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  • (WEDNESDAY, 6PM) This week on Mic’d In New Haven, it’s another volume of The Best of The Bravest: Interviews with The FDNY’s Elite — and my guest is retired FDNY Firefighter John Walters. John’s fire service journey began as a volunteer with the Port Washington Fire Department in 1986 before he was appointed to the…

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  • In Episode 428 of Mic’d In New Haven — The Beat: Profiles of Police Nationwide (Volume 26) — New Haven Police Chief David Zannelli discusses two challenges facing departments across the country: recruiting good police officers and giving them reasons to stay. For Zannelli, one of New Haven’s greatest strengths is opportunity. An officer can…

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  • In Episode 427 of Mic’d In New Haven — The Best of The Bravest: Interviews with The FDNY’s Elite (Volume 89) — retired FDNY Captain Paul Brown shares the heartbreaking story of a rescue effort that unfolded between the collapses of the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. Following the collapse of the South Tower,…

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  • (THURSDAY, 11AM, SPECIAL EDITION) This week on Mic’d In New Haven, it’s another volume of The Beat: Profiles of Police Nationwide — and my guest is New Haven Chief of Police David Zannelli. Chief Zannelli began his law enforcement career in 2006 in Middletown, Rhode Island, before joining the New Haven Police Department in 2008.…

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  • (WEDNESDAY, 6PM) This week on Mic’d In New Haven, it’s another volume of The Best of The Bravest: Interviews with The FDNY’s Elite — and my guest is retired FDNY Captain Paul Brown. A third-generation firefighter and one of 11 members of his family to serve in the FDNY, Paul was appointed in 1989 and…

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  • In Episode 426 of Mic’d In New Haven, former NYPD officer and longtime paramedic Mike Chanat takes us back to one of the most chaotic calls of his EMS career — a massive Brooklyn nightclub shooting in 1998. Working the midnight tour at Lutheran Medical Center, Chanat and his paramedic partner Jimmy Teravecchio were redirected…

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  • [Wednesday, 6PM] This week on Mic’d In New Haven, my guest is Mike Chanat — a public safety veteran whose career has taken him through nearly every side of emergency response. Starting with the Brooklyn College Emergency Medical Squad in 1987, Mike became an EMT and later a paramedic before joining the NYPD with the…

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  • I am very proud and excited to announce the official publication of my second book ‘Police, Don’t Move! The NYPD Investigations You Should Know About’. It’s been a long time coming to get this out and I’ve certainly learned a lot in the process of this particular endeavor. I’d like to send a very special…

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  • In Episode 425 of Mic’d In New Haven, retired NYC Transit Police and NYPD Sergeant Stu Friedman recalls his first officer-involved shooting after confronting an armed man inside a subway station. With bullets passing his head and only seconds to react, the academy training he never expected to use took over: blade his body, count…

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  • (WEDNESDAY, 6PM) This week on Mic’d In New Haven, my guest is retired Transit Police and NYPD Sergeant Stu Friedman. For more than two decades, Stu policed New York City during one of its most turbulent eras. Beginning with the Transit Police in 1974, his career took him from uniform patrol to anti-crime, undercover robbery…

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