Adam Plantinga, San Francisco police sergeant and author of the novel The Ascent, joins us to discuss his process of writing stories about law enforcement in a post-George Floyd world, the reality for police on the ground in the crime-ridden city of San Francisco, and popular misconceptions about the police, especially stemming from depictions of the profession in movies and on television.
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