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Talk Line: Chief Pat Bartel shares updates from the Sterling Police Dept. · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You're back with the Waking crew
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  Speaker 1: here on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty WIXN.
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  Speaker 1: It's eight thirty six on your Wednesday morning. Happy hump
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  Speaker 1: Day to you all, and I'm joined in the booth
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  Speaker 1: for the first time since taking over here at the
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  Speaker 1: legendary Steve Marcos studio. Sterling Chief of Police Pat Bartel, Pat,
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  Speaker 1: how are you man?
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  Speaker 2: Doing good?
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to see you. Nice to have a conversation
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, sit down and see you again.
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  Speaker 1: I miss you guys at the Sterling City Council.
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  Speaker 3: You were it was great every time you were there.
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  Speaker 3: And one day you were there and the next thing
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  Speaker 3: I knew you were gone. You're having a radio show,
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  Speaker 3: you're opening up your own store. So it's good to
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  Speaker 3: get back with you. And I haven't spent some time
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  Speaker 3: with you again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I kind of surprised people. I've always
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  Speaker 1: been that head down and grind kind of thing, and
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  Speaker 1: then when people run into it, it's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: I actually share a really funny story with you. So
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you off air that our storehead partner
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  Speaker 1: with Amazon doing am is on deliveries and whatnot. So
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  Speaker 1: some folks have seen me in the blue vest delivering packages. Well,
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  Speaker 1: one of the people the other day was none other
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  Speaker 1: than Steve Marcos himself. The last time he had seen me,
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  Speaker 1: we were shaking hands. It was the goodbye party, so
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of imagine his surprise. He's like, I
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  Speaker 1: left Brandon at the Helm and now he's delivering packages.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? My man?
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  Speaker 3: I gave you what was my sounding board and my piece,
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  Speaker 3: and now you're out here you're slinging packages.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, I had to let them know I didn't
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  Speaker 1: curse on air.
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  Speaker 3: There was no big controversy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was actually for a reason. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: funny that you say that because you're not the only one,
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  Speaker 1: but I it's always you know, head down, grinding quiet
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  Speaker 1: and you know, everything else comes. But we're not here
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  Speaker 1: for me. We're here to talk about, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: the fine work that you guys do over at the
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  Speaker 1: Sterling Police Department. I loved my time at the paper,
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  Speaker 1: getting to know you guys, getting to know more about
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  Speaker 1: you know, the police department and all the fine work
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  Speaker 1: you guys do. We're gonna we're gonna start off today.
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  Speaker 1: I always love events, that's always a happy topic. And
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  Speaker 1: and what I really love about that is that the
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  Speaker 1: Sterling Police Department, it's so much more about law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: It's community policing being a part of things. And so
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  Speaker 1: of course, you know, these events are always no surprise
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  Speaker 1: for us that are been a part of the community,
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  Speaker 1: grew up here and know how involved y'all are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's actually something that started way way back.
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  Speaker 3: I've got thirty almost thirty two and a half years
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  Speaker 3: on with the department. After my first year in the department,
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  Speaker 3: my chief at the time, Chief pot Off, came in
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  Speaker 3: and said, hey, we're gonna do some community policing and
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  Speaker 3: we actually had we got a federal grant at the
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  Speaker 3: time in the Clinton Arrow where we put two officers
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  Speaker 3: myself and Brad Barron, into the community policing aspect and
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  Speaker 3: that's all we did for a year. We are two
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  Speaker 3: fairly young guys, fairly young in experience, and it was
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  Speaker 3: different because they said, don't be a cop, go out
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  Speaker 3: and do the opposite of what you think a cop
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  Speaker 3: should do. So I made a bunch. It was awesome
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  Speaker 3: meeting people. We did a bunch of the schools, a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of parks, the Imagination Station was being built at
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  Speaker 3: that time, so we got to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just that process, that idea of being in
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  Speaker 3: the community. We've just kind of take tried to take
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  Speaker 3: it up a step as time has gone by. Chief
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  Speaker 3: Tim Morgan came in, he kind of took it to
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  Speaker 3: another level with events for each shift. Then Chief Shavia
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  Speaker 3: came in, kept going, we kept pushing a little bit harder.
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  Speaker 3: And I've actually if you would ask me thirty years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I would have said, this is crazy. We're supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be out arresting people, you know, being the typical Adam
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  Speaker 3: twelve whatever you think of the old day's cops were,
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  Speaker 3: And actually we need to go back more to We've
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  Speaker 3: tried to take it back more to like the old
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  Speaker 3: foot beat cop. Or they walk their neighborhoods, they see
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  Speaker 3: their neighborhoods, they meet the people. Yeah, that's trying. That's
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  Speaker 3: kind of the idea behind it. So some of the
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  Speaker 3: events we got coming up, and these are not nationally
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  Speaker 3: or not just police events, but you and I were
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  Speaker 3: talking a little bit before we got Street Fuss coming
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  Speaker 3: downtown this weekend from two to eight. Some good bands,
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  Speaker 3: lots of good food. If you want to have an
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  Speaker 3: adult beverage, you'd be able to take that outside and
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  Speaker 3: walk around downtown. Family events, so there's stuff for the kids,
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  Speaker 3: all ages. So we're really excited. It's the first time
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  Speaker 3: ever for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. Man, you were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: bon Jovi tribute band Gigi.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's back in my day. That's my high school heyday.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm anxious to see them. Brad Schrader, our director
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  Speaker 3: of Public Works for the city, and then say off
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  Speaker 3: our city clerk. They've put tons of time effort, got
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  Speaker 3: great sponsors that wanted to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 3: The weather looks good, yeah, so it should be a
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  Speaker 3: fun time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we got and then the next next big
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  Speaker 3: thing we got National night coming up, National Night Out
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  Speaker 3: coming up August fourth, Rock Falls in US. We switch
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  Speaker 3: off each year we do the event together and then
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  Speaker 3: one year it's in Sterling, the next year it's in
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  Speaker 3: rock Falls. This year it's in Rock Falls at RBNW
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  Speaker 3: Park and August fourth, it's a Tuesday night from five
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  Speaker 3: to seven, tons of booths, vendors again, food. I think
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  Speaker 3: Jeremy Vandra from Rock Falls, PD. He'll be cooking it.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be on the grill cooking up a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: hot dogs, burgers. I'm not sure what else they're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Have medium, well, sir, yes, slap a little cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So that's always cool to see all the all the
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  Speaker 3: different agencies, all the different people that come out. You
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  Speaker 3: get a chance to just have a regular conversation with everybody.
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  Speaker 3: They see a little bit about they'll be activities, so
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  Speaker 3: they get to everybody gets to see a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about what each of these departments, organizations, some of the
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  Speaker 3: things they have to offer, and you know, more of
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  Speaker 3: a social atmosphere than a formal one or sit down
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  Speaker 3: type of deal. So it's always fun. And then one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite days of the year coming up is
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  Speaker 3: hot Dog Days. Yeah, downtown Sterling.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, I had no idea this thing was so big
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  Speaker 1: when I first heard about it. I have to be honest, like,
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  Speaker 1: when the first time I had heard about a hot
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  Speaker 1: dog what's hot Dog Day? I'm like, that's okay, cool, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: And then I went out there to cover it and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, the entire city has
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  Speaker 1: to be down in downtown for this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it it is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty five cent hot dogs, twenty five cent chip, twenty
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  Speaker 3: five cent water. That's August seventh. So the tradition has
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  Speaker 3: been the Chief Police is the hot dog cooker because
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  Speaker 3: we have our spot there at the coliseum at the PD.
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  Speaker 3: So I think this will be Chief Chaverra's last year.
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  Speaker 3: He had to be gone during that week, so I cooked.
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  Speaker 3: So this will be my third year cooking. I can
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  Speaker 3: make a mean hot dog on the grill, but it
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  Speaker 3: gets a little crazy too.
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  Speaker 1: I bet it looks like you all go through a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them hot dogs last year.
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  Speaker 3: So it starts at eleven, but well usually the technical
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  Speaker 3: time is eleven, but usually by ten thirty we have
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  Speaker 3: people either calling us for advanced orders. Last year, I
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  Speaker 3: cooked eight hundred and fifty hot dogs and we were
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  Speaker 3: sold out before noon. Oh wow, so we did eight
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  Speaker 3: and I started cooking about it was probably ten fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I you know, knocked out about eight hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty hot dogs and what hour and a half
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  Speaker 3: hour and forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always no big deal, you know, personal record.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna chalk that out put
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  Speaker 3: that on the wall. That's a good one for me. Awesome,
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  Speaker 3: So that's always fun. So we hope there'll be ton
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  Speaker 3: There's plenty of places downtown, I think, even the fire
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  Speaker 3: department they started up last year. So if you want
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  Speaker 3: to stay with the city on the city side or everything,
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  Speaker 3: you can go over to the fire department. Only if
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  Speaker 3: we run out of hot dogs, though, don't don't let.
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  Speaker 1: Those you in the fire department.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: God, I miss that.
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  Speaker 2: We always got to poke each other back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: We love each other, but it's like that big brother
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  Speaker 3: little brother relationship and we'll poke each other back and forth,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll all each have each other's back. So absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: then we're doing We've started a little bit getting more
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  Speaker 3: involved with Sog Valley Voices of Recovery, Tevin's Tribe, something
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  Speaker 3: I kind of brought in with me and talking to
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  Speaker 3: Gerald a lot, and then Lauren Matzler from Tavin's Tribe.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm seeing I've learned in my time experience.
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  Speaker 3: Enforcement isn't always isn't isn't necessarily getting the job done. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: the work they're doing and putting out, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be part of Tavern's tribe. They're gonna a National Overdose
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  Speaker 3: Awareness Day on August thirty one. They're gonna be over
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  Speaker 3: at RBA W Park again. I think Lauren said she's
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  Speaker 3: got a bunch of things set up over there, maybe
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  Speaker 3: even smashing a car, doing some different stuff. And then, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the volleyball tournament, and I think September fifth, I believe
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  Speaker 3: is the data that if I remember that, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's special to her this year because of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that it's Tavern's birthday. So we're trying to get
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of all involved in that, be a
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  Speaker 3: part of that and show the understanding more of the
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  Speaker 3: understanding side of this issue and problem instead of just
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  Speaker 3: the enforcement side. One is just as important as the other.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. I love hearing that, you know, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are working with Lauren and Gerald, fantastic people, Sow Valley Voices,
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  Speaker 1: a recovery fantastic organization, Uh, doing a lot to try
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  Speaker 1: to help that, you know, on their end and their
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  Speaker 1: approach you know, for that problem. Like you said, it's
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  Speaker 1: there's not just one solution, not just one side you
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  Speaker 1: know to doing that, and so it's very cool to
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  Speaker 1: see the you know, the very two extremes of how
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  Speaker 1: these situations can get handled and will at one time
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  Speaker 1: or another, you know, need to be coming together to
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  Speaker 1: try to find the best way from middle ground. I
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  Speaker 1: really love that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's like I said, thirty some years ago.
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  Speaker 3: When I started, this wasn't even a thought. We knew
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  Speaker 3: one way and one way only. And I think time
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  Speaker 3: it variods have shown us that there is definitely more
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  Speaker 3: than one way to try to solve, try to help,
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  Speaker 3: try to be there. So we're excited to get a
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  Speaker 3: little more involved with them, spend a little more time
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  Speaker 3: seeing what they offer and their solutions and how they're
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  Speaker 3: tackling the issues other than just how we do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then of course we'll have each So we have
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  Speaker 3: four patrol shifts and then our Detective Division. Each of
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  Speaker 3: those four patrol shifts and our Detective Vision as well,
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  Speaker 3: does a certain event each year that they handle themselves
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  Speaker 3: four to five on each shift four to five and
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  Speaker 3: detectives and they put out a special event. So we
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  Speaker 3: just had our five k rum that supported survivors the
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  Speaker 3: cop of officers that have died in the line of duty.
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  Speaker 3: So Harry Blumstrain and has shift did a really good
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  Speaker 3: job with that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then coming up we have stocked the squad will
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  Speaker 3: be coming up. Our biggest one that gets the most.
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  Speaker 2: Is truck Retreat.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be coming up at Halloween and then we do
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  Speaker 3: shop with the cop as well at Christmas time and
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  Speaker 3: that's that.
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  Speaker 2: That's one.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that's probably my top favorite event to watch, uh,
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  Speaker 3: to watch the kids. I'm a big Christmas guy. It's
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  Speaker 3: ingrained in my head from my mom was huge in Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: So the giving portion of it as especially as I've
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  Speaker 3: gotten older, to watt see the look on the kid's
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  Speaker 3: face and maybe help out and give something to a
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  Speaker 3: child that may be having a tough time or isn't
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  Speaker 3: able to get you know, the seventeen presents under the tree,
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  Speaker 3: you know things that go with that.
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  Speaker 2: So that that that's always awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's gonna be a great feeling. Do you
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  Speaker 1: dress up? Do you do the beard? Are you? Chief Clause?
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  Speaker 2: I I do not do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you a suit man. We've got it.
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  Speaker 3: We've actually we have the Santa suit and well it's
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  Speaker 3: every year the last few years. Chief Severa did it
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: Last year.
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  Speaker 3: I talked Ryan pot Off, was one of my deputy
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  Speaker 3: chiefs into it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I said, why don't you do this? This will
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  Speaker 2: be perfect for you.
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  Speaker 3: So he he did it, and I'm still gonna push
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  Speaker 3: him to do it this year because I like, I
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  Speaker 3: like getting out and shopping with the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you gotta do it, man, It's fun every
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  Speaker 1: Christmas my kids. No, now it's been for several years.
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  Speaker 1: But I have this this red with white striped. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's like an eighties crushed velvet Santa track suit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's got a big rhinestone santahead with with with
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  Speaker 1: the old sun black sunglasses on the back. And I
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  Speaker 1: am like run dym suits Santa Claus. Yeah, so you're
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  Speaker 1: like Rev run Claus. Yes, dude, that's I'm com I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking that man. I love that. Yes, I am Rev
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  Speaker 1: run Claus every Chris I word in the studio for
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  Speaker 1: my first time here, and I always will. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to keep a couple of mothballs
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  Speaker 1: in there, but the suit's holding up.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you got to keep that around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but but you got to try it. You got
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  Speaker 1: to put on some kind of suit, dude, you'll always put.
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  Speaker 3: On the nice the funky Christmas sweater.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: I'll put on the funky Christmas sweater and do that.
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  Speaker 3: But you gotta get you gotta get me some pictures
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  Speaker 3: of the Reverend suit.
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  Speaker 2: I want to. I will get you some pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got some actually from last Christmas, I think
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  Speaker 1: in here. I'll have to show you before I go.
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  Speaker 1: And then god, I wasn't here for Halloween. Steve did
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  Speaker 1: the last Halloween because it was shortly after before he goes.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll have I've got a couple of costumes. I've
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  Speaker 1: got a full Viking fit, you know, because the beard
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  Speaker 1: was much longer. But I mean, I've got like chest armor,
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  Speaker 1: I've got the shield, I've got the gauntlets. I do,
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  Speaker 1: I do the I do the Yeah, you'll I've got
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  Speaker 1: like runes going all over the back of my bald head.
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  Speaker 1: I look a.
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  Speaker 3: Come you come in, yelling skull when you come in, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: drinking out of a horn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's a lot of fun. Any
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  Speaker 1: any chance I get for an excuse to walk around
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  Speaker 1: in a costume and not have you guys lock me
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  Speaker 1: up for a psychic val.
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  Speaker 3: I take it that's awesome. You gotta you gotta keep
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  Speaker 3: yourself young.
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  Speaker 1: You do, man, you gotta have fun with it, just
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  Speaker 1: like you're out there having fun with the kids. It's
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  Speaker 1: those are the things that really do keep you young.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the only way to go. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: the kids. Kids have always been since I started in
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement. That's the first thing. You know, you mess
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  Speaker 3: with a kid, you see a kid that needs some help.
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  Speaker 3: That's always had a spot in my heart where it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of affected me more. There's you know, obviously I've
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  Speaker 3: seen lots of stuff, done lots of stuff through my career,
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  Speaker 3: but the kids are the ones that I usually stick
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  Speaker 3: out to me the most, and I want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that they get that they're put on either the
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  Speaker 3: right path or that they're taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's man, I I that's got to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the harder part of the jobs is having to
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  Speaker 1: do anything that's involved with kids. And and I mean certainly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got to be one of the most rewarding
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  Speaker 1: things when you have those things where you can help
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  Speaker 1: and make it so Uh hey, man, my hat's off
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  Speaker 1: to you. Sometimes I'm not sure my heart would be
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  Speaker 1: able to hold it.
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  Speaker 3: So thursdays, there's days just but I think every career
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  Speaker 3: has that. It's all about, you know, good support, good systems.
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  Speaker 1: Not every career has it. Pat That's okay. My worst
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  Speaker 1: day on here is I've got to play a song
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  Speaker 1: that I'll like.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's somebody that won't gives you the yes
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  Speaker 3: no answers and when you're asking questions. Yeah, uh no,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's about a very rewarding career. I'm
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  Speaker 3: very happy I have a our city council, our city manager,
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  Speaker 3: our mayor. I can't you know, throughout my entire career
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  Speaker 3: super supportive of the p D and the word. We
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  Speaker 3: do have our backs and they fund us very well,
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  Speaker 3: give us the things we need. So I'm very, very
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  Speaker 3: very touched and thankful for all the stuff that we've
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: that I've seen through the career.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to take a quick second because we
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: got just a couple of minutes ste so we'll do
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the quick rundown edition. But I wanted to give you
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to clear the air because I've seen this
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: news story now several times in continuing and it's concerns
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: over flock safety, cameras. So let's let's get this out
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: in the air, and people always do your independent research.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I've always suggested that as a journalist, but then you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: maybe try to come to some intelligent conclusions at the end.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: But so flock safety cameras, what are they and what's
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the big deal with them? Right now?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So flock cameras came in a little over a year
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: for us. They're a license plate reader, automatic light license
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: plate readers. They the only thing that you see from
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: a flock camera. The only thing we see is the
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: license plate of the vehicle, the vehicle itself, meaning the
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: color you can tell, you know, if it's a Chevy Traverse,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Ford Focus, that type of deal. And then the time
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in the location goes past that camera. You can't see that, Hey,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Brandon Clark was the.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Driver, although anybody in public on the street can see
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: me driving because that's how windows work. But that's okay,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that's it.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry if that's a concern. Yeah, yeah, don't leave
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: your house. It actually doesn't take a photo of the driver.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: It's specifically the vehicle, so you can't even see a
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: driver passenger. You don't see any of that of who's
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: in the vehicle.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: None of the information that like if I ran your
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: license plate through the state system, none of that information
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: comes back through flock.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: It's not Flock doesn't even have access to it themselves.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So you know, I know they're there's been some concerns
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: about data being hacked released.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And oh boys again, if you're concerned about that, stop
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: shopping on Amazon any online platform, Stop using Facebook, stuff,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: using social media, Stop talking around your phone because like
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: thirty percent of what Pat's already said is now going
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to pull up in my search.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Fee h, look at you watch your algorithms today.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: What I have scared you know it is, Yeah, if
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you use.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: A debit card, you're gonna get hacked at some point.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: So that you know, that's some of the stuff that's
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: out there that's concerns with people.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: A lot of it.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Some of the people are you know, are we turned
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: into a surveillance state?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I feel sorry for the agent that gets a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: signed to me.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, I could care less how many
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: times Brandon Clark goes to Walmart or to Starbucks, or
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: if Brandon Clark's not doing anything wrong during that time,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: We're not even gonna know because the only time we
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: it's first of all, it's not monitored twenty four to seven.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: There isn't somebody sitting at the station looking at our
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: flock cameras counting how many times different cars go through.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: The only times the systems used is if we have
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: an incident where we're looking for a specific car, which
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: we have a car description, a specific license plate. If
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: you have a lost per you know, a lost or
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: dangered whether it be a child an elderly person, we
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: can punch that license plate into the system, see if
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: it's come past any flock cameras, and then we at
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: least we have an idea, Hey, they were in this
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: area at this time, and we we have at least
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: it's just another tool in our belt basically that we
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: can move forward with and give us a little bit
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: of an advantage that's.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Out there.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: And we have for our cameras we have set to
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a very high parameter to get alerts on. The only
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: thing we're getting alerts on is lost or missing person's uh,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: stolen vehicles, people that are wanted for high felonies. And
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: when I say high felonies, murder, kidnapping, aggravated aggravated stuff,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: aggravated incidents.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So there's not an alert to the SWAT team about
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: my parking ticket, I mean no parking ticket.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: But no, no, no, no, we I mean we don't
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: get We don't mess with the little stuff. If my
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: officers can't find that on their own, then you have
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: your free you can drive. So you know, that's that's
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: one of the big I guess one of the misconceptions,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: one of the thoughts out there. We don't care if
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: you're driving. You could drive around Sterling and go past
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: our flat cameras twenty four to seven. If you're not
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: doing anything wrong, we could really care less or we're
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: not going to look for you. We're not going to
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: be checking you. We're not going to be following that. Now,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: if you do one of those things we talked about,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: or if you under away and you forget where you are,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: then yes, that's going to be that tool that helps
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: us find Thank you.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely you God. What was it like maybe a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: month or two ago. I think it was a guy
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: here in Dixon who had an older gentleman that wandered
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: into the woods from his medication. I mean, and that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: could have been a terrible thing. We used, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: technology and search parties and things to help. But yeah,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I completely get it man, me and you. I love
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: talking with you, Pat, and we could probably go on
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and on, but we are out of time. But thank
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you so much for coming in sharing all this news.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You're going to be back in for more updates now
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: that I've got you in here, this is going to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: be a regular thing.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Be in whenever you want.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And just thank you for all the fine work that
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you and your officers do. You've got our support from
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: from everyone here and I appreciate it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Thanks for giving me the time and let me sit
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: in with you. And it's always great to see you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: And like you said, you and I could probably sit
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: for hours upon hours and kick it around and see
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: what's going on.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Sosolute. You until the next time, Pat,