The Front Seat with Nick Jackson
The Front Seat with Nick Jackson takes you inside the world of real roadside policing and criminal interdiction. Hosted by Nick Jackson, this podcast peels back The Interdiction Layer — exposing the behaviors, deception cues, and interview tactics that reveal the truth when seconds count.
Expect raw conversations about building rapport, spotting subtle behavioral shifts, and turning everyday stops into career-making cases. Weekly shows include solo Front Seat breakdowns, Border to Border interviews with proactive cops across the country, and deep-dive case studies from real-world interdiction work.
Whether you’re a new Law Enforcement Officer learning the craft or a seasoned pro sharpening your edge, this is where the layers of interdiction get peeled back — one stop at a time.
The Front Seat with Nick Jackson
Episode #4: The Crossroads: Interstate & City interdiction I-90 / I-94 Corridor with Cody Digre
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
In this episode of The Front Seat with Nick Jackson, Nick welcomes Cody Digre, a K9 handler who works both interstate and inner-city interdiction along the I-90 / I-94 corridor between Chicago and Minneapolis.
Together, they explore a practical and often misunderstood side of interdiction: how intelligence, geography, and human behavior come together during real roadside encounters. From short turn-around trips and LPR data to interviews and consent searches, this conversation focuses on how cases are built through observation, communication, and decision-making in the moment.
Cody shares how being personable and building rapport has played a critical role in his success, especially early in his career when consent searches were often the primary tool. He breaks down how establishing a behavioral baseline, recognizing stress, and identifying deception can move a stop forward without force or confrontation.
They also discuss the challenges facing proactive work today, including finding motivated personnel willing to work interdiction, adapting tactics to different local expectations, and balancing consent-based searches with K9 deployment.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How intelligence and geography influence interdiction decisions
- The role of interviews and rapport in developing reasonable suspicion
- Consent searches versus K9 use, and how to decide between them
- Why some officers struggle with interdiction work
- How experience and exposure sharpen behavioral awareness
- Where interdiction is headed in a changing policing environment
Whether you’re in law enforcement or simply curious about how interdiction really works beyond the headlines, this episode offers an honest look at the mindset, skills, and challenges involved in working the road.
Once you start paying attention to behavior and patterns, you begin to see how much of this work happens long before the search and long before the stop ever feels routine.
No hype. No fluff. Just real interdiction talk from the front seat.