Category: Mic’d In New Haven Highlights
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NYPD Detective Reflects on Major Mid Career Move
In 2014 with 16 years on the job, George Sichler had it made in his NYPD career. At that point a 12 year veteran of the SCUBA unit, he could’ve rode out the remainder in the Special Operations Division but wanting to return to his roots as a Bronx cop,…
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Former Reporter on Why She Left The News Business
In 2019, Kerry Barrett was at a crossroads. Disillusioned and burnt out by the broadcast media business, she had a choice. Leave and spend more time with her family while also starting her own consulting company? Or continue with a successful career that had produced an Emmy and a lot…
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Private Sector Security Expert on Thwarting 2004 Terrorist Plot
In 2004, Paul DeMatteis was working as global security director for Prudential Bank when a terrorist hellbent on striking further fear into the hearts of New Yorkers and tri-state residents after September 11, 2001, devised a plot to conduct bombings of the bank in an effort to stifle the American…
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FDNY Lieutenant on a Full Circle Experience as a New Fire Officer
6 hours worth of content this week on the Mic’d In New Haven podcast. All more than worth it of course when I get to profile the great members of the FDNY & NYPD. Last night’s guest was FDNY Lieutenant Mike Roy. In what now holds the record as the…
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Former NYPD Emergency Service Unit Detective on How Gun Arrests Helped Propel His Entry Into The Unit
Want to get into the NYPD Emergency Service Unit? Be an active cop. Part of being an active cop? Making gun collars. Tony Johnson was a magnet for them and it got him on the radar of the right people and thus in 1987, a near 20 year’s magic carpet…
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Former LAPD Officer Recalls WILD 1997 North Hollywood Shootout!
Wow is all I can say. I’d always wanted to have an LAPD guest on and man…Jack Schonely did not disappoint! This was one of the best episodes in the show’s history, and I received one heck of a personal introduction to the LAPD and I along with the audience…
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Former ATF Agent Recalls Investigation Into 2018 El Paso Walmart Mass Shooting
In 2019, a madman opened fire in a Walmart, murdering several innocent people as they were just trying to go about their day doing the most mundane and basic of tasks: shopping. Tasked with piecing together what led up to such a heinous attack and unraveling the motive behind the…
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Retired Virginia Fire Chief Reflects on Career Defining 2007 Building Collapse
Career calls or fires. No matter where you work, if you’ve been in the fire service long enough, you’ll get them. In Rick Edinger’s case, it came in 2007 in the form of a building collapse. Then a Chief in the Chesterfield Fire Dept, the call was not only a…
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Veteran Journalist Lisa Mateo on Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Impostor syndrome. We all struggle with it no matter what we do. But even when we most feel as if we’re completely in over our head, we push forward. Why? Because as Lisa Mateo lays out here, we realize we can, and thus, we do instead of doubt. Fun talking…
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Retired NYPD ESU Officer on The Importance of Utilizing Discretion as A Police Officer
Without question one of the best conversations I’ve ever had. This was from top to bottom an outstanding conversation and Thomas Ridges was dropping gems all night long. Among the gems? This one. “Nice never goes out of style”. What an episode, what a Volume 42 of The E-Men: Inside…
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