166 Brew City to The Streets of San Fransisco With Bestselling Author and San Fransisco Police Sergeant Adam Plantinga

For today’s show, we are traveling to the West Coast and the home of Fisherman’s Warf, The Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and of course, Alcatraz. On today’s episode, we will be chatting with the City of San Francisco Police Sergeant and Bestselling Author, Adam Plantinga. 

Adam Plantinga’s first book, 400 Things Cops Know, was nominated for an Agatha Award and won the 2015 Silver Falchion award for best nonfiction crime reference. It was hailed as “truly excellent” by author Lee Child and deemed “the new Bible for crime writers” by The Wall Street Journal. Adam’s debut novel, Ascent, is burning up the charts and has been optioned for the silver screen by Universal Studios.

Plantinga began his career in law enforcement in 2001 as a Milwaukee police officer. He is currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department assigned to street patrol.   

This interview was near and dear to my heart because Adam started his LE career as a Milwaukee copper, just like me. We never worked together, but we sure have known the same characters and chewed the same dirt.

In today’s episode we discuss:

·      Why and where Adam got interested in law enforcement?

·      A special thank you to the “Cop Doc” Dr. Ellen Kirschman for introducing us.

·      From the land of Dirty Harry and The Streets of San Francisco. Are there any memorabilia from the shows in the San Francisco PD?

·      How long before Adam made the switch to SFPD from the Milwaukee PD?

·      Why did he switch departments? 

·      Biggest differences between MPD and SFPD, including rank.

·      Is there still the iconic rank of Inspector in the SFPD today?

·      His hot new novel, Ascent.

·      The use of popular thriller tropes in this novel.

·      How Ascent got picked up by Universal Television for a future television series.

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