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Joe Broadmeadow retired with the rank of Captain from the East Providence Police Department after serving for 20 years. He is the author of several novels Collision Course, Silenced Justice, Saving the Last Dragon, and A Change of Hate available on Amazon in print and Kindle. Joe is working on the latest in a series of Josh Williams and Harrison "Hawk" Bennett novels and a sequel to Saving the Last Dragon. Joe has also written several best-selling non-fiction works about Organized Crime and other topics all available at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joe-Broadmeadow/author/B00OWPE9GU In 2014 Joe completed a 2,185 mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail
  • September 22, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob

    Here is why you should buy this book… “Brendan Doherty & Joe Broadmeadow’s new book “ It’s just the way it was “ a gripping in-depth, insider point of view from the lawman who saw it all. The Federal Hill…

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  • September 19, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    Measure of a Life

    One of my daughter’s close friends, who she met back in Pre-K, passed away recently. David Francazio was barely thirty years old when he died, but he managed a lifetime in those years. David died while surgeons tried to replace…

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  • September 18, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    At War Against The Mob

    In It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized…

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  • September 2, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    Excerpt “It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories”

    Read an except from the upcoming book by Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty. Go inside with investigators who infiltrated the mob. Sit with the detectives as they monitor wiretaps. Come face to face with some of the most notorious mobsters…

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  • August 22, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    Pre-Release Sale: It’s Just the Way It Was

    Now available for pre-release order for Kindle. In It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world…

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  • August 12, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    It’s Just the Way It Was…

    “On March 14, 1986, a dark, cold, and quiet night in Providence, Rhode Island, an ex-con with a penchant for violence, dropped into a local bar. He didn’t realize he’d just entered lion territory, and the lions were hunting…” It’s…

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  • August 9, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    When in the Course of Human Events…

    When did America become a country of people who say “we can’t?” When did America become a country where our children… our children… cannot afford the medicine we invented? When did America become the country where we shake our heads…

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  • August 5, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    Did a Comma Kill Americans? Grammar and the 2nd Amendment.

    Let’s try a different approach to the 2nd Amendment.  Instead of historical analysis, let’s do something simple like a basic grammatical breakdown of the sentence. Here is the language from the Constitution “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security…

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  • August 3, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    Facebook Sparks a Memory

    A recent Facebook reminder sparked a memory long encased in the past. The post was a notice of a birthday for a childhood friend, Eddie Reilly. When I read the post, a memory burst forth in my mind from August…

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  • July 28, 2019 · Mind Wanderings

    Reason to Believe

    After the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, I was disappointed and disillusioned about the future. But I am an optimist and have a great deal of faith in the resiliency of the American people and…

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