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[Music] [Applause] good morning guys and welcome back to the channel I'm doing the introduction a little bit different for this video for a couple of reasons the the first reason being this is going to be the final video that I released in 2024 this will be the last video that you see for this year going to be releasing it around the last week of uh December I believe it is and then I'm going to be taking a little bit of a break from YouTube I'm going to do my best to take a break all the way through the month of January although I can't promise that I'm going to be able to keep that up keep that up because I'm a little bit of a busy body and I like to get down here I really enjoy making these videos for you putting content out so I can't promise I'll take a vacation but I'm going to do my best to take a vacation uh the other reason I'm doing the introduction like this is because this video is a little bit different it's actually uh a little bit personal to me it's a it's a personal moment that I want to share with you guys and um I don't know I I just felt like this was more appropriate way for me to talk about this so the majority of today's video is just going to be me walking down the road drinking a cup of coffee much like I'm doing right now so as I'm walking down the road in this particular day I'm actually going to have a conversation with a homeless guy that I thought many of you might find interesting uh if you don't know this about me when I get to work there's there's a routine that I have when I get to work every morning and uh you know we go to the sub we have roll call we get our car assignments we learn about whatever it is that we need to learn about I go out and I load up my car uh I'll respond to a couple of calls for service that we're holding from the night before maybe some early morning alarms from people going into businesses and accidentally tripping their alarms cars that were stolen overnight that sort of thing um once I get a free moment I'll go get a couple coffee and I'll usually go for a walk there's usually a l in the morning where there's not a lot of activity and it gives me the opportunity to go for a walk I've got uh kind of two mindsets when I'm going for these walks sometimes I go for a walk in a residential neighborhood and I walk with kids going to school wave at their parents as they're getting ready to go to work all of those sorts of things and then on days where I might not feel like I really want to talk to people but I still want to get out of my car get some exercise make myself a scene I'll go to the bike PAAD then that's what you're going to be watching today on this particular day I was walking along the bike path with my cup of coffee and a homeless guy came running up behind me asked me what time it was it turns out we were both walking damn near to the same D um destination at least we were going the same direction for a long period of time so uh rather than blow him off or get off the bike path or go somewhere else I decided just to walk along the path with him uh the reason that this is an important video to me or kind of a more person personal video to me and a moment that I really wanted to share with you guys because this is a very good example of the type of person that I am and the type of police officer that I am um I enjoy getting out in the community going for walks with people talking to people and the people that I talk to generally aren't the people that uh the general public would think a police officer would spend his time with in the morning um I know that I'm not alone in this although I might be one of the very few people that actually gets out of my car and goes for walks like this but it's it's kind of funny because when you become a police officer and you're on social media you start getting attack from from people from various sectors of the community I get I get attacked by people on the far right and people on the far left people on the far left automatically because I'm a police officer they say that I must be racist and then people on the far right say oh you're a tyrant you hate the public all of these sorts of things and they they lever these attacks on me without knowing anything about who I am my character or how I do the job and I I often hear people say I'm not anti- police I'm just anti- bad police and I can tell that you're a bad cop by the way you're talking to me what they're saying is that since I disagree with them they automatically hate me and they assume that I hate them and that's not the type of person that I am and one of the ironic things about this is that I think that in many senses I'm the type of police officer that the community wants out there someone that's that's friendly that takes care of people I'm not always looking for a reason to H people up um I really do enjoy being a member of the community I I enjoy meeting members of the community and I genuinely um do everything I can to help those people out I'm not you know a tyrant out there trying to violate people's rights I'm not a racist that treats people differently but I still get called all those things because there's so much ignorance out in the world and when I have the opportunity to put out a video like this to say listen you're the one who's wrong um this is the type of person I am I I like to do that whenever I have the opportunity um I I do these things often and I I don't often remember to to request the video but on this particular day I did remember I went back to my car immediately and um wrote down the information to send the records request because I Lally wanted to show this type of interaction with the public because these are the interactions that happen you know hundreds of times a day and the general public is not aware of them because the only thing you're aware of is what you see in the news and what you see in the news is when an officer does something bad um officers do a lot more good than bad in this world but for some reason the bad is what we focus on uh so today I want to take a a special moment to focus on the good uh especially in the light of uh Christmas and New Years that are coming up and I just want to tell everybody to have a very happy um Merry Christmas and a happy happy New Year and a blessed holiday season uh thank you for supporting me throughout the years and particularly in 2024 I look forward to coming back in 2025 with more content for you I hope you enjoyed today's video I'll talk to you guys later it's 8:18 thank yeah your bike what's that get you for your bike no I'm just walking way back way back ride your bikes out here uh there are officers that ride bikes out here but I'm not one of them I know we yeah what that slow start oh really I to be down here where you got to be oh that's not too far n we go there and this early in the morning supposed to be somewhere there oh well um they justed a few weeks ago on yeah breakfast with okay what time do they start uh 8 to 9:30 oh okay well you got time takes oh yeah no worries I'm walking all the way down there too so other mhm oh what do they serve for breakfast up there in the morning uh EG Bacon St pancakes cold coffee water like a whole Buffet spread yeah nice I bacon yeah I made bacon yesterday myt bacon M I had to this really good but price but good yeah Bacon's gotten expensive over the last couple years mhm everything's more expensive now so you volunteer with that church or it yeah on Wednesdays we do a clean up and we do any repair that might need to be made okay take the day Center uhhuh we take care of the ground we need to get house by June 1 house yeah shower come making a full bath yeah out you a shower turn your hot and cold lines there you go where is it at is it close to the church yeah yeah it's not that one right on the other side is it it's on this side oh yeah well because before they rerouted the creek you had uh the driveway connected right and then they rerouted the creek and uh they took that driveway out when you come up here left yeah the house yeah I know exactly what that is it is so nice fridge the work H where do you live I'm the land oh okay you there yeah I understand that de to the ab Church uhhuh I'm up by daylight I'm gone that one that's right down down there by Westgate kind of next to the firehouse that's a shelter isn't it I'm not sure they told me they got some money from the shelter board but I don't know if they just do that thing where if you show up like kind of first come first serve right and then they kick everyone out in the morning but what me is we don't bother nobody we got yeah well you know like you said a lot of people set up camps though and they have trash like for miles oh yes you go CR yeah you're left there's like three camps back there down tell rang barel right here here wall yeah well there's some right at the beginning of the trail right here at svin and the tracks right by it's actually 91 oral there's a dope house so there's like 310 set up behind there wow yeah I was um there yesterday and um on West Broad Bank to for got for a while I nevering theant and a and the dog yard in the yard Bank okay you don't hang out with that girl that's got one leg out here do you uh I forget her name j is it Julia Jojo Jojo yeah who her boyfriend got killed like last year yeah she's in a yeah I knew before I knew before I knew she had really and I not long agoo for my di forever that explains why she was just sitting in her chair with a sleeping bag over her head yeah she been about white bag yeah mm yeah I I wish she would get off the street though yes my arms are so sore myself I'm sure why why aren't you on a shelter somewhere um I want to Robert Bob yeah what are you going to do now have you made up my mind you still have contacts and stuff right like you can still get help if you reach out yeah you know that all you have to do is say the word and someone will swoop you up I haven't made up mind yet what's your alternative keep doing what I've been doing for the last 10 years why would you do that you don't enjoy it it sucks and it's going to get cold soon I know but it's going to get legitimately cold right I know I mean yeah work B the body run off she she she not isn't she just got it yeah well lots of places out here that'll help her get her off the street if she'll just accept it I know she could have a much better life that's Cy oh yeah everybody brother yeah to the Wednesday night we had oh yeah I know that church I've been there the hell of a cook she made the best meat ever nice then main around sure yeah that's good what days are they open for food uh DIN and then me volunteer she bring make good a lot there's a lot of people out here helping folks oh yeah just a day I'm walking down over and I wow that's W good for yeah thank you yeah this is where I'm going to turn around head back the other way all right man you take care enjoy your breakfast it's that was only a 10-minute walk yeah so that's the house it used to have a driveway that went all the way across yep [Music] ah [Music]
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