Listen Live Saturday May 18th 2pm Pacific Time/5pm Eastern Time/10pm London via Outlaw Radio! ZACH FORTIER joins Burl Barer, Howard Lapides and Mark Boyer for a thrilling hour of white knuckle reality!
Fasten your bullet proof vest and buckle your seatbelt, it is gonna be a wild ride!
I worked the street for many years before I entered the Gang Task Force, joining it with the idea that I could rise to the level of violence of any banger I encountered - a really stupid idea. I wanted to "earn back" the respect of the citizens for the police; I grew up in this city, and I worked its streets the best way I knew how, feeling that I had a firsthand understanding of what the citizens were experiencing.
The increasing frustration at gang crimes, drive bys, robberies, never feeling safe with your kids in your own neighborhood - I wanted to do what I could to make that fear go away.
Once I was inside the task force, though, the reality was a rude awakening for me. The task force was poorly managed and staffed by detectives mostly out for themselves, and the internal politics made success incredibly difficult and almost impossible - almost, but not quite.
Witnessing bad cops, brutal crimes, and realizing the department had been compromised, the cost was much higher for me personally than I anticipated.
I left the unit two years later, severely broken, edgy, and dangerously damaged.
StreetCreds is the story of how all that came to be. Hold on for a reality check.
Zach has cranked out a mind numbing gut wrenching trilogy of true crime thrillers that are burning up the best seller list! We are delighted to welcome Zach to True Crime Uncensored! Hear Zach this Saturday live on Outlaw Radio's True Crime Uncensored!
STREET CREDS is #2 in his best selling series, but we will get into all of them.
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Back in 1969 when Vito Colucci Jr. decided to be a cop, he quickly discovered that crime was not limited to crooks on the street. Stamford, Connecticut was riddled with corruption.