Burglar Surprises Off-Duty Cop! -Lee Smith

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

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4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with retired Southern California Police Officer Lee Smith and discuss the day he was showering for work when a burglar decided to enter his home thinking no one was there.

Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever as he talks to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Music: bensound.com

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0:00.0	Well, already again, welcome back to the active self-protection podcast.
0:09.9	I'm yet again, your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite former Fed.
0:13.8	With us today is Lee Smith.
0:15.6	Lee is a former police officer.
0:17.6	I won't mention all the departments.
0:18.8	We'll talk about that in a second.
0:19.7	He worked at a bunch of places in Southern California, just north of where I used to work. So it'd be amazing if he and I hadn't crossed paths in some way at some point during our career. And Lee will probably become your favorite former local by the time this is over. Lee, how are you, sir? I'm doing well. Very well, Mike. Thanks. So, Lee,
0:39.4	Lee is up in Idaho now. He is happily retired. Oh, I assume happily retired. He's retired. So
0:43.7	happily is a given. He is married with two adult kids. And he's retired from several,
0:49.6	well, he's retired from one agency, but he worked at several in Southern California. So let's start
0:53.3	there, Lee. Tell us about the places you worked in SoCal and about what time frame.
0:58.5	Yeah, back in the late 70s from 78 to 83, I worked in Newport Beach Police Department. Then I lateraled in 83. I laterled in the Anaheim Police Department, where I worked there for 27 years.
1:12.8	Then I left there and went to the Orange County District Attorney's Office where I worked about 15 years.
1:20.2	So a couple of things I want to touch on before we go any further.
1:23.0	One is 27 years with Anaheim PD.
1:25.2	For most people, that part in the middle is your career.
1:28.0	That's the whole thing. You know, that's that's more than enough time to do all the jobs you want to do and get retired and enjoy the rest of your life. But you decided to go on and work for the DA's office. Now, here's, we've never had a DA investigator on this show, but I've worked with some throughout the years. And it's one of those niche jobs that I think the public doesn't know very much about.
1:47.1	So can you just kind of give
1:48.0	us an overview of what a DA investigator does? Yes. A good example to start with is, because I've
1:55.6	had quite a few people ask me that, is the series on TV called Law and Order, where you see the lawyers, and they're
2:03.2	assigned a police detective, so to speak. And what it is, you have prosecuting attorneys,
2:08.9	well, prosecuting attorneys who file all the criminal cases in Orange County, they're assigned
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