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  • (FRIDAY, 7PM) First, I interviewed the daughter and now I’ll be interviewing the father. In conversation with my friend and mentor Joelle Garguilo ometime ago, I found out her father was a judge and not just any judge, but a justice in the Suffolk County Supreme Court at that! A former prosecutor, he grew up…

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  • Too many funny moments from last night’s podcast so I’ll give you this screenshot lol. But seriously very much enjoyed having Nita Rosato, Ken Schnetzler, and John Busching back on the podcast for a look back at their years in the New York City Transit Police, more specifically, the Emergency Medical Rescue Unit (even if…

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  • TUESDAY, 7PM It’s a Transit Rescue Reunion! Each of the three individuals coming onboard for this show are returning guests AAAND are former members of the New York City Transit Police Emergency Medical Rescue Unit who later joined the NYPS Emergency Service Unit. So join myself, Franco Berarducci, John Busching, and Nita Rosato as we…

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  • On October 31, 2017, a terrorist manned a truck he’d purchased in New Jersey and proceeded to ram the vehicle down a bike path on the city’s famous West Side Highway, killing 8 innocent people. Soon after, a courageous NYPD officer confronted and arrested the perpetrator. Tasked with investigating the who, what, when, where, and…

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  • FRIDAY, 7PM A little inside baseball: Whenever I’m reaching out to potential guests I like to get timelines of their careers so I can thus prepare and know what I should ask and it never fails where I find myself in amazement at the careers some folks had. Friday’s guest is one of those folks.…

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  • “Seth you’re the designated shooter”. Those were the words uttered to then-rookie Emergency Service Officer Seth Gahr. The setting? Harlem. The call? An emotionally disturbed man wielding a gasoline powered chainsaw, hell bent on destruction. Heading in to apartment where the deranged man stood alongside two fellow ESU cops, Seth’s actions would essential in determining…

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  • FRIDAY, 7PM Having served in the military and fought in the Gulf War in that timeframe, I guess you can say patrolling the streets of Harlem was tame by comparison. During his patrol years, his precinct was the 3-2 in Harlem AKA the ‘Tomb of Gloom’, the NYPD Precinct which sadly has the most line…

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  • With 14 years as a police officer and police sergeant in Massachusetts, Tom O’Connor’s transition into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was a unique one. Arriving to the bureau in 1997, he’d almost immediately be thrown into the deep end of the pool when as a newly minted member of the Evidence Response Team,…

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  • For 14 years (1983-1997) his career in law enforcement was local. Starting out as a policeman in Massachusetts, he eventually became a Detective Sergeant in a Drug/Gang Task Force. That wasn’t all though as in 1997 he’d move to the federal side of law enforcement joining the FBI, where for the next 22 years he’d…

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  • Leaving the NYPD Emergency Service Unit (excluding because of retirement) is a rarity. Usually, it’s for other elite units or really special details/assignments, for Jim McVey in 1995, that was exactly the case. With 11 years in the unit and 14 on the job, he not only tried something entirely new, he in the process…

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