#DDMS Episode 14: Unravelling Law Enforcement Challenges: Thanksgiving Drama, North Korea Escape, and Defund Movement Effects

Have you ever thought about how a festive holiday like Thanksgiving can prove to be challenging for law enforcement? We're pulling back the curtain on the less-than-idyllic side of the holidays, discussing the uptick in domestic disturbances and confrontations that often arise during these times. I'll be sharing some personal encounters from my hunting trips that delve into the public's perception of law enforcement - even in casual settings.

Our journey then takes us from the domestic to the international. Yeonmi Parks, a North Korean defector, courageously shares her journey from the oppressive grip of communism to the liberating freedom in the US. Her chilling account serves as a stark reminder of the importance of safeguarding our liberties and freedoms. We're also delving into an ongoing conversation about the defund movement, shedding light on its influence on the quality of law enforcement personnel and the potential repercussions on the communities they serve.

We'll be closing out the episode with gratitude, thanking our Patreon supporters and all our listeners for their support. We'll also highlight the often-overlooked dangers and challenges that law enforcement officers face due to constraints in budget and resources. We hope our discussions today serve as a reminder that beneath the uniforms, law enforcement officers are humans too, deserving of empathy and understanding. So, join us for this meaningful conversation as we navigate through law enforcement, societal issues, and our personal experiences.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Warning, warning. Warning. This content may be sensitive to some. If you feel the need to leave, it is completely understandable. Content may contain examples of death, suicide, sexual content and other shit. We don't know what we're gonna get into. This is not to offend anyone or upset anyone on purpose. This isn't your typical deputy dane, so listen at your own risk. Sit back and enjoy. Good morning everybody. Welcome to the deputy dane morning show. I appreciate all y'all for being here. We got some stuff to get into. I really don't know what we're gonna get into, but we'll get into something. Sit back. Oh, oh, yep, there's the sirens. I think we're all gonna be detained. Sit back and enjoy the show. Good morning everybody.

Speaker 1: 1:07

It's another week, thanksgiving's coming up. Hopefully everybody gets to enjoy that time with their family. Enjoy that, um, the family, just the holidays of spending time with family. For us turkey basters, it's a busy, busy time. You know you just go out there and you just gotta do the best you can, but it uh, sometimes you just get rough.

Speaker 1: 1:32

A lot of people ask like what's the busiest holiday? And I'd have to say Thanksgiving. Think about it. You're stuck in your house with your family members, so-called loved ones, and a lot of people start drinking, a lot of people start having too much fun, and then, bam, domestics happen. And well, that's just how it goes. It just starts out fun, and then somebody calls somebody fat and the other one says, well, you ate all the raspberry stuff. And then that other dude's like, well, I'm gonna give you some stuff. And then they do some weird stuff. Oh, that's the other website I was watching there, mine.

Speaker 1: 2:07

That's a different kind of stuffing, um, but yeah, thanksgiving is always one of those holidays that it just you never know. It's either gonna be nothing going on or it's gonna be nonstop with domestics All the time. Just people fighting over boy, just who knows whatever. They just fight nonstop, just all the time. But a lot of those people they fight all the time anyways. Just Thanksgiving just makes it more of a holiday when people fight. It's never really been one of those holidays I enjoy.

Speaker 1: 2:39

I don't really enjoy turkey. I don't enjoy. I don't eat stuffing. I don't eat cranberry, raspberry sauce, whatever the hell that shit is. That's not sauce, it's like jello or whatever, I don't know. I don't want any part of that. I don't really eat mashed potatoes and gravy. It's not really my thing. Now you give me some macaroni and cheese or something, I'll tear that shit up and I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 1: 3:02

My wife loves a holiday and unfortunately she always has to work around the holiday and she can never get to go enjoy time with family. She loves the family time. She loves the food. She loves to be able to sit there and enjoy themselves, take a nap, wake up, eat again. Nothing's never been my thing, but teach your own. People love it, some people don't. It is what it is. Then you get domestics thrown in the middle.

Speaker 1: 3:26

The thing about having kids now is it's made me realize that maybe my kids enjoy that day. So now I have to start really living up these holidays that I never really gave two shits about, but now I have to. It's not right for me just because I don't like it to. I don't hate the holidays. It's just not a big thing I really care about. But it's not fair to my kids that I just sit back and go. I don't really care. That's not really my deal. Now I have to make it my deal because it's not fair. Let them decide if they like it or not. It's not my place to do, but it's still a good time. It's a good time to hang out with friends, family, do all that stuff, but it's still almost here.

Speaker 1: 4:09

The best thing about it is normally around this time it's hunting season and then we get to go out and go hunting and have fun. We went hunting this morning. I did a live. We did play some charades because I wasn't talking. You can't even being in law enforcement and trying to do social media and make people smile, make people laugh, make people's day. You can't even enjoy things like going out to go hunting. All I'm trying to do go out and go hunting. I try to share my life so people know that I am a person and everything.

Speaker 1: 4:40

And then you get people that come in. This lady comes in today and she's like well, you took an oath, didn't you? Yeah, what's that have to do with anything? Right now I'm sitting in a blind enjoying myself, just bringing people along so I can sit there and make jokes with. We can type back and forth, because I can't talk, just having fun. So then I come back with well, I'm going to have to plead the fifth while I'm hunting, I'm going to invoke my right of silence, and then this person goes yeah, of course, you would your typical cop, mmm silence, that's it. That's it. I know I got him. He can't even tell me about his oath and it's silence. Like really I'm hunting, I'm not in any uniform, I'm not doing anything in any capacity of whatever being law enforcement. I'm at home. It's like me going to her office or wherever she works or whatever, and go.

Speaker 1: 5:41

What was the? What was on the last momentum from the last memo that you had at your water color, didn't you say that you would not to use extra ink or colored ink on everything you copy? And I believe you did. And then go home and be like, hey, becky, remember that time that you used the color ink and you weren't supposed to use the color ink. I figured right now you're at home doing nothing at all to do with work, but I'm gonna have to tell you Remember that memo, you need to use the memo and I need you to never use color ink again. Okay, yeah, if I understand, you were on a holiday break and you'll be back in three weeks, but I still think this is the point where I have to tell you at work, don't use color ink. We'll see in three weeks.

Speaker 1: 6:29

It doesn't make any sense. So then I say, oh, I'm gonna do that, and then they go, it's cause you're lost. I'm not lost. I'm lost in that property, in my hunting, blind, enjoying my morning watching the sunrise the way I want to watch the sunrise and you, instead of getting to understand, the sun rose for you just the same way as it did for me, and we're all having a good time. You want to wake up in a pissy fucking mood, karen. It doesn't make any sense to me. Why is there so many people so involved in other people's fucking lives every day that they think that they're perfect? And that's it, like bringing up what might do at work while I'm at work, there's times, I understand, we want to ask questions, stuff, and I don't mind. But coming up to you like Typical mumbo jumbo, hate stuff towards cops and it's like it took a lot. Are you representing that oath? No, because I'm on fucking duty, stupid ass. Like I'm sitting at home enjoying time. Um, it's, I'm kid-free, so I'm trying to enjoy my time. And then I got some Karen. It just it blows my mind.

Speaker 1: 7:30

There's always people Um, you know, you get a lot of these. The other ones that come at me and they're like talking about Cops are slave drivers and cops are Coming to get you. They're not your friends, they lie to you. Everyone lies. First of all, there are corrupt cops. I will never say that there's not. I will never say the system's perfect, because it's not. There's a lot of shit, bad cops there are, but there's a lot more good than bad. If you look how many interactions go on a daily basis that nothing happens or positive things happen, it far outweighs the the times that some pillar society supposedly got shot by law enforcement officer. Um, shootings have gone. They're all over the place. One day, one year they're up, the one year they're down. Police executions, where they're getting ambushed, is gone through the roof and a lot of it's the media that's spreading us apart. And then you get stupid people that can't look shit up themselves and then they go. Yep, that's it. I believe it.

Speaker 1: 8:29

Um, I was just watching one the other day where this guy he came on my page and I like to. I like to go look at some of these people. I've spread hate. Let's go see their side. That's something that nowadays people can't do. People don't want to go look at the other person's side and have a debate. It's normally if you don't agree with me, you hate me and we can never be friends and we can never talk. We should be able to talk. We're all out on opinions. That's what makes this world amazing. That's what makes the united states the united states. We have the freedom to do what we want to do. We have the freedom to say what we want to say, but we're slowly losing that. So I get on this guy's page and he's explaining about communism and how great communism is In other countries. Just haven't done it right, but it could be done right and when it's done right, it would be amazing. It's amazing and I really want these people to look, think about it. It's these dudes.

Speaker 1: 9:24

This guy was starting some commune with a bunch of other hippie dudes and they're talking about communism and they're going to be free power man on the woods. I'm like bro, that's not communism. If you don't know what communism is, take the time to research it. Okay, you want that? Free love, you guys. Go live out there. Free love, no one gives a shit. Go out there, fly some little butterflies, go smoke some ganja and have a good time. Play your bongos man. No one gives a shit. Just go play the bongos man and just be out there. No one cares. But this dude and his friends talk about.

Speaker 1: 9:59

Down with the government whatever dude, I don't like the government, it is what it is and then down with law enforcement, bro. What do you think is going to happen to your hippie commune when there's no one to come help you? If people don't realize there's consequences, or don't think there's consequences to their actions, they're going to do whatever the hell they want. So a wildflower over there is going to get raped or murdered and you can't do anything about it because you're too busy, high and you're too scared to call the cops, because cops are bad man. And a wildflower is over there screaming for help and you're like man I wish I had a gun, bro or like someone I could call man, like it's okay, wildflower, it's okay. He means loving good man. He'll be done in a minute. He doesn't look like he's gonna last long. Wildflower oh dang dude, it doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1: 10:53

And then, if you go, look at communism, if you've never listened to Joe Rogan talking to I'm going to put your name Yoni Parks or whatever If you've never listened to the story of her escaping North Korea, it's mind blowing Mind blowing. This woman was in some of the harshest climates, harshest governments, and it was communism. And the thing about communism is they control every fucking aspect of your life. If you mess up, three generations of your family will be punished for your mess ups. If it's a heinous crime, if it's you escaped the country or something like that, eight generations are wiped off the planet. Think about that. Eight generations. There are people that don't even know they're related to these people that are being executed because you were related to a person that was a de-factor. That's communism.

Speaker 1: 11:52

So this woman escapes North Korea, goes into China, deals with Chinese stuff, goes through the Mongolian desert in cold, gets to Mongolia, thinks that she's going to be deported here or deported back to North Korea. If you're deported back to North Korea, it's automatic descents they're about to take. So when these people go across this desert in the freezing cold, they have ways, such as poison that they can give themselves and razor blades to cut themselves, because it's better to die that way than be tortured back in North Korea. God, communism, bro. Sounds like a good fucking idea, bro.

Speaker 1: 12:32

So this woman does all this stuff while this little woke kid thinks that he knows what he's talking about. I still don't know what I'm talking about. I'm going by stuff, but I like to research things, and that's one thing I love about these podcasts you can research things, you can learn things and you can look at different aspects and unique aspects of other lives that you do have no fucking idea about. That's why I also like to look into the people that spread so much hate towards law enforcement, because I don't know what actions they had. Maybe that person was beat up by a cop. Maybe that person was molested by a cop. I don't know what it is. There are shit bags that become cops, and the defund movement has only made it worse. We'll get into that in a minute.

Speaker 1: 13:11

So this woman escapes, gets to Mongolia and debates, taking cyanide and all this stuff and cutting her wrists. They end up taking her to South Korea. Long story short she goes to South Korea, learns what freedom really is, then comes to the United States. This woman goes to the University of Charleston and while she's in school, learns nothing but white people are bad, slavery and all this stuff and all these things, and we need to silence anybody that has a difference of opinions. This woman came from a place where people were murdered because they didn't have a picture of Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong-un in their house. And then your family, for three generations, would also have to pay for your crimes. And they have concentration camps in these countries. People think about concentration camps are a thing which just Hitler did and everything like that. They're still concentration camps in North Korea.

Speaker 1: 14:13

So this woman goes to the school and she deals with all these people that talk about racism and the systems holding them down and they're deprived and all this stuff and oppressed and all this stuff. And the only thing that she can think to herself is I escaped a country where we had no way to talk, and this country that's allowed all of these freedoms is slowly losing these freedoms and if we don't wake up and realize that, we are doomed. We have too many of these people pushing for no consequences and no, nothing like that, that eventually we are going to go down that route. And you got these stupid kids that think, just because they support communism, that they're somehow going to end up on the hierarchy of communism. Communism is no joke.

Speaker 1: 14:58

If you're not on the top, you are fucked in the ass Like it doesn't. There's no ifs, ands or buts about it. You are told what to do, you're told how you have to do it. You have no idea what love and compassion is, because you don't get that. You get it from your parents and, at the same time, your neighbors. You can never trust because if your neighbors report you that you said that Kim Jong-un is a bad person, that's like right now, everyone that dislikes Trump or everyone that dislikes Biden Okay, if they make one joke they can execute you. But yeah, that's a good system, bro, like peace, love and execution to motherfuckers that don't do the right, right man.

Speaker 1: 15:39

What if your way is not the right way? And that's what people don't understand and that's what comes here, deals with this stuff and one of the main takeaways she got by this whole speech of being oppressed and all that stuff. She would sit there and like, listen to her talk and her cry and the true emotion and the way she talks. These people aren't oppressed. And she says she goes you're not oppressed, because you know you are oppressed and I was never allowed to have my own thoughts, my own feelings, my own opinions. That's oppression. And these people that sit here and picket people at the colleges because they don't want them to come in and talk about something they don't agree with. What if somebody else wants to listen to what this person has to say but the majority of the group says no, so now you can't listen to it? Whoa, now aren't you oppressing the people that you say are oppressing you? That person wanted to hear that speech, but now they can't because some people want to stop it. And if we I'm dead serious, if we don't figure this shit out, it's gonna get bad. It's already getting bad.

Speaker 1: 16:55

The defund movement A lot of people think that every agency has a bear cat. They sit here and go well, if we, if we defund them, they won't have a bear cat and they'll be less militarized and they won't have ghost guns that shoot 1 million rounds per second without even taking the time to realize. Majority of agencies don't have bear cats. Yes, your big agencies have bear cats. I guarantee you wouldn't care if that bear cat came around, if it was you in trouble, if you were being held hostage. I guaranteed that you wouldn't care that the agency had a bear cat. It just it floors me. It just floors me On how many of these people don't take the time to look into what they're actually preaching. I try to take time. Sometimes I don't do it all. I don't know. I don't know, it just happens. But the defund movement has hurt the communities way more than people will ever realize.

Speaker 1: 18:02

The media and the defund movement has told people that being a cop is bad. So people that it went to school to become a cop no longer want to do it. The people that should be a cop that would be great for the community and do the right things for the community no longer want to do it. So people that should never have been a cop are becoming a cop because that's only option. Our hiring pools are just tiny, tiny, tiny and you have to pick which one out of those is good. Every now and then you might get a good one, but a lot of times nowadays you're getting shit. They're lazy because nobody wants to work in anymore. They're not going to do reports the way they're going to. They're going to have attitudes because they think that their opinions are right and nobody else's. It is, and that's where we're heading, and it's getting bad. The defund movement has done so much terrible things. Areas that had got defunded, crime has skyrocketed. If you don't believe me, look at the statistics. And it takes a lot longer to refund somebody.

Speaker 1: 19:05

Trust me, I've been working with budgets for my agency and it sucks, and understand how many people want their budget over your budget and you have to fight for your budget. But your budget doesn't mean anything until they're the ones that have a family member that was taken advantage of by a criminal and then they're like well, why can't you do this? It's not on our budget, dude. Well, why didn't you do this? We didn't have the manpower. Our budget is slashed, but that's not put on the news. So people go oh, your budgets, it wasn't. Yes, a lot of agencies have been cut. So you got people that shouldn't be in the profession in the profession. Then you have other people that want to be in the profession but can't afford training because they have to pay for it on their own. But by paying for it on their own, that means that $600 training when I bring home $2,200 a month, that $600 is more than I can afford For something that should be provided so to make sure I'm the best I can for my community. And you can't do it because budgets are being cut.

Speaker 1: 20:07

You now have more deaths that are going up because now you have officers not working with backup. Majority of the time on scenes I've seen it firsthand You'll have someone about to fight somebody and another cop pulls up and they won't fight too. So then they go and they just do what they're supposed to and everybody all the situations handled. Or then at the same time the officer has a backup where they don't have to fight that person to the point where they might have to shoot him. And that's what kills me is a lot of this whole little new woke generation also talks about well, what's the office there in fear, because all office there has done fear. Think about wearing a target every day you go to work. Think about you have a lot of people that respect and support you, but you also have certain people that hate you just because you have a piece of metal on that says sheriff or police officer or constable or whatever it is, and they want to hate you just because of that. Now that person's gonna fight you, no matter what.

Speaker 1: 21:11

Anytime you fight a law enforcement officer, there's a gun involved Every time, and people don't want to admit that. Anytime you fight me, there's a gun involved in our fight. I can't tell you how many times I get bogus calls to a fight in progress and there's a gun involved, you get there. There's no gun. But every time you tackle law enforcement officer, whether it's hands or whatever, there's a gun involved, because if somehow you push me over and I get knocked out, you can get my gun and shoot me. Let's say you're an amazing fighter. For some reason people think cops are just invincible and we can fight anybody and win and that's just it. It's not how it is. It's in movies. I'm not Walker, texas Ranger. Anytime you decide to fight a law enforcement officer, there's a weapon, there is a firearm, because if that cop loses that fight, it's it.

Speaker 1: 22:01

I had a fight one time. It was with a guy high as a kite on meth. To be honest, he had a gun in the car and I think he would have shot me if my partner didn't pull up. In that day I was being what a lot of cops are. I was being complacent. I've been to this area several times. This turd always steals things and puts it on his family's land. I've gotten stolen trailers. I've got stolen cars. I've gotten all sorts of stuff here. He's just a turd. He is what it is and it's all the whole McGirt thing that I talked about a couple episodes ago. It kind of breaks down why he's not in jail or prison. He's also an aggravated registered sex offender for raping children, but he's still out. Thank you, mcgirt. So this guy normally dumps stuff off. So I was like, oh shit, it's just another car he dumped off. So I didn't put my vest on or nothing.

Speaker 1: 23:04

As I pull up, there's a car in the spot that. It normally is kind of up on a hill right off the road, but you got to walk up a hill to get to this. It used to be the pad of where their house was. And there's this truck and I pull off and I see him kind of fidgeting. So I get on the radio. I was like, hey, step it up, because my partner's heading there too, just because you never know. I said, hey, man, step it up. He's in the car. I already know this guy has no money for a vehicle like this. I know this dude personally, deal with him time and time again. So I see him fidgeting around and he kind of does some weird movement. And then my partner pulls up and then he stops. I'll explain why here in a minute.

Speaker 1: 23:50

So we go deal with the car and as we're dealing with this car. I know it's stolen. I get the tag. The tag doesn't come back, register this vehicle but it doesn't come back stolen. So I go first of all tags. Not right, something's going on and in the back as all the cops that deal with this stuff in the county is full of just rena cable, just a whole sort of just stolen cable and shit that they're going to melt down itself for the copper, he's real fidgety, real weird. So I start running the VIN my partner's kind of dealing with them VIN comes back stolen out of the state next to us. I was like all right.

Speaker 1: 24:31

So we're kind of getting the guy out of the car and he darts as he's darting. I tackle him as he's starting to trip. So it's kind of like he's tripping. I jump on him and the fight is on. Luckily I was on the phone with dispatch because a radio suck, a radio's in our county or a terrobar handhelds Shit, even though our radio's in our car. Sometimes you get in certain areas you can't get shit. So I had my phone on and my dispatcher through the phone is listening to us fight this dude. Well, I know my phone's on so I yell send more units. Well, he's also native, so I know they had to send the native officers from McGirt again. My partner's there fighting them. I'm fighting them.

Speaker 1: 25:14

I'm not a small guy. I'm on top of them and he is throwing me around like a rag doll Not really throwing me. Throwing me's not right. It's hard for me to hold him down. I'm a big dude and he's picking me up as I'm trying to hold him down. The problem is a lot of these meth heads if you've never dealt with it a lot of these meth heads that are tweaking.

Speaker 1: 25:33

They have several layers of clothes on, and he did. He had like three overcoat type jackets on and then like three like you're button up, not flannel, but that thicker I don't even know. It's like a woman's blouse, but it's, I don't know. He's got three of those on so we're able to get cuffs. On one hand there's tasers. We're all getting tased. If you get wrapped around that shit, you get tased. So we're all like being zapped. As we're tasing him, I'm being zapped, my partner's being zapped.

Speaker 1: 26:03

At one point he actually grabs my partner's taser and I start smacking him in the head. You have a lot of people that watch these things on the side of the road and they go oh, that cop's hitting him. You're goddamn right, I am. I don't know what this guy has. I can't get his hands because he's got all this stuff on and it's just not. I'm smacking the shit out of him. I'm hitting this man so hard in the face that I would knock out another grown man. I have done it, knocked out a grown man for a lot less. So I'm smacking him, my partner's on top of him and my partner goes that's it. I'm gonna have to shoot him Because at this point we're gassed.

Speaker 1: 26:40

It was 20 minutes and if you've never fought someone on the ground for 20 minutes, I'm gonna tell you it's the hardest thing you'll probably do. It's exhausting and you're amplified. He's already grabbed for a taser. He's gonna reach for something else. Fbi has done statistics that if they reach for your firearm or another firearm, they're gonna try it again. So it was just a deal.

Speaker 1: 27:03

So we got one handcuffed on him and then we're trying to get the other handcuffed on him, but those several jackets now have gone over his hand, so I can't get his hand. Finally, I'm just smacking him. My partner's on top of him, hitting him, trying to get his arm, we're able to get it. Put him in another set of cuffs. We just have two cuffs on him because we had to do something to get him in control. We're gonna have to shoot this man and after we get him in handcuffs the other agency, the native agency, pulls up. About 10 minutes after we get him in cuffs we're both gassed and they're like all right, let's get him to our car. But again, this dude now has got gelitis and he won't move and I can't move my legs and buttons. He could, he just didn't want to. So we carried him. As I'm going through his car I find a stolen pistol with two rounds in it. It's a.22 revolver with two rounds in it.

Speaker 1: 27:52

I really believe if my partner did not pull up he would have taken his chances and shot me and it would. A lot of in my family could have got a flag, because I was complacent that day and that terrified me. When I was done with the call I was like I could have been ended today and my kids could have gone without a dad. They could have got a folding the flag that says oh, this was thanks to your dad. But what it would have been was your dad died of complacency and that's why I work my best to never do that.

Speaker 1: 28:28

What really sucks is that officer that was with me, my partner. He is a school resource officer and at this point we were down to one deputy per rotation, except for, like school resource officers. He is retired officer from a city that's near us. Very good officer, very good dude, very level headed, very nice guy. So this man's a school resource officer. I said, hey, man, I got a wonky feeling. Do you mind heading out there? He said, no problem.

Speaker 1: 28:58

That day was the day that he realized he has to get out of law enforcement. He was scared that something was going to happen to me. He didn't care about himself. He was scared the way that this guy was fighting that one of us, that I could have been injured. And this man knows my kids. This man knows me, he's met my kids, been a great, pretty much a family, it is a brotherhood and he was terrified that something was going to happen to me. And he told me Dane, this is the day that I realized that I have to get out of this, because I knew one day it would hit me. And today was it, because you deserve to have someone that was able to fight more than I was.

Speaker 1: 29:43

This man was he's twice my age and was fighting as hard as he could, and the whole time I was beating myself up because it's like, damn dude, I should have been able to handle this guy, I should have been able to do this. I should have been able to do that. But when you're fighting someone tweaking that hard and on that high and who knows how many days he's been up and his mind's not right To him, I could be a brain-eating alien, you never know. So he's fighting for his life and it really sucks because that made that my buddy realized this is no longer for me and that hurts. But then it sucks because I know that he feels that way because we weren't able to apprehend the dude and we were fighting this guy ourselves up because we weren't able to apprehend the dude and Mean a lot to me. I mean that he took it so hard, but at the same time I took it hard because that kills me.

Speaker 1: 30:41

This man has done so much for 30 plus years and this was the moment that he finally realized he had to get out of it. It actually worked out really well for him. One of the agencies opened up a range master for the gun range and this dude Loves guns and stuff. This was perfect. You could not have found a better man for this job and you could not have found something where he would be happier. And so it worked out. He got a huge pay, raise, better benefits, everything in it that makes everything worth it.

Speaker 1: 31:09

But it goes back to the aspect of we almost shot this man because we were all gassed. He was gassed and both of us were gassed Because at this point, if one of us loses and he grabs our gun, he could kill both officers. And people don't think of that. Not too long ago, there was an officer that was fighting a dude and he ended up shooting him because he was being gassed fighting this dude. He's fighting this guy on the ground and then finally he does I've had enough and grabs his gun and shoots him and People lost their fucking mind. They're like this cop just executed him. They were just fighting. No, no, no was passed that the officer knew he was on the verge of losing this battle and if he loses this battle he might not go home. He didn't decide to have a fight. You decided to have a fight. You decided this. You made it this. He wants to go home. You did this.

Speaker 1: 32:02

So this whole defund thing it caused a lot of things. It caused me to lose my partner, so I had to call school resource officer and then people now are thinking that they can do whatever they want and get away with it, which in our state a lot are because of McGirt. The McGirt ruling is getting a lot of people away that should be in prison. This man should be in prison. He is a dirt bag, piece of shit, and I have no problem saying that if you molest children, you are a piece of shit. And that is only the tip of the iceberg, or what all this man has done. He has no respect for his family, no, nothing. So I see all this stuff about communism, this and that and this. What do you think a person like this is gonna do If there is no repercussions? He's already getting away with probably 95% of what he's doing, but he still knows that if he does something too much, the feds will still come get him, which the fed should have came and got him on that, but they wouldn't. It's just a whole thing. It's just. It's mind-blowing and that's the way we're heading, as there's no consequences to actions.

Speaker 1: 33:11

So then we were in our live the other day and someone wanted to talk about Budgets, me breaking down budgets and our vehicles and stuff like that. Our budget, from where we're at, is garbage. We have fought our county to get our budget better. Our budget alone for just our deputies and our bills, such as internet, water and lights, electricity and shit like that at their office, cost $750,000. That's just for your, your salaries and our basic bills. That doesn't cover maintenance, that doesn't cover training, that doesn't cover ammo. That covers nothing but plain bills and our salaries. And that's what we asked for. Hey, we can, we can make it work. We also have a in our area.

Speaker 1: 33:59

We had a sales tax that was Implemented for, originally supposed to be for the sheriff's office, and then somehow they swindled their way in and it went to all these other places. So we get 42% of this sales tax that went in. It's like an extra penny or something and we get 42% of that extra penny. I don't understand exactly, but so we get certain amount every month. So it takes a $750,000 a year just to go with bare necessities. We asked for that. Our county gave us 280,000. So now we have to find a way to make our sales tax cover everything else which leaves us no money Extra. So our vehicles we don't get vehicles every year like we should, we don't get these other things like we should and there's a lot of agencies that deal with this.

Speaker 1: 34:52

So like On an average, we'll just say our agency and this is just kind of Guestimating it cost us out of our sales tax to be able to pay just salaries, about $30,000 a month. Hold on one second. Got a phone call from work. There you go, benefits of being a detective you just get called all the time, all right. So just on average, it takes our agency about $30,000 out of our sales tax, which is sales tax is really supposed to be used for other things such as maintenance for vehicles, repair, training, any of that stuff, equipment, ammo, any of that. But we're having to use a sales tax just to be able to pay people's salary. So On average it we it takes about 30,000, we get about 34,000 and it's taken mine and told you it takes our agency $750,000 a year just in bills and Salaries and that's not included gas. We use a lot of gas. That's not including gas. We are given like $30,000 to last us for gas. We pay about 10,000 a month in gas for all the deputies.

Speaker 1: 36:11

So you could see how budgets are tight and how to work it and everyone thinks that we all have a limited amount of money. And why don't you have this? Why don't you have that? You should have this. You should have that Now.

Speaker 1: 36:22

Our agency Used to get a lot of money when the oil field was booming in the area, so they used to get a bunch of money. But all that money went into vehicles and and upgrading the area and upgrading what we needed for our agency. And you know we still don't have things like we had to buy supplier on firearms. So you supplier on firearm and you go train with it and you get it qualified with it and there you go, our agency. We do what we can and now I've been helping with the budget and I see how tight things are and it's mind-blowing. So a lot of the people are asking me in the live to kind of break down our budget and how it works and that kind of way to break it down. And it's it's roughly. Some months we get more than the 30,000, but as a whole we are scraping by. We don't have a crazy amount of money to go buy ammo for training as much as we should by law. We only have to qualify once a year. Now a lot of us buy our own ammo. We do on our own.

Speaker 1: 37:20

But that should be something that we have money to do, to train to make sure. You know, you watch all these movies where people say shoot them in the leg. Or like these people arguing that cops shouldn't shoot for minors, center mass, they should shoot for the leg. Well, you can't, because if you miss the leg you're gonna hit somebody else and you can't get a shot Because if you miss the leg you're gonna hit somebody else and you can't do that. A running person shooting the leg is a lot harder than what the movie says. Movie says that you can shoot zombies with headshots by not even doing anything. You just aim that way and, bam, headshot. It's not how it is and if you don't train you lose it. You have to continue, continuously train. So it's just not right to the public that we can't train as much as we should just because we don't have the funding that we should.

Speaker 1: 38:02

But I mean it is what it is. We make it work. Our agency used to work with a sheriff and under sheriff and one other deputy, but that was like 30 years ago and they still want to keep the same budget, not realizing how much the climate has changed towards law enforcement stuff. They want us to work with three deputies covering 835 square miles working 24 7, getting burned out. And there's agencies that still work that way. Not everybody's NYPD, not everybody's LAPD, not all these places have the funding like this and it's gonna be an ongoing battle. There's a lot of counties in our state. It's the same thing. We're fighting for it.

Speaker 1: 38:46

We fight every day just to freakin get by. There's sometimes that we have to sit at the office because we can't afford gas. We have to save the fuel for the days that we get calls, and so there's a lot of having to sit around the office and it and it's. It kills me because some people like what? You aren't doing anything, we can't. We can't where are? We are hurting. If a vehicle goes down, that's money we have to use to get to, to get it going, but then With our fuel cost, I mean everything. And then everyone thinks, oh, cops, have all this money. We don't all have that money. We don't all have bear cats, we don't all have all these crazy things.

Speaker 1: 39:25

We apply for grants. Sometimes we get them. We applied for a grant for new computers because our computers are way out of date and they're slow. So when you're typing a report sometimes it'll lock up and yet they'll redo the whole report and it sucks. It really does. When you're Into this long-ass narrative and your computer just shuts down and you'd lose everything. It sucks. There's ways around it, but there's. Sometimes you forget to hit save and then it just it sucks. So we applied for a grant. The grant was for ten thousand dollars. We got awarded twenty nine hundred dollars.

Speaker 1: 39:57

I don't know if you know how much computers are nowadays, but we might be able to get two or three computers and there's so many things that you need specialty things for that. We can't do and that's why there's all these specialized agencies, like our state has the state investigations, the DA's office. They have their own investigators, it you know. Then you have iCAC, which is internet crimes against children, which is catching all your pedophiles and all that stuff. But to do that you have to have a separate computer and you have to have a computer that's not attached to the internet, then you have to have that computer Just for looking at certain photos or you can get criminal charges. Has been a cop for looking at things such as child you figured out and there's so much to it and there's amount of training you have to do and that training takes it's a lot of time and a lot of Money. And then people want us to work these cases, which they should. They should want us to work these cases, but we don't even have the budget to afford the equipment to work these cases. And that's the truth about law enforcement majority around the the United States, so that we have to rely on our state investigators, which are good but they're not going to give their whole heart the way that the local people are.

Speaker 1: 41:16

Your bigger Interest. Have the money for that stuff and I Sell this defund. I might, bro, we are already scraping by. We shouldn't be on shifts where there's only one deputy are. Right now I got a phone call because there's one deputy out and that's he's by himself until the next one comes in at three and we're actually going to have one because one of our deputies is on light duty and he's the should be the three o'clocker, so he's on the shift alone till six and that's why I'm on call in case he gets anything that's hinky, that I can jump in the car and go, or if there's anything like you see on TV murders, stuff like that it's not all Murders and stuff, but I'm not going to let him go to a domestic by himself if he doesn't have to. So I have to go and help him on that. And that's the truth of law enforcement and People don't see that. They only see certain aspects. They don't see that point, you know. And then you have some other cool agencies like the marshals, which is really cool.

Speaker 1: 42:15

I was working one one case With the town, the town that has been struggling with law enforcement for a long time. So then what happens is the mayor and the police chief getting an argument and then they lose their police department. So then the sheriff's office covers the town as well as a whole county and it's a lot. It is a lot what this time the PD had like two officers and they got in pursuit on foot at someone and they got shot at, and then a female driver tried to run them over while she's trying to go save her little boyfriend. Well, we find out where she's at. We got charges filed on her, so we got the marshals called. Everybody got called just because we know that They've already fired on law enforcement. Who knows what else we're gonna do. So so we're sitting there and I Always make jokes that I'm a I'm a perimeter expert because, being local law enforcement, you get put on perimeter.

Speaker 1: 43:14

They put you on perimeter and you I called a perimeter bitch. I'm gonna start training the class on how to be a perimeter bitch because I've got it down to an art. So I'm sitting there in perimeter stopping people. But I'm right there by the front and and they go into the house they can't find anybody. But they notice the crawl space, the, the hatch to the crawl space underneath the house. There's an opening in the closet. Well, they lift it up and there is a mountain dew can In this crawl space and it's got condensation. So you know that this thing has just gotten there.

Speaker 1: 43:46

So they start shooting tear gas down there, thinking, okay, whoever comes, someone's gonna come out. So then they start shooting OC spray and, okay, oc grenades down there. Nobody comes out. So then they said, fuck it. And they start cutting holes on the floor on the other side of the house and start Going CS gas and these, these cops are all decked out with gas mask and they're still coming out snorting and crying and all that stuff and then finally, like some Damn terrible zombie movie, this chick reaches up through the hole Screaming that she can't breathe. Well, no shit, no shit, you can't. So they put cuffs on her. Then they bring her to me. Thank you, thank you, guys, for bringing me that shit covered in that stuff. I asked her is like what was it like down there? Good Lord, she goes. It was crazy. I could see the just gas moving towards me. It looked like a cloud that was about to take me over and it did and I had to get out.

Speaker 1: 44:35

But the funny thing about it was I used to work in another agency in another state and I'm sitting there doing perimeter bitch on this call and this dude comes over, just decked out, like you can't see his face, he's got a mask on, helmet on and stuff. He comes right up to me and, like you never know how some of those Marshall dudes, they're just, they know their God's gift to women and the world and he comes over to me and he, he just looks at me. He's like hey, what are you doing? I was like I don't know. What do you mean? What am I doing? What do you just look like I'm doing fucking non perimeter dude, what do you mean, what am I doing? He's like what are you doing? I go, dude, I'm on fuck perimeter. I don't know what you want from me. I know you're badass. You got us gear. So he slowly takes his gear off. It's like let's get more dude. I don't know what this dude thinks I'm about. Well then, finally, he gets all the gear off, and it was actually a cop. There's an agency I was at in Alabama and it he now works for the Marshalls is a cool deal, though, because now I'm back on my state way away and then he comes up, is like hey man, I was like holy shit, I thought you're gonna be some dickhead or something, but it was kind of funny, just kind of breaking down some of the stuff we've been talking for about 46 minutes. I think that's a good place to kind of Put an end to this. Yeah, plus, I got some stuff I got to do, hopefully taking out for the babies. Get here, guys. Hopefully you have a wonderful week.

Speaker 1: 46:04

I appreciate you guys so much. If you have any more questions, please reach out, ask me questions. I love to answer these things and I'll answer them to the best of my ability. No other person will tell you lose how much I get in sales taxion. This is how much I get. I'm gonna be honest. I'm gonna try to give as much I can without Overstepping in my area and getting people pissed off and like calling them. You know I'm not gonna start that, but I'll tell you the most I can, without really starting anything, to all the patrons on my patreon.

Speaker 1: 46:31

I appreciate it and if you guys could go check out the patreon, I think like five is the lowest one. We have private chats on there. You get extra stuff on there and then so everyone. Thank you Matthew, thank you Connor, thank you Kylie, thank you Pebbles, mommy, trauma diva, lady buckeye, everybody that that helps us on the patreon. It helps build our channels and everything. I appreciate you guys so much, everybody that comes to the lives daily. Thank you guys so much. You give me the inspiration to keep pushing because there's days I don't want to you deal with that chick talking about my oath and stuff and it's just not fun. I don't want to deal with it, but it is what it is much loved everybody. Guys, thank you for all the continued support and we'll see you on the next one or in the next live. Let's make this a good week. It's Thanksgiving, guys. Enjoy your holiday week. Everybody, stay safe.