How to turn an informant
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there. There's another kind of a short story. This is going to be actually from my own career. |
| 0:05.8 | You know, making these for YouTube, kind of keeps more content going in YouTube and build up the channel, as well as help build up my audio channel. |
| 0:15.6 | So, you know, I've got a lot more content on my audio channel for you guys that are just on YouTube. |
| 0:23.1 | This is just to get more content out there. I don't know. I guess I'm at, I'm not doing |
| 0:30.3 | so much right now other than the podcast. And I thought I put some more content out. |
| 0:35.6 | And I've been wanting to tell some of the stories from my career. |
| 0:38.6 | Now, this story I'm going to tell you today is actually in my movie, Brothers Against Brothers the Sevella Spiro War. So if you've seen that way, you can, you may not want to listen to it again, although it's, it's always a good one, I think. And it's kind of it will, I will tell you how I got started my first few weeks in the |
| 0:57.2 | intelligence unit. |
| 0:58.2 | You know, I came out of a small detective unit out of the station. |
| 1:03.0 | My good friend that I grew up with, Bobby Arnold, had gotten himself into the intelligence |
| 1:08.3 | unit. |
| 1:09.7 | And the intelligence unit of any big police department usually only takes guys that are |
| 1:15.6 | really vetted. |
| 1:16.7 | And in a small town like Kansas City, you know, compared to New York or Chicago, it's easy |
| 1:21.8 | to vet people. |
| 1:22.9 | And like Bobby had known me since we were about seven years old. |
| 1:26.7 | The guy that kind of helped Bobby get in, he'd known Bobby and his wife for, I don't know, |
| 1:33.5 | since they were in high school, I think, and knew something about their family. |
| 1:39.3 | And so that's kind of how it worked in Kansas City Intelligence Unit. |
| 1:44.8 | And we work closely with the FBI, as you guys know, hand and glove. |
| 1:51.0 | And they totally trusted us so. |
| 1:54.8 | And you could do that when you can reach that far back, |
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