Choir Practice Podcast
First Responders, and Public Servants, share the most extraordinary experiences from their careers. Here on Choir Practice our mission is to preserve our guests personal legacies for friends and family, sharing their stories for anyone who might be curious or interested in a career in public service.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 162 minutes
- Episodes
- 202
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Joe Knipp (Retired San Diego PD Motor officer)
Queue the film noir music, it's the San Diego Chronicles!!!
Knipp retired as a Sgt from the Pima County Sheriff's Department, then headed West and became an Officer with San Diego PD. He…
Steve Patterson PT2 (Retired FBI Tucson Area ASAC, Current University of Arizona Vice President and Chief Safety Officer Chair, Campus Safety Commission)
If you enjoyed getting to know Steve in his first episode, then you will appreciate this one for sure. We were able to dig a little deeper into his career with the FBI, his service in S…
Jim Brown Pt 3 Retired Chief of Police Hudson Police Dept, OH. Warrensville Heights Police officer, Swat, Investigations, Traffic)
We did it! We were able to make it through the rest of Jim's career. Although I'm sure we left plenty of stories unspoken. That's how it goes with many of my guests, they remember more …
Jim Brown PT2 (Retired Chief of Police Hudson Police Dept, OH. Warrensville Heights Police officer, Swat, Investigations, Traffic)
Jim can only take me in small doses, but that''s alright...it means I get to have him over on multiple occasions to get through his career. I've started his book, "Suburban Policing, Cl…
Robert Dobell (Retired USAF Master Sgt, Retired Tucson Police Detective)
Robert grew up in Upstate New York, knew he was not going to college, and left for Air Force bootcamp shortly after graduating high school. Initially he was in logistics/ supply, but cr…
Steve Patterson (Retired FBI Assistant Agent in Charge, Current University of Arizona Vice President and Chief Safety Officer Chair, Campus Safety Commission
Steve grew up in Tucson and graduated from Catalina HS before heading to Northern Arizona University. After graduating, he worked as a Fraud Investigator for Chase Bank before getting p…
Jim Brown (Warrensville Heights Detective Lt; Hudson, OH Chief of Police; Phoenix, AZ Asst. Chief Transit Public Safety; Marana, AZ Police Background Investigator
Jim's inspiration into law enforcement began when local police and fire were called to his Grandparent's home in Warrensville Heights, OH. Years later, he went on to ride with the same …
Catherine Petropoulos (Retired Pima County Sheriff's Department- Corrections, Deputy and Civilian Admin)
Catherine's Father was on the Sheriff's Department which inspired her to begin her career at 18! She started in the jail and promoted to Deputy as soon as she turned 21.
Her experiences,…
Keith "Croc" McCrocklin (Retired Tucson Police Officer)
Keith grew up running from the law, getting in trouble, running off to Bible College only to find himself working in Juvenile Probation which led to his career at the Tucson Police Depa…
Choir Practice Squad Member Tribute (Retired Pima County Deputy Matt Lynn)
I've been following Matt's medical updates on FB, thanks to his wife, and I wanted him to know he is on my mind. Please, if you believe in God, or whatever your belief system, send good…
Bill Cummings (USAF, Retired Maryland State Police)
Bill Cummings was introduced to me by Retired Tucson Police Lieutenant, and Choir Practice Squad member, Bart Rohr.
He is a United States Air Force Veteran, and Retired Maryland State Po…
Robbie Mayer "Attorney at Law" (Retired Maricopa County Prosecutor)
When Robbie graced us last time we made it through his 21 year career as a Deputy Sheriff. After retirement, he finished law school and began his second career as a prosecutor in Marico…
Tyke Manoleas (US Marine, AZ Dept of Corrections, Pima County Jail, Retired Pima County Sheriff's Lieutenant)
It was so good to catch up with Tyke. We chatted for about three hours before we started recording. Our friendship goes back to 1996 or 1997! We carpooled to the jail together.
His caree…
Roger Vanderpool (US Army Military police, Goshen, IN. Police, Retired AZ DPS Lieutenant, Pinal County Sheriff, AZ DPS Director)
Like so many of my guests, Roger has lived many lives in one lifetime! And the positions he's held, the opportunities to serve, are very honorable.
He began public service by joining the…
Lou Canales (US Navy Veteran, Group Facilitator of Operation Eternal Freedom)
Lou has been mentioned by Kurt Dabb a few times. Nothing brings you closer to peace than being choked out by your Brazilian Jui Jitsu brothers and sisters!
He's a Navy Veteran who came …
Dave Thomas Part 2 "The rest of the Story" (Retired Pima County Sgt)
As promised, in consecutive weeks, good ol Dave Thomas is back and we chat about his stint in Homicide, Arson, Internal Affairs, and finally the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Trafficking …
Dave Thomas (Retired Pima County Sheriff Sergeant)
Dave kindly reminded me he was not the same Dave Thomas of Wendy's Hamburger Fame. We met at the Pima County Sheriff's reunion and I convinced him to be on the show.
After high school h…
Robbie Mayer (Retired Pima County Sheriff Sergeant, Retired Maricopa County Prosecutor)
It was my pleasure to host Robbie, get to know him better and I was amazed at how many of the historic events around Tucson he had been a part of. I'd be lying if I denied that the litt…
Kurt Dabb (Retired Pima County Homicide Detective)
Kurt is back! The last time he was on the show was 2022! He said he wanted to come back and share with The Squad the different types of therapies he has used over the years to help him …
Randy Karrer (Retired Golder Ranch Fire Department Chief)
My good buddy, and multiple time guest, Bill Hanson arranged the meeting between Randy and I!
We met, I gave him a hard time about being a second responder, but he was such the gracious …