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Show Host Rob Lerner needs just a bit more time, so show Creator and Producer, Anthony N. Galizia Sr., returns to this season ending final episode with show co-host Gary DIckinson, along with guest Gary Coffman, a retired Criminal Investigator, Instructor, and Supervisor with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, retired Sergeant with the Broward County Sheriffs Office, Author, Private Investigator, and Personal Security Key Note Speaker, to discuss law enforcements uphill battle with drug enforcement and what needs to be done to gain control, Fentanyl, First Responders administering of Narcan, as well as the addiction epidemic and the ever increasing number of Opioid overdose cases across the nation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show Creator and Producer, Anthony N. Galizia Sr., returns to the mic for show host Rob Lerner, but show co-host Gary DIckinson is back, to discuss how the public interact with Law Enforcement Officers under different circumstances, and suggestions about what could be done to avoid adding conflict to what would normally be a non-confrontational encounter. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show Creator and Producer, Anthony N. Galizia Sr., takes the mic for Rob and Gary this episode, and talks with Guest Nezar Hamze, a Deputy Sheriff with the Broward County Sheriffs Office, and DHS CVE Specialist, about law enforcement's response to violent extremism, and using Community Policing to counter it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner, and co-host Gary Dickinson, continue the discussion on the vital contributions, and sadly, the ultimate sacrifices that our four legged partners make to Law Enforcement, with guest Manny Koutsofios, a Sergeant and Commanding Officer of the Broward County Sheriffs Office K-9 Unit, in this second episode of a 2 part special. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner, and co-host Gary Dickinson, discuss the vital contributions, and sadly, the ultimate sacrifices that our four legged partners make to Law Enforcement, in this first episode of a 2 part special. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner talks with guest Brian Faer, a Retired Captain from the Broward County Sheriffs Office, about the 18 years since the September 11th, 2001 attacks when terrorist-piloted aircraft hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, taking the lives of 2,977, and the lasting effects that continue to take lives with 9-11 related illnesses today, much of them first responders of that day. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner, and co-host Gary Dickinson, discuss the preparations first responders take, and the sacrifices that they make when faced with potentially catastrophic events, including the securing of their own homes, and leaving their own families to fend for themselves, while standing steadfast and ready to respond in the communities they protect, as well as South Florida's close call with Hurricane Dorian, a monstrous Category 5 storm. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner makes a special announcement and talks with returning guests Dean Swade, a retired NYPD Officer and POPPA Counselor (Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance), and Gary Dickinson, a retired Deputy Sheriff, about the continual misconception and labeling of everyday traffic stops as, yet are anything other than, routine, as well as the increase in fleeing offenders due to knowledge of police department pursuit policy changes, following public scrutiny of an officers reasoning to pursue when innocent bystanders are injured or killed.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner talks with guest Dean Swade, a retired NYPD Officer and POPPA Counselor (Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance), about about the alarming increase in police suicides including the suicide epidemic in the NYPD, as well as the increase of physical attacks on Law Enforcement Officers nationwide, namely the recent attacks on NYPD Officers where bottles and rocks were thrown, and buckets of water were dumped on the heads of officers. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner talks with guest Jonanthan Korman, a Detective with the Broward County Sheriffs Office, about law enforcements response to active shooter incidents, and the public's responsibility to have a plan, educate and prepare themselves, and familiarize themselves with suggestions of how and when to make a decision to Run, Hide, Fight, should they find themselves in a situation, as well as ransomware, and the many types of fraudulent credit card transactions on unsuspecting victims as well as an increase in scams, including Social Security, IRS, and injured or kidnapped relative telephone scams with threats of imprisonment or harm for failure to pay panic victims into payment, especially the elderly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner talks with guest Fred Finnerty, a retired NYPD Officer, about coping with the almost daily encounters with death, and the increase in active shooter incidents across the country including the prior concerning behaviors of those responsible. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner talks with guest Richard Betensky, a Deputy Sheriff and K-9 handler with the Broward County Sheriffs Office, and known to all as "Richie B", about a law enforcement officers split second decision making, the lengthy dissection and unfair criticism after the fact by the general public, and eventual exploitation with the promise to hold police accountable by politicians, merely playing to an audience. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

Show host Rob Lerner talks with guest John McCrea, a retired NYPD Detective, about common sense compliance when interacting with Law Enforcement Officers, and the consequences of failing to do so during lawful officer encounters, as well as the current negative state of affairs of police departments across the nation, with politicians and local governments.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support

In this Inaugural Episode, show host Rob Lerner talks with show producer Danny Klapadoras and guest Gary Dickinson, a retired Deputy Sheriff, about the the dangers that Law Enforcement Officers face everyday, and the loss of Dickinson's very own brother during one of those instances. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/copservations/support