Chief Elliott Moya shares his motivations and frustrations with being a police officer. He enjoys solving mysteries, helping families, feels it is still a noble profession and that his heart is in the right place. But Elliott is also frustrated with what he calls half-truths, social media buzz words and generalizations depicting all police officers negatively. As the conversation unfolds, he asks the question, "Am I the right guy for this podcast?"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tanisha shares the origins, goals and clears up misconceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Do protests work? Does the BLM organization hate police? As they reach a shared understanding they broach the question, "Where do police and BLM go from here?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How did a Black Lives Matter activist and a police officer become friends? How do they maintain their friendship while having difficult conversations? What motivated them start a podcast? Elliott and Tanisha share how they were paired in a production called Project Empathy. Each had to pen a story of significance in their life and share the other’s story to an audience. Through that process of working together and listening to each other, true empathy took root. They share their Project Empathy journey as well as their hopes for the conversation in this episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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