Ryan Schwenk

Like, if I'm the attorney who's in Glencoe teaching, I'm not the attorney in the courtroom who's having to answer the ethical question of, am I OK prosecuting this case?

You were just like, not it.

I'm going to dodge and go do this other thing so that I don't get.

I mean, I would love to say otherwise.

I would love to be like, this was just like 100% like profile encouraged type stuff, right?

But it's not.

It's a combination of I could see the writing on the wall and I saw the opportunity to do good, right?

This was an opportunity to go teach, which is something I've always liked doing.

But then, of course, I got to Glencoe and all of that changed the day I got there.

September 1st was the day I arrived in Glencoe, Georgia.

I have to go back with my records, but I think it was September 2nd was the first morning that I went to the academy.

I showed up early in the morning and I had to go through and get my badge.

And then I went to the academy training building.

And while I was there,

The very first thing I heard was a conversation about background checks on cadets and how they weren't being completed before they came to the academy and that we already had problems with cadets showing up that had disqualifying criminal offenses and the concerns that we were going to have cadets coming through that we couldn't...

We couldn't background check sufficiently to know whether or not they were going to be able to finish the program, right?

Are we allowed to carry a firearm?

You took an agency that hires maybe 1,000 people a year and told it to process 10,000 people in three months.

There simply weren't the resources to run all the background checks ahead of time.

They were just delayed.