Hard Corners with Tom Synan

Hard Corners is a term we used on SWAT when clearing buildings and rooms. Soft Corners were the things you could see, this was not the biggest concern. It was the Hard Corners that had the hidden dangers and challenges. Focus on the Hard Corners and you expose those challenges.That is what we will be doing with this Podcast. Exposing the tough, challenging and dangerous conversations. The conversation that make us uncomfortable and vulnerable. Rhetoric simplifies a topic in order to win an argument. I don’t care about winning arguments. I want to get into all the complexities of an issue. The raw, real and honest layers of an issue. That’s where understanding is found. Understand the human in each issue and we will learn the stories of humanity.

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Hard Corners with Tom Synan

The Chiefs Roundtable

March 02, 2023 • Jesse Waits Media • Season 1 • Episode 6

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This is a real, raw and perfectly imperfect conversation of policing, being a police leader and what it all means to be the human under the uniform.

There are not enough words to thank and express my gratitude to Chief Thomas Wells, Chief Scott Hughes and Capt. Steve Saunders; for their incredible insight and opening up about their police careers, how the job has impacted their mental health as well the officers they serve with and the human journey. Thank you!

This was recorded before the Memphis incident and the heartbreaking loss of a Cincinnati officer that took her life.

If you have struggled with depression, mental health or felt alone- you are not alone. There are those who walk the same path you do but have found a way with an overall well-being plan to help manage it all.

The ask for help is a guide in a better direction.

The national suicide and crisis hotline at 988.

Samhas national helpline at 1-800-662-help

If you are a police officer you can call 1-800-copline

First responders in ohio can go to mha.Ohio.gov