Episode 395 - Greg Cooper - Criminal Profiling and the Mind of Human Predators

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Greg Cooper has worked as an FBI Profiler, Law Enforcement Administrator, Police Training/Instructor, University/College Professor, and an International and Domestic Threat Assessment Advisor. He is an expert in Criminal Profiling, Prescriptive Interviewing and Interrogation, Investigations, and Multi-Agency Investigative Task Force consultation. Cooper has given Expert Witness testimony based on his work in serial crimes and cases involving homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, terrorism, political corruption, white collar crime, product tampering, abduction, arson, and bombing.

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0:00.0	Okay, got the red smoke.
0:03.0	Gun runs, north and south, west of the smoke.
0:07.0	West of the smoke.
0:08.0	Okay, copy, west of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now.
0:13.0	Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it. You're cleared hot.
0:17.0	Copy, cleared hot.
0:18.0	Where would that start, Craig?
0:20.0	Uh, well, it depends on you want to start directly with the FAA. Can't be clear not. Where would that start, Greg?
0:26.5	Well, it depends on you want to start directly with the foundation or how I got into it.
0:29.6	What, what, uh, where I started that brought me here.
0:34.8	I think talking about how you got ending with the foundation, or not ending, but working our way to how you got to the foundation.
0:35.0	Okay.
0:35.1	Okay. Okay.
0:36.9	Um, I was reading the, it was either the inside cover or the back cover.
0:40.2	And the behavioral science unit at the FBI,
0:45.2	please tell me that this is what the TV show Mind Hunters is based on.
0:50.9	It is.
0:51.9	Yes.
0:53.2	Yes, it is.
0:54.1	One of the few TV shows where I was legitimately bummed, they didn't do with season two.
0:58.9	Actually, no, wait.
0:59.9	No, they did two.
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