1160 A Day In the Life: What's It Really Like to Be an Innovative Leader in Law Enforcement

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Schembri is a distinguished former police commissioner with a background in homicide and forensic evidence. He has held several leadership positions in law enforcement. Schembri's dynamic career and accolades include an Innovations in Government award from Harvard. He is a Fulbright scholar and the author of several books on criminal law and leadership. His first novel, In Russia: A Brooklyn Solution, follows Lieutenant Anthony Migali of the NYPD on an international web of deceit and murder as he is tasked with solving Moscow's first-ever serial killer case. The book is full of Schembri's real life adventures.

A Few More Interesting Facts

Anthony Schembri was a NYC police commissioner for almost 15 years.
ABC's 1990s crime drama "The Commish" is based on his life. He wrote several episodes for the series. (The first season of the TV show is available through Amazon.)
He took a professorship at the University of Florida to teach courses on serial crime.
Governor Bush asked him to take the job of Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (the juvenile prison system) where at that time they admitted 128,000 juveniles a year. His responsibilities also included 26 detention centers, 1,400 probation officers, and 164 prevention programs.

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.9	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.1	Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:27.3	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:39.7	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Anthony Shimbri, and our topic, A Day in the Life,
0:46.4	what's it really like to be an innovative leader in law enforcement? Welcome, Anthony.
0:52.0	Thank you. Thank you for having me. There's our pleasure. Anthony,
0:55.5	are you using your talents doing work that you love? Well, I've loved it all my life,
0:59.9	so every day is kind of something new. Anthony Shimbri is a distinguished former police commissioner
1:07.6	with the background in homicide and forensic evidence. He has held several leadership
1:12.7	positions in law enforcement. His dynamic career and accolades include an Innovations in Government
1:18.9	Award from Harvard. He's a Fulbright scholar and the offer of several books on criminal law and
1:25.0	leadership. His first novel in Russia, a Brooklyn solution,
1:29.5	follows Lieutenant Anthony McGeley of the NYPD on an international web of deceit and murder as he is tasked
1:36.7	with solving Moscow's first ever serial killer case. The book is full of his real life ambitions.
1:43.4	Well, that's an amazing summary of your career.
1:46.1	Anthony, we look forward to getting into the whole story.
1:48.2	Take just a minute and tell our listeners what you're doing right now.
1:50.9	Just a pithy summary of what you're working on right now.
1:54.3	Well, right now I'm doing some promotional work on the book.
1:58.3	It's being well received.
2:04.4	I'm making arrangements to go back to England where I'm a visiting professor over there. I really like it over there. Great bunch of kids.
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