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Police Stories: Street Cop To Sergeant. Introduction And You Don't Have To Be Sherlock Holmes To Solve This Crime.
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In this episode of the Cops and Writers Podcast, retired Milwaukee Police Sergeant Patrick O'Donnell reads the Introduction and Chapter 1, You Don't Have to Be Sherlock Holmes to Solve This Crime, from his upcoming book:
Police Stories: Street Cop to Sergeant — True Crime, Chaos, & Life as a Big City Cop
These are true stories from Patrick's years working the streets of Milwaukee as a veteran officer, FTO, and eventual sergeant — stories of chaos, dark humor, tragedy, and survival that don't make it onto TV shows.
All stories are real. Names and locations have been changed where necessary.
🎧 This episode includes:
— The intro to life at District Five late shift, where the sinners and saints were hard to tell apart
— A robbery at a Burger King where the suspect lived a block away, skipped the mask, and left his employee file behind
— True crime, gallows humor, and raw street-level reality from Milwaukee's most dangerous neighborhoods
📘 About the Book:
Police Stories: Street Cop to Sergeant is the second book in Patrick O'Donnell's true crime memoir series, chronicling his twenty-five-year career as a Milwaukee police officer and sergeant. The book releases on October 14th, 2026.
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