TPS E12: Jon Pierpont - 34 Years Policing Cape Cod
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this episode I chat with retired Eastham Police Sergeant Jon Pierpont. Jon was on the job for 34 years starting in the late 1960's. We talk about policing over the past 50 years and Jon shares some great stories from his career.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Things Police See. |
| 0:03.7 | First Hand Accounts. |
| 0:05.0 | With your host Steve Gold. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Thank you for checking it out. |
| 0:12.0 | In this episode, I interview an old friend of mine and one of my old supervisors from the town I used to work in on Cape Cod. He's a great guy and he's got some great wisdom, some great stories. |
| 0:23.6 | He was a cop for 34 years, started in the late 60s. |
| 0:27.4 | So it's a really fun interview. |
| 0:29.2 | I know you're going to love it. |
| 0:30.3 | And I want to say thank you to everybody who keeps downloading and subscribing and commenting on the podcast. Thank you. |
| 0:37.0 | And I've got a bunch of emails and a bunch of questions and I'm going to answer those so that will be coming in the next couple weeks I'll throw some questions in there and answer what I've been asking. |
| 0:48.0 | I just appreciate it. I love the chance to interact with the audience and it's just so cool to see it grow and people |
| 0:56.3 | enjoying it and really gaining a better appreciation for the police officers in our country. |
| 1:01.3 | So I would say you're a police officer and you'd like to come on the show. I would love that. And a federal agent, state, local, someone from overseas would be great. I would love to interview you if your English |
| 1:16.0 | is relatively strong. I love to interview you if you're cop overseas listening. That would be a fun one, |
| 1:21.6 | I think. So again, thank Thank you and without further ado here is episode number 12 |
| 1:27.0 | John thank you so much for coming on the podcast man |
| 1:30.7 | My pleasure. I'm so glad you thought of me. Of course. Just so that people know, you and I worked together on Cape Cod, where I was a police officer, and you were one of my sergeants, so I was totally psyched to have you come on here. |
| 1:46.0 | I learned a lot from you on the job and I know you were a police officer in Cape God for many, many years, so I thought it would be a perfect interview. |
| 1:54.9 | How long exactly were you a cop? |
| 1:57.1 | Well, the total time in is 34 years. However, and I started my career in 1969. That was my first summer as a police officer. |
| 2:12.0 | And as you know, my first summer as a police officer. |
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