Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
We’re revisiting Episode #07 with Ed Calderon, a former police officer in Mexico who dedicated his career to combating cartels and organized crime. This recap highlights Ed's extraordinary insights into survival, security, and the challenges faced on the frontlines of law enforcement in one of the world's most dangerous environments. Shawn Ryan Links: Spotify - Full Episode Apple Podcasts - Full Episode Ed Calderon Links: Website - https://www.edsmanifesto.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/edsmanifesto Please leave us a review on Apple & Spotify Podcasts. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website | Patreon | TikTok | Instagram | Download Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How do you cope? So we just got in a, you know, Mexican standoff with them. And I was covered in blood. My clothing was covered in blood. Why do you think there were no shots fired? We were being hunted. Well, the older guy said, the body's a gift. Kind of being recruited by the cartel. That's when I realized that there's no winning here. Not like this. I resigned that day.
She said, there's no such thing as going back home, man. Either you change on your way back to home, or the home you left changes when you're gone, and you don't recognize it when you come back.
How long into your career, into your law enforcement career in Tijuana did it take for it to become real? Where you're like, this isn't a fucking game.
As soon as I got out, probably the second day on the job, we were kind of spread out in Baja State. And I got to see... It was immediately the no fucks given by the cartels. So I remember me and probably eight other guys moving through downtown Tijuana in full kit, driving around in some marked vehicles, and getting the order to stop from the lead car that was in front of us.
And we parked aside, and everybody... ran out of the cars and adopted defensive positions. And a convoy of probably, I'd say probably somewhere around 15 vehicles just passed right next to us. All of them, a few of them armored. All of them with AK-47s. Some of them had federal police uniforms. Some of them had army uniforms. We didn't know who they were.
We were getting calls from the 911 service they have down there from the municipal police that they were municipal cops, but they clearly weren't municipal cops. So we just got in a Mexican standoff with them. Nobody shot around, but they just passed by us. We called for support from the local police and nobody showed up. How many of you guys were there? Probably nine. Nine? What's that, two cars?
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