Writer's Detective Bureau

Adam talks about whether a search warrant is needed to seize evidence from another police agency's evidence room, assessing urgency, and the realities of police radios being encrypted. Transcript and links to donate for Australia's wildfires at writersdetective.com/73

Adam answers your questions about: your one free phone call from jail, obtaining video evidence, and notifying victims of an offender's release from custody. Transcript available at writersdetective.com/72

Adam answers your questions about: how human resources at a police department would handle confidentiality of a transgender

employee, poking plot holes through the movie Inside Man, and handling romance while undercover. Transcript available: writersdetective.com/71

Adam talks about being on field training as a trainee police officer, how inter-agency deconfliction works for narcotics investigations, and what paperwork duties in the detective bureau might really look like. Transcript: writersdetective.com/70

Adam answers your questions about: an investigation into a justified shooting, where FBI books their arrestees, and calling for back-up. A transcript is available at writersdetective.com/69

Adam talks about the 20BooksVegas conference and answers questions about police acronyms and slang like POI and UNSUB, as well as the more technical side of setting up a wiretap investigation. Transcript available at writersdetective.com/68

Adam answers your questions about what constitutes a hate crime, how to use search warrants in a proactive investigation where a crime hasn't occurred yet, and death investigations in paradise. Transcript and show-notes available here: writersdetective.com/67

Adam answers your questions about the role subject matter experts play in an investigation, the real purpose behind those red dot lasers sights for firearms, and his thoughts behind approaching a suspect you want to interview. Transcript and shownotes are available at writersdetective.com/66

This short episode covers burglary investigations. Transcript available at writersdetective.com/65