Category: Mic’d In New Haven Highlights
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Retired NYPD Homicide Lieutenant on A Wild 1971 Car Chase & Gun Battle With Mobsters
If you’ve ever seen the French Connection, you’re familiar with the iconic car scene, the movie came out in 1971. Ironically that same year, Lt. Commander Vernon Geberth, then a detective, lived a real life version of it. Interrupting a midday mob hit involving a heist of diamonds, he not…
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Former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison on The Hunt For The Gilgo Beach Killer
From 1993 through 2011, seven women in the NYC-Long Island area were savagely murdered. Each with different backgrounds and unfortunate circumstances of some sort, all meeting the same violent end. As the victims were gradually discovered, including four in Gilgo Beach in December 2010, the burning question for decades remained:…
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‘The Rocket’ Roger Clemens on Winning His First World Championship in 1999
The year was 1999. To that point in what was at the time a 15-year career, Roger Clemens had done just about everything. A multiple time All Star, Cy Young Award winner, two 20 strikeout games under his belt. Yet, one thing remained missing: a World Series ring. When he…
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Retired NYPD ESU/SOD Captain on The Missions of The Real Life A-Team
A salute for the A-Team. No not the one from television with Mr. T (though they’re pretty cool too) but the real life A-Team of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit. No matter how heinous the charges and by extension the criminal accused of those charges, it is these men and…
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Retired NYPD ESU Detective on The Proper Approach To Tactical Apprehensions
In the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, the service can be anything. A rescue on a pin job here, protection for a dignitary there, and of course the tactical assignments. Getting the perp is never easy because the formula changes with the circumstances of each job. Plus, you’re in hostile territory…
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Retired NYPD Detective Mike Charles on Solving a Drug-Induced Homicide
Sometimes it’s not even me asking the questions that lead to the best stories on the show but rather the questions of the guests in the live chat that produce a rather memorable tale. Shoutout to audience member (and nephew of the guest) Jeff Warner whose question led to this,…
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Retired FDNY Veteran on The Art of Driving A Fire Truck Through The Streets of NYC
Well if breakdancing is considered an Olympic sport then I say driving an emergency vehicle through the streets of New York City should be added to the games too. After all, between the stop and go traffic, narrow streets, weather conditions, and unpredictable nature of both other drivers and pedestrians,…
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FDNY Battalion Chief On Leading Recruitment Efforts After 9/11
After the events of 9/11 and the losses suffered by the FDNY, recruitment was needed to fill the voids left not just by those who heroically lost their lives marching into the Towers to save others but by those who understandably due to the emotional burden of the event’s aftermath,…
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Mic’d In New Haven Highlights: The Mindset of A Homicide Detective
“We speak for the dead.” No matter the victim, who they were, what they were, or how they died, it is a motto formily embodied by and embedded into the fabric of every homicide detective no matter where they work. Advocacy and assiduous police work that may not culminate in…
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District Attorney’s Office Narcotics Detective on The Essence of Case Building
Real good back and forth here with former District Attorney Narcotics Detective John Fleming. I learned a ton on the function of the Office of Special Narcotics in New York City and the aspect of case building we do not see or hear about. The Law & Order intro is…
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