Police Departments understanding a Communities Feelings | Greg Dagnan | TEDxPittsburgStateUniversity

Speech Title: Why should your police department really know how you feel about them? Greg Dagnan has been in law enforcement since 1990 and has served as the Chief of the Carthage Police Department since 2008. In his career, he has taken on roles as a patrol officer, traffic officer, DARE officer, SRO, and criminal investigator. Greg has also served as the Executive Director of a non-profit agency responsible for investigating child abuse. Outside of law enforcement, Greg has taught as a university professor at Missouri Southern State University. He continues to teach as an adjunct at Pittsburg State University and Missouri Southern. He also provides instruction on many training topics and serves on a number of state and local boards. Before embarking on his law enforcement career, Greg worked on Fire in the Hole, an indoor roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. Greg Dagnan has been in Law Enforcement since 1990. He has been a patrol officer, a traffic officer, a DARE officer, an SRO, and a criminal investigator. He has been the Executive Director of a non-profit agency with the responsibility of investigating child abuse and a University Professor at Missouri Southern State University. He continues to teach as an adjunct for Pittsburg State University and Missouri Southern State University. Greg has been the Chief of the Carthage Police Department since 2008. He continues to be an instructor of many training topics in addition to serving on many state and local boards. Before embarking on his law enforcement career Greg worked at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO on the indoor roller coaster, Fire in the Hole. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@desireelimkeman1233]

Great job, Greg! We love you here in this area! I loved living down the street from you and Cindy in Webb City!

[@debras3806]

Common sense and humility. Unfortunately rare and impressive!

[@kevinbracker]

Great job and interesting talk.

[@bdiddy9562]

I like that idea of surveys

[@saltybastard9037]

Carthage resident here. I can validate that the Carthage PD are the most professional department I've encountered. Can't say the same for neighboring towns and their police.

[@Cubelarooso]

"If you don't know, then you don't have to do anything about it"
Someone whose job is to protect and serve saying that really should bother you.
Also the lack of ending quotation marks bothers me.
This is a fantastic project, though, and needs way more engagement.
Having more departments implement this would also give a better view of Carthage itself on a relative scale.

[@JohnSmith09123]

Their job has never been to protect or serve...The protect and serve b.s has never been the mission of the police, the supreme court stated law enforcement does not have any single obligation of any kind to serve or protect the public. Furthermore the protect and serve was nothing more than a recruitment ad campaign for the LAPD Academy back in the 50's.

[@Cubelarooso]

@@JohnSmith09123 Even if you think that, it doesn't change anything I said.

[@JohnSmith09123]

So yes that statement does bother me, but what bothers me even more is the reason why most agencies hold that statement, it is because they don't care about people. Most of them that start this job might actually care about the job but by time goes on it shifts from caring about people, and serving the community to doing anything and everything to not tick off your supervisors and being in their good graces. Which is why most people that have been on for a while just do the bare minimum because that is just enough that they need to collect their pension, and benefits.

[@racutis]

COPS are awesome!

[@oksign741]

Why has no one watched this?

[@shandragraves1415]

Can the pittsburg. Police department check antonio brown computers an even his phone an his wife phone or even his sons i use to talk to hom when i was 16 years old an i believe he's been harrassing me an my childern i dont like him at all an his name use ro IMAN I NEVER CAN U EVEN CHECK HIS FATHERS. PHONE ALSO MY NAME IS SHANDRA GRAVES AN CHECK MY MOMA WIFI TO SEE WHO ON IT I STAY IN SARAMENTO CALIFORNIA MY MOM NAMES IS JAMIE

[@weliftrideshare9809]

Is this a majority white community?

[@user-mo8br5sc2o]

why do you ask?

[@weliftrideshare9809]

@@user-mo8br5sc2o demographics and police interactions are different. I've lived in rural, urban and suburb. It's dishonest to think racial bias doesn't infect every syste we live in.

[@user-mo8br5sc2o]

@@weliftrideshare9809 yeah i agree. i looked it up it's like 75% white and like 20% Mexican