For episode 170, we welcomed Knocko Nolan to the show. Knocko has served on two of the country’s largest and finest police departments, NYPD and LAPD. While on patrol, Knocko worked Brooklyn and Manhattan, as well Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles including Skid Row.

In his nearly three decades of service, Knocko has been on a wide range of units including Narcotics, Vice, the Career Criminal Unit where he tracked and investigated violent repeat offenders; the infamous anti-gang unit CRASH where he collected intelligence on street and prison gangs and participated in undercover, reverse-sting operations; a Special Victims squad that investigated assaults and sex crimes perpetrated against children; and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in which he held a Top Secret government clearance and investigated international terrorist groups, a role he chose after 9/11. 

In our discussion we talked about what led him to his career in law enforcement, working in both the NYPD and LAPD and how those departments were similar, how law enforcement has changed over the years, how to police departments need to recruit today, his appearence on the Netflix documentary, "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel", the importance of having a partner like Stacey in his life, rolling on the jiu jitsu mats with former Spear Talk guest, Mike Kroeger (Nickelback), punk rock and 80s movies, and so much more.

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