08/04/2023
I posted this in response on someone else's timeline. This definitely wouldn't make good YouTube fodder.
If I were to "teach" a recovery license class to today's know-it-all s**ts (God forbid) I'd run 9/10th's of them off in the first hour.
First thing I'd tell them: put all that "dawg 'n patty-show" crap, guns and smartphones back in their cars. They won't be needing any of that here. Second, break out the pens and notebooks - you're going to learn how to organize your thoughts. You're going back to the third grade to relearn grammar and sentence structure. You're going to learn how to take mental notes and translate them onto paper. You're going to learn to take those said notes and organize them in such a way that somebody else can read them and pick up where you left off. You'll learn to take somebody else's jumbled ramblings and create a coherent timeline. You'll be given an actual file that has been created by a bondsman that is so fu**ed up it will seem to be worthless. You will learn to cull data from that file. All this without the benefit of mind numbing modern technology. You all will learn to focus and communicate effectively.
You will learn it is not all about kicking doors but about patience. You will learn that these dumbf**ks actually arrest themselves - if you give them enough rope.
And I'm going to teach you observational skills. I am going to run a couple of carefully choreographed live scenarios during the class that could either be violent or passive. Immediately after you will be told to drop what you're doing, take out pen and paper and describe in detail what you saw. And if you want to be licensed to relicensed your observations had better be pretty close to the truth.
Only when I'm satisfied that your s**t is in one grid square mentally will we move on to part two, which also involves leaving your junk in the trunk....