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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Retired LAPD Lt. Rick Dedmon: 35+ Years of Wild Police Stories | Things Police See

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Retired LAPD Lieutenant Rick Dedmon joins the show to share over 50 years of intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous police stories from his career with LAPD, Casper PD, and Natrona County Sheriff's Office. From high-speed pursuits and armed suspects in the 1970s "Jungle" to a tragic training accident that shook Hollywood Division, Rick pulls no punches. He also discusses his current volunteer work with Copline, helping officers and their families through PTSD, trauma, and crisis.

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0:00.0

This is things police see.

0:03.7

First and accounts with your host, Steve Gold.

0:07.5

Welcome to the podcast interview's active and entire police officers about the most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the Jorb.

0:15.7

It is I.

0:17.5

Old Ginger Face here with you as always, guys.

0:20.1

Great to be here.

0:21.1

It is a Christmas season.

0:22.9

I hope everything's going well for you.

0:24.4

I hope you have all your shopping done.

0:26.9

I'm in my 40s and just now able to get shopping done.

0:31.7

Not on Christmas Eve.

0:34.4

So we're looking pretty good over here.

0:35.9

We went out today and did some touch-up stuff for the kids.

0:38.3

And still, stores are packed. I don't know, people spending money like crazy. It's absolutely not so much money. You got to be careful buying presents for your kids because it's like we get, every year we're super strict and we're like, we're going to get them these things, this and that thing. and then you can just so easily get carried away and spend it all.

0:55.7

But I guess that's tis the season for that kind of stuff. So I hope you guys are doing well. Hope your shopping's all done. Merry Christmas to you. This will be coming out Christmas week. So hope you're with your family and loved ones and friends and having a good time. Today's guest is a great one. Really, really happy to have found

1:13.7

him. Got recommended to me by shout out to Ethan, Deputy Ethan. He's a fan of the show. He's on the

1:21.4

job. And he said, he wrote to me and said, you absolutely have to have this guy on. He's fantastic. You're going to love him.

1:28.2

And I said, please give me his email. I'd love to have him on. So he did, he started his career, 1974 at LAPD, doing five years.

1:36.4

He then moved out to Casper, Wyoming, where he did two and a half years for Casper PD, then moved over to the sheriff for two and a half years as a sergeant.

1:46.1

Then back to LAPD and wrapped up his career with another 30 years working for them.

1:53.3

He retired a lieutenant two there.

1:55.7

Without further ado, let me bring on the great Rick Deadman.

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