Police Training Saves Lives - Ft. Dr. Mike McCutcheon Full Ep

The Hidden Cost of Poor Police Training.

Today, I’m joined by a very special guest: Dr. Mike McCutcheon, a retired law enforcement professional with an impressive career spanning over two decades — most of it in detectives. Now a full-time professor and national law enforcement trainer, Dr. McCutcheon shares powerful insights on the critical importance of ongoing police training and the consequences when departments cut corners on it.

In this thought-provoking conversation, we cover:

-Dr. McCutcheon’s journey from patrol officer to detective sergeant
-Why training is often the first thing cut from law enforcement budgets
-The real impact of bad training — and why good cops don’t always make good instructors
-His passion for teaching crime scene investigation, interview techniques, and body language analysis
-Wild stories from the field, including how a lack of training led one trooper to let a massive fraudster walk free!

Whether you're in law enforcement, a criminal justice student, or just passionate about how policing works behind the scenes, this episode will give you a deeper understanding of the system — and what it takes to fix it.

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Connect with Dr. Mike McCutcheon
Website: https://www.forensiceducation.net/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-michael-mccutcheon

Connect with Jared Bradley:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredvbradley
Website: https://www.m-vac.com

All Things Crime is a new, comprehensive video series that will explore every aspect of crime and the ensuing investigation, one video interview at a time.  The host, Jared Bradley, is the President of M-Vac Systems, which is a wet-vacuum based forensic DNA collection system, and has experience traveling the world training all levels of law enforcement and crime lab DNA analysts in using the M-Vac to help solve crime.  Along the way he has met people from all walks of life and experience in investigating crimes, so is putting that knowledge to use in another way by sharing it in these videos.


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