Homicide detectives have quietly called themselves “the murder police” for years. Never as a point of bragging or arrogance (two things actually rare in an assignment that serves up humility daily), but a simple way of defining work like their fellow officers. “School police, traffic cop, narc” and so on.
The murder police can extend out to everyone that works to resolve a murder, because unlike TV and movies, crime solving is the work of large teams; each contributing a specialty, in order to bring a bad person to justice. This includes forensic specialist, crime scene technicians, other specialized detective units, partnering local, state and federal law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates, medical examiners, coroners… this list goes on.
The murder police podcast is going to talk about true crime, not only through the details of the case, but through the eyes of the murder police; what is is like to do the work. The real deal.