{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"National Police Association Podcast","title":"NPA Podcast with Guest, Glynn Martin, Sgt. LAPD (Ret), Exec. Dir. LA Police Memorial Foundation","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1857,"description":"Fighting Parole for the Killer of LAPD Officer Jim Pagliotti — with Glynn Martin\nNearly forty years after 28-year-old LAPD Officer Jim Pagliotti was shot and killed in the line of duty, the man convicted of his murder is once again approaching a parole hearing. For Pagliotti's family, friends, and fellow officers, that means once again reliving a loss that has never gone away.\nOn this episode of the National Police Association Podcast, host Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) speaks with Glynn Martin, a retired LAPD sergeant, longtime friend and former partner of Officer Jim Pagliotti, and Executive Director of the LAPD Memorial Foundation. Martin has been involved with the Pagliotti family since the night Jim was murdered and has participated in the decades-long effort to keep his killer behind bars.\nFrom LAPD Partners to Lifelong Friends\nMartin discusses his own path into law enforcement, following his father, a retired Glendale Police Department captain, into the profession. He joined the LAPD in 1982 and served for twenty years in assignments ranging from Hollywood's Special Problems Unit and Vice to major narcotics and patrol supervision.\nIt was during those early years that Martin became close friends with Officer Jim Pagliotti. They weren't simply coworkers. They worked multiple assignments together, owned a house together, and Pagliotti served as a groomsman in Martin's wedding shortly before his death.\nThe Murder of Officer Jim Pagliotti\nPagliotti was pursuing his goal of joining LAPD SWAT and had transferred to Metropolitan Division when he was assigned to a plainclothes surveillance operation in the San Fernando Valley.\nDuring that operation, officers encountered armed suspects. Pagliotti confronted Louis Belvin Jr., and the two exchanged gunfire. Both were hit. Belvin survived; Pagliotti did not.\nBelvin was a known gang member and cocaine dealer who was just weeks short of his 18th birthday. According to Martin, he had also previously shot another...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gU-brZq1Gm21YyE94essDL79z5Uk7gncxiqyucCIgqg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jOTgx/NjVlNWM0MDNkZDQ0/MDdjMjgwYmQ2MzNk/M2Y5Ni5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}