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Crime + Punishment
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Amidst a landmark class-action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Emmy® Award winner CRIME + PUNISHMENT chronicles the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. A highly intimate and cinematic experience with unprecedented access, CRIME +PUNISHMENT examines the United States' most powerful police department through the brave efforts of a group of active-duty officers and one unforgettable private investigator who risk their careers and safety to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York City for decades.
Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) | Reviewed by Carolyn Klotzbach-Russell, Social Sciences Librarian and Government Information Librarian, University at Buffalo Libraries
"Crime + Punishment is a powerful documentary that takes the viewer from an intimate cafe conversation to a Rikers’ cells. It is highly recommended for study in Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Urban Studies."
Video Librarian ★★★
F. Swietek
"Presenting a strong critique of profit-based malfeasance within the NYPD, this is recommended."
New York Times | A.O. Scott
"Crime + Punishment advances a thorough critique of American law enforcement not by generalizing or speechifying, but by digging into particular lives and circumstances, allowing affected individuals to speak for themselves."
The Village Voice | Alan Scherstuhl
"Sensitive portraiture and vigorous investigative reporting, Crime + Punishment tracks the struggle of minority police officers within the NYPD to reshape the culture of law enforcement itself. Maing’s film also proves arresting in its compositions, its moody, city-spanning drone photography, its occasional playful looseness. But its power rises from the courage of its subjects, men and women who don’t necessarily want to be fighting the system — they’re eager to be out there in their city, policing the way they consider just."
Film Comment | Eric Hynes
"It’s a real achievement, this film. Gorgeously composed...Vital, necessary and groundbreaking. It’s a significant work of investigative journalism."
Paste Magazine | Andy Crump
"One of 2018’s essential documentaries. Maing’s talent is undeniable. It’s grasp of the daring and the bravery, of its subjects makes it a document that will endure for years to come."
Collider | Matt Goldberg
"Maing's terrific documentary... with the help of his brave subjects and the damning evidence they collect, breaks down how racist outcomes are the result of tribalism, bureaucracy, and money.
American Cinematographer | Pat Thomson
"That was fantastic. It should be required viewing for all New Yorkers! SO important, and really beautifully made as well."
Citation
Main credits
Maing, Stephen (film director)
Maing, Stephen (film producer)
Maing, Stephen (editor of moving image work)
Maing, Stephen (director of photography)
Metzgar, Eric Daniel (editor of moving image work)
Metzgar, Eric Daniel (film producer)
Poitras, Laura (film producer)
Tuttle, Ross (film producer)
Other credits
Music by Brendon Anderegg and Andrew Lafkas, edited by Eric Daniel Metzgar and Stephen Maing, cinematography by Stephen Maing, Executive Producer Laura Poitras.
Distributor subjects
Criminal Justice; Sociology; Urban Studies; Ethnic Studies; American StudiesKeywords
CRIME + PUNISHMENT
DIALOGUE CONTINUITY/action SCRIPT
SCENE DESCRIPTION |
TIME CODE |
DIALOGUE |
Shot of the New York city
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Hey Steve. |
01:00:00 |
[TRANQUIL MUSICAL TONES] |
SUBTITLE
FILMMAKER: Hey Sandy, what's the latest? |
01:00:13 |
[DESOLATE WIND BLOWING] |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Oh, man. |
01:00:34 |
[PHONE THRILLING] |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: They're retaliating against me because of my numbers. |
01:00:47 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] Hey, Steve. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Commanding officers do it to bring your numbers up, but |
01:00:49 |
FILMMAKER: [ON PHONE] Hey Sandy, what's the latest? |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: I would have to massively write summonses. |
01:00:51 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] Oh, man. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: and arrest people to come up with the number |
01:00:52 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] They're retaliating against me because of my numbers. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: close to the number that they want to come up with. You know… |
01:00:56 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] Commanding officers do it to bring your numbers up, but |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: The goal. |
01:00:59 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] …I would have to massively write summonses. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: So I'm going to investigate who made the decision and why. |
01:01:02 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] …and arrest people to come up with the number… |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: I don't know. To hell with this. |
01:01:06 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] …close to the number that they want to come up with. You know so the… |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: It's crazy. |
01:01:11 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] The goal. |
FILMMAKER: Sandy, can I come down there are film it? |
01:01:13 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] So I'm going to investigate who made the decision and why. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: All you want. |
01:01:16 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] I don't know. To hell with this. |
Shots of graduating class waiting to march |
01:01:18 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] It's crazy. |
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01:01:22 |
FILMMAKER: [ON PHONE] Sandy, can I come down there are film it? |
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01:01:25 |
OFC. GONZALES: [ON PHONE] All you want. |
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01:01:33 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
The graduating class marches forward into the stadium |
01:01:54 |
[APPLAUSE] |
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01:01:57 |
[MUSIC] |
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01:02:07 |
MAN Thank you. Graduating class, forward march! |
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01:02:11 |
["NEW YORK, NEW YORK" PLAYING] |
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01:02:14 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
Commissioner Bratton walks in the podium and delivers his speech |
01:02:26 |
SINGER Start spreading the news. I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York, New York. These vagabond shoes. Are longing to stray. |
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01:02:48 |
[APPLAUSE] |
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01:02:56 |
MAN And thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's now my pleasure and personal pride to introduce the police commissioner of the city of New York, the Honorable William J. Bratton. |
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01:03:04 |
[APPLAUSE] |
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01:03:10 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON Good morning and congratulations to you and to your families. Over the last 24 years, and most of you were still too young to remember the devastation of the '80s and '90s, this city reclaimed its streets. It reclaimed its neighborhoods and its parks, and we, the police, were the integral and essential element in doing that. Well, the new mission for the New York City Police Department is going to be quite simply to save the children of this city. There are too many young men in this city carrying guns who have been drawn into the crews and into the gangs, and we need to prevent that from happening. |
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01:03:53 |
MAN Raise your right hand and repeat after me. "I do hereby pledge to defend…" |
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01:03:58 |
ALL I do hereby pledge to defend… |
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01:04:00 |
MAN "To promote the constitution of the United States… |
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01:04:03 |
ALL To promote the constitution of the United States… |
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01:04:05 |
MAN "…as a police officer…" |
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01:04:06 |
ALL …as a police officer… |
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01:04:08 |
MAN "…in the New York City Police Department…" |
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01:04:10 |
ALL …in the New York City Police Department… |
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01:04:12 |
MAN "…to the best of my ability…" |
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01:04:14 |
ALL …to the best of my ability… |
The graduates toast their caps to the air |
01:04:15 |
MAN "…so help me, God." |
Shot of the city of South Bronx in winter |
01:04:17 |
ALL …so help me, God. |
Officer Gonzales dressing up facing the mirror |
01:04:18 |
MAN Congratulations. Ready, throw. |
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01:04:19 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
Officer Gonzales is on the phone on the side of the street |
01:05:03 |
[WIND BLOWING] |
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01:05:08 |
[DISTANT SIRENS WAILING] |
Various shots of the city's streets |
01:05:51 |
[SPACEY SYNTH MUSIC] |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: Sandy, that's you for the year. Forty-six A's, twelve B's and sixteen C's [summonses]. |
01:05:54 |
OFC. GONZALES Hello? Hey, son, listen. I'm gonna find, uh, uh, the place, okay? I don't know. Let me--let me do what I gotta do now. I got this, uh--got--I really got to do this. Okay. Talk to you later. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: That's your activity for the year. |
01:06:16 |
[SIREN WAILING] |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: Let me explain to you. Listen, Sandy, I have nothing against you. I really don't. |
01:06:20 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: But you need to catch up with everybody else. |
01:06:25 |
LT. HATKI Sandy, that's you for the year. Forty-six A's, twelve B's and sixteen C's. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: Did you realize you have the worst activity in the platoon? |
01:06:31 |
LT. HATKI That's your activity for the year. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: You should be getting a color [arrest] a month. |
01:06:33 |
LT. HATKI Let me explain to you. Listen, Sandy, I have nothing against you. I really don't. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: You should be doing more than that, but I'm alright with one a month. |
01:06:36 |
LT. HATKI But you need to catch up with everybody else. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: You understand what I'm saying? |
01:06:39 |
LT. HATKI Did you realize you have the worst activity in the platoon? |
SUBTITLE:
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: When I go out there, I don't go out with a number in my mind. |
01:06:42 |
LT. HATKI You should be getting a color a month. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: I'm not saying that, I'm not asking you to, but what I'm saying is that how can you not see something? |
01:06:43 |
LT. HATKI You should be doing more than that, but I'm all right with one a month. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: As soon as you get in your car and drive away, by the time you get to the corner there's at least one person did something wrong in front of you. |
01:06:48 |
LT. HATKI You understand what I'm saying? |
SUBTITLE:
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: My understanding is that, reasonable… |
01:06:50 |
OFC. GONZALES When I go out there, I don't go out with a number in my mind. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: What I'm trying to explain, Sandy, and you're not hearing, you've got to listen. You've got to look around you. |
01:06:56 |
LT. HATKI I'm not saying that, I'm not asking you to, but what I'm saying is that how can you not see something? |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: Everybody else around you is moving a lot faster than you. |
01:07:01 |
LT. HATKI As soon as you get in your car and drive away, by the time you get to the corner there's at least one person did something wrong in front of you. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: You need to catch up with everybody. |
01:07:09 |
OFC. GONZALES My understanding is that, reasonable… |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HATKI: Or you can continue to fight it. Whichever way you want to go with it. It's up to you. |
01:07:12 |
LT. HATKI What I'm trying to explain, Sandy, and you're not hearing, you've got to listen. You've got to look around you. |
SUBTITLE:
OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Okay. |
01:07:15 |
LT. HATKI Everybody else around you is moving a lot faster than you. |
Officer Gonzales is with Officer Polanco and Officer Serrano in a restaurant |
01:07:20 |
LT. HATKI You need to catch up with everybody. |
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01:07:21 |
LT. HATKI Or you can continue to fight it. Whichever way you want to go with it. It's up to you. |
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01:07:25 |
OFC. GONZALES Okay. |
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01:07:37 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
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01:07:43 |
OFC. SERRANO You've been going through some of the stuff that I've been going through, and he went through. I just want you to explain to Polanco here everything that's been going on. |
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01:07:52 |
OFC. GONZALES Just because, uh, I--I didn't bring the amount of summonses and arrests that they wanted me to bring to, uh--to the precinct, uh, I've been punished and retaliated against. |
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01:08:11 |
OFC. POLANCO And you thought that after all I have been through, that after all he’s been through, that after all this shit that we’ve been through, exposing Stop-and-Frisk -- exposing their numbers machine, we thought that it was over, but they’re still doing the same shit. That's the same, like, uh… |
Officer Gonzales nods |
01:08:29 |
OFC. SERRANO But it's worse, because you came out, right? First, it was Schoolcraft. They buried his story. You came out. They bury your story. I--I went to, um, federal court, and then they buried my story. |
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01:08:41 |
OFC. POLANCO We know what was going on out there, and we know what's hurting cops, and we know the morale of cops is very low. Everybody that you meet--everybody's, "Fuck this job, fuck this fucking job. Fuck this fucking job." |
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01:08:54 |
OFC. GONZALES Yes. |
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01:08:54 |
OFC. POLANCO That's our morale. That's what--that's how everybody feel. |
Officer Gonzales shakes his head |
01:08:57 |
OFC. GONZALES Yeah. |
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01:08:57 |
OFC. SERRANO I've heard the lieutenant give him a quota. I've heard the sergeant threaten him if he didn't follow the quota. If nothing works, then we're gonna have--eventually have to sue. If--if they give us no recourse, we're gonna have to sue, and--and make--we have to make some change. |
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01:09:18 |
OFC. POLANCO I feel like we have to tell you this, because once you're out, you cannot go back. |
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01:09:22 |
OFC. GONZALES No. |
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01:09:22 |
OFC. POLANCO No. They'll eat you alive. |
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01:09:24 |
OFC. SERRANO Can't go back. |
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01:09:25 |
OFC. POLANCO And they're not your friends. |
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01:09:25 |
OFC. SERRANO We're strong as a unit… |
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01:09:27 |
OFC. POLANCO They're not your friends. |
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01:09:28 |
OFC. SERRANO But individually, we have to be strong, too. |
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01:09:30 |
OFC. POLANCO They are not your friends. |
Manuel is in his room ironing his clothes |
01:09:31 |
OFC. SERRANO And we also, uh, we rely on each other. Something bad happens to you, you call me, you call him, before you lash out at anybody. Do not trust anybody else. |
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01:09:40 |
OFC. POLANCO Nope. |
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01:09:41 |
OFC. SERRANO They're gonna come after you in many ways. You gotta be prepared. |
Manuel is on the phone with Brady.
SUBTITLE
Hello? |
01:10:04 |
[CELL PHONE RINGS] |
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01:10:11 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Investigator Gomez. Can I help you? |
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01:10:13 |
AUTOMATED VOICE An inmate at New York City Department of Corrections is calling, subject to recording and monitoring. |
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01:10:20 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] Hello? |
SUBTITLE
Yes. |
01:10:20 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Yeah, how you doing? This is, um, Investigator Gomez. Who's this? |
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01:10:23 |
BRADY Brady Robinson? |
SUBTITLE
I was wondering what's your prices with the private investigators? |
01:10:24 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Bandy Robinson? |
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01:10:26 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] Yes. |
SUBTITLE
Um, I have an attempted murder case and I would like to know what y'all think. |
01:10:26 |
MANUEL "MANNY" What can I do for you, sir? |
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01:10:28 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] um, I was wondering what's your prices with the private investigators? |
SUBTITLE
Attempt murder. |
01:10:33 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Okay, well, what kind of case do you have? |
SUBTITLE
The thing they say I did…I was never there. |
01:10:36 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] Um, I have--I have an attempted murder case and I would like to know what y'all think. |
SUBTITLE
I was never there at all. |
01:10:41 |
MANUEL "MANNY" A murder case? |
SUBTITLE
At that time, I was all the way across town. |
01:10:43 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] Attempt murder. |
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01:10:45 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] The thing they say I did, I was never there. |
SUBTITLE
I'm in Rikers at the moment. |
01:10:47 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] I was never there at all. |
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01:10:48 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] At that time, I was all the way across town. |
SUBTITLE
I'm innocent. I'm innocent |
01:10:50 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Where are you located? Rikers, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, where? |
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01:10:53 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] I'm in Rikers at the moment. |
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01:10:55 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I want you to call your mom, sister, whoever it is, and let them know that private investigator Manuel Gomez is going to be taking your case if you innocent, but do not waste your family's money if you're not. Okay? |
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01:11:11 |
BRADY [ON PHONE] I'm innocent. I'm innocent |
Manuel enters a pastry store |
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MANUEL "MANNY" All right, then, well, if you're innocent, I will get you out and free. I'm gonna go there and see you. I need you to have all your paperwork ready. I need to write down a list of people, witnesses, so I can start my investigation. Okay. I'ma let you know now, I'm gonna see--I'm gonna see you… |
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01:11:28 |
AUTOMATED VOICE …Securus. Goodbye. |
SUBTITLE
A lobster tail? |
01:11:29 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Damn it. Jesus Christ. All right. Hold on a second. |
Manuel walks into the parking lot with bags of pastry |
01:11:33 |
[TELEVISION AD PLAYING] |
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01:11:38 |
MANUEL "MANNY" This is the best. We're best in New York. Can I get, uh, uh, two of these, and, uh… |
Manuel hands the filmmaker a bag of pastry |
01:11:47 |
STORE ATTENDANT A lobster tail? |
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MANUEL "MANNY" And it's free, though. I'm breaking his cherry. He's never had a lobster tail. [LAUGHS] Now this--this is emotional. But this, you gotta try outside the car, 'cause we're gonna get it all over the place. |
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01:12:01 |
FILMMAKER All right. |
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01:12:02 |
MANUE L "MANNY" [LAUGHS] Here. |
Manual gets the camera from the filmmaker and films the filmmaker |
01:12:03 |
FILMMAKER Thank you. |
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01:12:05 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I'll trade off with you. |
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01:12:07 |
FILMMAKER What, you're gonna shoot? |
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MANUEL "MANNY" Uh-huh. I'll shoot you. Right, try that. |
Manuel is driving his car |
01:12:10 |
FILMMAKER You're gonna shoot me trying the lobster tail? |
Manuel steps out of his car |
01:12:11 |
MANUEL "MANNY" [LAUGHS] |
Manuel approaches bystanders on the sidewalk |
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FILMMAKER Oh, my God. That is a lot of pastry. |
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MANUEL "MANNY" No, no, no, no, no. Not from there. You gotta crack it down--there's a way to eat it. Been a private investigator now for about 3 1/2 years. Um, I was, before that, I was a military intelligence officer for the Army. I've been on numerous missions with the, uh, United States Marshals hunting fugitives, worked for the Department of State for the US embassy in Kabul, protecting--help protecting the US ambassador. I used to also be a cop. Uh, when I was a police officer, I saw a lot, but the police department--they want you to be a kind of cop that keeps his mouth shut and doesn't say anything, and I refused to do that, so I was forced off the job in 2011, and I decided to do what I do best, which is investigate crimes. |
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01:13:09 |
[DESOLATE MUSIC] |
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MANUEL "MANNY" Sorry to bother you. I'm not a molester. I'm investigator Manuel Gomez. I'm a private investigator. I'm out here, looking at some cops from 4-2 that have been harassing people, so if you guys have anybody, any of your brothers have any problem, day or night. So what's your first name? |
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01:13:46 |
TOMARLEY Tomarley. |
The man is reacting to Manuel how police officers harass him |
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MANUEL "MANNY" I'm private investigator Manuel Gomez. |
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TOMARLEY All right, nice to meet you. |
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MANUEL "MANNY" So go ahead. So what happened to you? |
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MAN I was working out, and they grabbed me like this. Then, when they put the handcuffs on me, they walking me to the car and they, like--I'm like, "What am I being charged for?" I was asking the whole time. When I got to see my lawyer, my lawyer told me I was getting charged with criminal possession of a weapon. |
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01:14:05 |
MANUEL "MANNY" But there was no weapon. |
Manuel is walking into Shaheen's apartment. |
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MAN There was no weapon. They just told my mom to come get me. I'm 17. |
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01:14:10 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Okay. And this got dismissed? |
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01:14:12 |
MAN Yeah, I have no criminal records. |
Shaheen hides himself behind his room from the camera |
01:14:14 |
[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY] |
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01:14:19 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Hey, how are you? |
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01:14:20 |
SHAHEEN Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, who's that? |
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01:14:21 |
MANUEL "MANNY" No, no, no. I'm--he's filming me… |
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01:14:25 |
SHAHEEN You trouble? |
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01:14:26 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Hold on. Let me finish. I'm not that ugly. I'm not that ugly. |
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01:14:29 |
SHAHEEN I see a camcorder and… |
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01:14:30 |
MANUEL "MANNY" No, no, no. He's filming me because I'm--I'm doing--I'm doing an investigation. What's your first name? |
Shaheen steps out from hiding from the camera |
01:14:36 |
SHAHEEN Shaheen. |
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01:14:37 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Shaheen what? |
Manuel interview Shaheen |
01:14:37 |
SHAHEEN Micardo. |
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01:14:38 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Micardo. What's up? All right. Come on in the way. I don't bite, man. Get this shit off, man. Sit down with me. What's wrong with you? Here, hold on a second. |
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01:14:47 |
PRODUCTION CREW I'm so sorry… |
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MANUEL "MANNY" Listen. No, don't worry about it. Don't be sorry. I'm not that ugly. Listen, here's the deal. We're putting a--a major lawsuit against the department for violating the state law on quotas. So what I want to know is, how many arrests do you have that were dismissed? |
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01:15:04 |
SHAHEEN All, all of them. Every one that I got arrested for. I never got arrested for no… |
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01:15:09 |
MANUEL "MANNY" And they were all dismissed? |
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01:15:10 |
SHAHEEN All of them got dismissed. |
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01:15:11 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Okay, how many, would you say? |
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01:15:13 |
SHAHEEN Shit, I don't… |
Shaheen nods |
01:15:13 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Five? Four? Six? |
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01:15:15 |
SHAHEEN More than five. Like, more than five. |
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01:15:16 |
MANUEL "MANNY" What, seven? |
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01:15:17 |
SHAHEEN Yeah, probably around that. Like, seven, five. |
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01:15:19 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Seven times. I want you to go in the courthouse. Bring your ID. And you're gonna get all the cases that says, "Dismissed." |
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01:15:26 |
SHAHEEN All right. |
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01:15:26 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Okay? And you're gonna bring them to me, you're gonna call me up and says, "Manuel, I've got my cases." All right? |
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01:15:32 |
SHAHEEN All right. |
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01:15:33 |
MANUEL "MANNY" And then, I'm gonna file a lawsuit for all those false arrests. All right, I want you to do me a solid. I want you to go home to your mom and I want you to go in there and tell her that I'm gonna be your man now. All right? You gonna be my step-son. |
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01:15:46 |
SHAHEEN [LAUGHS] That dude is crazy. |
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01:15:47 |
MANUEL "MANNY" All right? All right? I am crazy. I'm crazy, but I'm good. You got a problem getting paid? You got a problem getting justice? |
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01:15:51 |
[MELANCHOLY STRING MUSIC] |
Manuel is driving his car talking to the camera |
01:15:54 |
SHAHEEN Not at all, no. |
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01:15:55 |
MANUEL "MANNY" All right. So you're gonna join the family? |
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01:15:57 |
SHAHEEN You know that. |
Commissioner Bratton is greeting people in the hallway on his way to the conference room |
01:16:04 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I could be here all night long meeting people like that kid, Mr. Micardo, without a doubt. Without a doubt. But I mean, come on. The guy was arrested seven times. All the arrests were dismissed. What does that tell you? You're taking days out of this kid's life, fingerprinting him, and you're doing this to the point where eventually, you're gonna get something to stick against the wall, because the--the judge is going to say, "Oh, my God, why does he have so many arrests?" Not that, "Oh, my God, he has so many arrests "because the cops are harassing him, and that--that they were dismissed." No, they don't see that. This is what kills me. I mean, it--it's blatant. The evidence is clear as day, and they don't do anything about it. And it's disgusting. It really is. |
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01:16:56 |
MAN Hello, hello. |
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WOMAN Hello. |
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MAN Excuse me. Detective Utone, my driver. |
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01:17:00 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON How are you? |
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01:17:01 |
POLICE OFFICER Commissioner also inside are two of the community partners |
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01:17:03 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON Okay, good. |
Commissioner Bratton enters the conference room |
01:17:04 |
POLICE OFFICER You see them right in the front. |
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01:17:05 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON And do we have the-- is this just the, uh, new officers, or do you have |
Commissioner Bratton walks into the podium |
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POLICE OFFICER Some of the training officers. Not all of them, but some of them are in the front row. |
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01:17:12 |
MAN Attention! |
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01:17:17 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON At ease, police. |
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01:17:18 |
MAN As you were. Take seats. |
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01:17:26 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON Good afternoon. |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Hello, Steve? |
01:17:27 |
ALL Afternoon, sir. |
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FILMMAKER: Hey, Sandy. What's going on? |
01:17:28 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON The admonition I bring to you is "be cops." Be what cops are supposed to be. Honest. With pride, with commitment. You cannot break the law to enforce the law. And there may be temptations. You're gonna deal, unfortunately--as many great people as there are out there--you're gonna meet a lot of great people. There's also some very bad people out there, and you're gonna want to get them. You're gonna want to arrest them. You're gonna want to put them in jail You want to get them out of these neighborhoods and put them in prison, 'cause some of them just are never gonna change. They are criminals, and that's unfortunate, but that's the reality. The crises that we now have is, "Can the NYPD continue to make the city even safer, but in doing it, continue to improve relationships, particularly, now, in neighborhoods that still have too much crime, by policing in a constitutional way, a respectful way, and a consistent way, and with integrity?" Let me emphasize that term "integrity." |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Oh man, these people. |
01:18:36 |
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING] |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: They took me off my sector car |
01:18:44 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] Hello, Steve? |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: and put me on a footpost where nothing is going on.
Officer Gonzales is on the street pacing back and forth |
01:18:46 |
FILMMAKER [ON PHONE] Hey, Sandy. What's going on? |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: Even if something happens in the area, I'm not allowed to move from there until the end of my tour. |
01:18:48 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] Oh man, these people. |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: It's like being treated like a child, you know when you put a child in a time out |
01:18:50 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] They took me off my sector car… |
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OFFICER SANDY GONZALES: for other cops to learn from my example.
Officer Gonzales is talking to the camera with the filmmaker hiding in his vehicle |
01:18:53 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] …and put me on a footpost where nothing is going on. |
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01:19:02 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] Even if something happens in the area, I'm not allowed to move from there until the end of my tour. |
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01:19:08 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] It's like being treated like a child, you know when you put a child in a time out… |
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01:19:13 |
OFC. GONZALES [ON PHONE] …for other cops to learn from my example. If you see--if you see a SUV, then I would say, really, put it down. |
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01:19:33 |
FILMMAKER Okay, cop's coming. |
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01:19:36 |
OFC. GONZALES You think they can see you from there? |
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01:19:38 |
FILMMAKER Yeah. |
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01:19:44 |
OFC. GONZALES I don't care, really. [LAUGHS] I don't give a shit, man. |
SUBTITLE
You alright? |
01:19:54 |
NEWS ANCHOR Cold and cloudy today in New York City now that our winter storm has exited, leaving behind some much cooler air, 31 degrees today. We're going to be feeling very chilly in the overnight hours. |
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01:20:08 |
MAN How you doing? |
SUBTITLE
My shop is over here. |
01:20:08 |
OFC. GONZALES Hey. |
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You're out here. I know what it is. |
01:20:09 |
MAN You all right? |
SUBTITLE
I am an "old sweat." |
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OFC. GONZALES Yeah, yeah. |
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01:20:11 |
MAN My shop is over here. |
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I was a cop.
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01:20:13 |
MAN You're out here. I know what it is. |
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01:20:15 |
MAN You know, I am an "old sweat." |
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OFC. GONZALES You know--you know what it is? What do you mean? |
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Florida. Tampa. |
01:20:20 |
MAN I was a cop. |
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OFC. GONZALES Oh, you were a cop? |
SUBTITLE
I know. |
01:20:22 |
MAN Where? Where? |
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MAN Florida. Tampa. |
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OFC. GONZALES Oh, yeah, this is doing something--they're doing retaliation on me. That's what it is. |
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01:20:28 |
MAN I know. |
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OFC. GONZALES Because, uh… |
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MAN You want to get a hot chocolate? I go get a hot chocolate, you go inside and drink it? |
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OFC. GONZALES I'll go later. I'll go later. The thing is, I have to, um, I have to go by--you know, these guys are watching me closely. Yeah. |
Officer Gonzales and the man turn to the car |
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MAN Somebody's there in the car, and they're watching you, too. |
The police car pulls over near to Officer Gonzales' post |
01:20:46 |
[FOREBODING MUSIC] |
The police officer on the car steps out then walk towards Officer Gonzales |
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OFC. GONZALES Huh? |
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MAN Sitting in the car over there. |
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[SIREN WAILS] |
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01:21:05 |
OFC. GONZALES What's up, boss? How you doing? |
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01:21:09 |
POLICE OFFICER What's going on? |
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01:21:15 |
OFC. GONZALES What's up, sarge? How you doing? |
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01:21:16 |
POLICE OFFICER How's it going? |
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01:21:16 |
OFC. GONZALES Not much. |
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01:21:19 |
POLICE OFFICER All right, you're--your hat--you're out of uniform. The hat. |
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01:21:23 |
OFC. GONZALES The hat? Why? |
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01:21:25 |
POLICE OFFICER It's not s--it's not supposed to--not expected to be below 32. |
The police officer nods |
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OFC. GONZALES Yeah, it was, uh--it was night--it was, uh, this morning. |
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01:21:34 |
POLICE OFFICER No, f-for the tour. For the tour, it's expected to be 38 degrees. |
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01:21:39 |
OFC. GONZALES 38 degrees? |
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01:21:40 |
POLICE OFFICER Correct. |
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01:21:42 |
OFC. GONZALES Oh, so I get a CD for this? |
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POLICE OFFICER I'm just saying, you're out of uniform, and I'm--I'm gonna put you in the book. Being out of uniform. |
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OFC. GONZALES All right, when I came out, it was, uh, below 32. |
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01:21:52 |
POLICE OFFICER Uh, it's expected to be 38 degrees today. |
The police officer walks back into his car |
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OFC. GONZALES It felt very, very cold. Right? |
The police officer drives off |
01:22:00 |
POLICE OFFICER It's not what it feels like. It's what it… |
Shots of blue lights flashing in the dark, Officer Gonzales is driving in his car |
01:22:01 |
OFC. GONZALES I-it's not? |
Anthony is giving instructions to the members of the Latino Officer Association |
01:22:02 |
POLICE OFFICER It's expected. |
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01:22:06 |
OFC. GONZALES All right. Take care. |
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01:22:22 |
[SOMBER MUSIC] |
Three men are shaking hands, Anthony is giving instructions to his men, Men stand up |
01:23:12 |
ANTHONY We are also holding a press conference tomorrow, which I'm encouraging each every one of you to make sure that you come out and participate. Visibility is going to be everything in this effort. We believe that there's enough in the 4-4 for us to be able to have some dramatic change take place in the police department. We have all these people that end up retiring and then claim how everything was unfair, and they had all the opportunity--the same opportunity we've taken while we're active on the job--to speak for these issues, and why these gentlemen are spoken on the issues that they can take advantage and step up and speak to the issue without being scared. Uh, and we had a class-action lawsuit that obviously represented that. We're hoping to pursue another class-action lawsuit that would probably be bigger than the first. On that note, please stand up and introduce yourself, and tell us about your current case. |
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POLICE OFFICER Before they tell you their story, I just want to put this into perspective. There's a quota law. It's no longer the bill. It's the quota law. That means that I, or no other…police supervisor, can go out and actually tell a particular police officer that you have to write 20, 30, 40 summonses. It's illegal. Okay? When you have supervisors and these officers will describe one, when you have supervisors that are using police officers as a revenue-producing agent for the city, then you're violating the quota law. So you guys, go ahead and introduce yourselves and speak. |
Officer Serrano introduces himself to everyone |
01:24:37 |
OFC. SERRANO I'm Officer Serrano, from--formerly from the four precinct in the Bronx. Um, South Bronx. And I work in, um, Heights. And my situation--there were many. I was told by the XO and the CO that I had to stop black people. These were his words. "You must stop black people between 14 to 21." I said no. We went at it, I got suspended, charges and specs, blah, blah, blah. |
Officer Baez stands in front of everyone |
01:25:03 |
OFC. BAEZ From the beginning, I saw how this job was, that it was not about helping people, not helping our community. It's about numbers. I always spoke my mind. Always said, "You know what? It's not about the numbers. It's about the quality. It's about helping people." That did not sit well with the brass in my precinct. They thought I was a rebel-rouser. |
Officer Polanco stands in front of everyone |
01:25:27 |
OFC. POLANCO We got people who got summons where they live. They got arrested where they live for trespassing. We have a bunch of those. |
Shot of New York City |
01:25:34 |
OFC. SERRANO Yes. We've all seen the guys playing dominos. Older gentlemen chilling on the side of the bodega, playing dominos, minding their fucking business. Excuse me. What do we do? It's the 29th. I have to hit them with C summons, because I was told, "Give a C summons, or else," and the two of them are in luck. That's not what I see, 'cause the bad guys aren't right there. I'm doing day tours right now. They're not out. The drug dealers are sleeping. So who am I targeting? These four gentlemen, and that's where the community--um, community problem arises. |
Title:
BETWEEN 2007 & 2015 THE NYPD ISSUED NEARLY 900,000 CRIMINAL SUMMONSES THAT WERE LATER DISMISSED FOR LACK OF PROBABLE CAUSE. MORE SUMMONSES THAN WHITES.
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A woman is at her window |
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[SIREN WAILING] |
Two men are staring at Antonio |
01:26:38 |
MAN Oh, that's Antonio. Look, the detective. We're got to go. See the detective? |
A man passes carrying a chair |
01:26:42 |
MAN Excuse me, guys. |
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01:26:44 |
MAN Look, and they coming up the block, too. They coming up the block. They looking at us. |
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01:26:58 |
MAN This is crazy. This is, like, that second, third patrol that went around already. Telling you, bro, we gotta move from here. |
Jessica is walking towards her apartment and opens it |
01:27:06 |
[KEYS JINGLING] |
Jessica is showing her apartment, Jessica shows the papers to the filmmaker |
01:27:20 |
JESSICA It's going to be a little hot and dusty, 'cause we haven't been staying here. This was my son's room, over here. Make sure. These are the main from the family here. That's my oldest, my youngest, that's Pedro, that's my other daughter. She just graduated high school. I didn't get to upgrade his picture, 'cause he's graduating in there now. He's not graduating outside. Some of these cops are so hungry for arrests, they will follow my kids home, come into my building, knock on the door. After that, I couldn't let my kids go through that, so because of that, I just left, from the morning to the night. I told my kids, "Pack luggage," and I took them out of here. Around here, me--me personally, I could tell you--there's multiple kids with the same pro--with the same, like this. They get arrested, they go, and there's not a shred of evidence, All they do is arrest them without no evidence, and then what the courts does--dismiss the case. This is all the dismissals. |
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01:28:32 |
FILMMAKER And for what? |
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01:28:32 |
JESSICA Attempt of murder. Charges dismissed. Reckless endangerment with a weapon, dismissed. Again, reckless endangerment with a weapon. They just declined prosecution. All this costs money. There's, like, a few more, and I gave them to the lawyer. |
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01:28:48 |
FILMMAKER All dismissed? |
Jessica nods |
01:28:49 |
JESSICA Yeah, all dismissed. Um…it came to the point, I hired this private investigator. I said, "I need somebody to speak for me. I need somebody to go to the district attorney's office, explain that every time they're arresting this kid, they messing up his life." |
Jessica is sitting on a sofa while watching video on her phone |
01:29:03 |
REPORTER For months, private investigator Manuel Gomez has pounded the pavement in this South Bronx neighborhood. |
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01:29:08 |
MANUEL Do you guys live in the area? That shooting happening on September 1st, who was shooting [SPEAKING SPANISH] |
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01:29:12 |
REPORTER So you've been all over here? |
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01:29:14 |
MANUEL All over here. |
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01:29:14 |
REPORTER Determined to prove that 16-year-old Pedro Pablo Hernandez didn't open fire with a gun during a street dispute here in September of last year. |
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01:29:23 |
MANUEL Five witnesses say that he didn't do the shooting. |
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01:29:25 |
REPORTER Hernandez, a high school student with no criminal record, has been on Rikers since July, his mother unable to post the $250,000 bond. |
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01:29:34 |
JESSICA My son is mentally devastated. He sometimes…he tells me he wants to die. |
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01:29:42 |
REPORTER Cops have arrested Hernandez several times, most of the cases dismissed thanks to alibi evidence obtained by PI Gomez and the Hernandez attorney… |
Shots of Rikers Island Jail, Pedro is staring outside through window cell, Shot of New York City |
01:29:45 |
[UNEASY MUSICAL TONE] |
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01:30:36 |
[SIRENS WAILING] |
Anthony is talking to the press |
01:30:59 |
ANTHONY This is a call for all New York City officers. This is the opportunity you have to now come forward and highlight the illegal quota system in the New York City Police Department. This is what the commanding officer wrote to officers who are on patrol, saying that if you don't give the summonses that generate money for the New York--for New York City--that these officers are going to be disciplined and punished. |
Emeka is talking to the press |
01:31:20 |
EMEKA This suit was filed on March 2nd in the southern district right here. Since then, we have had at least 30 New York City police officers who have come forward and told us that they suffer from the same conditions. Out of those 30, we have signed up eight additional plaintiffs who wish to be named, and more are still coming forward. Now, what--what is the point of the lawsuit? The system that police officers are forced to implement is driven by numbers. Ever since CompStat, it's all about numbers, Numbers--we're talking about enforcement activity, and the kind of impact that it has put on the police officers and the community. |
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01:32:05 |
[SOMBER MUSIC] |
Reporter is in the studio |
01:32:10 |
REPORTER The National Latino Officers' Association claims police officers are being evaluated on a quota system, even though that's against the law. According to the group, officers are mandated they make at least one arrest a month and hand out at least 25 summonses. |
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01:32:22 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
Anthony is giving instructions to his man, Sandy nods |
01:32:26 |
ANTHONY One second. All right, so what I'm telling you is make sure you tell the rest of the guys as well. Make sure you're wearing your best all the time. I said we've reached the point of no return because there's some people understand what we're doing, and some people are going to be scared about what we're doing. All right? So dot your I's, cross your T's. Treat it like a game for now, so you don't get upset. Don't go home angry about it. You have to mentally adjust to it. Okay? And you treat it like a game. You play baseball or whatever it is. You enjoy it You're g--they make a move, you make a move. You keep yourself balanced. You keep yourself balanced, they can't hurt you. |
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01:32:57 |
OFC. GONZALES Mm-hm. |
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ANTHONY Ever you think you need to talk to somebody, or it's not going the way you think it should, then we're a phone call away. That's--that's the point--why we do what we do, because you're never alone in this process. Okay? |
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01:33:09 |
OFC. GONZALES Thank you. |
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01:33:10 |
OFC. RAYMOND Uh, it's best to… |
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01:33:12 |
JOHN Uh, call you guys, right? |
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01:33:14 |
EMEKA Yes. |
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01:33:14 |
OFC. RAYMOND What time or more for the next two days? What time? |
Emeka shakes his head |
01:33:16 |
EMEKA Any--anytime. |
Edwin nods |
01:33:17 |
OFC. RAYMOND Okay. |
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01:33:17 |
JOHN Anytime. |
Edwin is in his car |
01:33:18 |
OFC. RAYMOND And you guys are based in Manhattan? So right after the press conference wrapped up, I went over to the attorneys. I said, you know, "I'm a police officer, and I think I can add some ammunition to this case." |
Shot of Transit Police District 32 |
01:33:30 |
[DRUM MUSIC] |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER EDWIN RAYMOND: What's the issue with me? Just activity? Just quota?
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: Due to what your enforcement is, that's what it is. |
01:33:48 |
OFC. RAYMOND The commander felt that my numbers were too low. I basically wasn't meeting the quota, so the plan to sabotage my promotion was already being discussed. What's the issue with me? Just activity? Just quota? |
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01:34:13 |
SGT. CAMPBELL Due to what your enforcement is, that's what it is. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER EDWIN RAYMOND: But it has to be more because technically when it comes to numbers…
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: No. It not more. That's it. |
01:34:16 |
OFC. RAYMOND But it has to be more because technically when it comes to numbers… |
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01:34:19 |
SGT. CAMPBELL No. It not more. That's it. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER EDWIN RAYMOND: But when it comes to numbers, I'm not the lowest.
I'm still not the lowest. So why all this extra effort with me? |
01:34:21 |
OFC. RAYMOND: But when it comes to numbers, I'm not the lowest. I'm still not the lowest. So why all this extra effort with me? |
SUBTITLE
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: You really want me to tell you what I think it is?
OFFICER EDWIN RAYMOND: Of course, because I need to understand this.
Sergeant is on his phone |
01:34:31 |
SGT. CAMPBELL You really want me to tell you what I think it is? You really want me to tell you what I think it is? |
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OFC. RAYMOND Of course, because I need to understand this. |
SUBTITLE
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: You're a young black man with dreads. Very smart.
You have a loud…what do you call it?
A loud say. Meaning your words is loud. |
01:34:37 |
SGT. CAMPBELL: You're a young black man with dreads. Very smart. You have a loud--what do you call it? A loud say. Meaning your words is loud. |
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01:34:48 |
OFC. RAYMOND Okay. |
SUBTITLE
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: You understand what I'm saying by that?
OFFICER EDWIN RAYMOND: Yeah. |
01:34:48 |
SGT. CAMPBELL You understand what I'm saying by that? |
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01:34:50 |
OFC. RAYMOND Yeah. |
SUBTITLE
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: "Fuck this dude."
Those were their exact words. "Fuck this dude." |
01:34:51 |
SGT. CAMPBELL Fuck this dude. Those were their exact words. "Fuck this dude." |
Officer Raymond shakes his head, Officer Raymond is in an interview |
01:34:58 |
OFC. RAYMOND Yeah. I was like, "Wow." When he said that --I mean, I knew what it was, but, you know, for him to actually say it…
To be asked to participate in something that disenfranchises black folks even more--it's horrible. |
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01:35:17 |
[SIRENS WAILING] |
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01:35:17 |
[DESOLATE MUSIC] |
Manuel is on the street with some other men |
01:35:41 |
MANUEL So who they do--what they doing to you? |
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01:35:43 |
MAN I been here for two years, and they always stop me. Just--just when we walking, they stopping me. |
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01:35:48 |
MANUEL And they stop you and do what? |
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01:35:49 |
MAN Huh? |
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01:35:50 |
MANUEL And do what? |
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01:35:51 |
MAN Check me. |
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01:35:52 |
MAN Check out his nuts. |
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01:35:53 |
MAN Put me in the car for a few, and then just let me go. Or they just let me go. |
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01:35:57 |
MANUEL Nobody's allowed to violate your rights. Did you know this? So he's over here--do you know this? Did you know that nobody can come over here and frisk you and go like this and go in your pockets and start doing that? The next time one of them stop you, whoever it is, ah, see, if it's that one right there, you gonna let me know. I need you to take me to where it happened the night of the incident. |
Manuel and others are walking towards the incident scene |
01:36:18 |
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC] |
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01:36:20 |
MAN I'm right here and they got me up against the gate like that. So when they got me up against like that, I'm like--I'm telling them, like "Oh, we try--we tried to stop." Like, "What are you all arresting me for?" Like, "What's this for?" You know what I mean? |
The man points at the fire hydrant |
01:36:33 |
MAN They just pull up on me right here by the fire hydrant, hop off, jump out, "Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands."
I give them my hands. I'm coming up to them, I-I know they're police. I'm coming up to them. I ain't do nothing wrong, officers. I ain't do nothing wrong.
"Throw your hands up." Put my hands up. They were searching me so hard, take my jacket off, they picking at my pants.
I even took my belt off so my jeans could be loose and they could really feel everything on me. |
Clip of the illegal arrest, the police officer smacks the man |
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MAN I'm like, "Come on, stop grabbing me. "What y'all grabbing me for? "There's no reason for y'all to grab me.
"Y'all--y'all want a reason for me try to resist arrest with--trying to fight with y'all. I'm not gonna do that, 'cause I don't wanna get locked up."
So my mom's sitting there, watching, And that's when one of them smacked me--boom!
They slammed me into my leg. You know that.
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01:37:12 |
POLICE OFFICER All right. All right. |
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01:37:13 |
MAN Put my pants--pick up. |
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01:37:17 |
WOMAN Don't touch me, 'cause I'm pregnant. And take the light off my face. Take the light off my face. |
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01:37:22 |
MANUEL And all this got dismissed? |
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01:37:24 |
MAN All this got dismissed. |
The man is on his phone |
01:37:25 |
MANUEL All right. Now, what I want you to do is, you're gonna call and make a CCRB complaint. Yeah, this is the only way we're gonna put a stop to this. That's why you're making complaints against them. |
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01:37:34 |
AUTOMATED VOICE If you are the victim, say "self." |
Manuel is giving instructions to the man |
01:37:37 |
MANUEL Say "self." |
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01:37:38 |
MAN Self. [INDISTINCT] |
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01:37:41 |
MANUEL Slower. Louder. |
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01:37:42 |
AUTOMATED VOICE Please describe the officer's actions that you would like to file a complaint about. |
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01:37:46 |
MANUEL They frisked me and searched me |
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01:37:47 |
MAN Frisked me, searched me… |
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01:37:49 |
MANUEL And took my clothes off, naked. |
Manuel grabs the phone from the man |
01:37:49 |
MAN And took my clothes off, naked. |
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01:37:54 |
MANUEL I was falsely arrested by the police officer, and then they released me two hours later, after strip-searching me twice in the precinct. |
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01:38:03 |
[DIAL TONE] |
Manuel hands back the phone to the man, shot of the Criminal Court |
01:38:04 |
AUTOMATED VOICE Your complaint has been registered. Thank you for calling the Civilian Complaint Review Board. |
Shots of the people inside the Criminal Court |
01:38:18 |
POLICE OFFICER Uh, he's coming into… |
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01:38:20 |
POLICE OFFICER This is, uh, Hernandez? |
Pedro walks in with police escort |
01:38:22 |
POLICE OFFICER Yeah. |
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01:38:23 |
POLICE OFFICER Right here. |
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01:38:28 |
JUDGE Next is account number 12, Pedro Hernandez First case. |
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01:38:34 |
ATTORNEY Yeah, I know, just what I would like to put on the record. Um, you know, we went through great pains to--to find this week, which is a--a suitable week for defense as well as prosecution, to try this case.
I understand that the matter was adjourned from two days ago administrated by the court, till today.
I just don't see why the prosecution were not ready for trial.
Um, the last time it was adjourned was through the scheduling of the prosecution and the prosecuting attorney.
I just don't understand what their--the reason for the adjournment is this time. |
SUBTITLE
How old is your client? |
01:38:59 |
JUDGE How old is your client? |
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01:39:00 |
ATTORNEY My client's 17 years old now. |
SUBTITLE
Ok, and what kind of offers has he received? |
01:39:02 |
JUDGE Okay, and what kind of offers has he received? |
The attorney nods |
01:39:04 |
ATTORNEY There was an informal offer of a non-incarcatory um, plea with the youthful offender status that's been offered twice.
My client's rejected that both times. |
SUBTITLE
Is he still rejecting it? Because, uh…
That'll certainly get him out in time to go to school? |
01:39:12 |
JUDGE Is he still rejecting it? Because… that'll certainly get him out in time to go to school? |
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01:39:17 |
ATTORNEY He maintains he's innocent, Your Honor. |
SUBTITLE
He is charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
He's facing up to 15 years in state prison.
I just want him to understand that a trial is a risky operation.
And if he's not innocent,
then the likelihood is that there will be trial evidence that will be inculpatory. |
01:39:18 |
JUDGE Um, he is charged with criminal possession of a weapon. He's facing up to 15 years in state prison.
I just want him to understand that a trial is a risky operation.
And if he's not innocent, then the likelihood is that there will be trial evidence that will be inculpatory. |
The attorney nods |
01:39:39 |
ATTORNEY And I thank the court for addressing the issue, Your Honor, and I've--I've had extensive negotiations and discussions with him, concerning plea bargain offers, and he understands the risk involved in a trial, but it's his position to, um, reject those offers. |
SUBTITLE
I've said my piece. He can proceed as he will. |
01:39:52 |
JUDGE I've said my piece. He can proceed as he will. |
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01:39:57 |
[UNEASY MUSIC] |
Pedro leaves the courtroom |
01:39:59 |
POLICE OFFICER Number 12, step in. |
Shot of New York City, |
01:40:16 |
[BRIGHT MUSIC] |
Detective Waller and his wife are in their apartment, Detective Waller is scanning his files |
01:40:36 |
DET. WALLER And I pretty much keep everything. This was, a while back, put up in the, uh--in the precinct, you know, telling us, basically, we need X amount of cell phones, X amount of seat belts, X amount of double-parkers, X amount of bus stops. Ah, this one. So this is that. |
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01:41:05 |
FILMMAKER How do you justify taking stuff off, uh, the commander's desk? |
Detective Waller is on the street greeting people |
01:41:10 |
DET. WALLER Um, hey. [LAUGHS] When we say we're threatened or a boss said this, or there is quotas, nobody--nobody's going to believe you unless you have that physical proof. I had a sergeant tell basically everybody, "Your job as a police officer is to lock people up." But that's not my job, to lock people up. Our job is to keep the peace, to protect property, but a lot of officers, they really don't know that. I wish one of those chiefs from headquarters could watch me on a damn patrol. Watch. Out of--out of the eight hours I'm on patrol, I have at least 30 people come up and shake my hand. What's up, boss? How are things going, man? How are things going, man? |
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01:41:52 |
MAN Good to see you, man. |
Detective Waller is walking towards the store |
01:41:52 |
DET. WALLER Yeah. Wherever they put me, I'm going to talk to people. I'm going to be like, "Hello, what's going on?" Shake his hand, because that's the type of person I am, and that's the way all of us should be, but nobody sees this, because the last few years, officers have been trained to be different. A lot of times, new officers don't know how to talk to people. What's up, what's up, what's up? |
SUBTITLE
Yo, yo, yo. You ain't gotta shoot nobody. |
01:42:15 |
MAN Yo, yo, yo. You ain't gotta shoot nobody. This is why you won't do that. |
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01:42:21 |
DET. WALLER What's up, big man? Everything good? |
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01:42:23 |
MAN Yeah, they're playing with those fools. |
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01:42:24 |
DET. WALLER Big man, what's up, man? Everything good? |
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01:42:25 |
MAN Walk up in here, talking all that fucking shit. Fucking corny-ass fucking… |
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01:42:29 |
DET. WALLER You good, though? You good, big man? |
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01:42:30 |
MAN Very, very good. |
Detective Waller is sitting on his chair |
01:42:32 |
DET. WALLER We can either, like, beat them up and fight him and drag him and cuff him, or--or you could talk to him. Yo--yo, don't spend the dough in there no more, man. Don't spend the dough in there no more. |
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01:42:42 |
MAN But this way--this way, it's the whole point. I was fucking with a young boy. This fucking faggot right here come up in there, popping shit. |
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01:42:47 |
MAN Hey, hey, chill, chill. |
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01:42:49 |
DET. WALLER My man, my man, that--that's what's up, yo. Yo, don't spend your cheese here no more, man. That's it, man. You got all these other bodegas, man. Don't go in there no more, man. Don't spend your dough in that motherfucker no more, man. |
The man rides his bike then leaves |
01:42:58 |
MAN Always fucking bothering me, then he gonna… |
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01:43:01 |
DET. WALLER No, we good, man. We good. |
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01:43:02 |
MAN Then he wanna act like he gonna fight, so I come outside. He grabbed the weapons. He wanna fucking fight. |
Detective Waller walks back to his spot |
01:43:07 |
DET. WALLER It's done, man. It's done, it's done. A situation like that could've been turned into something crazy. I'm not saying every time you're gonna be able to talk somebody down, but I tell you, like, these new guys don't know how to handle a situation like that. They're so used to just fighting, beating up somebody, they don't know how to de-elevate anything. They don't know how to defuse it. |
The police officer grabs Eric |
01:43:29 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
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01:43:32 |
POLICE OFFICER Hold on. |
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01:43:33 |
ERIC Don't touch me, please. Do not touch me. Hey, look, man. |
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01:43:35 |
POLICE OFFICER Don't, don't don't… |
Shot of New York City |
01:43:39 |
[MOURNFUL MUSIC] |
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01:43:42 |
ERIC I can't breathe! I c--br--I can't breathe. |
Shot of Eric's funeral |
01:43:57 |
REPORTER Bill Bratton's leadership is under attack. The man accused of illegally selling cigarettes died as NYPD officers wrestled with him. Eric Garner's arrest, caught on video, led to protests. |
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01:44:10 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
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01:44:13 |
MAN We love you, Eric! |
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01:44:17 |
MAN I'm sorry. Claire, please let them out, please. Watch your back, sir. Please let the family out. |
Shots of people protesting |
01:44:36 |
CROWD [CHANTING] I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! |
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01:44:42 |
PROTESTER We could talk about Ferguson. We can talk about Florida. We can talk about Brooklyn. We can talk about Fruitvale Station, Oscar Grant. I mean, it's continuous. It just keeps going. It just keeps going. What do you want us to do? How long do you think you gonna keep the powder keg cap on? |
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01:44:59 |
MAN Die in! Die in! |
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01:45:02 |
ALL Die in! Die in! |
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01:45:05 |
CROWD [CHANTING] I can't breathe! I can't breathe! |
The news anchors and Commissioner Bratton are in the studio |
01:45:09 |
NEWS ANCHOR Commissioner, critics are blaming your broken windows policy. It's been hailed all around the world as successful, going after low-level crimes before big ones happen. Okay? So in this case, many people are upset, however, because they feel it's targeting communities of color. How do you respond to that? |
Shot of police in New York City |
01:45:26 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON We are not targeting communities of color. We are targeting behavior. Unfortunately, there are a number of neighborhoods in the city that still have the highest crime rates and that's been the case, unfortunately, 20, 30 years, even though crime in those neighborhoods is down 70 or 80 percent, so that's where I put a lot of extra police into those neighborhoods. They have thousands of extra police in those neighborhoods to keep the crime down. While they're there, they are seeing other offenses that they're going to act upon. |
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01:45:52 |
MAN Don't shoot! Don't shoot! |
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01:45:55 |
[CAR HORN HONKS] |
People are protesting in front of the police officers |
01:45:56 |
PROTESTER Black officers! Puerto Rican officers! Nobody likes you! Nobody! You all are hated. You are hated in New York. You are hated throughout the United States. This is anger. This is not ignorance. This is just anger. |
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01:46:16 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
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01:46:18 |
[MOURNFUL MUSIC] |
Officer Polanco and others are having a meeting |
01:46:37 |
OFC. POLANCO We have to see the way they talk about us behind our back, and we have to be very careful. |
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01:46:42 |
OFC. RAYMOND But we do have some support amongst cops. |
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01:46:43 |
OFC. POLANCO Yeah, a lot of support. The support that I have… |
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01:46:45 |
DET. WALLER Let Felicia--she was going to say a few words. |
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01:46:47 |
WOMAN Yeah, let Felicia speak. |
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01:46:48 |
OFC. WHITELY I'm not sure that any--everybody's connected the dots, but, um--so, um, Eric Garner--he--he got killed. It was a part of--because they were chasing for activity. |
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01:46:58 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
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01:46:59 |
OFC. WHITELY And that's the reason, the quotas. That's the reason why we're here. The guy in the Bronx, Graham, it's the same thing. They're chasing him because they're trying to get the activity. They're trying to get that quota. You know what I mean? They go--you go extra hard, not knowing--the 29th of the month, if you don't have your arrest, you're gonna do anything you have to do--not everybody, you know, but 50%. I would say 50% of the cops, they're--they don't want to suffer the consequences of not having that arrest, 'cause you're gonna suffer consequences, like we all are suffering consequences of not having those arrests, you know? |
Officer Polanco shakes his head |
01:47:33 |
OFC. POLANCO Being a police officer is not easy. The stuff that we see, the stuff that we deal with, is not--for one human being to see sometime, it's--it's bad. And then for somebody else to say that we're not working simply because we don't want to arrest the innocent and be labeled as lazy and all this…we need to redefine the word "working" as a police officer. |
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01:47:53 |
OFC. WHITELY I went to a jobs today, another domestic. A mother called the cops. A little girl--she didn't want to go to school. She had state tests. Well, she said, "I'm not going to school," so I said, I took her in her room, and I said, "You gotta go to school." Two other officers came in. They were assisting us. It was actually their job. And I said to myself, "I'm so happy I got here before them." |
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01:48:09 |
MAN Right. |
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01:48:10 |
OFC. WHITELY So I said to the mom, "I'm gonna take her to school." I took her to school, I talked to school safety about her, I talked to the principal, I--please excuse her for being late. She's not in trouble. I just brought her to school, I was talking to her, blah, blah, blah, and it made me feel good. You know what I mean? That--that I could do that and knowing that if I wasn't there, it would--her day would've went much different. |
Shot of people living in New York City, shots of children playing at a broken fire hydrant |
01:48:39 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
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01:48:43 |
CHILDREN [YELLING] |
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01:48:47 |
GIRL [SCREAMS] That is so wet! Yeah! |
Officer Whitely is on the street, a man is waiting outside for his date |
01:48:57 |
GIRL Oh, no. Right there with the blue shirt. |
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01:49:23 |
GIRL Coming. There's technical difficulties in there, so you're gonna have to, like, wait. |
Officer Whitely and others are helping her daughter dress up |
01:49:29 |
GIRL She's all--this is, like… |
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01:49:31 |
OFC. WHITELY Ma, she gonna have to take this off, right? |
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01:49:34 |
OFC. WHITELY'S DAUGHTER No, I can do it myself. |
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01:49:36 |
OFC. WHITELY How are you gonna do it? You cannot sew from the outside. |
Officer Whitely and others are taking a picture of Officer Whitely's daughter and a man |
01:49:39 |
OFC. WHITELY'S DAUGHTER I'm not taking it off. |
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01:49:43 |
WOMAN Wait, actually, I want to talk to him. I didn't get one. |
Officer Whitely pushes the breast of her daughter in |
01:49:45 |
OFC. WHITELY Hold on. Your breast is still out. I don't like it. |
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01:49:48 |
OFC. WHITELY'S DAUGHTER Oh, my God. What do you want me to do about it now? |
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01:49:49 |
OFC. WHITELY I don't like it. I can fix it. |
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01:49:58 |
OFC. WHITELY'S DAUGHTER All right, bye, guys. |
Officer Whitely is driving her car, Officer Whitely is talking to the camera |
01:50:00 |
OFC. WHITELY I'm gonna follow you. The neighbors are probably like, "What the hell's going on over there? Those black people." [LAUGHS] There's not many blacks over there. [LAUGHS] I'm just looking at all of the guys in the corner, and like, shaking my head. Like, "Oh, boy. What are they gonna think about me now?" Between my divorce and this job, I've just been--I'm tired of fighting. I don't know. Can't think about it. I can't worry about it. I'll get depressed, I'll start crying, I'll say, "It's not fair," and just, you know, what's the point of it all? It's only gonna make me look old. Oh, my gosh. Are these our friends? |
Families and friends are taking pictures of Ofc. Whitely's daughter and her friends |
01:50:53 |
OFC. WHITELY'S DAUGHTER Who went--who went down in the last picture? Me? |
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01:50:56 |
WOMAN Yeah. |
Shot of the party |
01:50:57 |
WOMAN Sit down! Gotta take a picture! |
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01:50:57 |
[MUSIC] |
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01:50:57 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
Edwin is driving his car, Edwin is talking to the camera |
01:51:03 |
OFC. RAYMOND Starting with the preteen years, a lot of my friends started emulating the behavior that they saw on the streets. First started with them smoking weed, and then, within a year of smoking weed, they were doing gunpoint robberies on Flatbush Avenue, and I was shocked when I realized that my friends were doing gunpoint robberies. I couldn't believe it. And they hadn't grown up as poor as I was. No, their mothers were struggling, but their mothers were working, their mothers made sure that they ate. I still used to walk around, dizzy from not eating. As much--as much as I loved the weekend as any kid would love the weekend, Saturday morning cartoons, no school. I also dreaded the weekends, because no school food, and that was--the majority of my calories came from school lunch. Um, it was tough. It was tough, coming up. |
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01:52:01 |
FILMMAKER How much of you is in this with a settlement in mind? |
Officer Raymond gets out of his car and walks toward the meeting place |
01:52:06 |
OFC. RAYMOND You can offer me all the money in the world. No settlement. This system has to change. With a settlement, the system continues, and I'm not for that, and I hope that others understand this. You know, some may join the class action because of what was done to them. I joined to change this. |
Officer Gonzales and other police officers hare having a meeting |
01:52:41 |
OFC. GONZALES Can we have somebody like you in the meeting If we decide to bring you in? If there is a meeting, like you said, one of us, two of us, in the meeting? |
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01:52:51 |
OFC. POLANCO You've been more like an expert. I'll consider somebody who went through the system already, some advisor who went through this already. We're gonna walk out--walk in there blind… |
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01:52:59 |
ANTHONY Yeah. |
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01:52:59 |
OFC. GONZALES In the dark room. |
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01:52:59 |
OFC. POLANCO …and that is not necessarily what we want. Uh, yes, it would be nice to get paid… |
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01:53:02 |
[CELL PHONE RINGS] |
Anthony pulls out his phone from his pocket |
01:53:04 |
ANTHONY Money is--listen. I hate to say it that way. Are they gonna fix everything they did wrong to you? |
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01:53:08 |
OFC. POLANCO No, no, no, no, no. |
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01:53:09 |
ANTHONY But money is absolutely the objective. Okay? |
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01:53:12 |
OFC. RAYMOND Damages. |
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01:53:13 |
ANTHONY The damages is when you hurt them in their pocketbook, that's long-lasting. You follow me? The settlement for $26.8 million, they're still talking about that today. Right? But it also made the blueprints for every other police agency to follow. If the things that they're giving you are significant in terms of systemic changes and permanency, then you may have to grab it, but when you go to trial, it's all about money. It ain't about nothing else. Settlement is about changing the process. |
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01:53:43 |
OFC. RAYMOND What about the injunctions? What about the changes? |
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01:53:47 |
ANTHONY A trial is about dollars and cents. |
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01:53:50 |
OFC. POLANCO It's about damages. |
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01:53:51 |
ANTHONY Damages. So when you go to trial and you go all the way down, it's gonna be like, okay, so the pocket's a little bigger and we're dividing more money, but systemic changes., they don't have the authority to impose it. |
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01:54:02 |
OFC. POLANCO Got you. |
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01:54:03 |
ANTHONY Want something to drink? You guys have Sun? |
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01:54:08 |
OFC. POLANCO Yeah, there's some of it somewhere. |
The kid leaves |
01:54:08 |
KID Sure. |
Officer Gonzales nods |
01:54:10 |
ANTHONY This media thing, what are they gonna ask you? This is on a news station? |
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01:54:13 |
OFC. DIAZ NBC. |
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01:54:14 |
ANTHONY NBC, okay. So whatever you're speaking about is to the point. There's no explanations. This is a punch line business. What is going to get the people's attention that you're talking about? The illegal quota systems. The, um, illegal arrests they're forcing us to make. |
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01:54:29 |
OFC. POLANCO Uh, the quotas targeting minority people, and… |
Anthony shakes his head, Officer Baez nods |
01:54:32 |
ANTHONY Hey, listen, it's killing communities of color, and these are--that warrants a response, right? So what do you mean, officer, by "killing?" They're killing them. They're locking them up for no reason. What you need is community backing. If the community backs you, then this gets a life of its own. If the community's not backing you, it's you and the police department, and nobody gives a damn. 'Cause you're talking about a public safety issue, where they're generating billions of dollars on the backs of poor people every day. See, that's a headline. |
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01:55:05 |
OFC. POLANCO That's it. [LAUGHS] That's it. |
Officer Gonzales nods |
01:55:06 |
ANTHONY You understand? |
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01:55:08 |
OFC. RAYMOND This administration, this was supposed to be progressive, and things like, uh, affordable housing universal health, uh, universal, uh, pre-K. What's the point when in 12 years, that four-year-old will be swept into a quota system? |
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01:55:22 |
ANTHONY And now you gotta take that and dumb it down. |
Officer Raymond scratches his head |
01:55:25 |
[LAUGHTER] |
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01:55:26 |
ANTHONY Okay? |
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01:55:27 |
OFC. POLANCO Connecting too many dots. |
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01:55:30 |
ANTHONY You gotta--you gotta dumb it down. |
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01:55:31 |
OFC. GONZALES Yeah, I don't know. |
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01:55:32 |
ANTHONY Because remember, your whole point from point A to B never get there. |
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01:55:35 |
OFC. RAYMOND Got it. |
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01:55:36 |
ANTHONY So dumb it down. |
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01:55:37 |
OFC. RAYMOND Simplify. |
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01:55:38 |
OFC. DIAZ They'll get lost. The man, all right. |
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01:55:39 |
OFC. RAYMOND I got it. |
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01:55:40 |
ANTHONY And--and is this--is the mayor responsible for this? |
Anthony shakes his head |
01:55:44 |
OFC. RAYMOND Yeah. |
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01:55:46 |
ANTHONY No. |
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01:55:47 |
OFC. RAYMOND Well, not--he's not responsible, but he's in a position where he… |
Anthony points to Officer Raymond |
01:55:50 |
ANTHONY Listen to what they ask you. |
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01:55:51 |
OFC. RAYMOND Okay. |
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01:55:52 |
ANTHONY This is like baiting the… |
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01:55:53 |
OFC. RAYMOND Oh, I see what you mean. |
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01:55:53 |
ANTHONY Baiting the cow, right? Because they're telling you, "Is the mayor responsible for this?" "Yes, he is." "No, he's not, 'cause this has always been around." Right? |
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01:56:01 |
OFC. POLANCO He can be a solution. |
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01:56:03 |
ANTHONY Right, but the mayor have--can be a solution to it. |
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01:56:05 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
Officer Baez and Officer Diaz shake hands |
01:56:06 |
ANTHONY [LAUGHING] |
Shot of New York City |
01:56:08 |
OFC. DIAZ I'll make a--make us a member of the… |
The NYPD 12 is walking on the street |
01:56:35 |
[CURTIS HARDING'S "FACE YOUR FEAR" PLAYING] |
The NYPD 12 enters the NBC building |
01:56:57 |
SINGER You can scream if you want to, baby. But no one can hear. You can fight through the night. But by daylight you'll disappear. If there's a way to be okay, I'm sorry. It's just not clear. While you lay. Let me say. That you're the only one here. By the way. Maybe. Don't worry. It's okay. Just face your fear. |
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01:57:43 |
NEWS ANCHOR Truly explosive allegations in an I-Team exclusive interview. |
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01:57:47 |
NEWS ANCHOR They're coming from police officers who are part of what's being called the NYPD 12, 12 cops who filed a class action lawsuit in federal court. |
Sarah is interviewing the NYPD 12 |
01:57:54 |
SARAH The department says there are no quotas. |
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01:57:55 |
[MUSIC] |
Officer Diaz nods |
01:57:57 |
OFC. DIAZ Well, I can tell you. I'm a police officer. There are quotas in the NYPD. |
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01:58:01 |
SARAH Are they lying? |
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01:58:02 |
OFC. POLANCO Absolutely. It's illegal for them to admit it. |
Officer Diaz is watching the interview on his phone |
01:58:04 |
OFC. DIAZ The worst thing you can have is a police officer that needs an arrest for the month. |
Detective Waller is watching the interview on the TV inside the Laundromat |
01:58:10 |
DET. WALLER You might not see nothing. You're supposed to be visible. You might not see anything, but you go hunting, like, bounty hunting, for an arrest. Kids getting locked up for--for--for BS. Come out there to ride their bicycles… |
Officer Abdullah is in his house watching the interview |
01:58:19 |
OFC. POLANCO The problem is, when you go hunting, when you put any type of numbers of a police officer to perform, we are gonna go to the most vulnerable. |
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01:58:27 |
SARAH The most vulnerable? |
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01:58:27 |
OFC. POLANCO Of course. We're gonna go to LGBT community. We're gonna go to the black community. We're gonna go to those people that have no vote, that have no power. |
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01:58:34 |
OFC. ABDULLAH All they want us to do is go out there and lock them up. They told us, it's--it's easy to get numbers out here, because you--you work in this type of community. |
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01:58:41 |
SARAH So you're all minorities. How does that make you feel? |
Officer Raymond is in his house watching the interview |
01:58:44 |
OFC. RAYMOND This is something coming from the top that trickles its way down, and this is why we're all here today. |
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01:58:49 |
SARAH Are you arresting for stuff that you shouldn't be arresting for? |
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01:58:51 |
OFC. DIAZ Well, that's why we're here. |
Officer Serrano is in his car watching the interview on his phone |
01:58:52 |
OFC. SERRANO We don't do it. We refuse, and because of that, we are retaliated against. |
Officer Whitely and her children are in their house watching the interview |
01:58:57 |
OFC. WHITELY Because you're not harassing people, you're being punished. That doesn't make for a great work environment, because they want you to harass people. |
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01:59:05 |
SARAH You know, this is a big step, to come forward like this. |
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01:59:08 |
OFC. POLANCO It's not easy. It's not easy. Um, we are the enemies. We are the people that nobody talk to. We are the rats that speak out. It takes a lot of guts to stand where we stand, knowing that our career is basically over the second we speak against such a mafia. |
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01:59:25 |
SARAH Again, the police commissioner declined to go on camera to address the allegations, for quotas or racial discrimination. |
Officer Whitely is talking to the camera |
01:59:32 |
OFC. WHITELY Uh, it just gives me, like, butterflies in my stomach, you know? Yeah, it's nervo--it's nerve-rattling. I think that they'll, uh, try to make us as uncomfortable as they can without actually, you know, making it seem like they're retaliating against us. |
Officer Abdullah is talking to the camera, shot of New York City |
01:59:55 |
OFC. ABDULLAH I don't know exactly what's going to happen, because, you know, this is--this is a big thing, 'cause it's not just the 12 of us that's been harassed, like I said. It's much more, and they don't want everybody coming forward, so they have to do some type of retaliation to put fear in others to discourage them from coming forward, and…what they're going to decide to do, I'm not sure. |
John is in an interview |
02:00:39 |
JOHN So basically, we're here today filing a opposition to the city's motion to dismiss for our NYPD 12 class action. All the NYPD 12 has recordings of their supervisors pushing them to meet their quotas. Now, it's implied that--well, it's not--it's pretty explicit, actually, in several different precincts, that you need to target males, especially black and Hispanic males, 14 to 21. |
Manuel is in an interview |
02:01:05 |
MANUEL "MANNY" And in the class action, we also have proof where a, um, police captain puts the quotas--number that he wants on the wall, and then tells the guys "If you don't get these numbers, you're gonna be working at Pizza Hut." Now, you can't make that up. This is what's going on, and in this lawsuit, we'll show this. This department cannot correct itself, monitor itself, and punish itself. We need an independent body to do this, and this lawsuit will be the foundation to do that. |
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02:01:31 |
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] |
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02:01:38 |
FILMMAKER Have you noticed that they've been treating you any differently at all since NBC's interview? |
Officer Serrano is on the phone |
02:01:44 |
OFC. SERRANO Yeah, immediately. Immediately, I was, you know, I got ostracized, and--you know, and then they put me here. They bury me here. This foot post--hear how they were like, "You can't even leave. You have to stay in this area. Even though I see something over here, I can't address it. I have to stay here. |
Officer Whitely is driving her car, Officer Whitely is talking to the camera |
02:02:04 |
OFC. WHITELY You know, they took away my overtime, and now I'm like, "Well, damn. "What if they put me on midnights? "What's going to happen to me if they put me on midnights, my daughter's going to college, and I have a ten-year-old at home? What is going to happen?" |
Officer Abdullah is talking to the camera, Officer Abdullah points his evaluation |
02:02:20 |
OFC. ABDULLAH They gave me a low evaluation. They put a bunch of false statements on the evaluation to bring my numbers down to place me on performance monitoring. This evaluation, I receive a 2.5 average. |
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02:02:37 |
FILMMAKER They put you on midnights? |
Officer Diaz is talking to the camera |
02:02:39 |
OFC. DIAZ They put me on midnights, they changed my tour, then they split up me and my partner. It's just the way they went about it. It was very sneaky, very snake-ish. You know? So, I don't know what they're going to pull next, so I'm waiting--I'm waiting to see what else they're going to pull. |
Detective Waller shows a paper with a picture of a rat, and his schedule in the past six months |
02:02:58 |
DET. WALLER This is actually something that was placed on my desk. This is the last six months of my life. As you see, all the orange, I'm in a sector car. The 31st of March was when the NBC News interview aired. Since then, I was basically taken outside of my car. Retaliation, retaliation, retaliation, retaliation. |
Officer Whitely shakes her head |
02:03:22 |
OFC. WHITELY Last week, I found myself, like, working with my partner, and I said to him, "I gotta get a summons. You know, I gotta get something. I have to bring in something this month," and I didn't like the way that made me feel, because I'm scared, you know? |
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02:03:36 |
FILMMAKER So what do you think is coming out of the pipe? Like… |
Officer Diaz is talking to the camera |
02:03:39 |
OFC. DIAZ Well, now, I'm gonna record everything, because I'm afraid that, you know, they're making things up as they're going along. So it's--it's ridiculous. |
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02:03:47 |
FILMMAKER When did this start picking up? |
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02:03:48 |
OFC. DIAZ Oh, right after the NBC. [LAUGHS] Yeah, right after the NBC, uh, press release. |
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02:03:54 |
FILMMAKER I kind of knew that because that's the answer… |
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02:03:55 |
OFC. DIAZ Yeah, all the guys were saying the same thing? |
The filmmaker hands Officer Diaz a Spy Camera Pen |
02:03:57 |
FILMMAKER Oh, yeah. All right, so--so you hold that. You see the top button, right? |
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02:04:05 |
OFC. DIAZ Now it's recording. |
Officer Abdullah is testing the Spy Watch Camera |
02:04:09 |
OFC. ABDULLAH Now to record--hold it for one quick second. It's recording the fan. Record Steve. Now we turn it off. |
Officer Gonsales is with Emeka and Officer Baez |
02:04:29 |
OFC. GONZALES Recently, that sergeant she just addressed roll call, and made the statement that I was recording and videotaping everybody in the precinct when it wasn't true. She just said it out loud for everybody to hear, and I--I couldn't do anything, and I felt sick. I fainted because I felt powerless. |
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02:04:54 |
EMEKA You--you fainted at roll call? |
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02:04:56 |
OFC. GONZALES At roll call. |
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02:04:57 |
EMEKA Everybody was there? |
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02:04:58 |
OFC. GONZALES Everybody was there. |
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02:04:59 |
EMEKA Ritchie, were you there? |
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02:05:00 |
OFC. BAEZ Yes, I was there. I was shocked that she said all of that, and on top of that, Sandy's on the floor, basically clutching his chest with pain. She's saying, "Why you faking?" |
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02:05:14 |
OFC. GONZALES It's, it's taking--I feel like I don't even want to go to work. |
A musician is playing a flute in the subway, Officer Gonzales and Officer Baez are standing in the subway, shots of police officers on the street |
02:05:18 |
[JAZZ MUSIC ON FLUTE] |
Jessica is on the phone with Pedro |
02:06:00 |
JESSICA It still hot, or it got cooler in there? |
SUBTITLE:
PEDRO HERNANDEZ: It's hot.
We got fans in here they just blow hot air.
Mom could you get me a soft brush and a comb? |
02:06:02 |
PEDRO [ON PHONE] It's hot. We got fans in here they just blow hot air. Mom could you get me a soft brush and a comb? |
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02:06:14 |
JESSICA And the underwears. That's what you had told me the last time. |
SUBTITLE:
PEDRO HERNANDEZ: Yeah, tank tops and boxers. |
02:06:16 |
PEDRO [ON PHONE] Yeah. Yeah, tank tops and boxers. |
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02:06:20 |
JESSICA And I have the book that you wanted. |
SUBTITLE:
PEDRO HERNANDEZ: Which one? |
02:06:22 |
PEDRO [ON PHONE] Which one? |
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02:06:23 |
JESSICA "All Quiet on the Western" something. He say they good, but if you don't get into it at the beginning, that then you won't get into it, but that they good. |
SUBTITLE:
PEDRO HERNANDEZ: You coming over here tomorrow? |
02:06:33 |
PEDRO [ON PHONE] You coming over here tomorrow? |
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02:06:35 |
JESSICA Yeah. |
Manuel is using his laptop on top of his car |
02:06:44 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Well, Pedro Hernandez has been in Rikers for the past eight months for a crime he didn't commit. |
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02:06:51 |
FILMMAKER What are they saying that Pedro did? |
Manuel is scanning through several photos and videos in his laptop, Manuel calls Shaun, Manuel is with Shaun, Manuel is interviewing witnesses while filming them |
02:06:53 |
MANUEL "MANNY" They say Pedro pulled out a gun and shot into a group of kids, but I found several witnesses which prove that Pedro didn't shoot the kid, and the cop that arrested Pedro also had falsified six other arrests against him, and he was promoted to detective, because over the course of his career, he's made over 1,000 arrests, which exceeds the quota by three times. Here's the shooting victim, which I'll be meeting with later on tonight. Yeah, Shaun, you there? I'm downstairs. Come downstairs. I'm downstairs. This is what I'm talking about. I gotta put an end to this, but I can't do it by myself. All right? Now's the time where I need you to lace up your boots, and be hard down with me and knuckle up, 'cause we're gonna go to a fight right now, and the fight's gonna be in court, and you gotta tell the truth. And then, after that, we're gonna go to your deposition, and you're gonna tell them and the city, and I want you to look them in the eye, just like you're looking at me, because when you looked at me like this, guess what I did. I believed you. All right, Shaun. So can you just run down with me one more time on what happened the day you got shot? On September 1, 2015, were you in the Bronx? |
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02:08:23 |
FEMALE WITNESS Yes, I was. |
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02:08:24 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Okay. And what did you see? |
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02:08:26 |
MALE WITNESS While I was walking to my friend's house, I had seen a group of kids all going and screaming. |
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02:08:30 |
FEMALE WITNESS So they was fighting, and from out of nowhere, you see this guy shot, uh, the group. |
Manuel interviews Shaun |
02:08:37 |
SHAUN I ain't look back. I just started taking off started running. |
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02:08:39 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Did you realize you was shot, or… |
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02:08:41 |
SHAUN Yeah, after a while, I…started, like--I started feeling the pain in my leg. |
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02:08:46 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Did you see the guy who shot the gun? |
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02:08:48 |
FEMALE WITNESS Yes. |
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02:08:49 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Do you know who he is? |
The witness nods |
02:08:50 |
FEMALE WITNESS Yes, I do. |
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02:08:51 |
SHAUN No, a female and a light-skinned cop asked me questions. I'm like, "I don't know. I ain't seen nothing." They just keep on--keep on asking me the same questions. I'm like, "How am I supposed to tell you something I don't know?" Like, I ain't got to see his face or nothing, like… |
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02:09:06 |
MANUEL "MANNY" So what did he want you to do? |
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02:09:07 |
SHAUN They want me to just say, they want me to just say somebody that--somebody shot me that I did not know from a hole in a wall. |
The witness shakes her head |
02:09:13 |
MANUEL "MANNY" By any chance, was Pedro Hernandez there? Did you see him shoot anybody? Did you involved in the fight? |
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02:09:20 |
FEMALE WITNESS No, I didn't. I didn't saw him fighting and I did not see him shoot no gun. |
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02:09:25 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Was Pedro Hernandez involved in that shooting? |
The witness shakes his head |
02:09:27 |
MALE WITNESS No. |
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02:09:28 |
SHAUN Telling them, like, "I don't remember nothing," like, He like, "Stop playing, 'fore I--'fore I punch your head into the wall." |
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02:09:35 |
MANUEL "MANNY" How come you wouldn't say Pedro shot you? |
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02:09:38 |
SHAUN 'Cause I ain't--I don't--never even heard of him until, like, that situation happened. Like… |
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02:09:43 |
MANUEL "MANNY" That took a lot of strength for you to deal with that and stay arrested for two days. |
Shaun nods |
02:09:49 |
SHAUN Mm. |
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02:09:50 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Wow. Any other cat would've just said… |
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02:09:53 |
SHAUN "That's him." |
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02:09:54 |
MANUEL "MANNY" "That's him," just to get out of there, but you didn't. |
Shaun shakes his head |
02:09:57 |
SHAUN No. |
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02:09:57 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I got a lot of respect for you. That took a lot of honor. God bless you. |
Manuel is on the phone with Jessica while driving |
02:10:01 |
[PHONE RINGING] |
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02:10:03 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Hey, Jessica? How are you? |
SUBTITLE:
Excited! |
02:10:08 |
JESSICA [ON PHONE] [LAUGHS] Excited! |
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02:10:09 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Did you see the video? |
SUBTITLE:
Yeah.
Oh, man we're close.
It just proves once again
that what they doing is gonna come out into the open.
I had like a good feeling today.
Didn't I tell you today? |
02:10:10 |
JESSICA [ON PHONE] Yes. Oh, man we're close. It just proves once again that what they doing is gonna come out into the open. I had like a good feeling today. Didn't I tell you today? |
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02:10:25 |
MANUEL "MANNY" No. |
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02:10:27 |
[MUSIC] |
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02:10:28 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I lost her. [COUGHS] She'll call me back. That's the first time I heard that mother happy. |
Shots of people having and watching parade on the street |
02:10:48 |
[LATIN MUSIC] |
A man speaks in the megaphone |
02:11:02 |
MAN We also want to acknowledge other, uh, police officers who have really taken on a lot of heat for them coming out and whistle-blowing on--on the issues of quotas that--of ticketing and whatnot, and we want to let them know that we have their backs [INDISTINCT] |
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02:11:18 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
Officer Raymond and Officer Baez are on the street |
02:11:31 |
OFC. RAYMOND I spoke to him. It wasn't a good conversation. He wasn't supportive, um, at, um--of what we did at NBC studios, He didn't--he felt he didn't see the need for it, and I tell him, "You're crazy if you believe that, man. We're fighting--this is David versus Goliath." |
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02:11:44 |
OFC. BAEZ Yeah. |
Officer Raymond and Officer Baez are walking on the street |
02:11:44 |
OFC. RAYMOND Without public outreach, without public support, we're nothing. I saw a friend here from the academy. She didn't want to speak to me, man. |
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02:11:54 |
OFC. BAEZ What? |
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02:11:55 |
OFC. RAYMOND I said I saw a friend here from the academy. She didn't want to speak to me. |
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02:11:58 |
OFC. BAEZ Right here? Wow. Which one was it? |
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02:12:01 |
OFC. RAYMOND I'll sh--I'll show you. |
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02:12:08 |
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC] |
Officer Raymond is going through documents while talking to the camera |
02:12:21 |
OFC. RAYMOND We're rated on a five-point scale with half-intervals. So anything below a three can ruin your career for the rest of your career. These are the comments. So I started off reading it. I was shocked, because I thought you--you can only put three comments. I couldn't even know you could even put so many comments in an evaluation. And, you know, the first three were regular, and then right here, number 25, "Drive/Initiative." "PO Raymond needs constant supervision." "PO Raymond do not take any initiative or shows any drive unless specifically directed by a supervisor." Number 16, "Reasoning ability." "PO Raymond cannot apply rules or procedures to situations or cannot see how events or information relate to the solution of a problem. He does not see how a series of events are related or connected to one another, nor can he form logical conclusions from the events." And I'm reading this, like, Oh, my God. Like, this thing is making me sound like I have a low IQ. I mean, the grammar is off, and stuff doesn't make sense. A-and it just goes on and on, just horrible, horrible language, and none of this applies to me whatsoever, and I just couldn't believe what I was reading. |
Officer Raymond listens to a recorded conversation
SUBTITLE:
SARGENT CAMPBELL: If you really look into those questions and if you really be honest with those questions that they ask…you're a 4. |
02:13:38 |
SGT. CAMPBELL If you really look into those questions and if you really be honest with those questions… |
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02:13:40 |
OFC. RAYMOND Yeah. |
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02:13:41 |
SERGEANT CAMPBELL …that they ask… |
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02:13:42 |
OFC. RAYMOND Uh-hmm. |
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02:13:42 |
SERGEANT CAMPBELL …you're a 4. |
SUBTITLE:
OFFICER EDWIN RAYMOND: Overall, you as my immediate supervisor, you evaluate me, you work with me.
And you have no issue with my performance.
And for them to hijack your duty to evaluate me simply because they have a complete other agenda… |
02:13:44 |
OFC. RAYMOND Overall, you as my immediate supervisor, you evaluate me, you work with me. And you have no issue with my performance. And for them to hijack your duty to evaluate me simply because they have a complete other agenda. |
SUBTITLE:
SERGEANT CAMPBELL: She told me before that "I'm gonna take away all your powers as far as supervisor when it comes to dealing with Raymond." |
02:13:58 |
SGT. CAMPBELL She told me before that "I'm gonna take away all your powers as far as supervisor when it comes to dealing with Raymond." |
Officer Raymond talks to the camera |
02:14:06 |
OFC. RAYMOND This is going to be very important when the times comes to go to court, because it really shows how much--the, the supervisors are under pressure themselves to pressure us. |
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02:14:07 |
[DESOLATE MUSIC] |
Shots of the city, police officers are with some people on the sidewalk |
02:14:18 |
OFC. RAYMOND You know, there's chain of command. The weight of this all starts from the top. And when I say the top, I mean the very top. The commissioner, deputy commissioners, and even the mayor's office, and the newly appointed mayor probably bit off more than he can chew and didn't understand just how much the city's budget depends on law enforcement to generate part of that revenue by issuing summonses and arrests. 'Cause the reality is, law enforcement uses black bodies to generate revenue. |
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02:14:53 |
MAN This is not a profile. Saying it's the third time you're on the block, 'cause every time I--every time I… |
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02:14:58 |
POLICE OFFICER Patrolling the block. |
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02:14:59 |
MAN No, man. |
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02:14:59 |
POLICE OFFICER You know what I'm saying? |
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02:15:00 |
MAN I'm saying this is a targeted block. Last time you pulled over me, "Where the gun at?" You don't ask someone where the gun at, bro. |
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02:15:08 |
MAN You--you talk to me with respect, I-I respond with respect. You can't talk to me like a dog and ask me to just a-answer with respect. Respect goes both ways, and everywhere you live, it works. Try it. |
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02:15:22 |
MAN Don't just pull up one of the black dudes. |
Shots of police officers on the street |
02:15:25 |
NEWS REPORTER Now to an update on an I-Team exclusive the interview with active NYPD officers who claim that they are pressured by supervisors to meet quotas for arrests and summonses. |
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02:15:35 |
NEWS REPORTER A number of additional officers have actually reached out to us. By the way, the PBA, the NYPD officers' union, did a survey recently. Thousands of members responded, and 89% said they believed there are still quotas. The police department flatly denies it. |
Commissioner Bratton arrives |
02:15:58 |
NEWS REPORTER The commissioner insists his policies are focused on the quality of arrests and summonses, not the quantity. The officers' claims elicited this expletive from the police commissioner. |
Commissioner Bratton is in a press conference |
02:16:10 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON Bullshit. I said, "Bullshit" is my response to that. If any of my cops out there still think we're pushing for the summonses, et cetera, I'm sorry. We're pushing to reduce crime. |
Shots of the people on the street |
02:16:20 |
[ENERGETIC DRUM MUSIC] |
Adilka talks to the people in the room |
02:16:44 |
ADILKA The po--the communities are gonna see all those cops, right? Your cops are--start like, coming out, but you're still cops, and--and just watching a clip, you're not gonna get community support, 'cause they're gonna be like, "Yo, these are--they're still cops, putting me up against a wall." Right? So my question is, what is--is a plan to kind of talk--if I'm like, "Yo, these cops want to meet y'all," they're going to be like, "I don't even feel safe talking to these cops," right? |
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02:17:04 |
JOHN But these are the cops that are standing up against it. |
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02:17:05 |
ADILKA I completely hear you, all right, but what I'm saying… |
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02:17:07 |
JOHN How--I don't know how we convey that message. |
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02:17:09 |
ADILKA Well, that's what I'm asking now, right? |
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02:17:12 |
RUKIA Can I say something real quick? It's not really about what you guys are saying. We support what you say. |
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02:17:15 |
TAMIKA Exactly, exactly. |
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02:17:17 |
RUKIA It's about painting a broader picture around how this will impact us and the community long-term, and so, like, how will this lead to less black bodies being violated? How will this lead towards understanding like, self-determination and black liberation, right? And so it's--what is that message that is gonna help people to understand that supporting you is supporting their cause and their mission, right? |
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02:17:41 |
TAMIKA Absolutely. |
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02:17:41 |
OFFICER BAEZ Know what it is? People have to get to know us and see how we are, 'cause you know what? Every community we police, either Brooklyn or South Bronx, we know how to interact with people. We know how to solve people's problems. |
Tamika speaks to the people in the room |
02:17:54 |
TAMIKA I think what she's saying is something different. |
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02:17:56 |
RUKIA Yeah. |
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02:17:56 |
TAMIKA And I understand what she's saying. What she's saying is you're still a police officer… |
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02:18:00 |
OFFICER BAEZ Right. |
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02:18:01 |
TAMIKA …and there are people in our community--there are people who I called to come to this meeting that said, I will not be there, "because I don't work with police officers, period. At all." |
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02:18:10 |
OFFICER BAEZ Right. |
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02:18:10 |
TAMIKA And they didn't come. And the ones who told me they were coming that are not here--I know exactly why they didn't show up, right? You all there may be sitting there, thinking, "We're here. Like, what do you mean, why?" |
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02:18:20 |
MAN Right. |
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02:18:20 |
TAMIKA But there are other elements to how you engage the community that some folks on the face won't understand, and that's why I say back to us as the activists what do we think the messaging should be? |
Minister Muhammad speaks to the people in the room |
02:18:33 |
MINISTER MUHAMMAD We're not here to endorse anything with police departments. Minister Farrakhan said to us, "There are many good officers, but too few to stand up." |
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02:18:44 |
WOMAN Mm-hm. |
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02:18:45 |
MINISTER MUHAMMAD You have chosen to stand up. |
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02:18:46 |
MAN That's right. |
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02:18:46 |
WOMAN Right. |
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02:18:46 |
MINISTER MUHAMMAD You have chosen to put your livelihood on the line. You have chosen to lose your job that protects your children, my sister, and to the brothers that are here, that is what has to resonate Sister has a valid point. The youth have to understand, because they're the most besieged, but all of us are besieged. That's why we came to sit at the table. |
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02:19:09 |
MAN Uh, pr--you all, had some kind of strategy. What would you like for us to do, and how would you like for us to do it? |
Officer Raymond speaks to the people in the room |
02:19:14 |
OFC. RAYMOND The public support is what lets the city, the state, and the national government know this is not just another lawsuit, 'cause you're not gonna get this again for 100 years. 12 cops willing to step up like this, put their careers on the line. So in order for this to be taken serious, we need you. It's--and--and the analogy I use is a parent that spanks their child. You know, in the supermarket, you can't spank the child, 'cause everyone's watching, but when you get home, the child's gonna get it. Right now, because of the--the "Times" article, the NBC coverage, we're in the supermarket. The department is waiting for this thing to die down so they can spank us. |
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02:19:51 |
MAN Yes. |
Officer Raymond is doing hand gestures while talking to everyone |
02:19:52 |
OFC. RAYMOND And the only way that doesn't happen is you guys, all right? So--so… |
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02:19:57 |
MAN How are--how are they gonna spank you? What's one technique? |
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02:19:59 |
OFC. RAYMOND Well, we've already been enduring, uh, uh, retaliation for not conforming to the quota, but a-at this point, they're gonna try to fire us. They're gonna set us up, they're gonna get--they have tactics with Internal Affairs. They don't have to follow the law. You know? Who… |
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02:20:15 |
MAN Because they are the law. |
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02:20:16 |
TAMIKA There's no law. |
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02:20:17 |
MAN They are the law. |
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02:20:17 |
OFC. RAYMOND You know, exactly, so the--at this point, you know, g-giving me this post and killing my evaluation, my--listen, if I--if I never have to be promoted so my people can be treated better, you can keep the promotion. |
Shots of the city at night |
02:20:28 |
[DESOLATE MUSICAL TONE] |
Officer Serrano is in his car driving down the road to meet with Sergeant Smith and the rest of the officers |
02:20:39 |
OFC. SERRANO What NYPD 12 all share in common is that we're all on monitoring. Any police officer who…is considered, um, a threat--they keep track of you. The sergeant who is in charge of the monitoring stopped me one day, and he said, "Hey, I need to talk to you." So we're about to meet him for the first time. If it's legit, we have a lot to gain, but he--it's a possibility he might try to sabotage it. |
Sergeant Smith meets with the officers |
02:21:14 |
SGT. SMITH You know, when I saw all you guys on TV, I wanted to let you know, what you guys complain about--they did it to me. I-it disi--it affects white officers, too, but just like anything else in the police department, it gets minorities the worst. Okay? And I'm familiar with you guys coming through performance monitoring, and I know that program. I don't know if you guys remember my face, but I used to speak to you guys when you came down for performance monitoring. I was the one. How many times I sat down with cops who tell me, "I'm in performance monitoring because I'm not locking up people." I've heard this before, and--but you know anything about performance monitoring? |
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02:21:52 |
OFC. SERRANO I don't know nothing about it except I'm on it, so you need to hit me, like, what the fuck is that like? |
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02:21:57 |
SGT. SMITH Well…[LAUGHS] there's so much to tell you, okay, about the program, but the fact that you guys are--the fact that you guys are on it--they got you. Once you get in this program, they got you. No matter how well you perform, it's not going to be good enough. The performance monitoring program and evaluation is supposed to be tools to measure performance to measure, uh, whether a cop is doing his job or not, but they're both used as weapons of retaliation, okay? And weap--and weapons of abuse. |
Detective Waller shakes his head |
02:22:28 |
DET. WALLER But I--I tell you like this, man. The shit hit the fan, you're on your fucking own. I'm--I'm serious, man. |
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02:22:33 |
SGT. SMITH Then I guess my real question is, how do you… |
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02:22:35 |
DET. WALLER I wanna say. I told some of the other guys, you know, "I d--I don't trust none of my bosses, I don't trust the fucking knucklehead I'm sitting in the car with." You g--you gotta watch your own back. You--or they--because they're gonna fuck with you, and they're gonna fuck with you, and if you--if your shit's on point, there--there ain't nothing they can do. |
The officers turn to Sergeant Smith |
02:22:50 |
SGT. SMITH Yeah, but what y'all don't understand, some--they don't do stuff by the book. |
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02:22:53 |
ALL They don't. |
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02:22:53 |
OFC. GONZALES It's so much… |
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02:22:54 |
DET. WALLER As long as you do what you're supposed… |
Sergeant Smith points to the officers |
02:22:56 |
SGT. SMITH But it's--but it's--no, but you can't do stuff--you understand, when you do stuff by the book, they don't allow you to do stuff by the book. That's not how--so they--that can affect you. They're looking for something, they got it. |
Detective Waller shakes his head |
02:23:07 |
[DESOLATE MUSIC] |
Officer Serrano is in his car listening to Officer Raymond's interview |
02:23:22 |
MALE DJ Are they saying, "Stop and frisk people"? Are they literally saying, "Get five black guys. Get five…" No, I'm--it sounds… |
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02:23:28 |
FEMALE DJ How literal is it? |
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02:23:29 |
MALE DJ Yeah. |
Officer Raymond is being interviewed at a radio station |
02:23:30 |
OFC. RAYMOND That's a good question. Um, one thing that they're good at in this color-blind racism--they get the same racial outcome without ever having to mention race, and what allows this is the fact that because of gentrification, New York City has enclaves of--of certain ethnicities and nationalities, so you get to focus on only blacks. You get to say, "Hey, we're just responding to crime. This is a black area." |
The female DJ nods |
02:23:50 |
FEMALE DJ Mm. |
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02:23:51 |
OFC. RAYMOND You have to remember, New York is--is the epicenter of a lot of these issues, so broken windows policing, um, quota policing--this starts in New York. Before you know it, you get it in Ferguson, smaller towns. |
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02:24:01 |
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC] |
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02:24:02 |
OFC. RAYMOND As an--another one in the 12 said, "New York City is Ferguson on steroids. This is where it started." |
Officer Whitely is in her car with her daughter driving down the road |
02:24:13 |
OFC. WHITELY I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I was so stressed out, and I started crying, and then the job doctor, he sent me to a psychiatrist. She asked me if I was, like, suicidal, and I was like, "No, I'm just depressed." You know, I'm having childcare issues. I'm pregnant, and the job is punishing me, and nobody seems to care. She didn't really seem to care, either. |
Officer Gonzales is having a check-up |
02:24:47 |
DOCTOR Can you describe, when you feel that chest pressure, what you were doing? |
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02:24:53 |
OFC. GONZALES I was talking to my boss, and, uh, kind of, uh, conversation went a little bit, um, stressful. |
Detective Waller is in a room with a woman |
02:25:07 |
DET. WALLER It's just snowballing into me feeling like the way I felt years ago, like, crazy hi--like, all these emotions going through you, and you have nobody to talk to. When you go to--to the precinct, they'll tell you, "Oh, you can talk to people from POPPA, and you can go talk to the police chaplain," and all those guys gonna do--they're gonna psych you and they're gonna take away your gun. They claim that we have all these entities, that when you have a problem with the police department, you can go speak to, but you can't speak to nobody. |
Officer Whitely is getting an ultrasound, Officer Whitely meets with Emeka at the park |
02:25:46 |
OFC. WHITELY The captain called the medical district and asked them to order me back to work, and the district doctor said to me, "You're making up every excuse not to go to work." I didn't know--I was--I didn't know what to do. I said, "Sir, this is not a game." I went into pre-term labor. Like, I was having contractions at five months pregnant. That's not okay. |
Graham, Officer Raymond, and the rest of the officers are having a press conference |
02:26:14 |
GRAHAM You promoted--and his boss, who murdered two black people in 15 months in New York City, but Edwin Raymond, who scored number eight on the promotional exam, is not qualified to be a sergeant, because his supervisor says that his activity is not good enough. This man should have been promoted a long time ago. So…something has to be done. Mis--Mr. Bratton, the ball's in your court. |
Toure is interviewing Officer Raymond and Detective Waller |
02:26:44 |
TOURE I want to come back to the policing issues but, you know, just--when before, you told me about prayer, um--'cause this is probably the most stressful period of your life. |
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02:26:52 |
OFC. RAYMOND Absolutely, absolutely. |
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02:26:54 |
TOURE So what are you doing? What have you added to be able to deal with this ongoing, seemingly unending, super stressful situation? |
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02:27:03 |
OFC. RAYMOND Good question. Um…well, one thing that's, um--it's--you know, I could've never imagined that this would be something that could help me, but actually, I had a really tough childhood, and, um, sometimes, I just think about…the fact that I made it through that type of adversity, and I--I use that to strengthen me. I also look back at, uh, our ancestors, you know? We--we benefit from their sacrifice. I'm looking at it as a--a patchwork quilt, where every generation gets to sew its own piece. |
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02:27:31 |
TOURE Yeah. |
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02:27:31 |
OFC. RAYMOND And the objective is to continue to pass the quilt till the quilt is big enough to insulate us all from the cold airs of oppression. |
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02:27:38 |
[SOMBER MUSIC] |
Anthony, police officers, the media, and the people are gathered in a park |
02:27:58 |
FEMALE REPORTER First at 5:00 right now, an NYPD bombshell. Four of the department's most senior chiefs at the center of a scandal. |
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02:28:06 |
MALE REPORTER And now the police commissioner is taking action as the federal government investigates corruption. CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer with the latest on this. |
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02:28:14 |
ANTHONY Today, what we're asking Mr. de Blasio, the mayor, to do is to form a commission to investigate the pervasive corruption, official misconduct, and bribery at the executive levels of the New York City Police Department. |
Officer Gonzales is holding a poster of Commissioner Bratton |
02:28:26 |
OFFICER DIAZ But officers were complaining of corruption and quotas. Commissioner Bratton said "That's bull," "That's nonsense," "Those officers should quit." Now, the, uh, chiefs, they'll be investigated for corruption, so that tells you right there, Commissioner Bratton should step down. |
Manuel ascends the stairs of the Rikers Island Jail |
02:29:08 |
[CHATTER OVER RADIO] |
Manuel visits Pedro in jail |
02:29:13 |
OFFICER You guys [INDISTINCT]? |
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02:29:14 |
WOMAN We're--we're--we're right here, so thanks, officer. |
Manuel nods |
02:29:17 |
MANUEL "MANNY" So proud of you, man. How are you? Well, I got some good news for you. I found out that there's also another video, and the video doesn't show you. It shows someone else as the shooter, and I'm in the process of getting that. I also found out who the shooter was, and I'm in the process of now meeting him and getting him on video, and I'm going to have that evidence very shortly for you. It's very rare I get to say this, Pedro, but, um, I'm 100% sure we're gonna win this case. There is no way we can lose this case. I know you're innocent, and there's nothing that's going to change that. They're gonna try to make you another offer. They're gonna try to offer you another, uh, deal to get out of here. Will you take that deal? |
Pedro shakes his head |
02:30:07 |
PEDRO No, I will not. |
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02:30:08 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Why? |
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02:30:09 |
PEDRO 'Cause I'm innocent. |
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02:30:12 |
[MOURNFUL STRING MUSIC] |
Officer Raymond is preparing himself to go to work, Officer Raymond is driving his car |
02:30:22 |
OFC. RAYMOND If the department was questioned about why is it that I wasn't promoted, they would have no answer. There's no legitimate answer, because it's just corruption. So ultimately, me being out there and willing to speak the truth, they had no choice but to promote me. |
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02:30:51 |
NYPD OFFICER As a result of their success in competitive civil service examinations, 76 police officers are being promoted to the rank of sergeant. Will the members being promoted to the rank of sergeant please rise to their seats for the administration of the oath by Chief Spano. |
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02:31:04 |
MAN Attention! |
Police officers that are promoted stand up and walk towards the front |
02:31:06 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
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02:31:10 |
MAN Christopher Knoll? |
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02:31:10 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
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02:31:18 |
OFC. RAYMOND It's a nightmare for them to me to rise through the ranks, because now I outrank over 20,000 people. |
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02:31:26 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
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02:31:29 |
OFC. RAYMOND And knowing how the department moves, I'm sure they were looking to release something to discredit me. |
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02:31:40 |
[SOMBER PIANO MUSIC] |
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02:31:43 |
OFC. RAYMOND But whatever the consequences, I am going to do whatever I have to do. |
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02:31:48 |
NYPD OFFICER Edwin Raymond. |
Officer Raymond and Commissioner Bratton shake hands |
02:31:49 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
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02:32:01 |
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] |
Officer Raymond's friends hug and greet him |
02:32:05 |
WOMAN It's okay, it's okay. It's o… |
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02:32:06 |
OFC. RAYMOND I'm fine. |
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02:32:10 |
MAN Well-deserved. |
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02:32:10 |
OFC. RAYMOND Thank you. I'm jealous. |
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02:32:13 |
MAN Right here. |
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02:32:14 |
OFC. RAYMOND Okay. I love you, brother. |
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02:32:17 |
WOMAN Aw, man. |
Officer Raymond is in an interview |
02:32:21 |
OFC. RAYMOND This feels great, but there's a lot more to do. We have centuries of embedded ideologies, and then so many other things to undo. |
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02:32:28 |
ALL (singing) Na, na, na, na, na, na, na |
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02:32:32 |
REPORTER Cheers from protesters greeted Police Commissioner Bill Bratton as he walked out of city hall after announcing his resignation. His tenure was marked by the Eric Garner chokehold case and corruption, but the mayor insisted that that was not the reason Bratton packed it in. |
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02:32:46 |
MAYOR BILL 110%, has nothing to do with this. |
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02:32:50 |
CROWD I can't breathe! I can't breathe! |
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02:32:53 |
DET. WALLER I think our lawsuit had a lot to do with this dude resigning. A lot to do with it. |
Officer Raymond is in an interview |
02:32:58 |
OFC. RAYMOND I was railroaded for doing what's right, so to me, that shows the insincerity uh, regarding what the department says and what it does. |
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02:33:08 |
COMMISSIONER BRATTON To build upon a foundation that was begun more than 20 years ago that was the shared vision when I, along with Jack Maple, John Timoney, John Miller, began to apply a new kind of science, a new kind of rigor, to policing, one that said that cops count, police matter. |
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02:33:24 |
CROWD Hey, hey, hey goodbye. |
Emeka walks toward his room |
02:33:37 |
[THUNDER RUMBLING] |
Emeka is talking to the camera |
02:33:53 |
EMEKA This is the email on case number 06885 of 2015. The claims that have to do with the quota, which are the most important claims that are contained in the amended complaint, have been dismissed entirely. The most important part of the case is gone. I'm not going to lie to you. The decision is depressing. The judge is saying, based on how the quota law was written, the cops cannot sue. They can only file complaints directly with the department. It doesn't matter whether what the department is doing is wrong or not. The judge hasn't even reached the merit of the substance of the claim. The judge is just saying, simply, "You can't sue for this. There's no right of action." |
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02:34:55 |
FILMMAKER Wait, did the judge see any evidence when making this determination? |
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02:35:00 |
EMEKA The judge has not gone to the point where you can see evidence. We just filed a complaint. |
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02:35:06 |
FILMMAKER So what about the NYPD 12? Do you think this is it for them? |
Emeka shakes his head |
02:35:10 |
EMEKA Oh, no. Obviously, I mean, not. The case is not completely dismissed. We still have a chance to move forward with the 12 plaintiffs, so the NYPD 12 is still intact, but we are hanging on by a thread. |
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02:35:18 |
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC] |
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02:35:34 |
OFC. BAEZ Basically, the judge said we didn't come up with enough evidence to prove that the way we were being retaliated against was based on quotas or is racial. One of the things they also said that why should it go to the federal court if the department itself has internal sources to remedy our situation? |
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02:35:57 |
OFC. DIAZ I reported to OEO, Office of Equal Employment Management. I reported to Internal Affairs. They did nothing about this. Reported corruption. Nothing was done. The judge knows that this guy reported the corrup--reported to these agencies, and she did nothing about it. So that's l-leading me to believe there's something else going on here. |
Officer Baez nods |
02:36:23 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I'm trying to pass an agency where you can report crime and not worry about retaliation. |
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02:36:32 |
OFC. SERRANO And we have nowhere to go to say Captain McCormack is forcing me to stop black people. |
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02:36:39 |
MANUEL "MANNY" This agency would stop that. What this is saying is what we've been trying to fight for, what Frank Serpico is fighting for, and cops before that. |
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02:36:45 |
OFC. SERRANO Right. |
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02:36:46 |
MANUEL "MANNY" But nobody's done it. |
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02:36:47 |
OFC. SERRANO You look at all of them, Schoolcraft and Serpico and all of them, every time they did something, it got shot down at first, and they persevered and persevered, and the good thing that I know that we have a good fight. We will prevail. That's--that, I know. It's just how long, is the question, and when. |
The doctor hands Officer Whitely her baby |
02:37:19 |
OFC. WHITELY We all put our jobs on the line, and we put everything on the line to try to expose what's going on within the department, and it's just disappointing to know that everything we were fighting for is being dismissed. You know? But karma's a hell of a thing, you know? You don't treat--you don't--you don't do that to someone, especially someone carrying a child. |
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02:37:48 |
FILMMAKER Felicia, I was wondering, what do you think you'll tell this little guy about this whole experience? |
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02:37:58 |
OFC. WHITELY Think I'll give--I won't tell him anything negative about this experience. As far as I'm concerned, it never happened. It's over with. That's black history. You know? Hmm. |
Jessica is driving her car |
02:38:36 |
JESSICA I feel like I'm going to faint. |
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02:38:51 |
FILMMAKER Did he say what he wants to do when he gets out? You know? |
Jessica is talking to the camera |
02:38:54 |
JESSICA [SIGHS] Eat a home-cooked meal. He sent to his sister to prepare it. [LAUGHS] |
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02:39:02 |
FILMMAKER Oh, yeah? She's the best cook in the family? [LAUGHS] |
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02:39:05 |
JESSICA No, no, but in that, she knows how to do the salmon with coconut--coconut shrimps. |
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02:39:09 |
[MUSIC] |
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02:39:11 |
JESSICA She knows how to do that good, so…but her rice is no good. |
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02:39:16 |
FILMMAKER I feel like I heard some chuckles back there. |
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02:39:18 |
[LAUGHTER] |
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02:39:19 |
JESSICA'S SON Yeah. Far from the best, but.. |
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02:39:22 |
JESSICA He sent that, to prepare that for him. |
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02:39:26 |
JESSICA'S SON Won't be the same. |
Pedro hugs his family |
02:39:40 |
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
Jessica is in an interview |
02:39:52 |
JESSICA I love you. You did it. All I can say is my son is out and best moment for a while now. |
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02:40:12 |
REPORTER And you are prepared to go to trial with him? |
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02:40:16 |
JESSICA Now we're ready for trial. |
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02:40:18 |
REPORTER You're gonna see it through? |
Jessica nods |
02:40:19 |
JESSICA Yes. |
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02:40:20 |
REPORTER Yay. |
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02:40:20 |
MANUEL "MANNY" And we're gonna win. |
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02:41:00 |
[SOMBER MUSIC] |
Officer Abdullah is using his laptop |
02:41:06 |
OFC. ABDULLAH Now the department says quotas doesn't exist, but obviously, it does, if--if supervisors are still forcing police officers to go out and bring back numbers. |
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02:41:29 |
LT. HO All right, good afternoon. |
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02:41:30 |
ALL Good afternoon. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HO: Abdullah.
LIEUTENANT HO: Abdullah? |
02:41:31 |
LT. HO Attention all roll call. Calling for orange. Orange, you're covering base till 6:30. Abdullah, Kareem. Abdu--Abdullah? |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER KAREEM ABDULLAH: Sir. |
02:41:40 |
OFC. ABDULLAH Sir? |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HO: See me after roll call.
Lieutenant Ho is driving the car with Officer Abdullah, and one other officer. |
02:41:41 |
LT. HO See me after roll call. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HO: Any collar comes over, you take it. You need a collar for the month anyway.
Gonna get you a collar. A collar for the month.
Collar, collar, collar, collar. |
02:41:48 |
LT. HO Any collar comes over, you take it. You need a collar for the month anyway. Gonna get you a collar. A collar for the month. Collar, collar, collar, collar. |
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02:42:03 |
NYPD OFFICER Two to the right. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HO: Abdullah, you can stay. You stay.
You stay. I'll go make the collar.
Officer Abdullah stays in the car as Lieutenant Ho and the other officer exit the car |
02:42:04 |
LT. HO To the right. Abdullah, you can stay. You stay. You stay. I'll go make the collar. |
SUBTITLE
OFFICER KAREEM ABULLAH: Working with Lieutenant Ho and another officer. They just pulled someone over.
Lieutenant Ho is forcing us to do activity. |
02:42:15 |
OFC. ABDULLAH Working with Lieutenant Ho and another officer. They just pulled someone over. Lieutenant Ho is forcing us to do activity. Who's targeted the most? The minority community. |
SUBTITLE
LIEUTENANT HO: Can you run the plate for me?
Suspended. You get your collar.
You gonna write him a summons and give him a collar.
Yeah! I got Abdullah a collar! Very good. |
02:42:35 |
LT. HO Can you run the plate for me? Suspended. You get your collar. You gonna write him a summons and give him a collar. Yeah! I got Abdullah a collar! Very Good. Just give me a second. Let me confirm from him first. |
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02:42:54 |
OFC. ABDULLAH When I--when I decided to go public, I was--I was nervous. But, um, I feel what I'm doing is--is necessary. You know, I--I believe in the struggle, and with struggle, comes change. |
Pedro and his team are walking toward the courtroom |
02:43:44 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Come on, Pedro. Come on. Come on. Come on, this way. Left. Come on. |
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02:43:54 |
JESSICA Being spied on, I bet. |
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02:43:56 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Pedro, over there. |
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02:43:58 |
FILMMAKER You all right? You okay? |
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02:44:00 |
PEDRO Yeah. Hey, man. |
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02:44:08 |
JESSICA I'm calming down my heartbeat. |
Pedro's trial starts |
02:44:25 |
JUDGE All right, number ten, number ten, number ten, which is account number ten, Pedro Hernandez. I am calling, uh, ten, and I will call seven immediately thereafter. Um, seven. At the arraignment, you're welcome to make your application as well if you want to do anything. Counselor, if you please? |
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02:44:47 |
ALEX Uh, yes, on behalf of my client. Alex Spiro. |
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02:44:50 |
MAN Office of the district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, uh, deputy counsel, Julian Bond O'Connor for the people. Good af--good morning, judge. |
SUBTITLE
It's my understanding that there's been a change in the circumstances at this time? |
02:44:58 |
JUDGE Good morning, sir. It's my understanding that there's been a change in the circumstances at this time? |
Manuel shakes his head |
02:45:03 |
MAN Yes, judge. Um, the people have conducted an investigation, an extensive investigation, of this case, notwithstanding uh, witness accounts in this case have proven to be inconsistent and contradictory. Therefore, at this time, the people move to dismiss the indictment against Pedro Hernandez in indictment 2105 of 2016. |
SUBTITLE
Ok, then the case is dismissed. |
02:45:32 |
JUDGE Okay, then the case is dismissed. |
Pedro nods |
02:45:35 |
[APPLAUSE] |
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02:45:38 |
[DESOLATE MUSIC] |
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02:45:43 |
MANUEL "MANNY" [LAUGHS] You all right? Look at him. |
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02:45:52 |
REPORTER Hernandez, response on today? |
Pedro is in an interview |
02:45:54 |
PEDRO I want to thank private investigator Manuel Gomez, thank my family, thanks to all that paid, thank everybody who was by my side supported me through the way and helped me get this case dismissed. |
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02:46:03 |
REPORTER Did you ever have second thoughts? What were your thoughts coming into this? |
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02:46:09 |
PEDRO Well, my thoughts were just--I had faith. Faith in [INDISTINCT] and I'm going. |
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02:46:15 |
REPORTER So what about the college scholarship? That's the big thing. |
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02:46:18 |
PEDRO Yeah, my college scholarship--I'm continuing on with that and I'm gonna be going on to college to start a new life. |
Manuel is in an interview |
02:46:26 |
MANUEL "MANNY" I'm gonna go have a well-deserved cup of coffee and, uh, just sit back and enjoy the, uh, moment of bliss. |
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02:46:33 |
REPORTER Are you gonna--are you gonna go with Jessica and the family, or… |
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02:46:36 |
MANUEL "MANNY" Uh, I gotta fight another case, and then I'll see. I may hook up with the family later on. Why, thank you. |
Officer Raymond is talking to the camera, Officer Raymond shows a newspaper clip of him on his phone to the filmmaker |
02:47:20 |
OFC. RAYMOND I always knew something was coming, and now something is finally here. I have to deal with slander. Let me show you something. |
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02:47:46 |
FILMMAKER So they're saying you let a suspect go just 'cause he's black? |
Officer Raymond is walking on the street |
02:47:50 |
OFC. RAYMOND Yeah, I'm being accused of letting someone slide simply because he's black. And the irony is, you know, this--this recent attempt at slander is basically trying to deem me as the racist. The NYPD 12 has made themselves more vulnerable to all types of dangers, but at the same time, has brought light to an issue that we can no longer afford to not acknowledge. We're at a time where there's just no room for anonymity. There's no room for silence. We're way beyond that. You know, the days when an officer sits in a silhouette with a disguised voice, those days are gone. You know? This is the time where you have to be able to show your face and you have to be able to speak the truth. |
Shots of the city at night |
02:49:04 |
[BRASS JAZZ MUSIC] |