Ep68: Joseph Gramaglia - Retired Buffalo Police Commissioner, Tops, and Leading Through Crisis

John sits down with Joseph Gramaglia, Retired Commissioner of the Buffalo Police Department and President of the Major City Chiefs Association - the organization representing the 70 largest urban police departments in the United States and nine in Canada. Joseph spent his entire career in Buffalo policing, rising from the Buffalo Housing Police at 23 to the commissioner’s chair in 2022. He retired in early 2025 and now runs a consulting practice working with police departments and technology companies across the country. The conversation is a genuine insider account of what it means to lead a major urban police force th...