"lost anchorage" EP 01 with Aaron Roberts

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4.9 • 152 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Crude's new podcast, lost anchorage, where Crude investigates the mechanisms of crime and violence in Anchorage, Alaska. Through research and interviews with professionals, law enforcement and those affected by crime, we hope to build a better understanding of whether or not Anchorage is, in fact, becoming more dangerous. In this episode, we look at crime from the perspective of a retired police officer. Aaron Roberts was an officer for the Anchorage Police Department for over 20 years. He patrolled downtown Anchorage, was a detective in robbery, assault, and metro with a focus in narcotics. At the time of his retirement, he was the team lead negotiator and worked closely with SWAT.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lost Anchorage,
0:06.0	Lost Anchorage, where crude investigates the mechanisms of crime and violence in Anchorage,
0:10.7	Alaska.
0:12.1	My name is Cody Liska, and I'll be your host.
0:15.0	Through research and interviews with professionals, law enforcement, and those affected by crime,
0:20.0	I hope to build a better understanding of whether or not Anchorage is in fact becoming more dangerous.
0:31.0	By the end of this series, I hope to create a portrait of crime in our city for better or for worse. You're going to be here. My name is Aaron Roberts and I was an anchorage police officer for 20 years, a little over 20 years.
1:06.0	While I served in that capacity, I was on patrol.
1:10.0	And my patrol time was spent mainly in the downtown area.
1:15.0	A little bit more dune, but mostly downtown. I was also a detective in Robbery Assault, Vice, and Metro, which was narcotics. I finished out in
1:27.4	warrants and which is not as cool as it sounds. The last part. Yeah, and also I was a negotiator. I was on the negotiation team, which works hand
1:39.9	and ham a swap, and I was team lead for that at the time that I retired as well as a training officer for
1:46.8	them and I taught defensive tactics in the academy.
1:51.6	All right so you are you're definitely a good person to talk to about this stuff then.
1:57.2	So you were an officer and a detective in the Anchorage Police Department.
2:01.1	What was your daily routine like maybe as an officer compared to a detective?
2:07.0	So as an officer I primarily worked downtown in Fairview.
2:15.0	One of the reasons I liked it is because it was one of the more densely populated areas in
2:19.7	Anchorage, always a lot of things going on, and a lot of the calls didn't require a lot of paperwork like I mean just to be real and can you explain what that means by know, someone, it's once been said that
2:34.4	police work is like you go to where there's chaos, you stop the chaos, and then you
2:38.6	write a story about it. Depending on the level of chaos, you have to write a bigger story and all that is what I mean by story is the
2:46.7	documentation that you need to take it to the next level either prosecution or or whatever the the type of situations and crimes in the downtown area required less
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