WEBVTT - Have You Ever Gotten Caught? 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.760 What's up. It's sauce on the side. Episode fourteen. I 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.840 know at some point I'm supposed to stop counting, but 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.559 I don't care. I'm not there yet. I think you 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.440 should stop counting now. Why fourteen is a weird place 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:15.520 to stop counting. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.880 Because it's just like you're gonna stop eventually. Just now 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.360 the fact that you just said I'm supposed to stop counting. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.000 Done, done, but i'm supposed to. I mean Andrew told 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.599 me to stop doing it. Now that you both told 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.480 me not to, I think I will can't wait till 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.840 it was up fifteen Yeah, Episode seventy five, Hi, Episode 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.600 two hundred and thirty four. God, and I have some 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.080 ideas of stuff that I want to do. So, first 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.520 of all, excited about the guest today. I'm always excited 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.200 about our guests. I think if I have a guest 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.560 i'm not excited about, you just won't hear it because 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.519 it won't be fun. And yes, there are some that 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.440 I've recorded that will never see the light of day. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.680 Oh God, but ooh, and I gotta get Andrew in 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.680 here later for the burn books. I'm gonna burn his. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:53.800 Ass, burn them. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.600 Okay, he deserves it. Today we have one of our 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:02.920 security guys here at the office, Chris, Officer Chris. He's awesome. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.240 He keeps us safe. You won't really see him, but 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:07.360 if you try to mess with one of us, he 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.040 will be around the corner take you out. That's what 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:11.840 I tell myself. I don't think he actually keeps an 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.679 eye on us. I feel like, eh, he's always there. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.240 I will say he did come to my art show, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.000 and he did bring a security team with him, none 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.360 of whom helped me out. They were helping everyone else. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.880 But that's fine, really well, because here was the thing 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.520 at my art show. The entire show was there. So 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.040 I was like, you know what, Okay, there are X 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.000 amount of security people. We need one at the VIP 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.880 area just to keep people from stealing purses or whatever 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.840 because we didn't know what was going on. And then 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.360 I would like somebody with Danielle, and I would like 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.600 somebody with Elvis so that they don't get harassed the 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.240 entire time. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.839 I'm just trying to I'm recking my brain at this point. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.680 I just remember those margarita's and yes. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.040 Shout out to our boys at Gringoes and Jersey City 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.640 for providing the Margarita's and Tacos. Who right, We're gonna 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.320 have to do another show at some point. But Officer 0:01:58.400 --> 0:01:59.960 Chris is going to come in because he is not 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.920 only a retired police officer for the NYPD and he 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.720 has a lot of great stories. He also now is 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.920 a private eye. And I have to get to the 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.160 bottom of whatever I can. And I know there's probably 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.160 not a lot he can specifically say, but I want 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.519 to find out some things. I don't trust it. Why 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.680 I don't trust it, You'll trust it never. You don't 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.400 trust me private eyes? You know? 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.440 Just no, I'm not paying you to do something I 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.160 could do myself. I'm nosy. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.959 But oh really, you're gonna show up. You're gonna just 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.320 sit outside someone's apartment for twenty four hours? 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.720 Done that before. Oh twenty four hours is a long time. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.000 But now I need to get to the bottom of 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.400 that twenty four minutes. Yes, who have you rolled up on? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.960 I can't say, can't say that was it someone you 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.240 were dating? Someone someone else was dating? Oh not? 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.800 Oh what I've done it for my friends? You need me, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.639 call me, girl, call me, beat me if you want 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.480 to reach me. It's gone down. It's going down. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.520 I've done some creepy stuff with friends before, and never 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.960 for myself. Now for my friends, I'm like, yeah, hold on, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.720 let me put on this hat and glasses and roll 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.120 up Long Island. I love it. It's so fun. And 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.720 just watch let me just watch where they're going. That's all. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.520 That's it. So we got to get to Chris. Let's 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:15.560 bring in Chris. Chris. Chris Chris. He is a former 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.320 police officer now private investigator in our security and I 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.360 have so many things that I want to ask you. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.400 So Chris, thank you for. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:24.960 Joining me, Thank you for having me? 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.400 Gandhi, are you nervous? Goodness? Should have been? You make 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.799 me feel nice, nice and easy, lull you into it 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:32.160 and then. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.239 Get it's that energy. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:34.680 You're good, Okay, excellent. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.800 So I don't even know where I want to start 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.520 with you, because you have so many stories from the 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.480 time that you are a police officer to now working 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.360 in private investigation. And I'm sure just around these offices alone, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.120 you've seen a lot, You've done a lot, you smelled 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.520 a lot. Where do we start? 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.600 I've been here six years? 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.240 Can you believe that you've been here longer than me? 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.720 Where's the time going? What well, the police officer. Yeah, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.320 I started. Now I'm going to show you my age 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:01.320 nineteen ninety four. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:01.760 Okay. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.200 I started in the South Bronx by the Yankee Stadium area, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.800 the forty fourth precinct, A rough area, A good place 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.000 to start that you really want to learn policing. I mean, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.760 you're gonna get your cherry popped right away. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.160 What made you want to become a police officer? Because 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.360 I feel like things are very different now. So in 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.279 nineteen ninety four, what was the allure? 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.880 You know? The truth? I did have. That show Cops 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.840 was popular in the late eighties watching. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.080 That, But truth you wanted to wrest a bunch of 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:30.960 people without their shirts on. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.920 Yeah, now that's true. Growing up for me was more 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.240 like take every civil service exam and see who calls you. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:38.799 Okay. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.640 So I was very happy the NYPD called me and 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.560 I made a twenty five year career out of it. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.560 I got into private security halfway there. I did it 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.040 on the side, and after my journey with the MYPD, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.839 I opened up my own private investigation protection business. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:53.839 And how's that been going? 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:54.480 Excellent? 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.359 Yeah, I know you did security at my art show. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.120 That's true, and you guys, I was on one of 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.720 my more exciting events. That was great. That was so fun. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.039 I'm glad you had a good time. We had a 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.720 good time too. So it was very chaotic, there were 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.160 so many people, but it was awesome. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.280 You rallied through. You did it. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.200 Come to work the next day, baby, this is how 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.200 we do it morning. Yeah. Chris by the way is 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.000 definitely our dude because he will warn us if there's 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.400 something sketchy going on outside. He will walk us to 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.200 and from our cars. He's always looking out for us, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:22.280 and we love you for that. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:23.800 So thanks my pleasure. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.680 But back to being a police officer in New York City. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.080 What are some of the craziest things that you have 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:31.680 encountered and been part of? 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.200 This story goes well in the bar with a glass 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:35.520 of wine. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:36.520 This is your party story. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.840 This is my party. They're rated R version. I'm a 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.760 rookie learning the job. I'm on training. So there's two 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.760 veteran cops that have me in the backseat of the 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.039 police car teaching me the job. I mean, this is 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.400 literally my first week and they get a nine one 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.400 one call. It's a four to twelve shift, so that's 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.719 four to twelve midnight. It was the end of the night. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.920 And in those days, stay used to call it four 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.640 to fours because you want to get out at midnight, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:05.800 but you want to go to the bar to four 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:06.279 in the morning. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.080 Oh okay, so it's a four to four. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.680 The young guy's job, especially the night shift, it's more 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.960 for the young single guys. Everybody wants to get out 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.000 and go have a cocktail. So when the nine one 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.760 one call comes in of a suspicious odor, oh god. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.159 The two veterans who know they went up, this ain't 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.800 going to be good and it's in the shift, so 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.719 it's going to be yours, rookie, because we're going out. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.680 So we go up this walk up building where the 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.280 call was. It's like the second floor of a foul 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.520 odor inside of the apartment. Knock on the door, nobody's answering. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.440 You can hear TV blasting inside the apartment. So I go. Well. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.480 The procedure by the police academy is called emergency service. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.400 They're like the swat guys for the NYPD. They come 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.080 in with a battering ram and they'll break the door. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.880 They laugh and say, now that don't work here, kid, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.839 You're not in the academy, and we're in the streets, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.039 knock on a neighbor's door. Neighbors says, oh, it's a 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.880 single lady that lives and there. We haven't seen in 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.640 a while. We were the ones they called it's just 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.039 the stench. Oh god, the stench. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.039 Was really bad. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.800 Oh yeah, it's gonna get worse. So the veteran cops say, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.840 really easy, go up to the roof, walk down the 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.880 fire skate so it's six stories, come down to the 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.320 second floor, break the window, get in and unlock the door. 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.720 We handle things our way. You know, we don't go 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.320 outside resources. Welcome to the job, kid, breaking and entering. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.160 Let's figure this out. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.880 Basically, I go up to the roof. And here's the 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.720 part I didn't tell you, Gandhi when I said I 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.600 was taking every civil service exam, the only one I 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.040 wouldn't take was the fire department because I'm scared of heights. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.320 Ah okay. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.080 Now I'm on this rooftop, huge building, like the Yankee Stadium, Ario, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.480 all those buildings, and I looked down and I'm like, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.600 oh no. I put one step on the fire scape 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.360 and you could feel the fire scape moving and you 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.280 could see the dust coming out of the screws like 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.240 I'm so old. Yeahs. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.960 Then there's another stench because you shit yourself. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.920 Well, I got blotches, I discovered. I never knew this 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.480 that I created blotches all over my neck. And I'm like, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:10.960 oh no, what a pussy. Battle through it. Walk down, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.600 Get to this kitchen window. Take my flashlight. Back in 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.679 those days, they were big mag lights. Break the window. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.960 Try to open it. First, it wouldn't open, it was locked. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.800 Break the window. Climb in because at the end of 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.520 the day, your job is to make sure somebody is 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.280 not in need. So you got to get in there. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.400 And there's this little chuala and he's biting my caf 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.520 come down in the kitchen and I hear the TV blasting. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.360 Happened to be the TV show Cheers. Okay, to this day, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.200 if I see Cheers, I'll always remember this story. The 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:45.080 stench is so bad. What I did. I kept putting 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.520 my nose in my armpit to smell my right card 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.040 to try to get a relief. As I'm walking to the. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.960 Front door, I would have thrown really bad. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.000 It's really bad. Now, it's really really bad. And obviously 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.880 this is a call that more than likely by the veterans. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.000 Was da dead on arrival, which is a summertime, which 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.280 could be a really bad smell. But I see a 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.959 corpse on the couch. Oh, and it has what looks 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.560 appears to be a fetus, and the fetus has maggots. Ew, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.959 so tells me this is an old had to be 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:18.800 there a few days. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.559 So my feet is do you mean that she had 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.240 given birth or somebody ripped a baby out of her? 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.880 The end of the investigation with the Emmy and the 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.280 detective squads, Yes, she turned out she had a heart disease. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.040 She was alone and died giving birth right on her couch. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.520 Oh my god, horrible poor thing. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:36.240 Did you vomit? 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.000 I didn't vomit, but I definitely up chucked. Whatever is that? 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:39.679 How you say that? 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.640 Oh like a little bit of the like in your mouth? 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.360 Yeah? Correct? You tasted your dinner at seven people. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.480 That's gonna make me split piece soup. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.520 At this great Jewish deli on a hund sixty Yankee 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.160 court court deli. I don't know if they're still there. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.240 Did it ruin the split peace soup? 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.880 For yeah? Oh it the split piece soup and cheers? 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:58.360 Never again. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:09:59.439 I don't know if you're ever going to get me 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.200 to watch it out and watched tears and. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.160 That's just one of I'm sure many things to say. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.280 You're correct, it was twenty five years of this and 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.760 that particular body. By the way, the arm was missing. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.080 Oh yeah, she didn't have an arm. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.559 And how's that? 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.280 It was so rigmortous that under the couch the dog 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.800 had her arm. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.960 Wait a minute, yeah, wait the chihuahua. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.200 Correct, so are nasty workman? 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.800 Her arm fell off. I know the dog pulled it 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.400 off because of how deceased the Bible was and it 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.920 was under the couch. Had to watch on it. You 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.680 never forget that image and the dog was playing with it. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.440 And this is your I tell this story at a 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.560 bar story. Oh yeah, and people love it. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:43.920 This could be a killer You just got to know 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:45.360 it's a killer story. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.560 I have to say. I know my audience a little bit, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.400 and I think they're going to have really I can't 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.079 say enjoy it because it's disturbing, but we'll be interested 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:54.280 in it. How about that? 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:54.960 That's fine. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.079 As a police officer in the nineties into the two thousands, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.160 what is the most common that you see here in 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:01.720 the city? 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.480 Assaults, domestic was. Yeah, it was one of your heaviest 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.400 I used to say Cupid's bad arrow maybe, But there 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.319 was a lot of domestic halls, a lot of disputes, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.319 neighbor disputes. Obviously, with all these buildings in all these boroughs, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.000 neighborly dispute is just like every five minutes. Well, I'm 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.240 calling nine one one on you. Two people can't get along, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.000 and I'm gonna call nine one. I'm gonna call namb one. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.160 We're gonna call nine one one. Then your big crimes 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.880 like felonies of assaults with injury. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.199 Now, shootings and stabbings. Shootings in the city at least 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.000 now are not as high as other people would assume 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.520 that they would be for New York City, right, because 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.400 it's hard to get a gun here. Am I wrong 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.000 about this? Or am I right about this? 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.839 Yeah? It depends. I mean, if you have the resources 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.160 like a gang banger, and guy, really I do, really, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.439 you go the gang banger. They have those resources and 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.000 a lot of it comes from the South. It's a 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.600 big thing of course, driving down there and you know 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.760 there is plenty of guns. But you're right, the common person, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.079 the resource of just getting a firearm, I would imagine 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:02.880 it is difficult. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.840 So let's talk about the city. Now, we all know 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.480 the city has definitely changed. The pandemic, a lot of 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.880 stuff got weird. People were let out of jail. Bail 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.319 reform has been would we call it bail reform? Yeah? 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.240 How do you feel about this city right now? 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.240 It's it's tough. It has changed. I'm certainly one hundred 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.400 percent proof because I have a security business and a 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.920 lot of my clients are now hiring me just to 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.040 protect their homes in the city because of the changes 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.000 on their blocks. It could just be as simple as 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.959 drug users or somebody who uses their front stairs or 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.480 underneath their brownstone as a porter party. Oh, being a 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.480 New Yorker, you know, born and raised here, my issues 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.080 to quality alife. There's a policy where you can't really 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.040 police that right now, the urine eating and you know, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.720 all the little petty things that sounds like it's nonsense, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.520 and you definitely they definitely had to do something about it. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.079 I mean, you can't just flood the system with quality 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.640 of life. But now now it seems like it went 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:02.439 too far the other way. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.480 So being someone on the inside of all of this, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:07.960 do you think that there is a fix. What is 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.880 the solution? Because they're right, you can't flood the prisons, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:10.160 But what. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.440 Do you do? Great question, and I truthfully have to 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.160 say I don't know. Part of it is younger cops. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.560 I think is good because if you have older cops 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.480 like myself, where you've been on the job during the 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.080 days of you can lock them up and that's it 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.960 and let the courts deal with it. Those guys are 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.280 burnt out because the new way, you know what I mean, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.320 you need a young mind, You need a nice young 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.480 guy to come in and have to know how to 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.360 deal with this more. I would say with honey. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.640 Absolutely though I mean I clearly am not a politician. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.040 I don't know how the money works. But it would 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.640 seem as though a lot of these people who were 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.640 let out of jail, prison, whatever it was, have mental 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.720 issues and there needs to be some sort of mental 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.040 help and a facility for people who do not have jobs, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.640 who are homeless, who are on the street, who are 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.320 the people shitting underneathone's brownstone or pissing on the side 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:01.720 of the road. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.960 That's a great, good point. I would have disagreed a 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.440 few years ago. I would have said, no, that's bullshit, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.000 and you commit the crime. That's it. You gotta you know, 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.080 doing what I do now to security at against somebody's blocks. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.800 And let's face it, the truth of the matter is 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.400 the blocks I'm doing are people that probably are a 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.280 little more privileged because they could afford secure Of course, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.760 my daughter says that all the time. Who has crippling anxiety? 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.520 She goes, Oh, god, Dad, I wish I had one 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.440 hundred dollars an hour to pay some guy to stand 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.080 in front of my house all day, I would sleep amazing. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.680 Oh yeah. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:39.120 But the truth of the matter is there's a guy 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.880 I dealt with, and what I tried to do. If 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.680 I have a situation where there's a reoccurring event of 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.320 somebody annoying the neighborhood, I do try to get to 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.720 know him. It's the best way because I can't go 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.280 to the distation attorney. I can't go to that local priest. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:56.840 And if I walk into the priests and say, hey, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.920 this guy's shitting on the street, they're gonna laugh at 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.560 me too bad. So I can't physically harm them, nor 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.440 would I. So the one or two cases I had, 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.440 I mean, these guys are just mentally ill, and they 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:10.800 really are. I don't think they wake up in the 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.960 morning and say I just want to hang out, run 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.960 up and down the block and do drugs and use 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.960 it as a bathroom. So I don't know the answer 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.520 on how do we get this taken care of? It's 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.440 it's good, it's gonna be tough. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.320 Well, it's a good thing that you are a retired 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.240 police officer now, so you don't have to worry about that. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.920 Yeah, well that's it. That's right. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.080 It's crazy thinking that you're retired too, because when I 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.320 hear retired, I think somebody who's like in their sixties 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.320 maybe seventies, and you're obviously too young for that. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.480 But okay, fight apartment. You get to do twenty years 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.480 and get out not anymore, and now it's more but 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.200 my day, So you're right. I retired at forty eight 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.240 forty seven and a half years old. People are like, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.840 you can't retire. Funny. I thought I could live in 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.560 golf for the rest of my life on my New 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.360 York City police pension. How's that That only lasted about 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.880 a year, And I really that ain't happening. Okay, you 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.120 got to go out and get a second living. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.080 Word to the wise. Now let's talk about your second living. Yes, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.880 now you are a private investigator. Yes, now you get 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.880 to see all the juicy stuff. And in my head 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.600 when I think private investigator, I think somebody sitting in 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.680 their car with a hat and glasses, following cheaters around. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:14.680 What is the majority of. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.160 Your work, magnum p I right, the Hollywood part of 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.000 get to travel around and drive a Ferrari. Yes, yeah, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.600 that's that's not happening. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.920 Because who would notice a Ferrari? 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.040 Following there is a lot of domestic and the biggest 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.680 thing with domestic first, when you get a call from 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.280 a client, I really tend to just only do it 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.920 if I get a call from an attorney. If I'm 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.200 not dealing with an attorney, then it's like, well wait, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.120 I'm not just going to find out something and give 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:39.680 you the information. I don't know what you're gonna do. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.440 You I kill the person. So I like to a 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.680 good private eye or a smart private eye usually just 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.200 wants to deal with an attorney for like a divorce case. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.680 And in New York State there is no such thing 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.760 as adultery. It's not going to work for court. No, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.280 it's just a moral thing. Maybe there's kids involved, Maybe 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.880 mom wants to say your dad was a cheater, or 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.280 wants to say your mom was a cheater. Because it's 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.080 going to get ugly now. And this is why. There's 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.080 a lot of reasons why. And let's face it, you 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.399 want to know the other jobs. Occasional insurance jobs are big. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:16.040 I've worked out with people filming them. They had no idea. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.159 I have like hidden body cameras and they're not supposed 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:19.960 to be in the gym working out. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.240 Oh, because they're like disabled or there's something horrible that 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.800 has caused a workman's comp injury. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.080 Oh. I have insurance companies that reach out to me 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.360 and I'll join the gym for a month and I'll 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.399