The CitySafe Podcast

About The CitySafe Podcast

The CitySafe Podcast explores how retailers, loss prevention teams, and the people responsible for safety navigate theft, incidents, and risk in environments where what you know, and what you do about it, can carry real legal weight. Co-hosted by Jim Cords, retired from the federal side, whose career spanned the FBI, DHS, and OIG, and Don Carr, who has owned and operated private security guard companies and architected security systems, the CitySafe Podcast focuses on the space between detection and response, where so much of retail security actually plays out. The CitySafe Podcast reflects the personal views and opinions of its hosts and is a conversation, not professional advice. Rather than offering tactics or prescriptions, it examines how knowledge, duty, documentation, and the choice to act are understood differently across retail environments, and why the same approach does not protect every operator the same way. Listeners should consult their own qualified professionals on questions of legal liability, operational risk, security, and compliance specific to their circumstances and jurisdictions. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube Music.

Publisher

CitySafe Podcast

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2022

Latest episode

6 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

74 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Nov 2026

   Ep. 45: Shared Suspects · Retail Crime Intelligence Sharing and Defamation Risk

   Retail crime intelligence sharing takes down organized crews — and the same group chat is a machine for publishing accusations. Don Carr opens with a real-shaped post ("watch for her, she's been doing the gift card thing") and Jim Cords grades it the way task-force intelligence has been graded for decades: conviction, arrest, observation, or guess? Why ungraded networks launder their weakest posts, why the correction never travels as far as the accusation, and why coordinated bans off shared ...

2. 

   30 Oct 2026

   Ep. 44: The Face in the System · Facial Recognition in Retail and Biometric Privacy Law

   Facial recognition in retail carries two separate lawsuits: biometric privacy laws like BIPA where the violation is the scan itself — no bad stop required, every shopper a potential plaintiff — and the wrong-match case that replays every stop, ban, and use-of-force decision with a false premise at the front. Don Carr and Jim Cords bring the oldest rule in investigations to the newest camera: a match is a lead, never an identification, and a human closes the gap before anyone acts. Why "94 per...

3. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Ep. 43: The Sidewalk Line · No-Chase Policies and Shoplifter Pursuit

   No-chase policies exist because of ten feet — the distance between the store threshold and the parking lot, where shopkeeper's privilege thins and a merchant becomes a private citizen chasing a stranger. Don Carr and Jim Cords break down shoplifter pursuit: why the chase is a reflex rather than a decision, why the merchandise in the worst outcomes is almost always small, and why "we just followed for the plate" reads as pursuit the moment the video needs explaining. The doctrine fits in one s...

Who has been a guest on The CitySafe Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Matt Kelly
• Lisa LaBruno
• Michael Hanson
• Ryan Harris
• Heinz Klein

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 8 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

4

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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