Interview with a policeman from America. Part III

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Interview with a policeman from America. Part III

- Is there no opera unit in an American prison?

- She's not really needed there.

-And who gets valuable information?

-Guards.

-It's incredible ...

-When you graduate from the academy, you know how to investigate murders, accidents, collect evidence, communicate with crazy people, all at a basic level. Then you choose, I went into forensics and studied additionally, went through several courses, everyone paid.

There were courses at the university level, after graduation they gave a serious certificate, with it I could already testify in court, which I often did. I taught ballistics, I knew what I’m talking about, where the bullet flies, where the blood splashes, etc.

There are lawyers - animals: “And what was your flash on the camera? And how long did you have the hitchhiking? And what is the shutter speed? What film? And how do fingerprints come out? ” And you have to sit and tell where it comes from, how it manifests itself, how I shot, how I stuck it, how I filled out the cards.

Better yet - how does the gun work? And you explain how to a 12-hour jury. Otherwise - you see, he does not understand anything.

And it hurts many officers, they sit on the podium, worry, they start to fry them a little, they close. Immediately creates a bad impression of a police officer. You just have to be yourself, calmly say what you have done, know what you are talking about.

-And cheat?

-Caught, end of career, retirement and so on. What for? If you did everything right, why lie? If you didn’t, it’s easier to admit.

-When they teach security officers with us, everything is secret. Secret libraries, where you come with secret xivia, there is a secret notebook, stitched, sealed, where you take notes, but it should always be in the secret library, you can not take it with you. And what you have been taught is in the public domain?

-Now everything is in the public domain, in my opinion. Then no, then there were instructions for official use. And we don’t have operas as such in the department.

-This is a detective story.

-Detective detectives, one for the robberies, there are 6 people, for the killings - others, 10 people. We call them investigators.

Each has its own unit, for example, 6 investigators, they are transferred to a tactical unit, 2 people, one machine. Investigators say - find that, here is the warrant. They drive, they take. They work on the ground, while someone mainly sits in the office, interviews witnesses, calls, does business, carries on business to the prosecutor, the prosecutor looks to see if the business will go somewhere or not, or they will bury him. So divided.

Investigators on children’s, on domestic violence, rape, prostitution are separate units, I also managed a children's room for some time, 6 years, fun. They brought 12-year-old killers, 13-year-old rapists

-How many years have you served?

-Almost 20. Came in 1996, and ended his career in 2016.

- Mentality is not deformed?

-This only a specialist can say. When I was involved in forensics, there were a lot of corpses. Tired of smells, unpleasant, especially if you lie in the basement somewhere about 3 months, they will find him. And you need to climb, take pictures, watch, or this murder, or suicide, or ordinary death, everything was part of the duties. I didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, I did sports.

- Have you given a retirement?

-I left for the wound.

-Who wounded?

- There were several accidents, falls, health was a little undermined, 3 medical commissions passed, they said “no more”. And there, when necessary, everyone - from the chief to the last patrol officer - must wear military equipment, moreover, not ordinary, but tactical, stand on the street and catch bottles, bricks with their heads. If you can’t, retire. The pension is normal.

-Better than if you worked in a civil office?

- It depends on which one. Everything is different there, different pensions are different in different departments, even in different departments we pay differently.

-And some social media? Can you walk, treat your teeth?

-Buy yourself insurance.

- The state is not a state, a city continues to care?

- Yes, they pay part, part you pay extra. Not a city, our union. The city, if it could, did not pay anything, would make it work 100 hours a month for its money.

Are there really a lot of Irish in the police? And in the firefighters?

There is, but not so much. The roots are mixed, people in their family trees are already poorly understood. There are many Asians, many immigrants from China, Korea, respectively, the guys apply for work, work, work great, I have many friends of any kind - both black and Mexicans, and somehow it turned out to be better to converge with them than with the Anglo-Saxons, because that for them I’m still Russian.

-Have you come.

-No, they’re like “ah, you are from Russia, hmm.” Thanks to our former President Yeltsin, who danced drunk there, and showed the whole world what we are Russians, and this is how we got it.

-Well, they probably didn’t like much like the Communists?

-They did not like, but respected, because we had the best education, an 8-hour working day, rights, holidays - 30 days a year. I worked for almost 20 years, I had a vacation for 3 weeks a year. After 18 years made 4 weeks. 18 years of work need to have 4 weeks of vacation.

- In the police, the road is not included in our vacation, if you go to Vladivostok by train, it does not count while you are driving. For 45 days it turned out.

- Arriving in the country when, you do not ask, good or bad laws. You ask how they are performed. And while the laws worked, everything was fine. When you decided that it was not necessary to perform them at the highest level, remember, Mr. Clinton said “I did not have sex with that woman”, everything, they realized that they were not in danger, nothing had passed, no impeachment. Since then, a mess began. I remember that day very well. Lied under oath!

-Maybe it's just a verbal wording such that it can be interpreted both ways?

-He was asked in the forehead: yes or no? And he lied.

- The service is over, what are you doing now?

-I'm resting for now. He restored his health, no need to spend 10 hours a day in the car. There, as it turns out, you go out on patrol, you drive in a car for 10 hours, you wear a 12-15 kg belt: body armor, sometimes a helmet, boots. You have to jump out of the car, run, all this does not positively affect the body.

Shifts from 10 to 12 hours, sometimes forced to linger. When something happened at the end of the shift, there are already 15-20 hours sometimes. Investigators generally live in the building of the deportation office periodically. People fly backs, spines, knees - a couple of times I stumbled on the curbs - that's all, the operation needs to be restored. But if you are young, heal - you will come back, and when one injury, second, third, fourth, people serve.

The city has insurance that should provide you with medicine, but that does not mean that they will pay. They will try to football until you get tired, you spit, you return to work broken. They do not want to do this, they are pulling time. As a result, you take a lawyer, a lawyer collects all the papers, there is a time frame for which they must do everything. If you didn’t, respectively, they will pay a lot of money. But they always wait until the last second, nerves tremble, hope that you yourself will get rid of it.

- Everywhere there are problems.

“I lived there in the city, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, right next to the ocean, San Luis Obispo, cleanliness, order.” I’m going to a restaurant with my family in the evening, my son reminded me - dad, have you forgotten? - I'll take it now.

A policeman, even in retirement, has the right to carry a gun and use it if necessary.

-And they’re allowed in taverns?

-Do not have the right not to let. I am a trained professional, I am their additional security, and free.

-That we have a metro, there you can’t shoot police officers, because crowds of people, you’ll definitely get into someone, either like that or by rebounding, God forbid. It is necessary to solve problems differently.

- They shoot at you, and you have to decide differently?

-We have few weapons, they do not shoot much.

-Usually those who need it, get it out somehow.

“I read from New York, a policeman, having served in the department for combating drug trafficking for 23 years, says,“ I never got a gun. ” Is lying?

-Not necessary

- Staff work?

-Not to his credit, this is a political market. We also had such in the department, careerists. If you really work, you won’t make a career, grab it, arrest it, shoot it, God forbid, anything can happen, you have no choice sometimes. But then in the career there are problems, those who are sitting in the office, in a clean, well-groomed form, with air conditioning, somehow do not complain.

-And what form?

-Normal. The shirt is woolen, we have +80 Fahrenheit there, somewhere +32, +33 Celsius in the summer, and we are forced to walk in a woolen uniform to look good. You try to work in such a heat, even a bulletproof vest, you are in the oven. You come, take everything off, 3 liters of water flow out from you, because someone sitting in an air-conditioned office believes that we should all look like a needle. Previously, they were forced to ride in caps; recently they got rid of it; it’s already a gift.

You go in the car, put on a cap. You can no longer see what is happening upstairs, left the car, who you are chasing, the main thing is not to forget the cap, otherwise it will be a reprimand. It was over before me, but the veterans simply burst with happiness that allowed normal caps.

- They didn’t agree on where to go with a gun. For example, I am a commoner, not a former policeman, I have a barrel, can I carry it with me in all states?

-You can't in California. The law is this - if you are not a policeman, you can carry a weapon, but it must be unloaded and in plain sight.

-And many of those people who are uncharged in plain sight are?

-There are clubs on the interests of civilians who like to do this, they gather in a crowd, and go, in front of them they show Desert Eagles, all kinds of Colts, damn that. But they should not be charged, you can stop them at any time, check. Do you have permission? Is it charged, no?

-With rifles can go, with an unloaded usually over your shoulder. But you can’t aim at anyone.

-And such a citizen wanted to go to a restaurant, they would let me in - they would not let me in? For example, I am the owner of a restaurant, you - a former policeman, I know, but some kind of bloke is coming.

- You can’t let me go by law. Please forbid me, I will become very rich, you have violated my rights, I will only be glad, I will sue, I will win the case.

-What kind of movie can you advise our readers where really is adequately shown about the American police?

-Denzel Washington, you know, Training Day? Good life. There, the Russian mafia, of course, was dragged, but, in theory, it seems. But this is Los Angeles, there are their chips, completely different handouts, a huge city, more than 20 million in total, around the city that form the octopus.

Dark Blue, in my opinion, was called a movie with Kurt Russell excellent.

Until the last 5 minutes, they can be cut off and not watched.

"Skating down," one might say, is not bad. Of course, fantastic, but normally filmed.

A lot of series, but just there wasn’t much time to watch something, because you work 10 hours, from 7 to 5, traffic jams are an hour, it’s a minimum, usually more, I was still involved in sports, I played a little hockey, I studied in my free time, because that pay extra for education.

There are 6 degrees, started working in the first. You work up to 6 years, they put on the maximum degree. Then, for each year of service, bonuses are paid extra. And if you still have additional education, there is still a small increase, if 2 educations - even a little more.

Source: @blacksun