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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Chris Andersen - 39 Years Houston Police

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Steve interviews 39 year Houston Police veteran Chris Andersen.  Chris worked patrol, homicide, SWAT, and the high risk surveillance team.  He tells some great stories ending with his involvement in tracking down a robbery crew that utilized a sniper to take out armored guards.  Check out his book linked below, available by ebook and paperback!

The Sniper: Hunting A Serial - A True Story

https://store.bookbaby.com/book/the-sniper

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Things Police See, first hand accounts.

0:06.0

With your host Steve Gold.

0:10.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast at interviews active and retired police

0:13.7

officers about their most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job.

0:18.5

I am Steve Gould.

0:20.8

Thank you.

0:21.8

Today's episode is a good one.

0:24.0

We have 39-year veteran of the Houston Police Department, Chris Anderson.

0:29.0

Chris has had a super full career, obviously, 39 years is a long-ass time to be a cop. He was on

0:36.4

patrol, he was on homicide, he was on SWAT, he was involved in the high-risk

0:40.7

surveillance team, and he's also written a book called The sniper

0:44.4

hunting a serial killer a true story which is really fascinating he sent it to me to take a

0:50.0

look at and it's it's got a bunch of great stories in it but it specifically chronicles a robbery crew that was utilizing

0:58.0

a sniper to take out armored guards and rob the trucks.

1:01.4

So I anticipate a very, very interesting and fun

1:06.2

episode with Chris. He's he's awaiting on the other line here. I have to try to

1:11.6

dial him in. He's had some issues with

1:14.3

connection so I'm hoping that this goes off without a hitch standby un-momental Hey Steve, how are you?

1:23.0

Good, Chris, thank you for coming on the show man.

1:25.0

Hey Steve, how are you?

1:30.0

Good, Chris, thank you for coming on the show man.

1:32.0

Hey man, it's a coming on the show, man.

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