The Jordan Harbinger Show
1161: Tegan Broadwater | How a White Cop Infiltrated the Crips Part Two
29 May 2025
Undercover work is psychological warfare in designer jeans. Ex-cop Tegan Broadwater explains how authenticity beats acting when lives are on the line. [Pt. 2/2 — Find Pt. 1/2 here!]Jordan's must reads (including books from this episode): AcceleratEdFull show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1161What We Discuss with Tegan Broadwater:How Tegan Broadwater went undercover and infiltrated the Crips gang for 18 months, working mostly off-the-books without proper backup or supervision.What happened when Tegan discovered a corrupt police officer selling information to gang members and warning them of raids — while superiors ignored his detailed complaint and evidence.How budget constraints forced dangerous solo operations rather than proper surveillance teams, using a single patrol officer as backup via an open phone line.How Tegan's efforts successfully built a 51-person conspiracy case with FBI partnership, resulting in arrests averaging 19-year sentences and solving nine cold case murders.Why a focus on mentoring at-risk youth is society's best chance at breaking cycles of crime — supporting children of incarcerated parents through education, job skills, and positive role models creates lasting change.And much more...And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors:Northwest Registered Agent: northwestregisteredagent.com/jordanOura Ring: 10% off: ouraring.com/jordanCayman Jack: caymanjack.comAirbnb: airbnb.com/hostLand Rover Defender: landroverusa.comMiss the two-parter we did with Jack Barsky — author of Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America? Start with episode 285: Jack Barsky | Deep Undercover with a KGB Spy in America!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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How do I make this case survive? I've been through the ringer and I've ran giant operations and these punk gangbangers are trying to put a label on me that's going to get me killed in the street. This is the lowest next to a pedophile. You can't put a label on somebody worse than this. Do I want to die? No. Was I willing to lose my job over making this successful? Yes.
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We're just getting warmed up. Here we go. Part two with Tegan Broadwater. You said you did a lot of stuff off the books. What does that actually mean? Sounds like something you're not supposed to be doing.
Yeah, it is something I'm not supposed to be doing. It was with the resources that we had. Here's how you would set up a deal. Typically, you would say, all right, this is my target. This is the time I'm trying to go do X, Y, Z. And then you get a team of five dudes from the gang in it and suburbans and a bunch of white dudes with backwards baseball caps and beards.
hanging out in the hood three blocks away with listening devices. You go in, you give the date and time, what you're going to do, and you go in and you try to accomplish whatever the part of the mission is, make the buy, whatever. It's just so freaking conspicuous and time consuming to get that together. And hey, these guys are saying, hey, man, B just went to Waco and he's going to be back.
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