You And The Law Podcast | Justice System Insights

In the Blink of an Eye, unnecessary encounters by police officers happen all too often. In a recent encounter in Birmingham, Alabama. Listen to the audio clip where after a local high school football game, police ordered a band director to stop playing. Join the Cohost Chiefs tonight at 6 p.m. CST, as they discuss this and many other questionable encounters by police officers. Was this unacceptabl...

He is believed to be one of the earliest African Americans to receive a commission as a deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River. Reeves worked for thirty-two years as a deputy marshal in the Indian Territory. He was the only deputy to begin with Parker's court and work until Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Join us this Thursday at 6PM CST. With our guest author and historian on Bass Reev...

We’ll never know what Philando Castile was feeling when the police lights first flashed across his rearview mirror in a suburb city of Minneapolis, Minnesota on a summer evening in 2016. But we can be reasonably certain that he wasn’t feeling surprised. The traffic stop commonly known as a pretextual traffic stop for a broken taillight that precipitated his tragic death, and captured the nation’s...

Kids are still an afterthought in reforms championed by lawmakers and pushed by police departments. But in case after case, children as young as 6 have been treated harshly even brutally by police officers. The recent viral video of a 10-year-old being handcuffed for peeing behind his mother’s car by a Mississippi police officer. Has again raised many concerns about why officers are so quick to ha...

Show Topic: ‘Goon Squad’ of law officers Over the past decade, there have been many disturbing encounters between police and the black community. Where officers have used excessive force on unarmed African Americans. The death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died three days after being beaten in a traffic stop in early January by five Black Police Officers in Memphis shocked the country. Now eigh...

Join the Cohost Chiefs Retired Police Chief Keith Humphrey and Chief Virgil Green. Thursday at 6 PM CST. Streaming live on Facebook Live from the 51st Annual The National Black Police Association in Nashville, TN. Join the Cohost Chiefs as they talk with members of the NBPA during the conference.

Join the Co-host Chiefs, retired police Chief Keith Humphrey and Chief Virgil Green, and their guest Pastor Matt Porter with Victory Family Church in Newcastle, Oklahoma. As they discuss when white parents have "the talk" with their black children. Pastor Porter and his wife are parents of two black boys. Pastor Porter shares. It is subtle, but a parent notices the extra second their chi...

More police departments are looking at developing “alternative” or “co-response” programs to minimize or eliminate the role of police officers responding to nonviolent 911 calls. Many critics and some police unions have criticized police leaders for taking alternative responses. Tune in Thursday at 6pm CST. Streaming live on Facebook, with co-hosts chiefs retired police chief Keith Humphrey and Ch...

Join us for another informative topic tonight at 6 PM.CST streaming live on Facebook Live with your Co-hosts Chiefs. As they discuss the Embedded Culture of Policing. Why is the culture of Policing so hard to change? They will discuss several recent police use of force incidents like the incident with a LA County Sheriff Deputy throwing an elderly black lady on the ground

Join the Co-hosts Chiefs along with their guest Bob Scales CEO of Police Strategies LLC an expert regarding police departments that find themselves coming under a DOJ consent decrees. How effective are consent decrees in monitoring police departments? efforts to reform their agencies.

It’s no secret that law enforcement is a demanding profession. Long hours and high-stress situations can easily lead to burnout. Just like there is no way to predict the situations each officer will face each day. Join the Chiefs and their guest as they discuss recognizing when it's time to leave the profession. Tune in Thursday at 6pm CST. Streaming live on Facebook, with this week's gues...

Show Topic: Juneteenth A Celebration Of Freedom Join the Cohosts Chiefs for another episode of You And The Law Podcast as they discuss Juneteenth the Celebration of Freedom. Where Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of the darkest chapters in U.S. his...

Show Topic: PART 2 FAMILIES IMPACTED BY GUN VIOLENCE Derek Olivier, an Arkansas Baptist College student, was shot and killed in September 2012 near the campus while helping a group with car trouble. The case is still unsolved. He left his Louisiana life as a star high school football player and brought his talents to Arkansas Baptist University in the summer of 2012. Just months later his parents...

There are nearly 300 million firearms in the US, almost as many guns as there are people. It is the most heavily armed country per capita in the world. In this episode of You And The Law Podcast the cohosts chiefs retired police chief Keith Humphrey, and Chief Virgil Green will look at it. Guns, culture, and crime in the US, we look at why the debate over gun control is so polarized as they discus...

Show Topic: THE BLUE WALL OF SILENCE Recently former President Donald Trump called the black police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt a ‘thug’ during a CNN town hall. In addition, he falsely said that the officer bragged about killing Babbitt. Since his interview, there has been total silence from the police community to come out and denounce the former president’s name-calling of a federal black pol...

Show Topic: The Value of Citizen Police Academies The relationship between the community and the police has always been an uneasy one. In an otherwise “free” society, law enforcement officers are perceived to have a great deal of power, and our day-to-day job is largely misunderstood. Join the cohost Chief’s retired police chief Keith Humphrey and Chief Virgil Green and their guest as they discuss...

SHOW TOPIC: WHAT'S THE GOAL OF POLICE REFORM Join in live this Thursday at 6:00 pm CST. Live on Facebook with the Co-host Chiefs retired police chief Keith Humphrey and Chief Virgil Green. As they discuss police reform after the murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer that touched off months of demonstrations against police brutality, a U.S. public opinion survey suggests...

Join in live this Thursday at 6:00pm CST. Live on Facebook with the Co-host Chiefs retired police chief Keith Humphrey and Chief Virgil Green. As they discuss police reform after the murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer that touched off months of demonstrations against police brutality, a U.S. public opinion survey suggests solid support among Americans for broad reforms to...

SHOW TOPIC: THE 60-SECOND RULE Join in live this Thursday at 6:00pm CST. Live on Facebook with the Co-host Chiefs retired police chief Keith Humphrey and Chief Virgil Green. And their guest Tyrone Terrell president of the African American Leadership Council (AALC) representing over 30 African American organizations and over 55 members in St. Paul and Minneapolis Twin Cities Communities. Will join...

In this week's episode of You and the Law Podcast Show, the co-hosts Chiefs discuss Stop And Identify. What are citizens' rights when they are stopped by a police officer if they are walking where no crime has been committed?

Join us for our final episode of Women's History Month with the Co-hosts Chiefs and this week's guest Ret. Fayetteville, North Carolina Police Chief Gina Hawkins, and Ret, Deputy Assistant Director U.S. Secret Service and Past National President Lynda Williams along with Chief Sabrina Naulings with San Jacinto College Police Department.

Join the Co-hosts Chiefs for Part 3 of this month's series during women's history month. Black Women Leaders in law enforcement, with this week's guests Tacoma, Washington Assistant Police Chief Crystal Haskins, and Laura Martin the Community engagement manager with the Little Rock Police Department.

March is Women's History Month, Join the Co-hosts Chiefs for part 2 of their series featuring Black Female Leaders In Policing. This week's guest is Dallas County First Elected Black Female Constable Tracey Gulley who oversees the largest constable district in Dallas County Precinct 1.

March is Women's History Month, and this month the Co-hosts Chiefs will feature black female leaders in law enforcement, This week's guests are Houston Metro Transit Authority Police Department Police Chief Vera Bumpers and past National President with NOBLE and Dr. LaTeasha Watson former Police Chief with the Henderson, Nevada Police Department. Will talk about how black women are breakin...

In this week's episode of You And The Law Podcast Show, the Co-hosts Chiefs and this week's guest Gary Bryant an expert in law enforcement mental health. Talk about the importance of early training police officers in mental health awareness.