored to have passed that, but I think all I learned was how bad I really am and how much further I got to go.
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Well, listen, chief, you've left out the whole reason I brought you on here, which is and you haven't said this yet and you alluded to it when you gave your officers permission to do this, which I applaud you, because I've heard so many people around me go oh, you're going to get hurt, you can't do this, you can't do that.
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No, actually, it's really not the case.
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But anyway, you're more likely to get hurt on a on a treadmill more than as far as I'm concerned.
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But they said, chief, why don't you do it with us?
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And you said, sure, kind of talk to us about that.
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Yeah well, I've never been one necessarily to back down from a challenge, you know, challenge accepted.
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And so, uh, yeah, one of the officers did uh, come to me and say, hey, why don't you try this with us?
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In, uh, in, in, not the gracie school, but again, we've got a great partner with.
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I can't say enough about Mario Roberto Jesus Academy and the partnership there.
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I can tell you some stories, but it's a phenomenal partner.
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But they said, just do it with us.
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And kind of not really knowing what I was getting myself into, I showed up there and, and, uh, and we started training and, quite frankly, I just fell in love with it.
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I just fell in love with it.
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Uh, to ramping it up.
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To now I go two, three times a week if I can, and uh, you know coming home, like you said, with some bruises and some uh bumps, but that's fine.
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My wife thinks I'm a little crazy, but uh, my only regret is that I didn't start this 20 years ago.
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Yeah, yeah, same here, same here.
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But but I will tell you this, we've had a few spinoffs, so we got about 17 to 19 cops consistently training in in in jujitsu.
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Right now We've done a couple of sessions, kind of one day or half day sessions, to try to generate some additional interest within the organization.
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And I'll tell you, it wasn't my intent to get kind of quote-unquote street cred, if you will, but I've gotten a lot of credit from the cops and had several of them come to me and go.
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I think it's pretty cool you're in this room and I'm like, well, I'm just in this room with you, you know, just trying to get better.
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