Police quotas

Police quotas

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, it's talking a second agoabout House Bill three point thirty three,
and if Ohio lawmakers here have theirway, the traffic ticket quotas would be
banned here in the state of Ohio. We were just talking about this and
we actually have an officer calling inand Michael, welcome to the show.
How are you. I'm doing fine, brother, How are you doing good?

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Man? Doing good? So whatis is our take way off on
this or where are we at?No? I think it's just all misunderstanding.
There is somewhat of a quota.However, it's not official. You
got to write so many tickets typething. What is the what is the
quota? You said? Kind oftheir kind of sort of is a quote.

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What does that mean? Well,I work for a large local law
enforcement agency at for like five decadesand we've never had a quota. You
have to go out and write somany tickets. But they do expect you
to make traffic stops, make contacts, as we call it, not necessarily
traffic, but you can't drive outthere and not see a violator in an
eight hour shift. So they wantyou to be busy. They don't want

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you sitting around around the fire stationof the donut house, and so they
expect you to get out and dosome work. So yes, there it's
motivation. Get out, make trafficstops, investigate suspicious people, just talk
to the neighbors. You got tomake contacts. So they're somewhat of a
quota. You got to get outand get busy, right, Okay,

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So they don't say, oh,you got to write you know, you
got to write twenty people a monthor yet, I mean there's no number,
exact number or whatever. You't youon't know, there's no exact number.
Now I do work traffic grants asidefrom my department. They pay us
a low level police officers overtime togo out and harass people. So they

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pay us to work traffic enfortument primarilyon the freeways in the state routes and
stuff. It's a state program andthey require that we make three try to
make three contacts an hour. Don'tnecessarily have to be tickets. But they
want us to get out, bevisible, let people see us, right,
And what and what that does isit just it keeps people, you
know, top of mind, like, hey, this area, there's there's

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officers in this area. I betterkeep the idiocy to a minimum here is
really right? Right? Yeah?Okay, yeah, okay, Well that's
that's Friday night. Last Friday night, we went over and assisted Dublin on
trying to catch the road racers andmurdercycles out there on two seventy you.
Thank you, thank you, becauseI can't every damn night I live by

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Dublin Sayota High School. I'm tellingyou, every night I might as well
be Adton Daytona Track. I mean, I mean, seriously, it's ridiculous.
Thank you. Yeah, well,let me tell you what the problem
is. I was out there workingthis enforcement on the side of the road,
impounding a vehicle from some person inother country didn't bother get a license,
and I was dusted by a chargerin the lane next to me at

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one hundred and thirteen miles an hour. Who is being chased by three motorcycles
And I'm not allowed to chasing becauseyou are currently in the process of handling
another case. Well, even ifI did, Jason, they would cancel
me. So we're not allowed tochase people. Yeah, yeah, Well,
I gotta be honest. I II based on what you told our
screener. I know who you areand I will say thank you for your

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service. I know you're getting readyto retire as well. I uh,
I talked to somebody who told methat you were getting ready. I think
if this is the same guy thatI'm thinking of, and I'm not gonna
out here or whatever on the onthe air, but I want to say
thank you for all of the yearsthat you've put in and you're getting out.
I would imagine you're probably thinking thesame thing. I'm getting out at
a good time because they won't allowpolice to police anymore. It's a travesty.

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Well, even if we do catchit, there's no justice system anymore.
So you got that, Yeah,now I will before we hang up.
I'll tell you one thing it doesirritate the heck out of me is
the cups that hide. I don'thide behind walls. I don't turn my
lights out. I sit right outin the open with my laser on and
my po pomobile, and I getmore traffic than I can handle, and

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I get people fifteen over for Ieven look at him. Yeah, I
bet that's fair. That's fair rightthere. That is fair. That's more
than fair. Yeah. But I'lltell you if you're doing eighty to work
down the freeway like you said youdo. We're gonna have a conversation say
hi to say hi to Deputy ChiefGilbert for us. Oh yeah, he's
always talking to me about something.Thanks Michael, we appreciate you, man,

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he said, all right, seedoing the heck of a job.
Thank you, Maks mad thank youvery much. Somebody else is doing a
really great job, as Alex stell. Whoaa, well, let's not.
I was pumped the brakes right good, No, really good. No.
We's doing a fantast with eighty onthe way to work. Isn't that what
the freeway is for? I mean, if it's just sixty five, that
means yeah, right, sixty welleighties that are sixty five? It really

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is on two seventy. I wantthat guy to pull me over. He
seems like he'd be cool. He'dbe like, you know what, just
don't be doing that any longer.I will tell you this. So you
pulled up. Do you know whoI am? Cart I'm Alex Stone.
Have you heard from me? Yeah? Right, and watch out, cause
uh if he lets the canine out, don't even think about trying to get

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out and take off on foot.You will be eating alive by his carn.
You may have some crazy laws outhere, but he can come out
here if he wants to chase anybody. That's what we do in California.
You think of police chases, thisis that. That's what we do.
It's it's entertainment every day on Vhere. There's an entire YouTube channel just
dedicated to Los Angeles police chases everyday on TV. Right around now and

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in the kind of middle of theday, it'll our time. It's it's
all chases all day long. Everybodybreaks in. The choppers are overhead and
you'll hear everybody in our newsroom.You know one's on. When you hear
down the hall people going oh andclapping, and you know, it's it's
like entertainment in LA. But Alex, tell me, do they there's not
much canine as far as if peoplebail out of their vehicles and so on.

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You'll yeah, and you see iton some of the shows. They'll
release them. Huh. Okay,they definitely release them, and you'll see
him biting and hanging on to thearm and everything else. Oh oh yeah,
that's brutal. I just want tosee. I didn't know like how
it works there because you know,and look, we're unfortunately in the middle

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of there's a lot of there's alot of let's say, people that do
not enforce the law. You justheard it from the officer who we were
talking to, and that is partof the reason a lot of them are
find they're just getting out. Buthe's been at it a while, like
a long time, and he's hada storied career, and he's actually had
some pretty some pretty paramount moments inhis career, stuff that I'm sure there's

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footage of even out there with regardto maneuvers with his car and so on.
This guy is exemplary. I mean, there is no as far as
officers go. So I would imaginethink about a guy who's been in that
long and what he's dealing with nowin this day and age of how they
just they don't let police police anymore. They really don't. Yeah, I
think police in every state, we'lltell you that, and we definitely hear
it from police in California as well. But when it comes chasing, the

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California Highway Patrol does not mess around. When they take over a chase,
get ready for the pit maneuver.You know where they tap them in the
back and spin them around. That'swhat I was talking about with the officer.
We were just talking about. Hedid one of the pretty storied ones
here. But yes, oh yeah, yeah, that's cool. That's cool.
Police departments and may have a nochase policy when they're doing it.
Once the CHP gets there, youa game on, they don't back off.
They don't do the tracking mode orthe watching mode. They do only

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game on mode. And it's it'sentertaining every day. That's awesome. So
Apple likely to unveil new AI toolsfor iPhones. Did this happen today,
Yeah, yeah, a couple ofminutes ago. So Apple is late to
the artificial intelligence ball game. Alot of other companies have already gone into
it. And today Apple jumped fullyin to the this game. And today

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they they said their full throttle announcingthat this had been rumored that they were
going to get into AI, andthat this is what the announcement was going
to be. But with iOS eighteen, the next iPhone update, along with
iPads and max, they're going tohave AI running in them, just in
the guts of it doing everything.It's going to be called Apple Intelligence and

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the announcement came a few minutes agowith music that sounded something kind of like
it was out of a sci fimovie that it was this. As they
revealed all that it's going to beabout, they say, your iPhone or
your Mac or your iPad is actuallygoing to know its user, to know
their likes and their dislikes, tobe able to do things like rewrite an
email for you to make it moredirect, less direct, friendlier, more

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professional, proof freed things for youto make emojis it look like you or
your friends, create images based offthe description that you tell it you want
the image to be to quickly getyou information to look at everything that it
knows about you that you could say, hey, what time is mom landing
in the air. It's going toknow from all your text messages, your
emails, other info that's out there, flight tracking, and say here's when

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your mom is going to be atthe airport, know everything about what you've
been messaging and emailing. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, say in a few
minutes ago in their presentation, allof this goes beyond artificial intelligence. It's
personal intelligence, and it's the nextbig step for Apple, And they said
They're going to be focused on securityso that they claim all your data is

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going to be on your device andnot in the cloud like most AI,
that they won't be going somewhere else. It's going to stay locked with you
on your devices. Going to makeserri more natural and helpful. You'll be
able to record phone calls for thefirst time, something a lot of people
have wanted, and then have themtranscribed and even give you bullet points for
that conversation. So a lot ofaspects to it. But in the next

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couple of months, you're going tohave if you have a newer phone,
you're going to have AI on it. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm
predicting within eight years to ten years, we're going to have a bunch of
dummies in our society who don't knowknow how to put together write any kind
of an email or any kind ofa paragraph a book report. These kids?
What about school? That's what That'swhere I was going with this.

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It's like I don't want I mean, think about this now. Stone is
about to be eleven, and soI think we can, well we should
be able to squeak him through here, But think about these kids, where
you know they're going, Hey,just rely on AI to write a more
direct email or a less to.Now that works for people who already kind
of know how to do that.But man, think about this. How
many times, Alex, do youget in your car and it's a place

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that you're traveling to where you livethat maybe you've been to, but it's
been six eight months since you've beenthere, and you're going back there,
and you go, I'm pretty sureI know exactly which way to go.
But let me put it back intomy uh my point is I put everything
in the maps, and some willsay how'd you get here? And I
say, I have no idea.I just you know, it's a little

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scary thinking about you don't exercise thatmuscle anymore, if lack of a better
term, and so, and I'mguilty of it as well, and I
rely on it more for let mesee if there's traffic delays, because that's
work that sort of thing. Yeah, exactly. So I feel like this
AI and what's happening with it iskind of going to become that type of
a situation, if you know whatI mean, you know, yeah,

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yeah, And there are a fewother things that they also revealed that that
with I wonder when we talk aboutschool and kids and whatnot, you're gonna
be able to lock apps so thatif you give your phone to say you're
a child to look at a photo, they can't get into certain apps.
But also hiding apps, which I'mguessing if you have a kid's device,
that you'll be able to stop thatfrom happening, where you can make it

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so they never they can't see thatthat app is on there. You and
when your kid doing that where youdon't know what apps they have on a
device, but you know if youhave an adult app or an embarrassing app
on there, then they'll never knowwhat's on there because you're gonna be able
to hide it from the home screen. One cool thing though, that could
be really helpful if you go campingor you go off the grid a lot.
Start with iOS eighteen. If youhave an iPhone fourteen or newer,

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you're gonna be able to both Imessage and text message off the grid via
satellite. Up until now was onlyfor emergencies that if you needed to contact
nine one one, but now you'regonna be able to continue texting if you're
totally off the grid. To sendmessages. You just connect to the satellite
and you'll be good to go.Wow, that's that's nice and safe.
I mean that that does help alot. That's a great selling point for

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them as well. Cool. Youknow, you go somewhere where it's remote
and you need to send a textmessage, you'll be able to do it.
Yeah. Wow, that's impressive,no question. Alex Stone, ABC
News out of Los Angeles. Alex, thank you very much. Appreciate you.
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