Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
Dirty Cop Finally Gets Exposed - The Joe Gliniewicz story
02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Joe Gliniewicz aka GI Joe, the police officer who was caught stealing money from the youth explorer program
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So this guy, let's call him GI Joe, because that's what people call him. And GI Joe is a police officer. And one day he's patrolling around this abandoned factory when he spots three suspicious looking people, two white guys and a black guy. And he goes to check them out and he starts following them. And suddenly, bang, he gets shot in the chest. He's unalived. So then a huge manhunt begins.
Dogs and helicopters and the FBI and the U.S. Marshal Service, over 400 law enforcement are all looking for these three mysterious guys who shot G.I. Joe. And this small town is devastated. I mean, G.I. Joe was really well loved. He had a good reputation in the community.
But most importantly, he was the leader of this youth program, a program that encourages young adults to eventually go into law enforcement, the Explorer Post program. And he loved this program. I mean, it was everything to him. And the youth, they all loved him too. He truly did care about his community. He was always involved with community events, village events, etc.
So if the community loved him so much, who were these three random guys who suddenly decided to unalive G.I. Joe? All right, before we answer that, let's talk about Joe for a minute because he's an interesting guy. Now, after he dies, they release his personal records. And let's just say there's a whole other side of him that the community didn't know about. For example, he's kind of a drunk.
Like one day he gets so drunk that he passes out in his truck on the shoulder of the highway. And another officer finds him and G.I. Joe is so drunk that the officer can't even wake him up. So then a detective from his town has to take him home and they have to have his truck towed. And the next morning, G.I. Joe, he can't remember any of this. So he calls and reports his truck as stolen.
And the detective who dropped him off at home has to be like, you were drunk, bro. So we had to tow your truck. So anyway, GI Joe is that kind of guy. And as the years go by, GI Joe's behavior, it only gets crazier. Like he's showing up to work late or he just doesn't even show up at all.
He gets suspended a number of times and like eventually his boss has to demote him from commander down to sergeant because I guess he got mad one day and threatened to shoot a dispatcher. Also, a woman who works under his command in the police department, she files a lawsuit against him for sexual misconduct.
Then, a few years after that, someone submits an anonymous letter to the mayor of the town on behalf of some of the members of the police department. Basically, these unnamed police department employees, they all accuse GI Joe of all kinds of stuff.
sexual harassment, being constantly thrown out of places for being too drunk, taking his family on vacation in the police squad car, pressuring his subordinates to hook up with him, groping women's boobs at the company Christmas party. This dude is a menace. But despite all that, G.I. Joe still doesn't get fired.
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