Behind the Badge 2024

Behind the Badge 2024

Behind the Badge provides interviews and news from a law enforcement and public safety perspective. We interview officers, investigatiors and even reporters who work within the law enforcement community.

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October 9, 2024 46 mins
Retired Homicide Detective Dan Salcedo talked to Behind the Badge about meeting Kraft and other cases in his career as homicide detective. 

The frail old man shuffled into the interview room. Shackled by the arms and legs he was escorted into the cell off the interview room. He was small, shrunken, much less than his listed 5-foot-10, 170 pounds. Gone was the hair, the 1980s mustache, and any trace of the smirk he occasionally flash...
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Dr. Heather Williams, founder of Premier First Responder Psychological Services, came of age professionally in an era when increased attention - and resources - was brought to mental health and wellness for members of the emergency response professions as well as victims of crimes.

Williams spent more than 20 years working in crisis and trauma from differing perspectives, both with the Orange County Sheriff deputies in peer support ...
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It’s said it’s hard to prove a negative.
 
When an event is prevented from occurring, that statistic is rarely reported and the public doesn’t know what might have been.

Mike Succi spent 23 years as a member of the Secret Service and in the Oval Office with the George W. Bush and Barack Obama teams. During that time the goal was to keep the protection of public officials out of the news by stopping threats before they happened. And th...
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By Greg Mellen

Happy Medina didn’t set out to become one of the foremost experts on human trafficking in
Orange County, or the country, for that matter. But as he learned more, the father of four girls found his purpose and passion.

Medina was 20 years into his career when the chance came to join a task force investigating
and prosecuting human trafficking. Despite being illegal everywhere, human trafficking is one of
the least understo...
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Hear from the journalist who spent four decades trying to provide ‘suicide’ was actually  murderBy Greg MellenIn a bit of reporting tenacity that is hard to envision, much less execute, former journalist turned true-crime author Larry Welborn chased a story from early in his career into a 40-plus year pursuit for justice for a murder victim, her family, and the unpunished perpetrator.

In “Murder by Suicide: A Reporter Unravels a Tru...
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