Forged with Pasha & Mick

Behind the Badge, I’m the Same Person as You with Detective Torrance Jackson

Episode Notes

Detective Torrance Jackson is the first family member Mick Hunt has ever interviewed, in more than three hundred episodes across two shows. Twenty years in, TJ is a Special Victims Unit detective, a SWAT operator and a negotiator, following a grandfather who was the first African American police officer in Liberty. He talks with Pasha and Mick about the calls he carries home, why the profession names post-traumatic stress but never post-traumatic growth, and the small circle and simpler mornings that finally let him set some of it down.

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

• Post-Traumatic Growth Is the Conversation Nobody Has: First responders are trained to keep emotion off the scene. TJ names what the job gives back, not just what it takes.
• Dedication Outlasts Confidence: He refuses the word confidence. Confidence moves. Dedication is a promise to people who are counting on you.
• Have the Conversation: You do not fix policing without fixing society, and that starts with talking to someone who does not look like you.

Quotes That Hit Like A Hammer:

“We as law enforcement, we experience that post-traumatic stress, and nobody ever focused on our post-traumatic growth.”

“At the end of the day, behind that badge and uniform, I’m the same person as you.”

“I stopped looking at adversity as problematic and started looking at it as how I can grow.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

• What is post-traumatic growth, and how is it different from PTSD?
• Why don’t police officers and first responders talk about their mental health?
• How does an officer come home after a call involving a child?
• What’s it like to be a Black man choosing law enforcement in the South?
• How do you actually rebuild trust between police and a community?
• What legacy does a twenty-year detective want to leave behind?

Connect & Discover Torrance:

Instagram: @mrofficer156

FOLLOW FORGED:

Pasha Palanker

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Instagram: @pashapalanker

Mick Hunt

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Instagram: @mickunplugged

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

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