TPS E16: Ken Roybal - Crazy Riot Stories, Police Chaplain, Background Investigations
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I surprise interview a veteran of the LAPD. Ken Roybal saw a lot and did a lot during his career at one of the nations largest departments. We talk about being a boot in the 1980's, responding to the LA riots, and his 5 year stint as a Police Chaplain. Ken has a ton of great stories and it was really fun hearing him tell them! If you have any police background investigation questions email me and I will do another episode with Ken where we answer them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:01.6 | Thank you for checking out, or thank you for returning |
| 0:04.0 | and continuing to listen. |
| 0:05.7 | In this episode, I sit down and I chat with a very good friend of mine, |
| 0:10.3 | Ken Roybal. |
| 0:11.2 | Ken's got some amazing stories. He's had a really interesting career with |
| 0:15.6 | LAPD. He was a chaplain at one time. He did backgrounds as both a police officer and |
| 0:20.5 | as a civilian. Just a really fun interview. |
| 0:23.6 | We were actually in the field together doing a call |
| 0:26.8 | and I had the recorder in my backpack. |
| 0:30.0 | He was unaware of it. |
| 0:31.0 | I've been trying to trap him into doing this podcast for quite a while so I was happy that he agreed to do it and it was just a really a really fun talk. We take a walk to a memory lane what it was like to be a boot back in the 80s, what it was like during the riots. |
| 0:45.6 | Just a really fun conversation and I was so happy to be able to get it. |
| 0:49.9 | So this will be episode number 16 that we're going to be listening to. |
| 0:55.0 | It's been going great guys. |
| 0:56.0 | Like I said before, I say every episode. |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you so much for checking the podcast out and keeping it rolling. |
| 1:02.0 | If you could, click subscribe, comment, rate, whatever. Whatever you can do on iTunes. |
| 1:10.0 | That is always helpful for the podcast. And if you have any questions or if you want to reach out to me. |
| 1:14.8 | It's things please see at gmail.com and that's in the description of this episode. |
| 1:19.1 | So without further ado here's episode number 16. |
| 1:23.0 | This is Things Police See. |
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