The Cop and the Ex-Criminal: The Power of Restorative Justice | Dan Donlin & Tyler Auck | TEDxUMary

Former Bismarck Police Chief Dan Donlin and Addiction Counselor Tyler Auck share the unique story of their friendship and the power of restorative justice in our communities. Chief Dan Donlin was born and raised in Bismarck, graduating from St. Mary’s Central High School and the University of Mary. He has served for 30 years with the Bismarck Police Department. His career includes working on Patrol as an officer, a Sergeant and as a Lieutenant. He worked in the Investigations Section as a detective, specializing in personal and property crimes, and also as a Sergeant. He was the Director of the Police Youth Bureau for five years and the department’s PIO. He served 15 years on SWAT. He served as the Deputy Chief in the Field Services Division and the Support Services Division. He was promoted to Chief of Police on January 20, 2013. He’s a law enforcement instructor specializing in defensive tactics and officer involved shootings. He holds a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo and is a 2003 graduate of the FBI National Academy.
Tyler Auck was born and raised in Bismarck, ND. He has a Bachelor’s of Science and is currently an Addiction Counselor. He is a husband, father and most importantly a proud member of the recovery community. He has a passion for helping other people who suffer from the disease of addiction and mental health issues. He has had the privilege of being part of a team that helped get the ND Good Samaritan overdose law and the Narcan bill passed. He has been a panel member on the Eyes Wide Open opioid community forum in Bismarck North Dakota and on the In Plain Sight opioid community forum in Mayville North Dakota. He strives to help people build strong foundations of hope, survival, strength and recovery. His goal is to show people, using his personal experiences, that full-filling your dreams after a life of destruction and pain is possible. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@kingkong905]

Restorative justice is powerful. I confronted 1 of my victims face to face and listened to her story long ago. She talked about how deeply I affected her, how alone she felt, how she suffered from the bad things people did to her, from people blaming her for being a victim, and treating her like an outcast. She basically said "I needed you.. you were my role model but you hurt me.." we were crying like babies. I felt so guilty over what I did that I asked her for forgiveness.

[@Nadiipp]

Honour to you both - I heard the many virtues of acknowledgement you gave to each other and they all landed and clearly have grown into strong trees that give back to the world. This is a call to teaching virtues and values to parents and teachers, children and adolescents to create high trust envirnments and relationships of respect, care and peacefulness. I love the 5 strategies of the virtues project which daily inspire my interactions. Blessings and salutations!!

[@GirlofNicky]

Reconciliation-Redemption-->>Restoration of dignity & ability to function

[@c_farther5208]

Inspiring. Moving. Real.

[@thandokhanda2402]

beautiful.

[@jesisoria1195]

Andto ako hindi para matuto, kundi andto ako dahil kailngan kong magpasa ng activity
-Jesi2021

[@myreljoyabuan3450]

same

[@ryanhughes2573]

There is nothing about restorative justice in this

[@fluffyunicorn1515]

Thank you I thought it was just me, I was like what?

[@rory9659]

2nd

[@daddfadd4343]

First

[@08Coog]

6th