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Mount Vernon Police Commissioner Charged in Drive By Shooting!!! · NYPD Through The Looking Glass

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey guys, I hope everyone's having a good week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have some really good guests upcoming on Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to drop an episode this either late Wednesday night, early Thursday, with uh retired NYPD detective Paul Morrison.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the author of a great book called Knock Knock.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I can't say enough good things about this book.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about a serial rapist that my buddy pursued for many years until finally catching the guy.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: The guy escaped police custody once.
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  SPEAKER_00: He ran from the cops.
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  SPEAKER_00: They got a good look at this guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He didn't leave fingerprints.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a really good book.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's available on Amazon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called Knock Knock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please check it out if you have a chance.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm also going to be interviewing, hopefully this week, former DeCavill Cante member Jimmy Easy.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: He's um he's making the talk show rounds right now.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: He's a really good guest.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: He's got some interesting perspective on the mafia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, I'll have that one out next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get to the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Westchester County Bigwig and her ex-con husband chaperoned their gangbanger son to a botch hit on arrival in the Bronx, and then she took over as the getaway driver.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackford, 49 years old and old enough to know better, and her husband James Lackford drove their 20-year-old son, Chase Lackford, to the Grand Concourse on June 29th around noon and helped him plan a brazen hit outside the Bronx Criminal Court, according to police records.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once there, the proud parents sat in the family's Chrysler Pacifica while their gang member's son opened fire with a semi-automatic out the window towards members of the rival gang.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luckily, he missed the targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the family of Brainiacs sped off, switched seats, and even had her chain her son changed clothes to avoid detection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the proud mom, who was a former member of the Bronx Community Board 9 and her goon son, were arrested last Tuesday morning at their home in the Soundview neighborhood, according to police sources.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their dad, who has done a hard time for heroin, wasn't in custody as of Tuesday and is out of state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the Mount Vernon Police Force fired Jennifer Lackford from her$138,000 a year job after news of the arrest broke.
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  SPEAKER_00: The police department also wiped her profile from the website.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did a story on this woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: The son was shot twice in the leg by NYPD cops last year and pointed a firearm at him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then a year before that, when he was 17, he got shot in the chest on a Bronx 5 bus after fighting with a bunch of youths.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this kid is bad news.
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  SPEAKER_00: How this woman, Jennifer Lackford, has a job with the Mount Vernon Police Department is beyond me.
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  SPEAKER_00: How can you go from making$138,000 a year and getting involved in this nonsense?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's beyond me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mount Vernon has had some police corruption scandals lately.
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  SPEAKER_00: They better get their house in order.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I told this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: I worked with a guy early in my NYPD career whose dad worked for the Mount Vernon Police Department.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I always asked him, I go, why didn't you work in Mount Vernon?
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  SPEAKER_00: He was like, he goes, My old man told me he kicked my ass if I, you know, his father started like 25 years before we got started.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said it was a different department, and he steered his son away from that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So story number two, the NYPD has denied its sending any personnel to serve as a security detail for Mayor Zorhan Madami's wife, Rama Dewaji, during her upcoming Middle East trip.
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  SPEAKER_00: An awkward reminder to the City Hall's claim that the department strongly recommended she be accompanied by New York City cops.
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  SPEAKER_00: A source familiar with the security details said the first lady, who Madami described as a private person, specifically requested the NYPD to provide security following another overseas trip last month without police protection.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mayor's office made it seem like New York's finest accompanying Jawaji on her Middle East trip was a done deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's not an investigative trip.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, NYPD personnel will not be traveling there for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see how that plays out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the thing the mayor, his wife, his kids, the police commissioner, his wife, his kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if anyone else, but the intelligence division has a unit that protects these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember Giuliani's son, the red-headed kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: He used to go to a school up in Riverdale in the 5-0 precinct.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember like seeing the kid playing in Van Cortland Park and then in that school, and you see like a couple of unmarked cars with guys from the intelligence division watching them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the NYPD shouldn't get involved with flying on overseas trips with this woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's abusive power.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too much money to pay for all this nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a buddy who worked in this unit when Bloomberg was mayor, and Bloomberg paid for a lot of things out of his own pocket.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bloomberg didn't always live in Gracie Mansion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think he had a penthouse somewhere, so they were always there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also had the money to travel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think he owned an island or he had a place in the Caribbean, but he would pay for it and for them to go out there like on the weekend and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I knew another guy who worked in in the police commission is detailed and his job was to drive the police commissioner's wife around.
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  SPEAKER_00: This guy couldn't drive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he had a buddy who kind of moved him around the department like a chess piece.
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  SPEAKER_00: And his stay guarding the police commissioner's wife wasn't long because she used to get sick.
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  SPEAKER_00: She used to get motion sickness because the guy couldn't drive.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when he wound up with us in the auto crime division, he said, Yeah, you know, we said, What happened over there?
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  SPEAKER_00: He goes, Hey, you know, I didn't like, you know, being at the beck and call of these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, but then it came out they didn't have to drive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then if you got in a car with this guy within 15 minutes, you were begging to drive because you needed dramamine because his driving was so bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I I just get a kick out of how Mandami, who is a communist, he says he's a socialist, but come on, you know, now all of a sudden he wants to use the NYPD to protect his wife overseas.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see if he can he's he still might get them to do it because there's always someone, some weasel in one police plaza that's gonna figure, you know what, this guy can really make my career, and they'll do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's always been stories coming out of Intel about, you know, guarding these people and the things that went on behind the scenes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really don't want to get into a lot of it because I'm not a hundred percent sure it's true, but we'll see what happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a sad story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Retired NYPD chief Anthony Izzo was found dead in a backyard pool of his Long Island home, according to police.
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  SPEAKER_00: His body was found by a relative inside the pool on Friday around 7 45 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Suffolk County Police Department said in a statement.
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  SPEAKER_00: First responders rushed to the Stonebrook residence to perform CPR on the 75-year-old.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was taken to Stonebrook University Hospital where he's pronounced dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investigators do not suspect foul play.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the son of a New York City police officer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chief Izzo kicked off his career in law enforcement and was 17 years old when he took the job as a police trainee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Izzo also served as commanding officer of the 115 precinct in Jackson Heights in Queens in 1995.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was also chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau in 2006.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we kind of overlapped.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was in auto crime until 2007.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when you work in these units, you know who the chief is, but you really don't have any dealings with them because there's just so many layers, but you do hear stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember really anything with ISO.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some guys, you know, they they want to change the world and policies start changing and everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't really remember that with Izzo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe there was.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, from on Facebook, everybody on all the retired NYPD Facebook groups, everybody seems to have nice things to say about him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he was also a lifetime member of the Columbia Association and former man of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Italians have their group, um, the Irish have the Emerald Society, everybody's got their own group.
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  SPEAKER_00: So sorry to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guy was only 75 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's funny.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: Now that 60, 75 years old doesn't seem old.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when I was 21 years old, I came on the job.
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  SPEAKER_00: If someone had told me somebody was 75 years old, I would have said, Jesus, he was old.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know he was sick, but you know, now you're 60, 75, you kind of hope you make it to that mile mark or so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry to hear that.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a crazy story.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Bonka's Bronx man cried wolf thousands of times, sometimes placing more than 25 emergency phone calls a day to 911 and could face criminal charges soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: This sounds like a joke.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yuri Kar, I'm just gonna try my best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yuri Karmakalov, 54 years old, allegedly used multiple phones to place 4,553 phone calls to 911 in the Bronx's 4-6 precinct from March of 2023 to July 18th, according to case documents.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the calls, he repeatedly, knowingly and falsely reported occurrences of serious crimes, emergency incidents, kidnappings, assaults, violent rapes, children being shot in the head, and other reports of imminent danger to human life.
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  SPEAKER_00: This guy sounds like a real winner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he also, some of the calls were racially, some of the calls he tried to start like uh race problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he was a member of the, he said the Proud Boys placed a bomb under a car in the 4-6 station house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another time he said six Jewish males were beating up a black male and five male whites shot a five-year-old child.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this guy's really off his rocker.
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  SPEAKER_00: 911 operators frequently note that he's using racial slurs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The calls have been made from three different numbers and diverted to doubt and diverted thousands of police hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: This this tells you everything about this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was first arrested on December 29, 2022, for throwing an egg at police office at the Forsex Station House in Fordham Heights.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the same time, he was charged with making terroristic threats.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bronx District Attorney's Office didn't respond when asked for the outcome of the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's got 19 prior arrests, but most of those are sealed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, why are the cases sealed?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's because the Bronx District Attorney's Office, when you get charged with a felony, right, they'll knock it down to a misdemeanor.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you get charged with a misdemeanor, they'll knock it down to a violation.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they knock it down to a violation, the case usually gets sealed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called a D, and nobody can get at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reasons is the Bronx District Attorney's Office isn't doing their job.
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  SPEAKER_00: This guy is a raging lunatic.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's got a heart on for the 4.6 precinct for whatever reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you those in my time, those were rough cops and no joke.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you, if he would have thrown an egg at the cops in front of the 4.6 station house during my time, he would have wound up in the hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's funny about the 4.6.
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  SPEAKER_00: 4-6 and the 4-1 used to do this because both precincts are in heavily populated areas, and there's a lot of EDPs, emotionally disturbed people, and pains in the asses that come in and out of the station house, they won't leave until the desk officer has enough and either tells you, remove him from the station house or lock this guy up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes to divert that problem, if there was a guy standing in front of the station house breaking balls, one of the cops would sneak up to the second or third floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would fill up a mop bucket with water and douse the guy with it out the window.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I used to hear stories about it, but I never saw it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll never forget this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This has got to be like 1994, 1995.
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  SPEAKER_00: Driving around in the uh 4-6, I see this Dodge caravan parked at a drug spot, run the plate, comes back stolen.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a female sitting in the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: I lock her up.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's like, it was my boyfriend, and I came with him to cop.
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  SPEAKER_00: And why don't you grab him?
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  SPEAKER_00: I go, where is he?
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  SPEAKER_00: She goes, he's in the crowd.
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  SPEAKER_00: I go, where is he?
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  SPEAKER_00: She wouldn't point him out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So her I took her in the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I bring them into the 4-6.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm processing the arrests.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was a hot summer day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll never forget.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember having to go out, and the car was parked like down the block on Ryer Avenue or around the corner, I forget.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I had to go out to the car and do something with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll take a photo.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I and I had just as I'm walking out of the station house, two 4-6 cops grabbed me and pulled me back in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, what?
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  SPEAKER_00: And as they pulled me back into the door, water came off and soaked the shit out of some guy that was raising hell out front.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, so they really do do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I had heard it a million or one times.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, then that was a real thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Bronx District Attorney's Office isn't doing their job with this guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, this guy's just going to keep up in the ante until someone gets hurt.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: This is a sad story.
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  SPEAKER_00: An NYPD sergeant was arrested on Staten Island last Wednesday and charged with driving while intoxicated, according to police sources.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was taken into police custody at 9 15 within the confines of the 122 precinct.
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  SPEAKER_00: The NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information wrote in a statement.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sergeant was off duty when the arrest occurred, according to the NYPD.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 122 precinct covers the east shore of Staten Island.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says she was assigned to the court division.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's got 19 years on the job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to kick someone when they're down.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're working in the court division, it's either one of two things.
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  SPEAKER_00: You really need those hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or she might have gotten jammed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know this to be true.
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  SPEAKER_00: She might have been jammed up for something else and she was already on Modified, but they didn't say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's got 19 years on the job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope they let her retire.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope she doesn't have a drinking problem.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't say if she was involved in an accident, and I'm not saying that that they should have given her a pass.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: But in my time, unless you were in a DUI unit, which I was, I unfortunately got drafted into one.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: We really didn't get involved with DO DUIs, especially if the person wasn't involved in a car accident or, you know, no one got hurt.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: But apparently it's a it's a new world nowadays.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, cops, you know, you're not gonna get a free pass anymore for having a couple of cocktails.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently, these body cameras, you're going.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I I hope this woman's allowed to retire.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: So again, next week I'm gonna have some really good guests on.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Paul Morrison will be up with his book Knock Knock.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: I can't say enough good things about this guy's book.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's fascinating.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: I read it over the weekend, and I'm I'm a notorious slow reader and I couldn't put the thing down.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: His pursuit of this rape suspect is just fascinating.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's a totally different world than anything that I had seen before.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: So as always, I'd like to thank everyone for tuning in, especially my listeners in Burlingame, California, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Bridgeport, Connecticut, which is home, which was home, of Bridgeport Highland.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we used to go there all the time.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: Love that game.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: And Hudson, Florida.
• 14:31
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• 14:37
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• 14:44
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• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks again, everyone, and I'll see you next week.