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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

One On One PCP Fight, Robbery Shooting, Run And Gun Drug Deal

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Steve chats with retired Southern California Officer, David Putnam.  Dave has some incredible stories and intense experiences.  

During his career in law enforcement, David Putnam has worked in narcotics, violent crime, criminal intelligence, hostage rescue, SWAT, and Internal Affairs, to name just a few. He is the recipient of many awards and commendations for his heroism. He lives in southern California with his wife, Mary.
He is a best selling author of the Bruno Johnson series. The Sinister out last Feb received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly.

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www.davidputnambooks.com

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast that interviews active and retired police officers about

0:12.6

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

0:16.7

I'm your host Steve Gould, thank you for joining us everybody, let's see here.

0:21.6

Thank you for the reviews, I really appreciate it, we're getting close, dangerously close

0:27.0

to 1,000, I think we have 760, I don't remember quite, but in the mid 700 five star reviews

0:34.5

on Apple Podcasts, which is really awesome and thank you for the new Patreon members,

0:39.7

I will be doing Patreon shout outs to the Patreon sergeants, if you really, really love

0:43.9

the show and you want to show your support, you can go on Patreon and pick from two different

0:47.2

levels, patrolment or sergeant, they come with different bonuses for supporting me financially

0:52.7

and Patreon itself, the platform is like a Facebook page, you can kind of scroll through

0:57.3

and I do posts on there early releases, video releases of the episodes, you can directly

1:01.7

message me, I'll send you a TPS vinyl sticker and all that good stuff, so if you love the

1:07.3

show and you want to show your support, that's the best way to do it, the link will be in

1:10.4

the show notes, what else can I tell you, yeah, we've got a great episode for today, this

1:17.8

guy's done a lot, he's a best selling author, he worked narcotics, violent crimes, criminal

1:23.6

intelligence, hostage rescue, SWAT and internal affairs with many other specialties, he was

1:28.4

a law enforcement, for a total of 31 years, he worked both St. Bernardino County, Los Angeles

1:34.6

County, he worked for a brief time at Ontario Police Department, my place I used to live

1:39.7

and he also was a special agent for time for Hawaii, which I don't even know what that

1:43.6

is, but we're going to hear about it, his latest book, the best selling author for the Bruno

1:48.5

Johnson series with the latest book being the sinister, please welcome David Putnam, Putnam,

1:57.0

thank you, let's go down brother, hey thanks for having me, my pleasure, so quick question

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