National Police Association Podcast #102 with Sgt. Chris Jones (Ret.) Training Coordinator at Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, CLEAT


National Police Association Podcast #102 with Sgt. Chris Jones (Ret.) Training Coordinator at Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, CLEAT


QUOTES

01:15 "We provide legal defense for our members in the event that they're involved in either a critical incident or an officer-involved shooting, in-custody death, or in any other internal investigation related to their department."

05:39 "The head of the Travis County DA Civil Rights Division went out onto social media and sent emails and made public postings looking for a new prosecutor to specifically be hired to prosecute cops."

13:06 "In totality only about 1,000 people are shot by officers and the 99% of those are justified use of force because they are either protecting themselves or a third person. We have under 50, usually, every year of unarmed police shootings."

15:16 "The systemic racism, in my opinion, is not systemic. I mean, we have come a long way in hundreds of years of how we do with the public and how we hire and the quality of people that we put on there and the education and training."

16:00 "We don't have the interactive, hands-on continuous training that we really need to train officers to be proficient in the ability to de-escalate, to communicate, to address issues that we find are deficient."

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SUMMARY

In this episode of the National Police Association Podcast, Sgt. Betsy Smith interviews Sgt. Chris Jones (Ret.) Training Coordinator at Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, CLEAT. Systemic racism is not the problem with law enforcement but the worsening training conditions and long hours of work are. These issues are not being addressed and yet DAs are hijacking reforms that are contradictory to the actual issues needed to improve law enforcement and the safety of the general public. 

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HIGHLIGHTS

00:53 CLEAT provides legal defense for their members in internal investigations 

02:33 Travis County has a new DA who prosecutes officers based on BLM

11:04 CLEAT is fighting the media narrative that cops are cold-blooded murderers

15:07 Systemic racism is not the problem but systemic lack of training and fatigue are 

19:03 Explaining the need for lawyers in officer-involved shootings and what qualified immunity really is

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RESOURCES

National Police Association