Stash house sting operations
Subject in True Crime
Stash house sting operations has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Shawn Ryan Show. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Chris BaylessRetired ATF special agent who spent most of a 30-year career undercover, now an ATF Academy instructor
Bayless argues that proactive policing is returning after the defund-the-police period and is producing benefits in removing violent offenders.
“proactive law enforcement's coming back, and you're starting to see the benefits of that, which is taking these violent guys off the street”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #304 Chris Bayless - 30 Years Undercover Inside America's Most Violent Gangs (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 3:17:33
Bayless defends the concentration of stash house stings in minority neighborhoods by arguing that violent gun crime is disproportionately located there.
“I got to go to places where it's very violent and they're using firearms. And unfortunately, it's disproportionately in these communities”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #304 Chris Bayless - 30 Years Undercover Inside America's Most Violent Gangs (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 3:14:41
Shawn RyanFormer U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, host of the Shawn Ryan Show
Ryan argues that police are accused of racism both when they enforce the law in Black communities and when they neglect them.
“If you neglect it because you're labeled a racist and you let crime run rampant, you're a racist”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #304 Chris Bayless - 30 Years Undercover Inside America's Most Violent Gangs (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 3:18:00
Podcasts
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#304 Chris Bayless - 30 Years Undercover Inside America's Most Violent GangsThe Shawn Ryan Show · May 14, 2026 · 4 h 2 min
Retired ATF undercover agent Chris Bayless tells Shawn Ryan about infiltrating biker gangs, stash house stings, RICO cases, his PTSD, and his friendship with Mel Chancey.