Podcast Ops

Episode 7 – July 27, 2008

EXCLUSIVE TWO-PART SERIES:

Gang Violence in Los Angeles County

 
PART TWO: The Thin Blue Line interviews noted civil rights attorney Connie Rice about her efforts with Advancement Project (www.advanceproj.org) and Healthy City (www.healthycity.org) to address gang crime in Los Angeles county. Her partnership with Sheriff Lee Baca is truly a novel approach as they look at gang crime from the perspective of an epidemic. Hear Connie discuss new strategies in combating a plague that has claimed more than 5800 lives over the last 10 years.

 
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Episode 6 – July 16, 2008

EXCLUSIVE TWO-PART SERIES:

Gang Violence in Los Angeles County

 
PART ONE: The Thin Blue Line interviews Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County, about a new approach to dealing with systemic gang violence. The GEOC – Gang Emergency Operations Center – is a framework that encompasses criminal justice community, social services community, faith and community based service organizations, and local government, under one umbrella. For further information on GEOC, contact LT Cheryl Newman (CAnewman@lasd.org) at 323.526.5656.

 
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Episode 5 – July 6, 2008

Special Edition

The Thin Blue Line talks with CPT Mitch Cunningham, Montgomery County, MD Police Department. CPT Cunningham was the supervisor of the hostage negotiation unit for MCPD during the D.C. Sniper Case, October 2002. He gives his views on the case, lessons, learned, and how law enforcement has used technology to respond differently since then. A ‘must listen’ podcast.

 
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Episode 4 – June 29, 2008

The Thin Blue Line talks with Kalayna Barber, recruiting officer for the Irving, TX PD about how she is using the internet and social networking sites to recruit. Kaylana discusses the department, benefits and the reasons why potential candidates should consider Irving.

We also talk with Chris Boyd, Chief Architect, Incident Communications Solutions, about their tactical communications solutions. Chris gives us a virtual walk-around the Comms-ONE incident response vehicle, and shows us the TICS – Tactical Incident Communications Solution.

 
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Episode 3 – June 20, 2008

The Thin Blue Line talks with SGT Esther Farmer, Miami Police, Economic Crimes Unit. SGT Farmer discusses challenges with foreign money offer scams, sweepstakes and some interesting new crimes being committed with respect to mortgage fraud.

We also talk with Michael Paddock – CEO of The Grants Office. Tips and lessons learned from grant submissions, important programs and resources.

 
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Episode 2 – May 30, 2008

In this interview, CPT Eddie Reyes, Alexandria, VA PD, discusses some of the challenges his department is facing with respect to property crimes in parking garages, and what they are looking for in order to address those issues. Plus, how he got his start in technology. 

We also talk with Shane Satterlund, Managing Director for BearingPoint, a consulting company, about the work they are doing in public safety and developing incident command and communications solutions.

 
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Episode 1 – May 12, 2008

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Thin Blue Line. In this podcast we interview Major Bob Bloomberg of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Major Bloomberg is the head of the Technical Services Division. He discusses some of the MSHP challenges with data, interoperability and responding to weather-related events.

The industry interview is with Brian Taylor, CEO of FATPOT Technologies. FATPOT is a data interoperability company with solutions for CAD, RMS, AVL and more.