Oct. 10, 2019

S3E72: Police Officer Grandfather Was Killed In The Line Of Duty, He Became A Cop.

S3E72: Police Officer Grandfather Was Killed In The Line Of Duty, He Became A Cop.

Police Officer Scott Savage talks about his career in law enforcement. Scott’s grandfather, Lemuel D. Savage was a Police Detective in the Amarillo Texas Police Department. He was shot and killed on March 15, 1945. One of his convicted killers later murdered  two Corrections Officers and was eventually executed in 1948. Scott talks about how the murder of his grandfather affected his family and the realities of Police Work today. 

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John J Wiley

Retired Police Sergeant, Music Radio Personality, Talk Radio Show Host, Podcaster and Producer

John J. Wiley is a retired Police Sergeant turned radio personality. He has been a full time FM Music Radio DJ since 2005. In 2017 he founded the Law Enforcement Today Podcast, with the assistance of Robert Greenberg. Within a couple months a radio station heard an episode of the podcast and asked him to create a radio version, which he did. It has been syndicated since the Spring of 2017 and has numerous affiliate radio stations across the US.