Who Said Living Out Your Childhood Dreams Would Be Easy? with MPD Director Michael Rallings

My guest this week is Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings. You may know Director Rallings from leading the Memphis Police Department. After announcing his retirement for the year 2021, I wanted to speak with Director Rallings to understand what it felt like when he accessed and walked with protesters off the Mississippi River Bridge in 2016. This is a replay of an episode that was recorded in the summer of 2020. In this conversation, we discuss: The principles that he has lived by throughout his life What a global perspective teaches him about the City he leads How to have context for the big picture when you're thinking about specific challenges And more Please enjoy my conversation with Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings.   1:40 Family, Dignity, Respect, and Loving People 1:57 Being Responsible for one’s own actions 3:08 Why discipline matters 3:39 Only two things I wanted to be: a soldier and an officer 4:36 Parents didn’t want me to join 7:20 The sacrifice others have made 7:35 What others have done for me 8:41 What a true global perspective gives you 12:24 George Floyd 12:41 Actual facts about law enforcement 15:00 Soldier for life 16:45 Look at the whole body of work 21:29 I have a long way to go 24:10 I am not going through anything anybody else hasn’t 24:40 Criticism has few terrors for a man with great purpose  26:30 If it’s good to my boss it’s great to me 27:17 You can’t do it all 28:23 Drown out the noise and do the work 29:44 Only hear because of the grace of God 30:04 Love yourself 33:20 President Obama I made a mistake every day 36:20 Getting in harms way 40:36 Negative Media 42:41 Transitioning career and getting to know Mike   RESOURCES Matt Haaga State Farm AB Jets Memphis Police Department