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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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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 away people's 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 who 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 getting stopped a lot.

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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 my man.

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Listen to me. 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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For what?

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Shut your (explicit) mouth kid.

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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 got 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 lock them off for anything.

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There were two minorities leaning against the wall.

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They weren't doing anything.

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My sergeant ordered me to write them 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 searching you, 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 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 stop everybody.

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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. Giving you low evaluations.

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They give you unwanted assignments.

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Put you in a post which is very dangerous.

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High crime

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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 came 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, who 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, nobody wants to hear the truth.

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Nobody wants to hear the bad.

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

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

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To help people, and mostly just be like able to 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 is, "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.