It is a policing approach focused on understanding how trauma impacts individuals' behaviors, leading to increased empathy, decreased re-traumatization, and improved community trust.

Join the host, Chief Virgil Green, and his guest, Eric Threlkeld, who has a robust background in law enforcement operations with a specialized focus on domestic violence prevention. Eric also serves as Detective Captain at the Eddy County Sheriff's Office in New Mexico. Join us as we discuss trauma-informed policing and the importance of training police officers how to recognize trauma's effects, ask open-ended, non-judgmental questions ("What has happened to you?" vs. "What's wrong with you?"), ensure victims' safety, provide resources, and explain procedures to reduce distress and foster cooperation.

A traffic stop is lawful if a police officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that you are violating a traffic law or engaging in criminal activity, or if there's a warrant for your arrest, or the stop is a regulated safety inspection like a sobriety checkpoint. An unlawful stop occurs when there is no valid legal basis, such as when the officer cannot articulate specific facts to justify the stop, or the stop is based on discriminatory reasons like racial profiling.

Join host Chief Virgil Green and his guest, Mark Vermylen, a TikTok influencer, whose traffic stop in Windsor has been viewed over one million times on TikTok, as they discuss what makes a traffic stop lawful or unlawful, and his experience and how he followed through with filing an official complaint against the officer.

Effective policing should be more focused on catching offenders and keeping communities safe, neither of which is accomplished by blurring the line between military and law enforcement roles. Inappropriate and excessive use of the military as domestic law enforcement not only threatens liberty and local control, it also undermines effective crime prevention.

Join host Chief Virgil Green and his guest, Monty Bynum, CEO and founder of ADB Training, as they discuss whether this is an effective way to combat crime in urban cities and whether the military is a solution.