Dr. Roy Taylor

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Living Your Legacy · From Police Chief to Mental Health Reformer · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

game changer to have the ability to put people into real life scenarios where they'll actually pull the weapon and fire it if the need is there or use a less than lethal weapon or engage.

Now, the software is getting so advanced, they can actually have conversations with the virtual bad guys, if you will.

Yes, sir.

No, it does.

And, you know, it's a challenge to hire the right type of people to be a police officer.

And, you know, not despairing against a Marine because I'm a colonel in the Army or anything.

But, you know, a person that's been in the Marine Corps, what is their job?

Find, fix, and kill the enemy.

What's the job of a police officer?

To be a servant to the public 24 hours a day.

So the Marines look sharp in their uniform.

We like for our officers to look sharp in their uniform.

But that's really where the commonality ends.

So we really look to people that have the emotional intelligence, like you said, people that want to have an advanced degree and want to help society because the need to use force should be the last resort.

And we try to use verbal judo and other techniques to, you know, de-escalate the situation and resolve it without violence and hopefully resolve it without the need to put them in the criminal justice system.

that you just do that many more good things and you have to advertise that you're doing good things.

When I was a police chief in small communities in North Carolina, I made an effort to have at least one story in the local newspaper every week.

And my goal was that they would get so sick and tired of hearing all about these good things we did that if there's one bad thing that happens, they're gonna say, well,

either not going to pay attention to it because they're tired of reading and figuring it's good, or they're going to say, well, they do so many good things that they're entitled to have a mess up every now and then or be involved in a situation that may not be positive.

Right on.

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