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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

LAPD 1985 And Beyond - Bill Urrutia

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Steve and Ken interview LAPD veteran Bill Urrutia.  Bill started his career in 1985 and has some great stories from the mean streets of LA.

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0:00.0

This is Things Police See.

0:04.0

First, Anna Counts.

0:05.0

With your host Steve Gold.

0:08.0

Hey guys, it's Steve.

0:10.0

Welcome to the podcast that interviews active and retired police officers about their

0:14.1

most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the job.

0:18.4

With me as always is Ken Roybal.

0:20.8

Ken Hello.

0:21.8

It is I, hello. It's it's like we're doing this for a second time it's so weird. I was just thinking

0:28.1

this something funny. So we talked for about two minutes and I had not hit record so now now we're going to record what we're saying

0:38.4

We're gonna go live again live making this a podcast. Okay. Today we have a 28 year veteran of LAPD, Ken's alamata. He's name is Galermo

0:49.4

Yuritia. What do you think about that? Germo.

0:53.0

Germo. Got it.

0:55.0

He goes by Bill, which is good for me.

0:57.0

Bill is good for you.

0:58.0

Yeah, it's good for my white mouth.

1:00.0

So he's been on the job, or he was on the job, 28 years. He was a P1 through a P3 retired a sergeant and he worked

1:07.3

Wilshire 77th and Central so he's got some stories.

1:11.5

Yeah, yeah he's been he was all around.

1:14.4

I've known him for all those years, but I think he came on after me,

1:18.0

but still he came on in the 80s.

1:20.1

We'll we'll find out though.

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