In December 2022, a week before Christmas when few were paying attention, and in the midst of the greatest drug crisis this country has ever known, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States released a memo titled, "Additional Department Policies Regarding Charging, Pleas and Sentencing in Drug Cases." In this memo, he instructed prosecutors to do everything short of lying to avoid charging offenses with a minimum mandatory prison sentence. Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner talk about why Garland circumvented Congress and whether he was honest when asked about it. The conversation evolves into a broader discussion of what happens when the Executive Branch of Government circumvents Congress and makes laws with the stroke of a pen.

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Whether it’s drug prosecutions, officer involved shootings, traffic stops or the murder case close rate, there has been a growing voice claiming American law enforcement is systemically racist and needs to be, “reimagined.”

Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Chief Bill Bodner look at the studies, breakdown the numbers, and call on their over 60 years of combined law enforcement experience to give a unique insight into law enforcement interactions with the public.

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Crime of the Century. The root cause of todays’ fentanyl crisis. Was it corporate greed, naive politicians and government officials who lacked ethics or was it the Mexican drug cartels? Learn who is really to blame for today’s fentanyl crisis.

Did Minneapolis Police Department training and fentanyl play a greater role in the death of George Floyd then we were initially led to believe?

Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and I on the Truth Nation Podcast as we discuss “The Fall of Minneapolis,” a documentary about the death of George Floyd, subsequent civil unrest and the trial of Derek Chauvin.