{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Murphy's Law","title":"Can Anyone Fake a Badge? Sheriff Darren Weekly on ID Fraud","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2088,"description":"In this episode of Murphy's Law, host Murphy Robinson sits down with his friend Darren Weekly, Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado — a 33-year law enforcement veteran who has become one of the more prominent voices on policing in the state. Murphy, who supported Weekly's first run for office, invited him on to unpack how he leads what Murphy calls the safest county in Colorado. The conversation spans leadership, accountability, technology and privacy, homeland security, and authority verification.\nWeekly knew by age five or six that he wanted to be a cop — something of a \"black sheep\" given his family background. He joined an Explorer program at 16, was hired by the Cherry Hills Village Police Department, and eventually came to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, where he says he got to do everything in the business he ever wanted to do. He won a five-way primary in his first campaign for sheriff, and is now running uncontested for a second term.\nSome of the most candid moments come from that first campaign. Weekly and his team knocked on more than 14,000 doors, and he stayed out of the mudslinging — even when his wife wanted to fire back at attacks on social media. His campaign manager's advice stuck: don't respond, you won't change anyone's mind. Weekly also shares how deputies' body cams have captured arrestees saying they knew they shouldn't have come to Douglas County — to which deputies reply, \"Tell your friends.\"\nBut the heart of this episode is accountability. Weekly argues that elected sheriffs, answerable directly to voters, can run agencies on public safety rather than politics. He and Murphy dig into shoplifting enforcement, the state's largest school resource officer program, AI-assisted report writing from body-cam footage, and license plate readers — including a recent policy cutting data retention to seven days, independent monthly query reviews by the DA's office, and an arrest of a Parker murder suspect within 45 minutes. They also discuss...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i5VidaAPwui-mkO5QFXggyZtb0zIlg4YR2_FNHsGhxQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZWZm/YzczODJhMjE0Mjhl/ZWUzYTE0YTI3MGUz/OGVjZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}