Working Patrol With LAPD | Interview with John Freitas
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
4.4 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 145 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Join Nick in a special Thanksgiving week edition of MTA as he interviews his father, John Freitas, a veteran of the LAPD. In part one, explore John's decision to join the force and the intensity of serving as a patrol officer in one of Los Angeles' most active divisions.
Part two, which airs on Thanksgiving Day, delves into John's role as a homicide detective, unraveling some of the most challenging cases he faced during his career.
Sponsored By Good Ranchers:
Go to https://go.goodranchers.com/mta and use promo code "Nick" for $15 off your order, your choice of free protein + free shipping
Tread Around And Find Out MERCH: https://shop.nickjfreitas.com/
------------------------------------------------
Join our community chat: https://bit.ly/43zQDLN
Subscribe to the MTA channel: https://bit.ly/MTAVideoYT
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYSrD9
Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UUAVKD
Subscribe to The Why Minutes: @thewhyminutes
------------------------------------------------
Find Nick:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/nickjfreitas/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickFreitasVA
Community Chat: https://bit.ly/43zQDLN
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickJFreitas
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Every light is red and he's going right through it. My partner pulls in behind him and hits our lights. |
| 0:05.0 | So hit the siren a couple of times. The guy decides to pull over it. |
| 0:08.0 | Gets out of the car and he runs towards me. And I just punch him. And now he's yelling for the |
| 0:12.8 | passenger whose name was Frank. Frank, help me. And Mike tells Frank, don't get out of the car, Frank's going, |
| 0:17.6 | I ain't moving. We fight with the guy for a little bit, and then he'll run, and we're chasing him literally around our police car. |
| 0:23.4 | Kind of see an opportunity. |
| 0:24.8 | So I kick him as hard as I've ever kicked anyone or anybody, anything in my life. |
| 0:30.2 | He looks at me and says, oh, I guess we're going to fight. |
| 0:33.7 | So I stepped back to pull my radio and said, can we have an additional? |
| 0:39.7 | Hi, this is Nick with Making the Argument. |
| 0:42.1 | I apologize. |
| 0:43.1 | We're not going to be able to do live episodes for the Thanksgiving week, but we wanted to make |
| 0:47.0 | sure that you guys had some great material, hopefully to keep you company while you're |
| 0:50.6 | traveling to and from to see family over Thanksgiving. |
| 0:53.7 | Part one of this |
| 0:55.4 | episode is going to be me interviewing my father, John Freitas, who was a member of LAPD for 20 years, |
| 1:01.1 | both as a patrol officer and as a homicide detective. So in part one, we're going to be discussing |
| 1:06.4 | his decision to join the LAPD and what it was like serving in patrol in one of the most |
| 1:11.7 | active divisions within Los Angeles. And then part two, we will talk about his time as a homicide |
| 1:17.3 | detective to include some of the toughest cases that he worked during that time. This episode, |
| 1:22.7 | as always, brought to you by Good Ranchers. So today, we brought in a former LAPD police officer, |
| 1:29.9 | former homicide detective who's going to share some of his experiences with respect to what it was |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nick Freitas, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nick Freitas and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.