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SnapShot: Dayuuuummm, You Fine! · Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 0:00
  Speaker 1: So there I am right.
• 0:01
  Speaker 1: I just started with my police department here in the big city metropolis of Portland, oregon area and I'm on field training.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I've been a cop nine years at this point and I feel like I carry myself pretty well.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I feel like I can wear a uniform and I know how to posture myself.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I know you know my buttons, buckles, balls everything is in a straight line.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Uniform is looking tight.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: F thing is they're good.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: So I'm out on field training.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: One day and my partner and I we get sent to this apartment complex in the middle of the ghetto.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: There's a certain part of our town that it requires 80% of the resources, 80% of the time, and the apartment complex I'm going to is right in the heart.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Now this apartment complex is an African-American apartment complex I'm going to is right in the heart.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Now this apartment complex is an African-American apartment complex.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of gangs live there.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: It's an apartment complex that, literally, if we're on patrol and we do a traffic stop and somebody rolls deep into this complex, we're not going to go in without cover.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: It's that kind of a complex, right, and I think anybody listening to this who's worked in big cities you understand what I'm talking about.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: The clientele is not really police friendly.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we get a call for service there.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: So our call for service I can't remember what it was, it was pretty something mundane, but I go there and, being in field training, it's going to be my job to lead that call.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: I am being graded on everything that I do.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: I am being graded on the way I interact with people, my solutions, my decision-making process, my lack of decision-making process, the way that I mitigate and mediate things.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: All that stuff is getting judged right.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: So I need to be the one in charge of this and if people don't see me as the one in charge, then I get knocked down for that, because that means my command presence isn't good.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: No matter how good my uniform looks, my command presence isn't there.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: So I go knock the door at this complainant's address and this lady comes to the door.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: It's a black lady.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: She comes to the door and she's like you know, hey, my neighbors, or blah, blah, blah, whatever the complaint was, and I'm like all right.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: So you know, as I'm, as I'm talking to her, I noticed that she's distracted.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: But I want to describe my partner, my partner on this call.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: He is probably 20 years older than me at the time Probably still is.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: He is shorter, stocky, bodybuilder.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: He's that guy that wears bedazzled jeans on the weekends.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: His shirt is unbuttoned, probably one more than everybody else in the department.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: He's wearing that internal vest that you can see constantly flexing the muscles, like bodybuilders do.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, I'm not a bodybuilder but they flex the muscles all the time and just kind of, you know, twitch and flex A little bit of chest hair hanging out, short haircut, kind of a Rico Suave looking cat.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: You know kids these days would say dude's got riz, he's fire little skibbity riz, ohio, whatever.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Kids would say.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: That's what they would be saying about this guy.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: And I noticed that the gal talking to me is distracted by him and she like, literally she's talking to me but she steps to the side.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Now she's completely looking at him, talking to me but staring at him.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: So I'm like I got to take control of this, right.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: So I step over, I get back in front of her and I'm like all right, you know, ma'am, focus your attention on me.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: So I'm talking to her and she steps to the other direction so she can get a better shot at my partner back there and we're mid-talking, mid-sentence, and she stops what she's talking about and she's like, damn you fine, talking to my partner, and he's like, well, thank you, thank you.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, hey, so what about me?
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: She's like you aight, damn you, fine, boy.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh well, I guess I'm just aight.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we finished that.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Call so for the next 10 years.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: As I'm walking around the police department with this dude, every time we pass each other in the hall, I'm like, damn you, fine, he's like you aight.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: And that was our you aight call.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: So anyway, it was fun, it was a fun memory, and that guy's now retired, I'm now retired, we're both living better lives and blessed to have made it to the other side.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: That's a Murders to Music snapshot.