Today on the show we have retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Detective and Author Danny Smith.
Danny Smith is a retired homicide detective who spent 21 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. In 2004 he moved to Idaho and spent the next 18 years working as a private investigator and consultant.
He is the author of the award-winning Dickie Floyd Detective Novel series, the Rich Farris Detective Novel series, and his autobiography, Nothing Left to Prove: A Law Enforcement Memoir. His blog can be found at murdermemo.com.
For those of you who want to know what it is really like to be a homicide detective in a big city, this episode is for you.
In today’s episode we discuss:
· Why Danny chose a career with the L.A. Country Sheriff’s Department.
· What academy life and equipment looked like in the early 1980s.
· The appeal of investigations for Danny.
· Danny’s life as a Homicide Detective.
· When and why, Danny started writing books.
· The unanticipated benefit of writing novels.
· How he and his department interacted with the L.A.P.D. and other law enforcement departments.
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