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(Police Sirens)
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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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Why you push me like that for?
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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 because of the harassment.
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And what civilians do not understand, is that the police department is like forcing us...
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...to do these unreasonable stops.
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Or, you are 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, 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, you are taking up their time.
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So I understand, that people may not be happy with it.
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But I can also assure you, that I go to the communities, communities of color,...
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...people want more.
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They want more stop and frisks?
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Absolutely.
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I had this captain that walked into the precinct, and he gave a speech about harassing the public.
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His words were...
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We are going to go out there 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, and a cop car went passed me.
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A couple of seconds later 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 because I was going to stop the law.
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I didn't have evidence of cops being disrespectful and everything.
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So I pressed the button, and it records 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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That's our job man.
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Listen to me.
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Because you keep doing that (explicit) man. We stopped you last time.
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(altercation occurring)
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Why you touching me for?
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He was holding me.
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He was going through my pockets.
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Going up and down.
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He was going through my sweater.
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Than that's when he told me to keep my hands on my head.
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So I was like this the whole time.
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Fo what?
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Shut your (explicit)mouth.
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Why am I getting arrested for?
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(yelling) Shut your mouth!
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He decided to take my hands, from here, and put it behind my back.
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Like that.
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(yelling) Shut you (explicit) mouth!
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I was..
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(yelling)
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You're going to break my arm?
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For what?
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Who is your father?
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He is not going to answer he doesn't have a phone.
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He is a traffic cop?
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Figures.
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(recording playing)
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While they holding me...
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The sergeant is holding me like this.
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He 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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Yeah and I am going to punch you in the face.
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Are you going to punch my in my face.
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He is like yeah, and then I am going to arrest you.
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I'm like, arrest me for what?
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He is like, for being a mutt.
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So he grabbed me, by my book bag, and started pushing me down.
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So I am going backwards down a hill, and he 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, so they could fight me back.
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(recording playing)
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I am mad just hearing that thing.
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How may words could really 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 don't have respect for them.
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For them to just call him names like that like...
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That is just crazy.
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Do you think, that during stops, that some police officers try to provoke,...
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..so that they can justify arrests?
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Of course they do.
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A lot of police officers they try to set civilians off.
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Then once they start talking, start cursing, they can wack 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 blocking pedestrian traffic.
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If you are a certain ethnicity, standing on the corner,...
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...lieutenants, sergeants, have no problem violating your rights and racial profiling.
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There was one statement, that the sergeant said, 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, and he'd just stop him.
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I know he is probably up to nothing, but I just stop him anyway to give him a 250.
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It's this one cop.
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That everybody is the neighborhood knows.
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I was 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 are trying to do is, is make certain that it is done as professionally as possible.
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That the proper respect is shown 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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Hey look, we are stopping people and getting drugs and guns off the streets.
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But think about the 600,000 people that were stopped last year.
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Only 1%, of those that were stopped, were not carrying weapons.
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The NYPD controversial Stop and Frisk policy...
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Last year your police officer stopped and interrogated people nearly 686,000 times.
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Today, that a lawsuit raises serious questions about quotas, racial profiling, and constitutional rights.
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The public isn't aware of what's happening, but everything is being look at as far as numbers.
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It's a numbers game.
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Ok.
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What did you get last year?
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Well, you 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 are putting pressure on me to write summonses.
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Commanders are trying to be proactive, or show that they are being proactive.
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Here you have a system where people are told to get those numbers,...
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... to where they should to be, and you will get your promotion.
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The commanding officer wants to become a deputy inspector.
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The executive officer wants to become a commanding officer.
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If you do well, by keeping the arrests up 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 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.
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But, that is what it is.
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They can call it a performance objective.
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They call it a goal that can mask it.
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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, stop innocent people and search them.
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They are sending units out there that will run around and search anybody.
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What happens to the officer if they don't do what the police department told to do?
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As far as quotas, they will come after you.
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Come after you meaning transfers 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
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By yourself.
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In a corner.
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This is a form of retaliation.
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Basically a change of tours.
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Put you on the midnight.
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They make you look bad on paperwork.
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That paperwork will trail you for the rest of your police career.
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And knowing that your livelihood is at stake, you meet the quota.
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It does create this feeling, of hey listen, I got to get my numbers.
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When you put that pressure on the officer, this us versus them mentality does exist.
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When I cam into this police department, 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, they're being hunted.
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We're being hated.
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The police department is pushing the new guys to be bounty hunters.
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I use that word because that is exactly what it is.
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They're hunting.
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There's a lot of officers, that are fed up, and want to do something about it.
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And, they're people who are scared.
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There's a lot of officers that would like to tell their story.
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But, no one 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 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 be able to 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 are 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 was, "Definitely not."
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This job, racial profiles, will force you to do things that you don't want to 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 are the best at arresting, and summonsing, everybody.
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