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[ Police Sirens ]

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[ cop ] You look very suspicious.

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Cause you are always looking at me crazy.

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[ Music Playing... ]

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[ Altercation Occurring ]

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That is exactly how some (explicit) will go down.

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Just like that.

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Just like that.

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People do not like the police [br]because of the harassment.

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And what civilians do not understand, is that [br]the police department is like forcing us...

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...to do these unreasonable stops,

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or, you're going to get penalized.

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I think the mayor is absolutely correct.

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Some people are just very hurt by it, and upset, [br]when they are stopped unnecessarily.

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Well I understand that.

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Some people...

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You know you're taking away, at the very least, [br]you are taking away people's time.

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So I understand, that people [br]may not be happy with it.

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But I can also assure you, that I go [br]to the communities, communities of color,...

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...people want more.

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[ reporter ] They want more stop and frisks?

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Absolutely.

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I had this captain who walked into the precinct,[br]and he gave a speech about harassing the public.

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His words were...

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"We're going to go out there [br]and violate some rights."

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We hear it from the captain down.

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We want 250s.

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This is Stop, Question, and Frisk.

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[ phone ringing ]

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I was walking home from my girlfriends house, [br]and a cop car went passed me.

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A couple of seconds later [br]I heard the car turn around.,

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and, they just popped out.

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They all just jumped out of the car.

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I decided to record it 'cause [br]I was getting stopped a lot,

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and I didn't have evidence of cops [br]being disrespectful and everything.

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So I pressed the button, [br]and it recorded the whole thing.

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Yo I just got stopped like two blocks ago.

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Cause you are always looking at me crazy.

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[ cop ] That's our job my man.

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Listen to me. Listen to me.

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[ cop ] Because you keep doing that shit, man. [br]We stopped you last time.

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[ cop ] Who the fuck are you talkin' to?

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[ Alvin ] You asked me why I had a bookbag on.[br][ cop ] Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

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[ Alvin ] You asked me why I had a bookbag on.[br][ cop ] Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

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[ altercation occurring ]

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Why you touching me for?

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He was holding me. [br]He was going through my pockets.

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Going up and down. [br]He was going through my sweater.

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Then that's when he told me [br]to keep my hands on my head.

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So I was like this the whole time.

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[ Alvin ] For what?

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[ cop ] Shut your fuckin; mouth kid.

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[ Alvin ] Why am I getting arrested for?

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[ cop ] SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

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[ Alvin ] What am I being arrested for?

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He decided to take my hands, from here, [br]and put it behind my back, like that.

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[ cop ] Shut your fucking mouth!

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[ Alvin ] You're asking me questions!

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I was..

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[ cop ] Have some fuckin' respect!

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[ Alvin ] ... 'cause you always stoppin' me [br]for no reason.

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[ Alvin ] You're going to break my arm?

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For what?

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[ cop ] Who's your father?

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[ Alvin ] He's not going to answer [br]he doesn't got a phone.

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He is a traffic cop?

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Figures.

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[ Alvin ] Don't touch me. OK he's a traff...

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[ recording playing back some of previous assault ]

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While they holding me... [br]the sergeant is holding me like this.

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He's like, "I'm going to break your arm."

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I'm like..I'm like, you're going to break my arm?

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He said "yeah and I'm gonna [br]punch you in the face."

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I was like you know, "you're gonna [br]punch my in my face?

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He's like "yeah, and then I'm gonna arrest you."

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I'm like, "arrest me for what?"

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He's like, "for being a mutt."

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So he grabbed me, by my book bag, [br]and started pushing me down.

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So I am going backwards down a hill, and he [br]just kept pushing me and pushing me.

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It looked like he was going to hit me.

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I felt like they were trying to make me resist, [br]so they could fight me back.

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[ recording playing back assault... ]

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I'm mad just hearing that thing.

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Not many words really, like, could describe that.

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It's just disturbing.

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But, that is exactly what is happening.

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Like, I can relate to what he is doing.

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Cause I know that situation.

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They just don't got no respect for us.

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And they wonder why we [br]don't have respect for them.

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For them to just call him a name like that like...

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That's just crazy.

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[ interviewer ] Do you think, that during stops, [br]that some police officers try to provoke,...

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..so that they can justify arrests?

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[ cop ] Of course they do. A lot of police officers [br]they try to set civilians off.

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and then once they start talking, start cursing, [br]they can lock them off for anything.

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There were two minorities leaning against the wall.

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They weren't doing anything.

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My sergeant ordered me to write them [br]"blocking pedestrian traffic".

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If you are a certain ethnicity, [br]standing on the corner,...

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-lieutenants, sergeants- have no problem searching[br]you, violating your rights, and racial profiling.

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There was one statement, that the sergeant said, [br]about what he used to do.

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He used to stop a guy walking down the street...

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...with baggy pants, his underwear hanging out, [br]and he'd just stop him.

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He says "I know he's probably up to nothin', [br]but I just stop him anyway to get a 250".

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There's this one cop that everybody [br]in the neighbourhood knows.

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Stopped us like three times already.

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He was like, "Now come here".

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So they got out the car.

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They threw my friend on the car.

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I'm still walking.

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He spun me around and punched me in my stomach.

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He started just patting us down.

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He just left us there.

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What we're trying to do is, is make certain [br]that it's done as professionally as possible.

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That the proper respect is shown [br]and done according to the law.

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This goes all the way up.

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All the way up to the commissioners office.

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I'd say even the mayors office.

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Where they are trying to be proactive.

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and say "look, we are stopping people [br]and getting drugs and guns off the streets."

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But it's not. I think of the 600,000 people [br]that were stopped last year,

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only 1%, of those that were stopped, [br]were carrying weapons.

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[ newscasters ] The NYPD controversial [br]Stop and Frisk policy...

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Last year your police officers stopped [br]and interrogated people nearly 686,000 times...

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Today, that lawsuit raises serious questions about[br]quotas, racial profiling, and constitutional rights.

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The public isn't aware of what's happening, [br]but everything is being look at as far as numbers.

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And it's a numbers game.

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Ok. What did you get last year? Well, you [br]have to match it, and give me more this year.

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They're trying to keep all of this stuff quiet.

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So this is my proof, that they're putting [br]pressure on me to write summonses.

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Commanders are trying to be proactive, [br]or <i>show</i> that they're being proactive.

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And here you have a system where people [br]are told to get those numbers,...

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... to where they should to be, [br]and you're gonna get your promotion.

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The commanding officer wants [br]to become a deputy inspector.

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The executive officer wants to become [br]a commanding officer.

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If you do well, by keeping the arrests up [br]and the summonses up,...

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...you will be promoted to the next rank.

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So, they put pressure on the police officers [br]to generate numbers and arrests.

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I mean, lets be real, it is a quota.

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Nobody wants to call it that,[br]but that's what it is.

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They can call it a performance objective. They call [br]it a goal that can mask it however they want.

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It's a quota, and it does exist.

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Some of us, under the stress, make them up.

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Some of us, under the stress, [br]stop innocent people and search them.

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And there are certain units out there [br]that will run around and stop everybody.

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What happens to the officer if they don't do [br]what the police department tells them to do?

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As far as quotas, they will come after you.

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Come after you meaning transfers. [br]Giving you low evaluations.

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They give you unwanted assignments.

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Put you in a post which is very dangerous.

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High crime. By yourself. In a corner.

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This is a form of retaliation.

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Basically a change of tours,[br]put you on the midnight.

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They make you look bad on paperwork.

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And that paperwork will trail you [br]for the rest of your police career.

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And knowing that your livelihood is at stake, [br]you meet the quota.

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It does create this feeling, of hey listen, [br]I got to get my numbers.

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When you put that pressure on the officer, [br]this us versus them mentality does exist.

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When I came into this police department, [br]I wanted to help people.

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But the civilian population they are being hunted.

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Instead of being protected by us, [br]they're being hunted.

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And we're being hated.

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The police department is pushing the new guys [br]to be bounty hunters.

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And I use that word because [br]that's exactly what it is.

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They're hunting.

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There's a lot of officers, who are fed up, [br]and want to do something about it.

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And there's people who are scared.

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There's a lot of officers that would like [br]to tell their story.

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But, nobody wants to hear the truth.

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Nobody wants to hear the bad.

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You need police, but the police department [br]needs to change things.

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At one point, I did want to be a cop,

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to help people, and mostly just be like able to [br]wear a badge, and uniform, and be proud of it.

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Now I feel like i'm not sure.

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Cause they're not there to help people anymore.

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They're just there to like stop and humiliate them.

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Make them feel bad.

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There is no excuses for the way they treated me.

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This one individual was thinking about doing NYPD.

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The first thing I told him is, "Definitely not."

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This job, racial profiles, will force you to do things [br]that you don't wanna do.

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We're supposed to be the best in the world?

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We're the best at making money, and we're [br]the best at arresting, and summonsing, everybody.