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    Drilling down on HR culture, employee engagement and its nexus in the workplace --- with Tammy Triolo, Founder of PCQ Consulting.

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    About this Episode

    Welcome to another smokin’  hot edition of “Light ‘Em Up” --- our new podcast -- growing rapidly in its listener base—that focuses on the “true crime” world of Physical Security, 
    The Criminal Justice System, Crime Scene Investigation and Leadership.

    We have been blessed to have back-to-back interviews with two great subject matter experts. 

    Today we are focused on HR leadership and expertise with Tammy Triolo, Owner/Founder of PCQ consulting. 

    If you are an HR professional -- if you know anything about culture, employee engagement, compliance, credentialing and licensing, quality assurance, operational improvement or consulting ---it is imperative that you listen to this podcast interview. 

    This is an excellent conversation, packed from beginning to end with tremendous experience and insight about the HR process and experience. 

    Tammy has hammered out more than 15 years of experience in healthcare, leadership, operations, compliance, quality and auditing – just to mention a few areas of her expertise.  

    She possesses a keen awareness, caring and understanding of how much the people and culture of a company can drive its quality, operations, employee/customer/patient experiences and overall business success.

    She shares in-depth insights regarding her personal and professional passion to improve the lives of employees and patients, in the constantly changing workplace environment, striving to enhance teamwork for long term business success.

    We thank you in advance for your time in listening to this episode.  We welcome your feedback, and if you have an idea for a broadcast, feel free to let us know.

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    ♦ Systems and standards: The foundational set of good management practices, methods, systems, requirements that must be established to produce high-caliber, top quality, constitutional policing that the citizenry deserves.
    ♦ How policing changed in his municipality following the killing of George Floyd.  

    He emphatically stated that, “The presence of the Black Lives Matter movement absolutely raised the bar for police officers and police leaders to know what they are talking about when it comes to equal protection and racial disparities.  It no longer cuts it to say, ‘Hey we’re out here doing our jobs — leave us alone’”.

    He went on to say, “We really have to have real answers for why things look the way that they do and to me it really raised the bar for accountability. It really raised the bar for us — just because you’re not being held accountable internally — doesn’t mean that it’s not going to come externally … so, it is comin’ one way or another. We need to be competent in order to be able to explain ourselves and serve in a responsible manner.”

    While mistakes and errors soak up the bulk of media attention locally and nationally, it is imperative to pause and remember that police officers are people too and the vast majority of them serve with dignity, honor and often times in a heroic and valorous manner.

    Through many of the direct efforts of the Assistant Chief of Police, it is clear that his department has put a lot of work in internally which clearly shows on the external side of police management and administration into doing an excellent job at serving the good people of the Magnolia State.

    Tune in and be empowered and find out about the footballs in each trunk of every patrol car in their fleet and the awesome news about the police department sponsored youth football league.

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    What’s the Racket with RICO? The Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act. The Mafia, Donald J. Trump, Rapper Young Thug & RICO’s Historical Background, Scope & Application in Georgia v Trump.

    What’s the Racket with RICO? The Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act.  The Mafia, Donald J. Trump, Rapper Young Thug & RICO’s Historical Background, Scope & Application in Georgia v Trump.

    On this educational and explosive edition of Light ‘Em Up, we’re excited to announce that we are being actively downloaded in 103 countries! All thanks to you!

    Ripped straight from the headlines from the Atlanta Fulton County Superior Courthouse where Donald J. Trump and 18 of his co-defendants have been indicted under the Georgia Racketeering Act — we’ll take an in-depth, investigative look at the Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

    RICO was designed by the U.S. Congress in order to “whack” the mob — to be the ultimate “hit man”.

    The Act has extremely sharp legal teeth in order to accomplish that task.

    This legislation was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on October 15, 1970, as Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act (OCCA) as a means by which the federal government could combat organized crime. The Act today is covered in 18 USC §§ 1961-1968 and provides the legal means by which prosecutors can identify and convict those who operate illegal businesses.

    The roots of RICO, however, extend as far back as 1950, when the problem of criminal infiltration of legitimate business was first documented.  The U.S. was a very different place then than it is today.  Organized crime was a highly sophisticated, diversified and widespread activity that annually drained billions of dollars from America’s economy by the illegal use of force, fraud and corruption.

    Congress found that organized crime had extensively infiltrated and exercised corrupt influence over numerous legitimate businesses and labor unions throughout the U.S. and posed a “new threat to the American economic system”.  Congress further established that organized crime derived a major portion of its power through money obtained from crimes such as gambling, loan sharking, theft and fencing of property, the drug trade, and other forms of social exploitation.

    While in prison together at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, the then Genovese Crime Family Mob Boss Vito Genevese -- mistakenly thinking that Joseph Valachi was a “rat” -- gave Valachi the “kiss of death”.

    That solitary action sent a chilling message to Valachi, putting the fear of death in his heart, mind and soul.  Valachi sought revenge, choosing to “rat out” the mob before the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs, the FBI, the DOJ and the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation. Valachi’s testimony would prove crucial in the government’s efforts to combat organized crime, which would eventually lead to RICO.

    As we set the scene — we dive headfirst into:

    ♦ Defining the purpose, scope and breadth of RICO as well as provide its contextual and historical background and legislative origins.

    ♦ Comparing, contrasting and highlighting another high-profile RICO case currently underway in the very same courthouse as the former president’s (that case involves the rapper Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams).

    ♦ The specific crimes that fall under the vast “umbrella” of RICO.

    ♦ How a person violates the RICO statute.

    ♦ The length of sentences for those found guilty of violating RICO.

    ♦ Important terms and relevant vocabulary words.

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    All this y mucho mucho más on this explosive, investigatory edition of Light ‘Em Up.