Blue Canary: For Cops By a Cop Steve Kellams

Leadership Journeys.You are going to hear me talk a lot about leadership journeys this season.What do I mean about leadership journeys? It’s how I describe the process of growing as a leader, of taking on formal and informal responsibilities and about not only learning the process of leadership, but embracing it as well.I decided the best way to start this season off was to talk you through my leadership journey, and no it wasn’t very pretty.Many of you out there have had the pleasure of havi...

Leadership, The Oxford English Dictionary defines leadership as;The action of leading a group of people or an organization. The state or position of being a leader.Got it. That’s a simple one. Next important lesson please…Not so fast.Leadership has to be one of the most vexing skills to learn in our profession. First of all, it’s critically important. It’s important for the officer working the beat who must deal with the public every day. They must lead on scenes and at calls for service, the...

That's a Wrap.In 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic I decided to start this podcast. I had just retired and started full time teaching and consulting when the world came to a grinding halt. The podcast was a way to fill that void. To scratch my teaching itch and to share what I had learned in 30 years of working as a cop. I couldn’t be more happy with the results. Over the last four years I have had the pleasure of reconnecting with old friends, making new ones, an...

In 2022 Rafael Mangual a senior fellow and head of research for policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research published his book Criminal (In)Justice. If your profession revolves around the criminal justice system then this is a must-read book. Using extensive studies and documentation Mangual takes the fight to the decarceration and depolicing narrative. He quickly and succinctly destroys the concept of defunding the police.Criminal (In)Justice points out that the...

Rick Snyder started in law enforcement over 27 years ago and continues to serve on a major metropolitan police department. Rick is the president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 86 and also serves as the National FOP Chaplain.Rick has been vocal about the issues involving police reform for many years and I was pleased to have an opportunity to talk to Rick about the state of policing and the war on cops.Rick had so much more to say, but do to technical difficulties and schedule conflicts we...

This is our fourth annual Halloween Special and it's a doozy. Ever had one of those creepy encounters that just set the hair on the back of your neck straight up. Usually we just move on and forget about them, but sometimes they can really spook you.In this episode we hear the real true story of a creepy conversation that took a dark turn quickly. Dim the lights and settle in for another true Halloween story.