245: From the Rookie Years to the Page: Retired Milwaukee Cop Tells All 🔥
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Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Retired Milwaukee Police Sergeant Patrick O'Donnell reveals the storytelling secrets behind Police Stories: The Rookie Years, and his podcast, Cops and Writers. Patrick breaks down exactly how law enforcement officers turn their real experiences into powerful, published memoirs — without losing the grit, the truth, or the people who lived it.
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| 0:30.3 | I'm a rookie. I'm on field training and we respond to a stabbing. And they give a description of the subject who just stabbed the other |
| 0:37.9 | subject black male white t-shirt black jeans running northbound on north 12th Street okay well there he is |
| 0:44.6 | as we're responding to it my FTO slams on the brakes I jump out of the car I draw down on him |
| 0:49.7 | I've got my finger on the trigger I'm starting to squeeze he's running at me with a butcher knife |
| 0:53.3 | he's covered in blood. |
| 0:54.4 | And I'm like, holy cow. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, that was a quick career. You know, I guess I'm going back to selling cars again or whatever. Thank God he drops the knife. And my FTO is like, usually they're running the other direction path. They're not running towards us. He was in shock. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now host of the Game of Crimes podcast. |
| 1:13.1 | If you've seen the Netflix series Narcels, us. He was in shock. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now |
| 1:10.9 | host of the Game of Crimes podcast. |
| 1:13.1 | If you've seen the Netflix series |
| 1:14.8 | Narcos, then you know my story. |
| 1:17.5 | I now bring you stories of |
| 1:18.8 | heroism and bravery from our |
| 1:20.8 | law enforcement and military heroes |
| 1:22.8 | and occasionally from the criminals |
| 1:24.8 | that they faced. Welcome |
| 1:26.8 | to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:40.3 | Hey, gang, welcome to this week's Game of Crimes with Murph in the Morning. |
| 1:46.1 | As you saw last week, I brought in a really close friend who's written a book, former police officer at Savannah, Georgia, a homicide investigator. |
| 1:55.3 | And you heard the story. |
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