Only Two NYPD Cops Went to Afghanistan - He Was One of Them | Tom Smith | Ep. 379
The Team House
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
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00:00 – Early Career & NYPD Beginnings
09:11 – Policing Through the Crack Epidemic
13:40 – Anti-Crime Unit & First Shootout
30:11 – Assigned to Robbery Squad & 9/11 Strikes
39:12 – Joining the Joint Terrorism Task Force
45:11 – Afghanistan Kidnapping Case
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| 0:45.1 | Hey everyone, this is episode 379 of the Team House. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm Jack Murphy, here with our guest tonight, Tom Smith, who served as an NYPD detective for decades working anti-crime units, narco, anti-gang, robbery squad, and then was |
| 0:59.2 | tasked to the FBI for a number of different types of assignments, including counterterrorism. |
| 1:04.8 | We'll get into all of this stuff. |
| 1:07.3 | But Tom, first, I just want to say thanks for joining us on the show tonight. |
| 1:11.5 | No, it's a pleasure. |
| 1:12.4 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:14.5 | So the question I usually ask is about the person's origin story. |
| 1:19.0 | If you tell us a little bit about sort of like your upbringing, I remember you telling me your dad was a NYPD cop too. |
| 1:26.2 | And sort of how that, you know, took you into service yeah uh and that's |
| 1:31.3 | what it was he was you know my hero my mentor he was my best friend and uh I grew up in that world |
| 1:37.9 | you know I watched him go to work have that great gold shield on his belt when he would get home |
| 1:44.0 | which is the only |
| 1:45.5 | shield I ever wanted. From the time I was probably eight years old, I wanted to be a member |
| 1:51.0 | of the NYPD, and that's all I ever wanted to do. You have an influence when, you know, you go |
| 1:57.6 | into the precincts before Yankee games and you're meeting all his partners |
| 2:01.5 | and his friends, even after he retired, we would go to Fort Apache, we'd go to the 4-4, |
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