As horrible as the Broward County school tragedy is it still provides us some
useful takeaways they have the potential of keeping you out of jail.
Now, I'm sympathetic to the victims but it would be a disservice for me to avoid
the topic. If we haven't met yet my name is Jeff Lotter. I spent 13 years as a
cop before changing careers becoming a criminal defense attorney. I provide
weekly uploads to keep you out of trouble and help you better understand
the system if you're already in trouble. Now this isn't the first time we've discussed
reading officers; I'll put a link to that second video or the prior video in the
description below. The feedback I received on that video leads me to
believe that most of you don't really get what I was trying to say. The Broward
County school shooting incident provides a great real-world example of how
reading officers may help you out. My brain is hardwired like a cop's. That
provides me great advantages in many situations and also provides some
disadvantages in other areas of my life (side note) Most of the attorneys that
advertise or brag about being cops or former law enforcement we're not really
what most cops consider "real cops" most of these former cop turned
attorneys played the role of police officers as a part-time gig or were lazy
because they were so focused on just getting the title of police officer
to use in their future practice. Anyways I'm glad they served not dissin' like
that but a lot of them don't have the real-world down-to-earth experience.
That's not me, I grounded it out for 10 years; tons of arrests, tons of foot
pursuits, crazy calls, tons of trainees, dead bodies, fully automatic guns it was
so wild and was a lot of fun. Now I admit the last three years I laid off
quite a bit, to give you a ballpark idea in a normal year I might have made 300
arrests. The last year I probably made about a hundred arrests. So why am I
telling you this? Because it's a trust thing. If you're gonna continue listening to
videos you need to know where I'm coming from, because if I was making this crap
up out of nowhere throw it out the window. But with thousands and thousands
of police-citizen encounters under my belt I think you should at least hear me
out and maybe think it could be possibly right before you throw me to
the wolves. But, before we go forward you and I need to be on the same sheet of
music for one thing it's this: I am assuming that you want the best way to
avoid being arrested. If that fails to work then you want the best way to avoid
being convicted. This is huge, because it distinguishes what makes me different
than the other type of creators out there making these types of videos. Those
other types are generally the people that say f**k the police and then the
traditional lawyers out there that are given legal advice. Here's what I gotta
say to the f**k the police crowd. I don't personally get any satisfaction by
pissing off cops for no reason I'm not sold that the way many of you are
employing your tactics is helpful for the future of our Country but, be that as
it may, it's a free country so go ahead and and do you. Just know, if you're actively
pushing the envelope you better be clean, nothing on you, no warrants, no drugs,
and sober. Similarly with mostly attorney videos that I've watched everything is
based upon their experience in the courtroom with the people that were
arrested their legal advice is courtroom centric, meaning their advice doesn't
even consider the possibility of avoiding the arrest in the first place.
They're only playing the long game, assuming that you're gonna be arrested.
See I play the short game and the long game. The short game is avoiding the rest
altogether if we win the short game you don't have to play the long game. Let's
dive deeper in that for a moment when I say not getting arrested
I'm not suggested you're gonna be let go on a serious charge. If you've got felony
charges keep your mouth shut follow the traditional legal advice, but
if you've got a little bit of weed on you or you've got a couple drinks get
pulled over anything where the cop has some discretion I think my advice is
probably more applicable. Speaking of that, if you've used something that I've
suggest and it helped you out let me know in the comments that would be super
awesome. So let's talk about Broward. The reports are that at least one deputy
fail to properly respond. First let's lay the foundation for those affected; it's a
horrible thing that happened I don't condone it and I pray for each one
of you, I do. I personally know a parent of a child that was at the school and
their daughter didn't suffer any physical injuries or any harm but I got the frantic text message and
I'm so sorry. But, the fact there was such a harm means that we have to have an
open discussion and learn, and not all cops are created equal
just like in the military now everyone is trained like a killing machine. We're
not gonna send a company of finance officers to take down the ISIS
stronghold. But why? you'd say. They're all trained through basic training they're
all soldiers, no they're not. It's absolutely insane. That first officer the
one who's being crucified is a school resource officer. What do you think of
when you think of school resource officer? Let me tell ya, in my experience
there's three different types of cops that are SROs in large departments: 1)
officers that never really thrived on the streets, they did their mandatory 12
months in patrol and they found their way to a school so they wouldn't have to
do real police work. Do you think they're closer to an infantryman or a
finance person in the army? The second type. Old-school officers that are just
riding out their time. They may have been good cops and aggressive in their day
but there are days of long since past and they're just punching a clock right
now. And third burnout officers, the guy that
hits a heart that first few years on the ground but got burnout and wants to work
at a school for a few years take a break play some basketball with kids that's another
one. Now keep in mind this may not apply to every agency especially the smaller
agencies. Due to their limited staffing they seem to have a larger cross-section
of officers fulfilling the duties sometimes on a rotating basis.This is a
deputy in Broward County, Florida. It's a pretty big County. He was at number two
on that list according to Washington Post. He was 54 years old, he joined BCSO
in the 80s, and has been an SRO for the past eight years. This guy's been with
the sheriff's office almost 30 years and hasn't promoted, I mean that tells you
something right there. Some people don't like to promote but
aggressive people generally like to promote through the ranks. So he's been
through a lot of training BCSO has first class training; I know some
of the guys down there. I used to work with one of the guys that's a training officer
down there, he works the range and they put on some great programs.
I know it's realistic and hard core training
that's not a question. The question is how did this SRO who is in his weaning
days of law enforcement apply that training. The training is only as good as
the person going through it. And I'm willing to bet that this is one
of those officers that had to be trained in active shooter but was he really
training to learn over there just going through the motions? There's a huge
difference! There's a huge difference! The active shooter scenario is substantially
different than how police officers were trained back in the 80s. We'll talk about
that here in a minute. Active shooter response is still
developing in law enforcement, when this guy was in his prime the standard
response for this type of call would be to secure perimeter and wait for SWAT.
Based on limited information that I've heard it sounds like he did fall back on
his training, just his training from 20 years ago, not the training he's
attended most recently. And I've been through dozens of active shooter
training scenarios the response is continually evolving. He likely stopped
evolving in his training back 10 15 years ago. So let's step back away from
the instant scenario and all the politics. How does this information help you not
get arrested? This horrific situation reinforces that recognizing the type of
cops that is stopping you is critical. Your chance of getting out of an arrest,
a ticket, or any trouble, hinges on you properly identifying the end game of the
officer that stopped. You then you mold your behavior so you don't become part
of that end game. You don't want to be stopped by the cops in the first place,
but if you're stopped you want to be back on your way as soon as possible.
Since the instant case talks about SROs let's discuss their characteristics and
how you can identify them and what their endgame is. So we've already discussed
the type of officers that generally become SROs. So now the question is
how do you identify them? I am going to tell you look above their name tag. Many
SROs actually wear a pin on their uniform that says SRO, now you'll most
likely encounter an SRO on their way to or from the school, to or from their
weekly check-in at the substation, to or from an off-duty job or maybe add an
off-duty job and then potentially on the holiday
or during the summer when school's out they may be on regular Patrol. Here's
the deal, usually the SRO isn't gonna want to dig
deeper than surface level their interaction with you. If you have
something that's in their face you might wind up in jail.
But if everything appears okay at first glance, you should be good. Now I'm giving
my opinion here take it for whatever worth that you give it, this is not legal
advice and should keep in mind my observations don't apply in every
circumstance. There are two circumstances that you should particularly be aware of
that it definitely won't apply; first if you're under 20 years old none of this
applies to you you now are part of the population that the SRO is generally
responsible for. They may take the time to investigate you further because they
feel responsible for you. So that's one. If it's a school holiday or summer break
and the SRO is working in a regular patrol capacity, which oftentimes happens,
if you run into him in that situation then he's gonna be more leaning towards
cop mode than SRO mode. But think about the times that I told you're gonna
interact with an SRO. The person, he is either on his way to or from home, or
work he's either to or from his substation to
the school, or he's to or from or at an off-duty job. When an officer is on their
way to or from something else you are not their endgame. So a vast majority of
your interactions with the SRO if you can just satisfy his initial reason he
stopped you he's gonna be back on track going towards that end game. It's when
you raise suspicion or cause headache or heartache right away that he's gonna
dive down and dig deeper. So if you find yourself stopped by an SRO you want to
keep a low profile and just make sure everything's straight at first glance.
He's likely to be on his way to someplace they're supposed to be or on
his way home he doesn't plan on arresting you. However, if he lands on a
felony or an easy and/or good arrest he's gonna make the arrest. If you do get
arrested by a SRO, keep in mind they're usually not prime
with regards to being up-to-date on street-level law, search and seizure, and
procedures. Now once again they're up to date on the school stuff and what
happens in school, they got that down. But on the street level they tend to get more
lackadaisical because they don't interact with it on a daily basis. So if it looks
like they're going down the road to arrest you I would place as many legal
obstacles in their way as possible. I request just because you're an
attorney while on the scene I would request I would deny any search I
wouldn't I answer any questions I'd going to request speak to an attorney
again but I wouldn't be an asshole the SRO specialty is dealing with
pain-in-the-ass kids all day long you are not going to rattle them by being a
pain in the ass instead you're going to drive them into their work mode into
their common element where they're normal to take in control and you are
going to make yourself the endgame so there's a number of different type of
cops that might pull you over if you're interested in learning more about the
additional types of cops you can check out the next cleaner playlist and I'll
link to it here if you've watched my videos and my tips have helped you out
that's awesome please tell me about in the comment
section if you're new to the Channel right now February of 2018 I really have
two different types of videos that I'm making longer format videos like this
that address a topic that I think is important for everyone to know and then
shorter vlog style topics or videos that I give you behind the scenes look at the
current strategy and problems that I encountered during my week in court not
a single week goes by that I don't have a great topic for a video let's shift
gears and talk about the anti-gun side of this Broward County shooting and I'll
start by saying once again my prayers to all those affected by the horrific
events including you Scott Peterson you're probably gonna need some
counseling after this and I highly encourage you to get help sooner than
later my social news feed has been loaded with
people pushing for gun control based on this and the other incidents I don't buy
it I don't think the answer to reducing violence is to take away guns but it
seems like every time I engage in the gun debate I get teamed up on or things
turn towards an illogical can based upon emotional beliefs I can do it
it's just tiring at the end of the day I'm really not able to convince many
people to come to my side and they damn sure haven't changed my views so really
what's the point I got better things to do but some of the people out here are
pushing that we arm all the teachers and that just seems crazy to me but not for
the reasons you might think you see everyone in the industry knows that
physical security involves layers of protection this applies to our schools
too one of those layers is fencing one of
those layers is having locked doors one of those layers have an SRO arming a few
qualified teachers seems like a logical layer to me now I mean a very few we're
not talking about 10 or 20 per school we're talking about maybe one maybe two
officers per school I know a few former cops that are now teachers they should
be allowed to carry in school I know some few combat veterans that are
teaching that should be allowed to carry in schools as well but just because
somebody's a veteran or just because somebody is a police officer doesn't
mean that they automatically have the skillsets where they should be ler or
carrying a gun in school I think there does to be additional qualifications
besides that level above and beyond just being a police officer but certainly
certainly there are plenty of veterans plenty of former law enforcement
officers who would be very qualified to carry a gun in the school I don't know
what that number is hopefully would be at least one per school we now send
those officers to training with the Sheriff's Office once a year if any
Police Department who's not doing active shooter training at least once a year
that that's that would be insane too so we know they're doing it we know they're
doing active shooter training they better be doing it you have one day out
of the years done during the summer so the teachers are all at a school and you
do your active shooter training on that day and that teacher comes and the
teacher learns the current trend learns what to recognize learns behaviors
learns what the police response is going to be now you have a second first
responder besides the SRO on scene as things are unfolding but to arm all the
teachers that would make them cannon nothing against the teachers that
wouldn't qualify or even the veterans that wouldn't qualify our law
enforcement officers I don't think would qualify
I'm sure you could qualify but the time and preparation that it would take to
get there would be substantial you can't just ten an eight-hour class
and think that you're gonna be prepared to take a life because even if you take
that eight-hour class you take a life especially a young kid or maybe some of
you know that is going to mess you up pretty good
mentally and unless you're prepared to deal with that and be able to pull the
trigger that's gonna require substantial work and substantial training on your
part I think the barrier to entry would be substantially high now if you wanted
to go up and take some private courses and tactical firearms and and and spend
you know six eight months of your life doing that on the weekends I think you
get there pretty quick I don't think it would take a whole lot but it would be a
mindset and it would be tactical training and that would not be a short
endeavor if you're the type of teacher that utters the words I don't get paid
enough to put myself in harm's way I'm not sure I want you teaching my kids
being a hero isn't about money very very few times in our life do we
get the opportunity to save others by putting ourselves at risk that's not
about money it's not a job title that's about you as a person you've got your
shot to be a hero do you take it
now the good news is chances are most of you will live your whole lives never
being put in that extraordinary circumstance but when you are placed in
that circumstance if you are do you want to be the hero if so it requires nothing
more than a little bit of training and a lot of mental preparation I learned
about this the hard way after my first shooting I was an emotional mess I
wasn't mentally prepared to engage in personal violence at such close range
and I got into Dave Grossman he has a book on killing a fantastic book put a
link to that below but after the shooting I began to take violence
seriously I regularly meditated and placed myself in bad scenarios and then
my mind carried out the best action to save the most people I've mentally been
in turnover car crashes I've mentally been an active shooter scenario that I I
mean hundreds and hundreds airport I can tell you it's just part of my life I
remember back in the army we'd load up into the planes around 8 o'clock at
night and we're gonna be on a training mission so we'd be flying out in the
planes and we'd parachute out of the planes or a drop zone with all our
equipment you know rucksack and guns and everything and we do a simulated mission
and sometimes it was a complex we go into the field for a week sometimes it
was more laid-back less intense from a mission follow-on mission standpoint but
one of the follow-on missions was a 12-mile Road march back to the barracks
so you had all your gear your rucksack your weapon and your LBE everything you
had LC and it was a race to say so it was a timed road march force road march
I was generally first because those days I wasn't as fat and really tall lengthy
and I could run like the wind so I was generally
first but I recall doing that the way I did that the way I came in first was
this I envisioned my mother about to be tortured at the finish line and I played
that scenario over and over my head that she was about to be tortured I went
through different ways of torture even and I would start to cry while I'm
running and jogging it with this all this rut rut gear out of the gear on and
when you have that type of passion that you're gonna save your mom it doesn't
matter that your side hurts it doesn't matter that you can't feel your feet or
your feet are bleeding it doesn't matter that you can barely run and that you
losing your breath well I guess you lose your breath pass out so you got to
breathe but the body can do extraordinary things when your mind is
mentally prepared for it if you want to be prepared when your day comes to be
the hero you've got to start living out some of these during your meditation and
to think about them and to figure out what you'll do and place yourself in any
number of situations that's how you make sure that when it goes down you'll
respond because the body can't go where the mine hasn't been I'd love to hear
what you think about this stuff heck make a video and shoot out a link if
you'd like check out my blog style videos I'll put a link to those in the
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