Copland

Kevin Briggs was a California Highway Patrolman for 24 years. His jurisdiction: The Golden Gate Bridge – a glorious and glamorous assignment protecting one of the world’s most iconic landmarks… until you learn that he negotiated with hundreds of suicidal ‘jumpers’ during that time saving lives.  

Dr. Kevin Gilmartin is considered the leading behavioral scientist specializing in mental and emotional health for law enforcement. In this episode he offers sound, logical advice for lawmen and women to maintain well-being in a profession that often destroys it.

Carlos Montalvo’s legend began behind what is now referred to as “the Miracle of Westland” – a combat police shooting where a “Twenty Million-To-One” gunshot saved his life.

As a boy raised in Chicago’s Cabrini Green Housing Project, Craig Caridine was a first-hand witness to violence. He became a lawman and decided to do something about it.  Early in his undercover career, Craig survived one of most horrific close-quarters combat shootings in law enforcement history. 

Shot in the face, chest, arm, leg, and hand, San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Detective Alex Collins stayed in the fight to help end the largest manhunt in California history.

Dying would have been easier. Jason Schechterle’s story is one we all need to hear. It reaches far beyond the 1st Responder community. Yes, it’s a cop story, a firefighter’s story, a medical trauma unit story, but what he experienced, endured, and now thrives behind is something that every person from every walk of life will be inspired by.

No one in history knows more about undercover work, or has been a bigger advocate for those who do it, than Charlie Fuller. He is truly a national treasure and the protector of a dying breed. 

Steve Gunderson encountered and investigated many of the leading figures and organizations of the Aryan Nations movement during his career as a sheriff’s deputy and ATF agent. 

When the Cocaine Cowboys of South Florida were running rampant in the early-80s, Carlos Baixauli was at the forefront of developing and implementing the investigative techniques used to disrupt their violent narcotics robberies. 

1st Responder suicide is epidemic. Doug Monda displays a massive amount of self-confidence and courage to discuss with transparency his surviving it and the path that put him on to help others.

Ron Stallworth did the impossible.  A black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. Ron is open, honest, transparent and raw in the telling of his story.

Very few in life live what they preach like Greg Amundson.  A lawman, a fitness guru and a man of God.

Roger Wallace spent 30 years as a DEA Agent. His investigation, arrest and conviction of narco kingpin Jamie Figueroa-Soto stands as the most significant defeat of a foreign druglord ever captured on U.S. soil. 

Robert Almonte is the world’s foremost expert on the Patron Saints of Drug Cartels.  After a 30+ year career as a police officer and U.S. Marshal, he places his well-being at risk to investigate, then train lawmen on the unseen dangers they encounter from narco-terrorist cartels. WARNING:  Some of the content of this episode is graphic. 

Homeland Security / ICE Agent Victor Avila and his partner Agent Jaime Zapata were ambushed by the Los Zetas drug cartel on a remote highway in Mexico. Only Victor lived to tell the story.

From humble beginnings, David Gonzales rose through the ranks of copland to become the United States Marshal for Arizona, having served in that role for the last eighteen years – a man who’s life and career has been dedicated to the very highest levels of public service, safety and protection.