Episode 57: Your School Needs a Canine Protector, with JP Davis

Liss’N Kristi

In this episode the Pride of Louisville, Kentucky, JP Davis, offers to support Kristi's non-profits K9s4COPS and K9s4KIDS, which deploy canines and their handlers to protect schoolchildren, hunt down narcotics and dealers, and combat crime across the US.
We discuss how law enforcement dogs could help in the horrific school shootings across the country. They already provide protection for thousands of school children every day, and enhance the school communities in which they serve by safeguarding both the mental and physical welfare of the children. As presidential candidate Nikki Haley asked: "Why don't we have this in every school?"
Then there are the millions of dollars in drugs Kristi's dogs have helped remove from the streets with their law enforcement handlers throughout the United States.
JP is a social entrepreneur, serial mega-fundraiser for important causes, and a gay man who bucks the perception that Louisville is only for straights. He's enjoyed a stellar career which has taken him from White House Intern under George Bush Jr., to assistant to a Conservative member of the UK Parliament, to returning to Louisville to launch his consulting firm, JP Davis Partners, and to his support for both infrastructure organizations and nonprofits.
We discuss the challenges of sustaining non-profit organizations in a world of scarcity, from convincing federal and state lawmakers of the merits of the programs, to the challenge of soliciting the smallest of donations to protect our citizens and communities at large.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyjpdavis/
https://www.jpdavispartners.com/about
https://www.whitneystrong.org/story
https://www.K9s4cops.org
STORIES
00:00 Start
00:13 In Person JP Davis "The Groupie"
00:44 "You are Miss Texas"
01:01 "If you don't know what's going on around you, how can you conduct your day?"
01:24 Survival groups: Dr. Pepper, Beckys, Blue Bell Ice Cream, 'Whataburger' power outage map
02:25 K9s4COPS
02:48 "It was a robust itinerary"
03:25 College football; and name, image, and likeness
04:30 Dude Perfect at Texas A&M
05:39 JP is a fundraising guru
06:09 "Fundraising is not asking for money"
06:29 The Whitney Austin Story (Whitneystrong.org) - mass shooting survivor
07:35 The Pulse Nightclub Shooting - a dog could have sniffed the shooter's weapon
08:33 "Projects like this give me hope"
08:27 "$25-thousand for a dog? That's doable"
09:25 Working with different communities, and leaving wealth
12:39 Involvement to prevent tragedy
13:20 Valuing politicians: "A thankless job"
13:58 The shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords
14:10 "I don't know why there isn't a dog in every city hall"
14:40 "I hate to say this, but I want politicians who want targets on their backs, to stand for something."
15:19 "We owe it to the victims to do more"
15:58 "Well, they can give five dollars"
17:07 "What if somebody comes to school today with a gun?"
18:30 Tired of the prayers and the candlelight vigils, that's not action
19:40 Every dollar gifted had a return of $1750 in narcotic recovery value
20:10 A dog got $850,000 in cash from a drug recovery
21:01 "As a gay man I like getting attention. Walking around with these two has been fun."
21:45 LGBTQQIAAP2+