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NEWS THAT MATTERS TO YOU:
· STORY ONE: Several Illinois Sheriff’s Departments Refuse to Enforce New State Law Banning Dozens of Firearms. The Daily Wire. By Brandon Drey. January 12, 2023. https://www.dailywire.com/news/several-illinois-sheriffs-departments-refuse-to-enforce-new-state-law-banning-dozens-of-firearms
· STORY TWO: New York Rep. – elect George Santos confesses to lies about his resume: report. Fox News, New York, By Greg Wehner. December 26, 2022. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-rep-elect-george-santos-confesses-lies-about-his-resume
· STORY THREE: ‘Building A Culture of Integrity’ Thomas D. Zweifel, Ph.D. Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics Issue No. 2, 2019.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334503262_Building_a_Culture_of_Integrity
ONE IMPORTANT TAKE-AWAY:
· The idea of “Integrity” is rooted in the idea that you actually “do what you say you are going to do.”
· Agencies should be very careful that if they have Mission Statements, Code of Ethics, or Core Values that the people within the agency, especially those in leadership, live by them.
· The key word for this podcast and for me, this year, is “ACTION.” You will hear this as a fundamental part of what we discuss every week, what are the areas where we must stand up and take action?
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00:00:04:05 - 00:00:07:13
Wayne Mulder
Welcome
00:00:11:03 - 00:00:31:13
Wayne Mulder
Welcome, my friend, to the On the Blue Line podcast. I'm your host, Wayne Mulder, and this is a law enforcement podcast where we discuss topics that will empower you on and off the job. Maybe you're tired, you're frustrated, feeling overworked, struggling, struggling to balance the work and home life demands, or simply you need some encouragement that, my friend, you have come to the right place.
00:00:31:24 - 00:00:52:06
Wayne Mulder
This is the 151st episode of the podcast and I am so glad that you're joining me today on today's podcast. What Every cop needs to Consider right Now in Their Own Lives. So if this is your first time listening, welcome. I just want to quickly tell you that we have two weekly podcast. Well, when they release more on that in a moment.
00:00:52:26 - 00:01:11:00
Wayne Mulder
This one that you're listening to is Morning Roll Call. It releases every Monday at zero 500, and it's a weekly monologue show where you and I just sit down, maybe have a cup of coffee. We discuss the news, some recent events, law enforcement trends, variety of other topics that will hopefully give you something to consider as you begin your week.
00:01:11:13 - 00:01:35:21
Wayne Mulder
The other show is called The Interview Room. And in there, that's a weekly interview show where I sit down every Thursday with different guests, all walks of life, and we discuss something that hopefully will be beneficial for either your personal or your professional life. Last week, which actually was the last episode which released Back on the Office so two weeks ago, was with David Hollenbach really important conversation.
00:01:35:21 - 00:01:52:15
Wayne Mulder
If you haven't listened to that one yet, I encourage you to go back and listen to it. I did not get a chance to push it out on social media to the degree that I wanted to, So you'll be seeing it pop up, but that's how you typically find the show. But it was a great conversation around mental health and experiences he had while on fire Rescue.
00:01:52:15 - 00:02:16:13
Wayne Mulder
And I've got the benefit of I'm going to actually be on his show here in a few weeks and I'll be sure to tell you about that when that happens this coming Thursday, there will be another the interview room. We are back to our normal schedule. So someone that I have wanted to interview since beginning the podcast, he's just a really great guy and he's one of the stars costars of the HBO documentary Crisis Cops.
00:02:17:00 - 00:02:38:12
Wayne Mulder
Ernie Stevens. If you haven't listened to him before, you definitely are going to want to listen to this episode. If you only listen to one episode, start with this one and then, you know, hopefully, hopefully it doesn't end there, but at least you started with that one. So that comes out this Thursday and it really is a conversation on the future of law enforcement.
00:02:38:12 - 00:02:59:03
Wayne Mulder
When we talk about things like core responder programs, mental health and everything in that vein comes out in this conversation. So other than that, just know that all the shows, this one included released on YouTube and Rumble, and I'd love for you to watch it there. Everything's kind of designed around the video aspects. And then I also release it to audio on all the podcast platforms.
00:02:59:03 - 00:03:22:13
Wayne Mulder
So be sure to subscribe on either YouTube, Rumble. And as always, if you want to know what in the world are you guys up to on the blue line. com “o”- “n”- on the blue line.com. So I am so happy to be back with you all again today. Yeah. I missed you all. I if you've been listening regularly, you know that there were some things going on.
00:03:22:13 - 00:03:48:22
Wayne Mulder
I can't go into the specifics but there was some exam work that I had to do and some things I need to study for my other job. Even though this one is very important to me as well. However, it just came down to the point that last week we did not the week of, I believe, the 10th, we did not release any new episodes for either Morning Roll Call or for the interview room, but we are back and that's exactly what we are doing today.
00:03:48:22 - 00:04:10:25
Wayne Mulder
So we're going to start with a couple of stories, as we usually do, some news that may matter to you, but this all kind of has a theme this week if you haven't seen already some of the craziness that's going on up in Illinois. There was some news that came out towards the end of the year in the first of this year with some of their law enforcement related changes.
00:04:10:25 - 00:04:35:22
Wayne Mulder
I'm not going to go over that one here. I actually wanted to point your attention to this particular article, which may get some differing opinions, I don't know. But several Illinois's sheriff's departments refused to enforce new state law banning dozens of firearms. So in this article, it goes on to say several Illinois sheriff's departments said Wednesday that they would refuse to comply with Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker's new gun law signed this week.
00:04:36:03 - 00:05:02:06
Wayne Mulder
It immediately begins the manufacture possession of dozens of rapid fire rifles, pistols, 50 caliber guns and some attachments. So he signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act by taking away their way to protect themselves. Anyway, I always find that ironic. But okay. And obviously many Republican lawmakers are countering this and are saying what, you know, what are we doing here?
00:05:02:23 - 00:05:29:01
Wayne Mulder
So a group of sheriffs came out and they wrote some differing opinions on this. One was Green County Sheriff Rob McMillan. He said he would follow his, quote, morals, beliefs and obligations concerning protecting the rights of county citizens. Goes on. These types of laws put law enforcement officers and prosecutors in a very precarious box with this having to decide to not enforce laws that were passed by government bodies.
00:05:29:07 - 00:06:11:21
Wayne Mulder
But as your Green County sheriff, I can not sit back and let laws that strip GREENE County citizens of their constitutional rights and not take a stance supporting the citizens against the government that wants to trample on these rights or on their rights. Clinton County Sheriff Dan Gravel. Mac Go Pen. I'm sure I'm screwed that up. County Sheriff Sean Call and Monroe County Sheriff Neil Ruffling said something similar that their departments would not conduct any investigations or arrest pertain to the law, sharing the same belief that citizens have an enabling a right by the people of the country to keep and bear arms for defense property and in defense, liberty and property.
00:06:11:21 - 00:06:39:20
Wayne Mulder
Sorry. And then the Madison County sheriff and Madison County state's attorney's office came out with they expect the law to face some legal challenges. Yeah, Think. And they said, quote, In the meantime, we remain focused on reducing violent crime, therefore pending further direction by the courts. Madison County Sheriff's Office will not expand its limited re Eric spend its limited resources to check whether otherwise law abiding gun owners have registered their weapons with the state.
00:06:40:00 - 00:07:11:12
Wayne Mulder
Nor will the Madison County Sheriff's Office be arresting or housing otherwise law abiding individuals due solely due to noncompliance. They took a very middle of the road approach, which will get a little bit more of that here in a minute. And Pritzker threatened the employment of state law enforcement. The governor came out and said that the reality is that state police is responsible for enforcement, as is all law enforcement across state, and they will, in fact, do so or they won't have their job.
00:07:11:12 - 00:08:01:17
Wayne Mulder
And so I'm always would be disappointed in any, you know, anything like this that there wasn't some threats involved. So lawyers are arguing that it's likely to violate the recent US Supreme Court precedent. No. You think. And that they're going to fight it fundamentally drives me absolutely crazy. We have seen a rash of this at all levels of government, from state level to federal level, to knowingly putting in to quote unquote law or dictate in some situations the unconstitutional laws, edicts, whatever it is, in hopes that it might slide through.
00:08:02:12 - 00:08:34:28
Wayne Mulder
You know, know that this is something that we've seen about it and do it over and over and others have in the past. I'm not picking one side or the other, but, you know, it's not constitutional. So what they do is they throw it out there so that at least it has a chance of maybe being ignored, maybe not going to the Supreme Court, maybe, you know, And so for a year, year and a half, these things sit in limbo, sometimes longer, knowing the entire time it is not in line with the Constitution that is problematic.
00:08:35:01 - 00:08:55:18
Wayne Mulder
I don't care which side is doing it. I don't care who you are. You're not a leader. We're going to get more than that here in a minute. You're not like that is wrong. There's no other word for it. It's simply wrong. If you are knowingly doing something that you know subverts the Constitution. And yet you took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
00:08:56:00 - 00:09:16:21
Wayne Mulder
I don't really give a care what your opinion is if you're doing something that knowingly subverts the Constitution and you took an oath to uphold that Constitution, you are not upholding your oath, period. There's really nothing more to discuss on it. So with that, let's get to the second story and you're going to see a pattern here today.
00:09:17:11 - 00:09:40:15
Wayne Mulder
So I want to bring this up. This is an old story and this is an old story about New York Rep. It says New York Rep Elect because this was came out on December 26 with that guy, Jorge Santos. Now, honestly, before all this silliness went on, I couldn't have told you who George Santos was. I had I would have had no idea.
00:09:40:15 - 00:10:07:15
Wayne Mulder
But essentially, he was the New York. He gets elected New York congressman, he ends up narrowly winning. And then after the fact, they're finding out that he lied during his campaign on his work experience, his education, his mother's employment, whether or not he was Jewish, he where he worked. He said he was employed in the financial industry and worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
00:10:07:29 - 00:10:27:27
Wayne Mulder
Later, he comes out and admits, well, that's not exactly what I did. You know, I didn't exactly work for them. I worked for a company that did work with them. Okay. Yeah, it's kind of a, you know, difference and distinction there. He said he never graduated from college, and yet he received a degree a degree in 2010 from a college.
00:10:29:15 - 00:10:54:26
Wayne Mulder
He admitted to that I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning. I'm embarrassed and sorry that embellished my resume. I own up that we all do stupid things in life. I don't know. And bizarre. Absolutely bizarre. And obviously right now, if you've been following the story since the end of December, it's been getting more and more traction from those that politically oppose this guy.
00:10:55:11 - 00:11:20:24
Wayne Mulder
So then you've just got to start listening to everything with a grain of salt and see who's supporting it and why are they supporting it. Yeah, obviously, sadly, you can't trust any of these people. So that that's a different conversation for a different day as well. But I bring it up because one of the things that I've been doing over the last couple of weeks is studying for some stuff in which a lot of the material I had to study was leadership related.
00:11:20:24 - 00:11:45:23
Wayne Mulder
And there's always this talk about leadership in law enforcement, not only from somebody who is in a leadership position. In other words, you receive positional authority. But the very fact that law enforcement and I've talked about this before, you are always exhibiting some level of leadership from day one, right. If you're a guy that shows up on the scene and no one else is there, you are in charge.
00:11:45:23 - 00:12:13:06
Wayne Mulder
And even if other people do get their intel relieved by a higher authority, you are likely in charge. So leadership is something that isn't just positional in nature or title specific. You know, it's not like, oh, well, you're a sergeant or you're a lieutenant or you're a captain. Sometimes leadership is just in our daily actions, right? And yet we have when we talk about Washington and I get it, you know, we talk about politics and everybody instantly becomes a cynic.
00:12:13:13 - 00:12:55:19
Wayne Mulder
No, nobody believes any of these guys anymore or girls. And rightfully so. Right. I mean, there's a very, very small percentage. I mean, really fingers and toes. You can count all the ones that you could probably rely on out of like 435. Well, 535 if you include the Senate. And so it's sad. And what's ironic to me is that these people get voted for that means that somebody consciously walks into a booth or a location or a computer or whatever you know, your state is, and they checked this person's name.
00:12:55:19 - 00:13:17:03
Wayne Mulder
So then I have to ask myself, is that incompetence? In other words, I just go in there and I pick something that sounds cool or is it something else right? Or is it just we don't care anymore? Like we don't hold anybody to a standard? I mean, we have someone in the highest elected office in this country who's been caught many times.
00:13:17:03 - 00:13:47:00
Wayne Mulder
I think it was like the seventies or eighties when back when news organizations actually asked hard questions instead of being propaganda arms of certain political sides, they would they there's all sorts of conversations with him lying about degrees he had and what classes he went to in law school and so forth. And that's one instance of time after time after time embellishing stories, saying he was here or saying he was there or saying, you know, he knew corn pipe or I don't know, listen to act like I care.
00:13:47:00 - 00:14:11:04
Wayne Mulder
And this is the problem, right? We all end up kind of where I'm at at this moment, where you become apathetic about it. It's like, yeah, I just don't care anymore. You know, these guys are all liars. The problem is, is that we're putting these liars into positions of authority like they actually represent you in government. They actually have some say in your life.
00:14:11:04 - 00:14:42:00
Wayne Mulder
And what's going to happen and what the future of this country might look like and the fact that we go in there and consciously vote, allowing this to go forward is just bizarre to me. But it speaks to a bigger issue, right? It speaks to this lack of integrity in this country. So I wanted to bring up while I was doing some research to prepare for this specific conversation, I came across an article called Building a Culture of Integrity.
00:14:42:07 - 00:15:02:08
Wayne Mulder
It's actually a peer reviewed article that was written for college by a doctoral student. Thomas I'm going to go Zweig for Zweig, so I may have that completely wrong, but there is a link and you can read the entire article later if you want. He's speaking in the business culture. Okay. So that's kind of where this article is coming from.
00:15:02:21 - 00:15:27:14
Wayne Mulder
But in his abstract that he begins this article, he says, What many leaders fail to realize the way to gain real power is not through big job title wealth authority or a corner office, but through integrity. And he defines it here, he says, defined here as honoring your word and leading by example. So great article or a great project.
00:15:27:14 - 00:15:47:25
Wayne Mulder
I really do think you ought to read this whole thing if you get a minute. But he talks about in the 1990s, Fortune magazine in The New York Times, which historically we both know how accurate The New York Times has been. Anyway, we're full of praise for one company and so here is the core values of this country from 1998.
00:15:47:25 - 00:16:15:13
Wayne Mulder
This was in their annual report. So respect communication, excellence and integrity and integrity was defined as we work with customers and prospects openly, honestly and sincerely. When we say we will do something, we will do it. When we say we cannot or will not do something, we won't do it. You know, a company that was Enron. Yeah, that one.
00:16:15:22 - 00:16:44:13
Wayne Mulder
And if you're young, watch the Netflix documentary. Yeah, Enron. That was that was one of their core values. The values sound beautiful. He goes on to say that they made zero differences because their top managers didn't bother to live by them. Right. So he goes on to talk about, you know, this whole idea. The problem arises when people, above all leaders or public officials say one thing and do another, which we've seen happen over and over again.
00:16:44:13 - 00:17:08:06
Wayne Mulder
It's not just people who can't be honest like what their career, you know is or what their mother did or where they come from or what religion they have. Bizarre. I mean, we've got it now where it's not just saying they're going to do one thing and do another. We've got people that just can't even be honest about simple things, like it's almost a pathological liar kind of thing.
00:17:08:06 - 00:17:28:18
Wayne Mulder
He goes on to say, Hints in the framework of this essay, integrity is not essentially an ethical or moral phenomenon. The way he worded it, I'm okay with it because he's saying that essentially. But I would say ethics and morals do play a big part in integrity. And more on that in a minute. It is simply this is again, quoting it is simply the congruence between what you say you will do in both great and small things.
00:17:28:26 - 00:17:45:03
Wayne Mulder
And then you gives us an example. If I say I will report to you by 5 p.m., you will have it on your desk by no later than 5 p.m. and if I see that I can't keep my word, I can still honor my word by letting you know be late and making a new commitment that is integrity.
00:17:45:03 - 00:18:02:18
Wayne Mulder
Making that your word count. In other words, you should say what you say, what you're going to do, and you actually do what you say. So he went on to give an example, which some of you, if you've been in any kind of business classes or anything, may be familiar with, but it's the whole what they call dieselgate, the whole Volkswagen debacle.
00:18:03:01 - 00:18:21:20
Wayne Mulder
And so it is one challenge to lead by example and live a life of integrity as an individual. He goes on. It is quite another to build a restore integrity in a company or an institution. So he talks about how in September 2015, the EPA issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German automaker Volkswagen Group.
00:18:21:20 - 00:18:51:23
Wayne Mulder
Now, the issue here, in my opinion, is not necessarily violating what these alphabet soup agencies that really shouldn't have jurisdiction do. That's not the point here. The point here is the actions they took around this. Right. So the agency had found that the company, Volkswagen, had intentionally programed, turbocharged direct injection diesel engines to activate their immersion emission controls only during laboratory emissions testing.
00:18:52:03 - 00:19:21:19
Wayne Mulder
This tampering caused the vehicles in flex output to meet U.S. standards during regulatory testing, but emit up to 40 times more in real world driving. So they did this and they voted the EPA charges that Volkswagen had insisted for a year before the scandal broke that discrepancies were mere technical glitches. Days later, with confronted with the evidence, they came out and fully acknowledged that they manipulated the vehicle emission test.
00:19:22:20 - 00:19:55:02
Wayne Mulder
And then it goes on to talk about what this cost them. Right. So in the public eye, they had all sorts of issues. There were billion dollars, let's say 2017 a year. Central judge ordered Volkswagen to pay a $2.8 billion criminal fine for rigging diesel powered vehicles to cheat on government emissions tests on and on it goes. But the author, the PhD student of this article, ends with on Volkswagen on Volkswagen's website, the core value that tops the list is integrity.
00:19:55:20 - 00:20:33:21
Wayne Mulder
Quoting We always strive to do the right thing. Our commitment to the truth is unwavering, both in actions and in words. Do managers. This is a question he asks, and workers live by these organizational values that you claim you have, right? I ask you that question. See, if you come into law enforcement or any career for that matter, we have had these type of questions, these type of statements where we believe that, oh, in order to be a law enforcement officer, integrity is the most important thing.
00:20:33:21 - 00:20:52:14
Wayne Mulder
You lose your integrity. You know, as long as you're honest and you don't have sex on duty. How many times have you heard that right? If you want to be good in this career, just you got to be honest and not have sex on duty. Okay. That that makes sense to me. All right. Check those boxes. And we say that this is the most important thing.
00:20:52:14 - 00:21:15:02
Wayne Mulder
And yet fundamentally, we so often refuse to look introspectively, look at ourselves and say, you know, what am I doing? What I say I'm going to do? Am I standing up for the things that I say I believe are, you know, do you do what you say when you say you're going to do it and how you say you're going to do it, do you?
00:21:15:29 - 00:21:37:23
Wayne Mulder
Now, I'll be completely honest with you. I have a lot of these conversations because I know myself. I struggle with these things because I want to believe that. Yeah, no, absolutely. I would always do. And yet I look at little things, right? Like, Hey, little Johnny. Yeah, I will. I'll do that with you on Friday night. Absolutely. Well, let's make a date out of Friday.
00:21:38:11 - 00:21:57:19
Wayne Mulder
You get home long shift. Maybe you had stay an extra hour or two because something crazy happened. Maybe some, you know, missing child. And now you get home and you're exhausted and you got to be back. Yeah. Yeah. That. I don't feel like doing it now. We'll do it tomorrow. We'll do it tomorrow. We'll do it tomorrow. And you tell the kid over and over again, We'll do it tomorrow.
00:21:57:19 - 00:22:18:27
Wayne Mulder
We'll do it tomorrow. Is that integrity? Things happen. You're going to miss appointments. But if you just keep saying we're going to do it, going to do it, going to do it, and you never do it. You're a liar is what you are. I mean, I hate to say it and I don't mean to be mean, but I'm a liar if that's what I'm doing.
00:22:19:26 - 00:22:42:20
Wayne Mulder
And that's what I really want to encourage you. Do you take a stand for core beliefs that you say you have, even when it may cost you everything? We all we all say this right? We all say that. Well, I believe such and such. But then when we're standing around the watercooler, proverbially, we immediately start to backtrack when there's pressure, when it.
00:22:42:20 - 00:23:03:27
Wayne Mulder
Well, it might be we've seen this in recent years. Well, it might cost me my job. I have these religious beliefs or I have these core fundamental beliefs, and it may cost me my job. Actually, the first article we read, it may cost some people their jobs to say, You know what? I took an oath to uphold the Constitution and this law is unconstitutional and I won't do it.
00:23:04:20 - 00:23:30:10
Wayne Mulder
I'm not saying that's the right or wrong thing. That's not the point. The point is, is that if you are saying that is what you believe in, in the moment, that it gets tough, you no longer decide you want to do it. Well, then you're not living with integrity. You simply are not. More importantly, do you even know what your core beliefs are?
00:23:30:10 - 00:23:54:18
Wayne Mulder
Do you? Because we say we have core beliefs and we say yes. One thing when push comes to shove, I'm going to stand up and do the right thing because I saw it once on a movie and man, those 300, they they really you know, I'm the warrior. I'm the one warrior. If you don't even know what you believe in, why you believe it, and then be willing to stand up.
00:23:54:18 - 00:24:20:02
Wayne Mulder
The key word for me this year is action. We must be men and women of integrity who are willing to take action. I don't know how many conversations that I have per week where we discuss the culture, the country and the future and the mood, and those conversations every time becomes despondent and sour. Just yesterday I had a conversation with the future guest.
00:24:20:02 - 00:24:41:16
Wayne Mulder
That episode's going to come out in March and over and over, he's like, This is the most depressing, depressing conversation that I've had. And there's this underlying belief that we have so many of us. Well, there's there's just nothing that I can do or what can I do, you know? And the conversation just simply seems to end there time after time.
00:24:41:16 - 00:25:04:25
Wayne Mulder
The belief that is articulated is this belief that, well, it is what it is or I don't I don't have any control over that. That's not something I you know, that's just politics or that's just whatever it is doesn't have to be politics, whatever it is. I just don't have any control over that. And though that may be true in some context, I would counter with a more philosophical retort to that thinking.
00:25:05:11 - 00:25:36:02
Wayne Mulder
If not you, then who? Hmm. If not you and I, who are at least having this conversation, who are at least seeing that there is an issue, that there is something to be concerned about. If you and I aren't the ones that are willing to stand up for it than who is, we often arrive at this fallacy that we have to make major changes, maybe become the president.
00:25:36:02 - 00:25:54:15
Wayne Mulder
We have to have copious amounts of money. We have to have some particular set of skills or some level of influence in order to be able to make change. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just had a conversation this week where we discussed that for the first time in a long time in this country, you can be the resistance.
00:25:54:15 - 00:26:18:09
Wayne Mulder
You you can be standing up against the spirit of the age simply by telling the truth, simply by speaking truth. We live in a time where it has gotten so crazy and we live in such a apposite of reality world that simply by acknowledging reality, you can take a stand simply by refusing to worship at the feet of cultural Marxism.
00:26:18:12 - 00:26:45:08
Wayne Mulder
Or, as we saw in today's stories, just simply being honest. You can stand up our officers, our agencies, our communities. We must be built of people who have a strong moral code and a willingness to actually do what we say we are going to do. If you want to start to be part of the change, then you have to let your yes be yes and your no, no, don't simply in especially if you're in leadership.
00:26:45:08 - 00:27:11:24
Wayne Mulder
Listen, this don't simply have some flowery, flowery mission statement in rhyming keywords. If you don't actually intend to do what they actually say, it's better that you don't even have them plastered all over your office than to have them there and then refuse to actually follow through on them. In that sense, you know better than Enron saying integrity was one of the most important things this year must be about standing up and taking action.
00:27:12:14 - 00:27:28:22
Wayne Mulder
I know we we all we all want to live in a world where we go to work, we enforce the laws, we go home to our families and we live our comfortable lives. And then someday we retire to the mountains. We retire to the beach, and we talk about the good old days, and we all tell war stories.
00:27:28:22 - 00:27:53:21
Wayne Mulder
And if you think that this is our current reality, you're deceived. You simply out, you're you're deceived or a fool. And I'll let you be the judge. Laws do not matter. In a country with no moral code. In a society where individual happiness is the Prime directive and personal responsibility is scoffed at, you cannot make enough laws or arrest yourself out of it.
00:27:54:09 - 00:28:18:03
Wayne Mulder
You simply can't. You only have two choices at that point and you've heard some people talking about this in Washington. You are either going to change the hearts and minds of people or submit to terror to a tyrannical state where every action is control. Those are your only two options. That's why John Adams said that our system of government, our Constitution, was only made for a moral and religious people.
00:28:18:10 - 00:28:38:12
Wayne Mulder
It is wholly inadequate to be the government of any other. Why is that? I encourage you that this is the year this is the year that you're going to start to sense a theme. I'm going to provide actionable ideas for law enforcement. I'm going to teach things that I wish I would have known in the academy. I'm going to talk about officer safety.
00:28:38:12 - 00:29:06:23
Wayne Mulder
I'm going to talk about leadership, and I'm going to strongly advocate for law enforcement, mental health programs. But underneath it all through I would throughout all of it, there is going to be a strong theme about standing up, taking action, knowing what you believe, knowing fundamental, foundational government, governmental principles, remembering your duty, an oath to the Constitution and taking personal responsibility and having your word and actions be in sync.
00:29:07:14 - 00:29:47:07
Wayne Mulder
And I'm not talking about the band words and actions in sync. This is how you and I will start to make a difference. That is how we recover the society that you and I swore to protect. So my friend, that does it for this week's Morning Roll Call. I'll see you on Thursday in the interview room. But in the meantime, I'm going to see you out there on the blue line.