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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Shot While Off Duty, Perp Sells Daughter's Underwear For Porn, First Hot Call

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

While jogging off duty Donovan Heavener finds himself in the middle of a heist having to fight for his life.  Hear his story of survival and recovery!
 
Donovan Heavener has been in law enforcement for 28 years both in Wisconsin and Washington. He has served as SRO, Motor Officer, Collision Reconstructionist, Detective, Recruiting and Hiring Officer. He is currently assigned to the State Academy as a TAC Officer. He is also frequently featured on Ken Roybal's Police Applicant Podcast!
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.1

most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job.

0:15.8

I am Steve Gold.

0:17.2

Thank you for joining us, everybody.

0:20.0

Thank you.

0:21.0

Don't adjust your television to your phones.

0:23.3

I am pink.

0:25.5

Pinker than normal.

0:26.8

I, uh, honestly, I broke my webcam and, uh, I guess they don't last forever.

0:32.6

They're really cheap and I was going to get a new one, but I also just had to buy a new

0:36.2

computer, which was expensive.

0:38.3

So I learned I could use my iPhone as a camera, and which is really cool, except I can't

0:44.8

have my iPhone now when I'm doing the podcast.

0:46.9

And also the, the camera lens is really, really good.

0:50.3

They're really, really high definition.

0:52.1

I feel like the newscasters when we all went to HD first from like the old, old televisions

0:57.3

I can see every, every line of my face.

0:59.4

So it's actually, leave it to the, which, the witchcrafted apple to actually make a camera

1:04.3

better on their phone than an actual webcam.

1:06.4

And I researched it.

1:07.4

You actually can't, it's really hard to find a webcam that is better than an iPhone.

1:12.0

So, uh, if you really love the show and you want to donate, now would be a good time to

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