WEBVTT 00:00:44.513 --> 00:00:46.422 (Police Sirens) 00:00:49.376 --> 00:00:50.287 You look very suspicious. 00:00:50.287 --> 00:00:51.715 Cause you are always looking at me crazy. 00:00:52.546 --> 00:01:02.703 (Music Playing) 00:01:02.703 --> 00:01:06.127 (Altercation Occurring) 00:01:10.855 --> 00:01:12.689 That is exactly how some (explicit) will go down. 00:01:12.689 --> 00:01:13.815 Just like that. 00:01:13.815 --> 00:01:16.107 Just like that. 00:01:16.107 --> 00:01:18.773 People do not like the police because of the harassment. 00:01:18.773 --> 00:01:22.742 And what civilians do not understand, is that the police department is like forcing us... 00:01:22.742 --> 00:01:24.939 ...to do these unreasonable stops. 00:01:24.939 --> 00:01:28.049 Or, you are going to get penalized. 00:01:45.835 --> 00:01:47.790 I think the mayor is absolutely correct. 00:01:48.421 --> 00:01:52.625 Some people are just very hurt by it, and upset, when they are stopped unnecessarily. 00:01:52.702 --> 00:01:53.902 Well I understand that. 00:01:54.256 --> 00:01:55.423 Some people... 00:01:55.423 --> 00:01:58.682 You know you're taking away, at the very least, you are taking away people's time. 00:01:58.682 --> 00:02:01.016 So I understand, that people may not be happy with it. 00:02:01.016 --> 00:02:04.184 But I can also assure you, that I go to the communities, communities of color,... 00:02:04.184 --> 00:02:05.849 ...people want more. 00:02:05.849 --> 00:02:06.684 They want more stop and frisks? 00:02:06.684 --> 00:02:07.328 Absolutely. 00:02:13.052 --> 00:02:17.490 I had this captain who walked into the precinct, and he gave a speech about harassing the public. 00:02:17.490 --> 00:02:18.878 His words were... 00:02:18.878 --> 00:02:21.303 We are going to go out there and violate some rights. 00:02:22.133 --> 00:02:23.759 We hear it from the captain down. 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:25.301 We want 250s. 00:02:25.594 --> 00:02:28.549 This is stop, question, and frisk. 00:02:30.473 --> 00:02:32.182 (phone ringing) 00:02:44.154 --> 00:02:48.808 I was walking home from my girlfriends house, and a cop car went passed me. 00:02:48.808 --> 00:02:51.629 A couple of seconds later I heard the car turn around. 00:02:51.629 --> 00:02:53.039 And, they just popped out. 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.416 They all just jumped out of the car. 00:02:55.416 --> 00:02:58.168 I decided to record it because I was getting stopped a lot. 00:02:58.168 --> 00:03:01.587 I didn't have evidence of cops being disrespectful and everything. 00:03:01.587 --> 00:03:05.512 So I pressed the button, and it records the whole thing. 00:03:08.466 --> 00:03:11.243 Yo I just got stopped like two blocks ago. 00:03:11.243 --> 00:03:13.105 Cause you are always looking at me crazy. 00:03:18.645 --> 00:03:20.440 That's our job my man. 00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:22.231 Listen to me. Listen to me. 00:03:29.909 --> 00:03:32.465 Because you keep doing that (explicit) man. We stopped you last time. 00:03:46.467 --> 00:03:51.723 (altercation occurring) 00:03:51.723 --> 00:03:53.725 Why you touching me for? 00:03:53.725 --> 00:03:54.361 He was holding me. 00:03:54.361 --> 00:03:55.028 He was going through my pockets. 00:03:55.028 --> 00:03:55.975 Going up and down. 00:03:55.975 --> 00:03:57.278 He was going through my sweater. 00:03:57.278 --> 00:03:59.396 Than that's when he told me to keep my hands on my head. 00:03:59.396 --> 00:04:02.481 So I was like this the whole time. 00:04:02.481 --> 00:04:03.765 For what? 00:04:03.765 --> 00:04:05.356 Shut your (explicit) mouth kid. 00:04:05.356 --> 00:04:06.013 Why am I getting arrested for? 00:04:06.013 --> 00:04:07.218 (yelling) Shut your mouth! 00:04:16.211 --> 00:04:18.992 He decided to take my hands, from here, and put it behind my back. 00:04:18.992 --> 00:04:20.071 Like that. 00:04:23.241 --> 00:04:28.131 (yelling) Shut you (explicit) mouth! 00:04:28.131 --> 00:04:29.159 I was.. 00:04:29.159 --> 00:04:30.180 (yelling) 00:04:34.242 --> 00:04:35.658 You're going to break my arm? 00:04:35.658 --> 00:04:37.575 For what? 00:04:37.575 --> 00:04:39.933 Who is your father? 00:04:39.933 --> 00:04:41.518 He is not going to answer he doesn't got a phone. 00:04:41.518 --> 00:04:43.438 He is a traffic cop? 00:04:43.438 --> 00:04:44.020 Figures. 00:04:47.111 --> 00:04:50.508 (recording playing) 00:04:53.447 --> 00:04:54.689 While they holding me... 00:04:54.689 --> 00:04:55.856 The sergeant is holding me like this. 00:04:55.856 --> 00:04:57.940 He like, I'm going to break your arm. 00:04:57.940 --> 00:04:59.775 I'm like..I'm like, you're going to break my arm? 00:04:59.775 --> 00:05:02.359 Yeah and I am going to punch you in the face. 00:05:02.359 --> 00:05:03.739 Are you going to punch my in my face? 00:05:03.739 --> 00:05:05.689 He is like yeah, and then I am going to arrest you. 00:05:05.689 --> 00:05:06.826 I'm like, arrest me for what? 00:05:06.826 --> 00:05:09.189 He is like, for being a mutt. 00:05:09.189 --> 00:05:12.164 So he grabbed me, by my book bag, and started pushing me down. 00:05:12.164 --> 00:05:16.085 So I am going backwards down a hill, and he just kept pushing me and pushing me. 00:05:16.085 --> 00:05:17.857 It looked like he was going to hit me. 00:05:17.857 --> 00:05:21.855 I felt like they were trying to make me resist, so they could fight me back. 00:05:21.855 --> 00:05:38.689 (recording playing) 00:05:38.689 --> 00:05:40.900 I am mad just hearing that thing. 00:05:40.900 --> 00:05:44.105 How may words could really describe that. 00:05:44.105 --> 00:05:45.690 It's just disturbing. 00:05:45.690 --> 00:05:47.691 But, that is exactly what is happening. 00:05:47.691 --> 00:05:50.412 Like, I can relate to what he is doing. 00:05:50.412 --> 00:05:52.440 Cause I know that situation. 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:54.357 They just don't got no respect for us. 00:05:54.357 --> 00:05:57.088 And they wonder why we don't have respect for them. 00:05:57.088 --> 00:06:00.254 For them to just call him names like that like... 00:06:00.254 --> 00:06:03.884 That is just crazy. 00:06:03.884 --> 00:06:08.345 Do you think, that during stops, that some police officers try to provoke,... 00:06:08.345 --> 00:06:10.025 ..so that they can justify arrests? 00:06:10.025 --> 00:06:10.722 Of course they do. 00:06:10.722 --> 00:06:13.850 A lot of police officers they try to set civilians off. 00:06:13.850 --> 00:06:17.522 Then once they start talking, start cursing, they can lock them off for anything. 00:06:17.522 --> 00:06:19.898 There were two minorities leaning against the wall. 00:06:19.898 --> 00:06:21.273 They weren't doing anything. 00:06:21.273 --> 00:06:25.275 My sergeant ordered me to write them blocking pedestrian traffic. 00:06:25.275 --> 00:06:27.823 If you are a certain ethnicity, standing on the corner,... 00:06:27.823 --> 00:06:34.371 ...lieutenants, sergeants, have no problem searching you, violating your rights, and racial profiling. 00:06:34.371 --> 00:06:37.874 There was one statement, that the sergeant said, about what he used to do. 00:06:37.874 --> 00:06:39.502 He used to stop a guy walking down the street... 00:06:39.502 --> 00:06:43.043 ...with baggy pants, his underwear hanging out, and he'd just stop him. 00:06:43.043 --> 00:06:47.543 I know he is probably up to nothing, but I just stop him anyway to give him a 250. 00:06:47.543 --> 00:06:49.012 It's this one cop. 00:06:49.012 --> 00:06:51.347 That everybody is the neighborhood knows. 00:06:51.347 --> 00:06:53.434 I was like three times already. 00:06:53.434 --> 00:06:55.020 He was like, "Now come here". 00:06:55.020 --> 00:06:57.189 So they got out the car. 00:06:57.189 --> 00:06:59.210 They threw my friend on the car. 00:06:59.210 --> 00:07:01.191 I'm still walking. 00:07:01.191 --> 00:07:03.799 He spun me around and punched me in my stomach. 00:07:03.799 --> 00:07:05.903 He started just patting us down. 00:07:05.903 --> 00:07:09.156 He just left us there. 00:07:09.156 --> 00:07:15.179 What we are trying to do is, is make certain that it is done as professionally as possible. 00:07:16.287 --> 00:07:19.833 That the proper respect is shown and done according to the law. 00:07:19.833 --> 00:07:21.334 This goes all the way up. 00:07:21.334 --> 00:07:23.836 All the way up to the commissioners office. 00:07:23.836 --> 00:07:25.544 I'd say even the mayors office. 00:07:25.544 --> 00:07:28.008 Where they are trying to be proactive. 00:07:28.008 --> 00:07:30.546 Hey look, we are stopping people and getting drugs and guns off the streets. 00:07:30.546 --> 00:07:34.629 But think about the 600,000 people that were stopped last year. 00:07:34.629 --> 00:07:39.926 Only 1%, of those that were stopped, were carrying weapons. 00:07:49.281 --> 00:07:53.355 The NYPD controversial Stop and Frisk policy... 00:07:55.648 --> 00:08:02.230 Last year your police officer stopped and interrogated people nearly 686,000 times. 00:08:02.230 --> 00:08:08.597 Today, that a lawsuit raises serious questions about quotas, racial profiling, and constitutional rights. 00:08:08.597 --> 00:08:13.052 The public isn't aware of what's happening, but everything is being look at as far as numbers. 00:08:13.052 --> 00:08:14.413 It's a numbers game. 00:08:14.413 --> 00:08:15.263 Ok. 00:08:15.263 --> 00:08:16.388 What did you get last year? 00:08:16.388 --> 00:08:19.153 Well, you have to match it, and give me more this year. 00:09:38.346 --> 00:09:40.392 They're trying to keep all of this stuff quiet. 00:09:41.516 --> 00:09:44.777 So this is my proof, that they are putting pressure on me to write summonses. 00:09:45.516 --> 00:09:49.516 Commanders are trying to be proactive, or show that they are being proactive. 00:09:49.516 --> 00:09:52.903 Here you have a system where people are told to get those numbers,... 00:09:52.903 --> 00:09:55.850 ... to where they should to be, and you will get your promotion. 00:09:55.850 --> 00:09:59.682 The commanding officer wants to become a deputy inspector. 00:09:59.682 --> 00:10:03.373 The executive officer wants to become a commanding officer. 00:10:03.373 --> 00:10:06.625 If you do well, by keeping the arrests up and the summonses up,... 00:10:06.625 --> 00:10:09.087 ...you will be promoted to the next rank. 00:10:09.087 --> 00:10:12.989 So, they put pressure on the police officers to generate numbers and arrests. 00:10:19.513 --> 00:10:21.055 I mean, lets be real, it is a quota. 00:10:21.055 --> 00:10:22.099 Nobody wants to call it that. 00:10:22.099 --> 00:10:23.683 But, that is what it is. 00:10:23.683 --> 00:10:24.893 They can call it a performance objective. 00:10:24.893 --> 00:10:26.516 They call it a goal that can mask it. 00:10:26.516 --> 00:10:27.597 However they want. 00:10:27.597 --> 00:10:30.231 It's a quota, and it does exist. 00:10:30.231 --> 00:10:32.516 Some of us, under the stress, make them up. 00:10:32.516 --> 00:10:36.626 Some of us, under the stress, stop innocent people and search them. 00:10:37.273 --> 00:10:41.221 They are sending units out there that will run around and stop everybody. 00:10:44.206 --> 00:10:48.240 What happens to the officer if they don't do what the police department told to do? 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.385 As far as quotas, they will come after you. 00:10:50.385 --> 00:10:54.007 Come after you meaning transfers. Giving you low evaluations. 00:10:54.007 --> 00:10:56.548 They give you unwanted assignments. 00:10:56.548 --> 00:10:58.260 Put you in a post which is very dangerous. 00:10:58.260 --> 00:10:59.093 High crime 00:10:59.093 --> 00:10:59.845 By yourself. 00:10:59.845 --> 00:11:01.095 In a corner. 00:11:01.095 --> 00:11:03.049 This is a form of retaliation. 00:11:03.049 --> 00:11:04.350 Basically a change of tours. 00:11:04.350 --> 00:11:05.799 Put you on the midnight. 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:07.217 They make you look bad on paperwork. 00:11:07.217 --> 00:11:09.883 That paperwork will trail you for the rest of your police career. 00:11:09.883 --> 00:11:13.677 And knowing that your livelihood is at stake, you meet the quota. 00:11:14.693 --> 00:11:17.595 It does create this feeling, of hey listen, I got to get my numbers. 00:11:19.365 --> 00:11:24.592 When you put that pressure on the officer, this us versus them mentality does exist. 00:11:29.239 --> 00:11:31.462 When I came into this police department, I wanted to help people. 00:11:31.462 --> 00:11:34.047 But the civilian population they are being hunted. 00:11:34.047 --> 00:11:37.131 Instead of being protected by us, they're being hunted. 00:11:37.131 --> 00:11:38.635 We're being hated. 00:11:38.635 --> 00:11:41.346 The police department is pushing the new guys to be bounty hunters. 00:11:41.346 --> 00:11:43.055 I use that word because that is exactly what it is. 00:11:43.055 --> 00:11:44.937 They're hunting. 00:11:44.937 --> 00:11:48.558 There's a lot of officers, who are fed up, and want to do something about it. 00:11:48.558 --> 00:11:50.729 And, they're people who are scared. 00:11:50.729 --> 00:11:54.273 There's a lot of officers that would like to tell their story. 00:11:54.273 --> 00:11:56.277 But, nobody wants to hear the truth. 00:11:56.277 --> 00:12:00.530 Nobody wants to hear the bad. 00:12:00.530 --> 00:12:07.205 You need police, but the police department needs to change things. 00:12:07.205 --> 00:12:08.404 At one point, I did want to be a cop. 00:12:08.404 --> 00:12:14.461 To help people, and mostly just be like able to wear a badge, and uniform, and be proud of it. 00:12:14.461 --> 00:12:15.837 Now I feel like i'm not sure. 00:12:15.837 --> 00:12:17.128 Cause they're not there to help people anymore. 00:12:17.128 --> 00:12:19.423 They are just there to like stop and humiliate them. 00:12:19.423 --> 00:12:23.096 Make them feel bad. 00:12:23.096 --> 00:12:27.380 There is no excuses for the way they treated me. 00:12:27.380 --> 00:12:30.212 This one individual was thinking about doing NYPD. 00:12:30.212 --> 00:12:33.343 The first thing I told him is, "Definitely not." 00:12:33.343 --> 00:12:38.844 This job, racial profiles, will force you to do things that you don't want to do. 00:12:38.844 --> 00:12:41.010 We're supposed to be the best in the world. 00:12:41.010 --> 00:12:45.010 We're the best at making money, and we are the best at arresting, and summonsing, everybody.