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190: Randy Sutton: LVMPD - Idealism, Disillusioned, Abandoned

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Discover the gripping journey of Randy Sutton, a legendary law enforcement officer who spent decades serving and protecting. Sutton takes us from his childhood dream of becoming a police officer to his transformative experiences with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He shares raw, emotional stories of heroism, survival, and the harsh realities of policing — from confronting life-threatening situations to the unforgettable moment he saved a baby’s life during a gang shooting.

Learn how these experiences led Sutton to create The Wounded Blue, a critical support system for injured officers, emphasizing the importance of mental health and emotional resilience.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Murph here. Just a heads up that we had some technical issues with this recording.

0:04.8

You may hear some glitches in the conversation, but this is the best quality we could extract.

0:09.5

My apologies, but I hope you enjoy this episode with Randy Sutton.

0:13.4

He hears me at the last minute and he turns, and I do like a flying sidekick into his sternum area.

0:19.7

And he goes down, he bends his body over, and he comes up

0:24.0

with the gun. And he and I are literally, our gun muzzles are almost touching, and we both fire

0:29.2

at exactly the same time. I fired two rounds and then the nightmare that we all have actually

0:34.6

have in my gun jam. And I'm in a toe-to-to-to-gun fight.

0:37.8

I wasn't wearing my body on.

0:39.5

I fired my guns.

0:41.1

My gun's going click, click, click.

0:43.0

His is going boom, boom, boom.

0:44.6

And I remember thinking, this is what's like to die.

0:47.8

And I got no place to go.

0:49.2

I'm in the middle of a parking lot.

0:50.4

I roll onto my back and I'm twisting from side to side, trying to get my gun to work,

0:55.0

and he's trying to shoot. And little pieces of asphalt are hitting me in the head, and I'm going, is that the one?

1:15.8

Thank you folks so much for coming back.

1:20.1

I got a special guest on today, but I kind of say that about every guest we bring on here.

1:25.0

This man that is sitting in front of you on the screen is a legend within the law enforcement ranks.

1:27.5

This is a guy who started an organization that we're going to talk about extensively here later

1:29.5

in our little show.

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