Inside the Undercover World: Ex-Narcotics Detective Exposes the Truth About Informants | Paul Bernd

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Former narcotics detective Paul Bernd pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of informants. With years of experience on the front lines of the war on drugs, Paul shares the gritty realities of working with informants, revealing the delicate balance of trust, deception, and danger that defines this critical aspect of law enforcement. From high-stakes operations to moral dilemmas, Paul provides a rare glimpse into the strategies and challenges of managing those who live double lives, navigating the thin line between the criminal world and the justice system #NarcoticsDetective #LawEnforcement #Informants #UndercoverOps #WarOnDrugs #PoliceStories #CrimeUncovered #TrueCrime Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with Paul Bernd: https://www.instagram.com/paulberndrealtor?igsh=aHoweGhjanA3em1u Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 - From Cop to Realtor 00:05:01 - Childhood Ambitions and Influences 00:10:01 - Overcoming Bullying and Becoming a Police Officer 00:14:53 - First Day on the Job 00:19:41 - Lunch Break Scheduling and Department Size 00:24:47 - The Importance of Managing Informants 00:29:44 - Cultivating Informants and Communication Methods 00:34:40 - The Importance of Protecting Informants 00:39:35 - The Dilemma of Utilizing Informants 00:44:32 - Unfair Treatment of Convicted Individuals 00:49:37 - The Challenges of Re-entry 00:54:18 - The Role of Magistrates in the Legal Process 00:59:02 - The Hardest Experience in Law Enforcement 01:04:02 - The Ugly Side of Police Work 01:08:51 - Leaving Police Work behind 01:13:38 - Embracing Changes and Shifts in Career 01:18:13 - Building Our Own Brand Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Paul, welcome to Lockton, man. Pleasure having you. I think we connected on Instagram. I believe you DM me and you said, hey, I'm in real estate, but I'm a former cop when we get on the show. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. And you came from Virginia, right? Yeah. So I drove up last night, spent the night at the Jersey Shore, and now we're here.
0:21.0	That's awesome.
0:21.7	I think you've got to be the first person that I know that had left the police force to become a realtor.
0:26.7	Really?
0:27.3	Yeah.
0:28.2	It's a lot more common than you might think.
0:32.5	I think that a lot of police officers have a certain skill set that translates really well to the
0:38.9	interpersonal relationships that you have to have in real estate. So it's been a good transition.
0:44.1	Are you licensed in every state? I'm not. Just Virginia for now. And I live close enough to
0:50.0	West Virginia that that would probably be the next one, but I'd love to get licensed in Connecticut
0:54.5	and spend more time up here.
0:55.7	Well, for the Virginia people listening, if we have any, definitely plug in your website
0:59.6	so people could find you.
1:01.3	Yeah, so you can find me on Facebook, Paul Byrne Realtor.
1:06.9	On Instagram, it's the same thing, Paul Byrne, Realtor, all in one word together. And my brokerage is Realty One Group Old Town. We're in Winchester, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. And I mainly served the Shenandoah Valley in Northern Virginia. So anyone in the area, feel free to reach out. Awesome. And we'll have those links in the bio of the episode, too. Did you grow up where you currently live now and work?
1:30.3	No, so I grew up in central Virginia in a place called Orange County.
1:35.6	So probably an hour and a half or so, straight south of Washington, D.C., right down I 95.
1:43.0	Okay.
1:43.8	I want to go to D.C. soon. The last time I was there, I was in high school. We did, or eighth grade, I think. Me and my family did a trip there for the weekend. Went through the museums and stuff, but I was too young to appreciate it. Really? D.C. is an interesting place, and it's beautiful. they've really invested a lot, I think, in the city and
2:04.1	some tourist attractions, but it's also a little bit rough. So it's, it would be a good place to go
2:10.2	and check out, I think. So the area you grew up in, what was that like a nice area, bad area,
2:15.4	wealthy, middle class, poor? I would say middle, middle class, wealthy, middle class, poor?
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