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All right, let's begin.

My name is Barry Cooper.

- Barry Cooper.
- Barry Cooper.

One of the best narcotics
officers in the country.

The Barry Cooper story,
well, it's a big one.

Barry was your worst
fucking nightmare.

Barry Cooper could piss
an entire nation off

with the wave of his hand.

You're under arrest for
possession of marijuana.

He even looks like
a cartoonish version

of that cop that pulls you over
and fucks your fucking life up.

Man: Oh my god!

Bobby:
Who has the power to pull a gun on you, shoot you,

and probably get away with it?

It's a police officer.

Barry: This is the money
that we seized.

The only way for Barry
to repent for these sins

was to say, I was the villain.

Now I need to be the hero.

Reporter:
Can you imagine a DVD that teaches criminals

how to break the law?

Now the former
straight-laced lawman

is using his expertise
to show drug users

how to conceal their stash.

It's all in an outrageous
DVD that he's produced

called "Never Get Busted Again."

He was one of the first people
to make a huge public stand.

Oh, I thought he
was fucking crazy.

You know, I thought he was
going to get shot down.

So why in the world would you,

as a former
drug enforcement officer,

want to help
people use drugs?

He's developed into
this much more dangerous

enemy of law enforcement.

We must end this
war on our people.

That offended almost all
law enforcement officers,

and he became a target.

Barry:
Hey, Rangers, why are y'all being pricks like that?

You don't want me
busting crooked cops?

We get into some
real cloak and dagger,

Breaking Bad, Ozark shit.

Barry Cooper himself
is still at large.

Barry broke the code.

People wanted him dead.

Officer: Come our with your
hands in the air. Do it now.

Barry:
I was considered one of the worst traitors on the planet

to law enforcement.

And my response to them was,
fuck you, come get some.

♪ I can't see where
you comin' from ♪

♪ But I know just what
you're runnin' from ♪

♪ And what matters
ain't the who's baddest ♪

♪ But the ones who stop you
falling from your ladder ♪

♪ When you feel like
you're feeling now ♪

♪ And doin' things just
to please your crowd ♪

♪ When I love you like
the way I love you ♪

♪ And I suffer, but I ain't
gon' cut you, 'cause ♪

♪ This ain't no
place for no hero ♪

♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪

♪ This ain't no
place for no hero ♪

♪ To call home ♪

Welcome to the concealing
your stash section of this DVD.

I'm going to show you
area's other crim--

fuck, OK.

Can we shoot the introduction
again really quick?

Cameraman: Do you want
your house behind you?

I don't care.

I'm going to show you
successful and unsuccessful

places other
suspects have hidden

their stash in this section.

Fuck.

The first time I saw
Never Get Busted,

I had never seen
anything like it.

It's a really good idea
to hide your stash

in hard to find places,
such as way under the dash.

Leandrew:
The sheer nature of the story really just blew our minds.

Ex-narcotic officer
that broke bad

and was showing people how to
transport and cultivate drugs

without getting busted.

We've had bad policy
in America in the past.

You know there was a time
when women could not vote?

I think one thing that people

really didn't like about
Never Get Busted

was when my dad put a joint in
the straw of a kid's happy meal.

Barry: Make it look
like a straw skin.

Throw it in the Big Mac box.

Like hide it in your
kid's happy meal?

What the fuck is that?

Shit. Taught me some hiding
spots, for real.

- The hamburger deal.
- When I first saw them,

I was still kind of
peddling here and there.

I've always worked,
but I-- you know.

And man, I was like, damn,
that's some new ideas

I never thought
about right there.

I often get asked
the question, Barry,

why are you helping
people break the law?

Fucking airplane.

OK, let me start over.

Why did I betray the police?

What you have to understand
is I used to be a cop,

but I didn't become a cop
to help people.

That's a cliche bullshit answer.

Police become police
for the excitement,

the adrenaline rush,
and the power.

Barry: Pull over.

Pull over and stay there.

How much have you
had to drink tonight?

Too much.
Barry: How much is too much?

I didn't have any passion
to join the war on drugs

until I stopped a DWI
and found some marijuana.

I get behind a truck
that's swerving.

I turn on my red and blues.

I do the field sobriety,
find him intoxicated.

Count out loud.

Try not to use
your arms for balance.

One, two, three.

That felt really good.

Try it again.

Arrest him.

She's also drunk,
so I can't let her go.

So I arrest her for
public intoxication.

And as I'm searching
through her purse,

I find a bud of marijuana.

And I'm like, what's--
there's marijuana.

Marijuana roach in the ashtray,
and I smell marijuana.

OK, where's the marijuana at?

And he had a half a joint.

I'm like, here's more.

Here's more.

And it was like a big deal
to the jailers.

And they're like,
Barry made a pot bust.

I knew that was my field.

I wanted to bust dope.

I had read a book
on how to be successful.

And one of the tips was find
somebody who's the best at it

and copy them to a T.

There was only one or two
really, really smart

narcotics officers
in all of Texas.

One was 60 miles from me.

His name was Barry Washington.

He was busting pounds
and pounds of marijuana

and kilos of cocaine.

And everybody was like,
well, he was a star.

Nobody could figure out
how he was doing it.

I'd rather catch
a great big load of dope

than to do anything
in the world.

I was a law enforcement
officer for the state of Texas

approximately 32 years.

I think that's what
God wanted me to do.

Barry:
There was a line of officers that wanted to ride with him.

And I would just
pick up the phone.

And he would push officers
out of the way to let me in.

He liked me.

I had a little philosophy
that I stood by.

And I think that Cooper really
picked up on this part of it.

The country boy act
is really good.

I chewed a little tobacco.

And I was just
a dumb country boy.

Barry:
When I stopped you, did I tell you what I stopped you for?

Yeah, yeah, you did.

Do you remember what that was?

Not staying inside the line.

Barry:
OK, for swerving.

For swerving.

It made people really relax.

And they would tell me more
than what they should have.

Why did you let me
search your van

if you knew it was
full of marijuana?

Search it anyway.

Barry: Well, that's not true.

That might be what you think.

If you had told me--

I started walking like him,
talking like him.

I learned the questions
he asked.

What did you tell me
that this van was loaded with

before I found out?

I believe I said
medical supplies, didn't I?

Barry:
Medical supplies.

Well, I'm not going to
tell you it's marijuana

if you're not gonna look.

No kidding.

I learned everything
I could about busting drugs

from Barry Washington.

And then I went nuts.

We weren't out there to
write speeding tickets.

We were trained to watch if
somebody looked like a criminal,

we were going
to pull them over,

interview them,
and see what happened.

That marijuana doesn't help
your asthma, now does it?

That's bad on that asthma.

That's harsh on your lung.

Washington: Barry Cooper
was born to bust dope.

You don't learn it that fast.

I asked God to make me the best
drug officer on the planet.

There were specialized task
forces that work narcotics.

And I learned about drug dogs.

There's a guy I graduated
the police academy with,

and he had a drug dog.

And my friend said, I'm
going to show you something.

He took a bag of marijuana
and hid it in a car.

Then his partner
starts working the dog.

And the dog got to the source
and started scratching.

Man, I thought that
was the neatest--

I can't believe--
are you kidding me?

I'm doing that.
I'm training my own dog.

And I started--
and everybody was like,

you can't train your own dog.

These dogs are specially
trained in academies.

So I did the research.

And it cost $5,000 to buy one
of these dogs already trained.

$5,000 was like
$5 million to me.

There's no way I could do that.

But I knew how to train a dog.

You know, I trained
dogs to hunt raccoons.

Barry took to
country life great.

He loved training dogs.

He loved to fish.

He was always bringing
animals home.

He loved snakes.

Oh, god.

Barry:
Training a drug dog is very easy.

Finding the right drug dog
to train is the hard part.

The dogs that are used
to locate narcotics

have a high prey drive.

You know that dog that
just everybody hates?

And he's jumping up on you.
And he's real hyper.

And he can just chase the ball
over and over and over?

That's the dog you want
to start training.

Then you just scent the ball
with marijuana.

And the dog starts equating the
smell of marijuana to his toy.

He'll scratch at it.

Get it out of there, Toby.
Get it out of there.

That a boy. Dig it out.

This is my dog, Toby.

Got him certified

through the National Narcotic
Detector Dog Association.

Then they
had a competition.

And out of 300 dogs,
he placed 13th.

And I was the only
police officer there

that had trained his own dog.

Get it out of there, Toby.
Dig it out.

Get it out of there, Toby.

Get it out of there. That a boy.

Oh, good puppy.

Now listen to me.

I'm going to bring
a dog through there.

I'm going to look in it.

Dogs don't miss nothing.

"Claywater PD
cracking down on crackheads."

"Barry 'Silver-tooth' Cooper
and the rest of the police force

had implemented a zero
tolerance drug crackdown."

The nickname "Silver-tooth"

carried throughout my law
enforcement career.

So when I would
pull somebody over,

I'd just shine the flashlight
on my tooth.

And that first year,
with three miles of highway,

I made over 100 drug arrests.

It was unheard of.

Reporter:
If there are any drugs around, this hound will sniff them out.

This afternoon, he found
a quarter pound of marijuana

in Antonio Ruiz's toolbox.

That's bad news for Ruiz

and good work by the hound
and the drug team.

But what happened at
the cult compound in Waco--

Barry:
I got noticed by one of the most successful

drug task forces in the country.

Jack:
Barry, my name's Jack Brewer

with the Permian Basin
Drug Task Force.

Why do you want to come
out here and work for us?

I feel like I could be an asset.

I want to get around
a bunch of guys

that are experienced to help me
learn so I can keep excelling.

Joe:
Barry come in with a dog of his own that he had trained.

Had a rope around
his neck for a leash.

And I thought, well,
where'd this guy come from?

He was full of vinegar,
wanted to suit up every day

and go out and find
this type of dope.

He wanted to be top dog.

Brenda:
Barry is one determined person.

He gets something in his
head that he wants to do,

and he doesn't stop
till it's done.

Barry:
I was making more cases than all the agents

in the task force put together.

You become a hero over
and over and over.

It's quite a rush.

Announcer:
Live from the Permian Basin's 24-hour news leader,

this is the Big 2 News Update.

There's not a single day that
doesn't go by on the interstate

that we don't put somebody
in jail for narcotics

or arrest somebody on a warrant.

When I started working
for the drug task force,

that's when I found out how the
war on drugs has really fought.

I had envisioned what
I saw in Hollywood,

that these tactical guys
had made a foolproof plan.

This person go there,
that one goes there.

They go in, get on the ground,
and it's all clean

and goes according to plan.

It's nothing like that.

I got on the board,
everybody's listening.

Here's the house.

We just bought
some cocaine from it.

We're going there
to kick their ass.

Let's go.

And that's all
the planning we did.

Officer: Where's their location?
Officer 2: 36.

We're supposed to
wait for the jump out truck

until it comes to
a complete stop.

I had already jumped out
of the back of that truck

and was halfway to the door
before the truck ever stopped.

I was kicking in the door
with nobody behind me.

I'm like, come on.

We had flashbang grenades.

And we'd run up and break
their fucking window out

and throw it through them.

Boom.

Fucking nuts.

Kids screaming, dogs barking.

And there's nine of us running
around looking for somebody

to point a gun at.

Officer: Put your fucking
face down.

It's absolute chaos.

And the...

...let me tone this down
because this is not cool.

They would film the raids.

We would take it back
to the police station,

rewind it,
and watch it and laugh.

Barry:
And the funniest parts to us

were the moments the person
was the most terrorized.

When you kick in the door
and you run a pistol

in their fucking head
and scream,

"Motherfucker, I'm going to
blow your goddamn brains out.

Get on the fucking ground."

And they're like, doing that.

We would laugh about that shit.

That's fucked up.

Why are the Texas police
so focused on people

with a relatively small
amount of drugs on them?

And it's because that's
where the money in policing

has been for the past 40 years.

Bobby: These Texas task forces
get this grant money.

They've got to show
something for it.

They've got to show cases.

And so if they can put
a case on a guy

that wants to buy
a bump of meth,

they'll put him in a conspiracy
with another guy.

And they can round up 20
or 30 users and one guy

that's slinging the dope.

Officer: Put you hands
behind you.

That shows the government's
getting their money's worth.

When you look at how those
incentives were written,

it wasn't lower the use
of drugs in this area.

It wasn't lower
the supply of drugs.

It said the number of arrests.

You don't run from
the task force.

The latter part of my career,
some old drug agents told me,

hey, you find some money
and nobody's around,

it's OK to snip a couple
hundred off the top

and put it in your pocket.

So I did.

How much cash do you have?

How much cash you got?

There's money in that car, OK?

Joe:
I want the rest of the money out of those vehicles.

Get it all, all the money
and the dope.

No dope? OK, show me where
all the money's at.

Now let's get it all.

Man, you did good.

You did real good.

If they didn't have the veneer
of law enforcement behind them,

then this would be
just a bunch of people

with guns taking your shit.

Now you have, I guess, one
Hispanic male under arrest,

and you have seized
this vehicle as well?

Yes, sir, we're going
to seize the vehicle.

It was a white male that--

Barry: But back then,
I remember feeling

like I was
on top of the world.

Nothing could go wrong for me.

And I was so fucking wrong, man.

Officer: Police!
Get down!

Get down on the fucking ground!

Get down! Get down!

Barry:
We raided a home, and there's a little girl and a little boy.

We had the mom handcuffed.

And I'm like, this mom
doesn't belong in handcuffs.

She's not going to hurt me.

And the kids are crying.

We had a female
agent at the time.

She was bending over,
telling the kids, "It's OK.

We're going to take care of you.

Come on outside with me."

Telling these kids that
they're going to be OK,

and mom's crying and screaming,
and dad's on the ground

with a fucking
shotgun to his head.

It was madness.

It was madness.

And I had two girls at home
waiting for me to get home.

And I started thinking,
what the fuck?

What if somebody thought I
had a bag of pot at my house,

and they raided me
and caused that type of trauma?

This is as I'm searching through
their house for evidence.

And I noticed
the kids' report cards.

And they're straight-A students.

This is a normal home.

And we just fucked it up.

Over pot.

That caused me to start
putting the brakes,

putting the brakes
on some things.

Now I started questioning
what we were doing as cops.

Reporter:
A check of the license plates

led officers to the
driver's neighbourhood.

When I first started out
busting people for drugs,

I saw myself as this hero

who was stopping the bully

from ruining the community.

We finished counting the money.

But we were stealing,
kicking people's doors in,

and ruining lives.

Officer: Get on the bed.

Get on the bed.

Roll over.

I realized I was the bully.

When you realize you're wrong,

and the consequences
of you being wrong

has caused irreparable
damage for that person.

Anybody with a conscience,
got to fuck you up a little bit.

And it did.

It did me for a long time.

I wasn't able to forgive myself.

Fortunately, I had
developed a relationship

with the Christian God.

Wife: This is my husband.

This is me.

We're headed to church
to see Brother Newman preach.

I needed to atone for
the damage I had caused.

So I quit.

And I was looking for
something else to do.

Thank you, Jesus!

Thank you, Jesus!

Woo!

Kathy:
There's only three kinds of people in this world.

There's people that
love Barry Cooper.

There's people that
hate Barry Cooper.

And then there's people that
never met Barry Cooper.

I'm Kathy Vaden, I was
Barry's rhythm guitar player.

And we would rock.

We would rock.

♪ Everybody sing! ♪

♪ Jesus, he will rock you ♪

I saw the God in Barry.

Barry could make people enter
another room spiritually.

Barry:
I started what was called an R-rated church.

Kids weren't allowed.

And I talked about
sex and drugs.

It was a wine-drinking church.

Heck, you'd go there, and you'd
just get your buzz on, you know?

I'm going to church.

I'll be back in a little while.

Kenzie:
Everything that my dad's done has been 1,000%.

My name is Kenzie Cooper,
and Barry Cooper is my father.

Say hi, daddy.

Daddy!
Brian: Yeah.

Whether he's a preacher or
a cop, whatever he's doing,

he's going to do it hardcore.

He's not just going to
have a little church.

He's going to have
an X-rated church.

It was a naked church.

Yes, a nudist church.

Why didn't I find out.

He was swinging.

Don't look at the apple.

I laughed, because
people were like, hey,

you went to church with me.

I was like, yeah,
but I was fully clothed.

I was never naked.

Barry:
My pastor was like a father to me.

We were really, really close.

Thank the Lord.

Barry:
But I started suspicioning he was false prophesying.

Somebody in the congregation

would tell somebody else
in the congregation,

"I slept with two guys
this weekend,

and I feel guilty about it."

The person that was told that
would tell my pastor and me.

The next Sunday morning,

my preacher would
be preaching,

and he'd go,
sister such and such,

God has a message for you.

Come up to the front.

The Lord is showing me

that you're ashamed of something

you did this weekend.

Pastor:
Said, "All right."

Lift your hands up
and tell me about your choice.

Hallelujah. Praise the lord.

I'm looking at it,
I'm like, that's bullshit.

That's false prophesying.

He said, "yeah."

He said, "Yeah, it's called
the okey-doke, son.

You didn't know that?"

I'm like, no, I didn't know
anything about the okey-doke.

I just thought it
was prophesying.

He says,
"No, that's what we do

in all these
churches around here."

I'm like, man, I--
broke, broke my heart.

And people didn't understand
that at the church,

how you can be
as dynamic as he was,

and then just get up
and just walk away from it.

Barry: Look at me.

Look at me.

Look at me or I won't quit.

I was lost.

Me and my wife were going
through a hard time.

Wife:
Lay down, both of my kids.

Good night.
Get a good night's rest.

Don't forget to say your
prayers and give me a kiss.

Barry:
I loved my first wife dearly.

I really loved her, but we
were not a match at all.

But the divorce happened because
I had a nervous breakdown.

And it was from the things
I did in law enforcement.

I started going to bars.

And yeah, I drank heavy.

Barry Cooper, what do
you want to drink?

Barry: Vodka tonic.

All right.
Barry: Y'all know me.

You be sure and get
a good picture of my ass.

Barry:
Peer pressure will get me involved in anything.

Came all the way
from New Orleans.

Barry: Meeting Candi
really changed my life

and headed me on the path
of where I am today.

She taught me how to
not be so serious.

Kenzie:
My dad was like, girls, I want to tell you something.

I'm dating Candi now.

And I was so excited.

I wrote about it in
my journal at school.

♪ Give me your love so sweet ♪

I was like, she's so cool.

She's 24, and she likes
lip gloss and rap music.

I was obsessed with her.

And that never went away.

I'm still obsessed with her.

I was not crazy about Candice.

I just thought she was
too slutty for him.

I didn't like it, not one bit.

But I guess in his own way,
Barry was awfully slutty too.

♪ I love Candi ♪

♪ Boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom ♪

♪ She's so dandy ♪

♪ Boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom ♪

Things were going great.

But I noticed people were
coming to her house a lot.

And I wasn't stupid.

She was selling them weed.

Candi was a weed dealer.

Hey, baby.

She met me in the driveway.

And she said, hey, smoke this.

I said, no.

- Just say no.
- No!

Say no to drugs.

It hurts the user.

It hurts his family.

And it hurts his friends.

I just want to shake some
sense into you kids.

There's no way I could do that.

Announcer:
This is your brain on drugs.

Can't do that.

Don't need it ♪

♪ Just say no
to drugs, defeat it ♪

If you do drugs, nothing can
keep you from getting hurt.

I loved Candi.

She convinced me that it was OK.

So I took a puff.

It was mind-blowing.

And she'd say, here,
take another hit.

I said, no, I can't do
that over and over.

She said, yes, you can.

And that's when I noticed
I'd smoked the weed,

and the vodka wouldn't
taste good to me anymore.

And I liked the weed.

There's Candi.

I love you.

And she was wise enough to
keep dosing me with marijuana,

knowing that's what I needed
to calm my drinking down

and to make me a better person.

Candi would make
anybody smoke a joint.

I could see how she
could influence somebody

to try a little marijuana.

Barry:
She called it Candi-land.

And she said, well,
I live in Candi-land,

so stay in Candi-land
with me, Barry.

I would smoke the weed with
Candi and laugh and laugh

and laugh and laugh and laugh.

♪ Woman, take me in your arms ♪

♪ Rock your baby ♪

And that's when she started
talking about drug war,

and these people
don't belong in jail.

And I'm like, what?

Barry:
The marijuana made me a completely different person.

And I started reflecting
on the inside.

It was one of the biggest
eye openers in my life,

was going from a former
narcotics cop

that had an alcohol problem
to an avid pot smoker.

I was Republican, George Bush,
let's go to war.

A little racist, hardcore
justice, four or five months

with Candi smoking marijuana
to, oh, man, I want peace, bro.

How are we killing
people in these wars?

Why would I lock all
these people up?

I'm not going to tell
you where I got this.

I found it out in the yard.

But Snoop,

I dunno, bro.

Whoa, whoa.

Probably now would
be a good time

to explain how "Never
Get Busted" got started.

I thought, you know,
this marijuana

has changed my life so much.

I'm going to teach people
how not to get busted.

Bobby:
This guy raced into my office one day.

He said, I got this idea.

I'll make a lot of money
and help a lot of people.

I'm going to make this DVD.

And I'm going to tell people
how to hide their stash.

Because I was able to find it.

I ought to be able to hide it.

Barry:
The Drug Enforcement Administration,

the FBI, the ATF,

I was cross-trained
by all of them.

And I was just going to
tell all the secrets.

I asked him if what I was
doing was illegal or not.

He said, you should be protected
by the First Amendment.

But he said, Barry,
I'm not sure.

We got to thinking about it.

I said, well, you know what?

What are they going to do?

It's the First Amendment deal.

They are trained on
the public taxpayer's money,

they being law enforcement.

There's nothing there
that's a secret.

Once you train a man
and he knows this,

that's his information.

And it's certainly free for him
to use it in another manner.

Now, does he violate the law?

I think he violates the law
if he stashes his own stuff.

Yell-o.

Barry: I pitched the idea
to this videographer,

a guy with a video camera.

Travis:
I had made a short film about three friends

who mysteriously get three
real dangerous lightsabers

dropped off on their doorstep.

Man:
Turn it off! Turn it off!

And then chaos ensues.

Dude.

- Chicks.
- Chicks?

Chicks, dude.

Travis: I was sitting
and playing video games,

and then the phone rings.

"My name is Barry Cooper,

and I want to know if you can
help me make a documentary

about how to hide
your marijuana from the police."

And I remember being
like, I'm sorry,

you're going to have to
say that one more time.

"We are going to teach people

how to hide weed
from the police."

And I remember walking
around my kitchen going, OK.

Kind of need the money.

And I'm intrigued,

because this is a rootin'
tootin' bag of weird shit.

You know, I didn't have a very
long conversation with myself.

I immediately wanted to do it.

Woman: CR Kaltenthaler.
Man: Kalenthaler?

Woman: Kalenthaler,
is that right?

Man: Kaltenthaler.
Woman: Kaltenthaler.

Some people are under
the misconception

that an individual
named C.R. Kaltenthaler

shot and cut
Never Get Busted.

But the truth is that it was me.

I did it under an alias.

I did it under a fake name.

That's what I--
that's what I did.

I kept it a secret because
I was concerned

they're all going to go to jail.

There's this thing hanging
in the air of this hammer

that could fall on you
for sharing

this forbidden knowledge.

Check, check, check.

My name is Barry Cooper.

There was no script.

This is coming right off
the top of Barry's head.

Are you ready, Barry?

I'm here today to teach you
with this DVD

how not to get busted.

How's that, Dad?

Barry needed direction, and he
needed someone to rein him in

that he was a lot.

Pores.

Travis: Start again.

God damn.

Good job.

Barry, to some ears,
sounds stupid.

You learn that
it's easy to underestimate

Barry's intelligence.

Barry:
Do coffee grounds mask the odour of marijuana?

Absolutely not.

He really knows his shit.

I found it was nearly
impossible to get my dog

to search for any marijuana if
somebody had a cat in the car

or some other type of animal.

So these deer scents and fox
urines that hunters use,

it's a good idea to spray
your tires with that.

It's a good idea to
carry a cat in your car

if you're going to have a couple
of marijuana cigarettes.

Throughout the making
of "Never Get Busted,"

I knew that I was the audience.

Another really good idea
is to conceal your stash

as high as you can get it.

Travis: I had been arrested for
a small amount of marijuana.

In headliners of vehicles.

I've been in lockup overnight.

It's scary.

Somehow, my dad was able
to get my record expunged.

But the impact it
had on my life was that

it became this expensive,
scary, embarrassing moment

in front of my parents.

Wear latex gloves when
you're hiding your stash.

And so I was 100% hooked
on what he was going to say

to make sure that never
happened again.

I had an informant tell me
that he never carried

more than he could eat.

I'd never heard
anybody say that.

"Just eat it."

And I'm here to tell you
I've done that

at least five times in my life.

Corvettes are just cop magnets.

She was wiping her nose.

I would automatically assume
she's been snorting coke.

OK, these guys
I would consider users.

His experience and knowledge
of how the war on drugs

is fought on the streets.

Barry:
Single male, no family.

Day to day, hour to hour
on the highway.

This guy being a Toyota,
I'm thinking South American.

Travis:
Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, one, two, three.

He knew it completely.

He was rattling these
things off so fast.

Barry:
You've been arrested before?

In this traffic
stop video,

you'll see me make
actual narcotics arrest,

caught from my dash
mounted patrol camera.

When you think about
what a betrayal,

what he was doing is to
the people who trained him,

this was going to
be something that

was going to blow people's
minds and be big.

You're going to travel with
the High Times magazine

or any other cannabis magazines,

keep them hidden
and out of sight as well.

But I don't think Barry was 100%
aware of what this could mean.

We're rolling,
whenever you're ready.

So now my work is finished.

The DVD is in your player.

Grab some popcorn
and your favourite cold drink

and let's get started.

We were finished making
Never Get Busted.

I was just going to sell the DVD
in High Times magazine

to a few stoners.

So I went to meet with them.

♪ This is it, what ♪

♪ Luchini pouring from the sky ♪

♪ Let's get rich, what ♪

♪ The jiggy vines,
the sugar dimes ♪

♪ Can't quit, what ♪

♪ Now pop the cork
and steam the Vega and get lit ♪

♪ What, what, what ♪

David: When Barry walked
into our office,

he wanted to take an ad out.

I thought, you've
been fucking up

the lives of my friends,
of my community,

of the readers of this magazine,

and now you want to come in
and sell something.

A lot of people
were like, fuck that.

We don't like cops,
and with good fucking reason.

Barry is our worst nightmare.

I wrote articles every month
about people

who had their lives torn
apart by a Barry Cooper.

We were beyond skeptical.

Man, I didn't know how
to handle these geeks.

I scared them.

There were also people on
the staff of the magazine,

myself included, who thought
this could all be an op,

a way to try to
infiltrate the magazine

with an informant.

Barry:
So now my work is finished.

The DVD is in your player.

We're going to talk
about canines.

We're going to talk about
concealing your stash.

We're going to talk about
search and seizure.

We're going to talk
about profiling.

We're going to watch--
David: When I watched the DVD,

it was like a Rosetta Stone.

It translated cop

into a language
that we understood.

You know, for our audience,
that's news you can use.

So I did take it seriously.

Barry:
I convinced them to let me advertise in the magazine.

We released the DVD.

It ripped minds apart.

Fucking sales
go through the roof,

and I'm like, I'm rich.

Man: Oh, my god.

Barry:
And that's when I realized I had done something

that nobody else had ever done.

Man:
You having fun so far, Barry?

Oh, I'm having a fucking ball.

He just wanted to do
what he wanted to do

and not worry about
the consequences.

Now, who would do that?

Would you do that? No.

Hey.

Barry:
And that's when a reporter showed up at my door

and said I was
going to be on the front page

of every newspaper
in the world tomorrow.

I don't care
if a dog bites a man.

But if a man bites a dog,
I want to hear all about it.

And that's what Barry was.

It was a man bites dog story.

He said, "Well, you've got a lot
of police officers pissed off."

I said, "Well, you know what?

They've got me pissed off.

Because what I'm doing
is the right thing to do

and the wrong about caging
people for marijuana."

For Barry to come from
being the enforcer

to fighting the enforcers,

that's why it caught
so much attention.

I'd never dropped a story
in the national press

and had it go that wide
that fast.

Barry:
The article comes out.

CNN emailed,
wanted an interview.

Fox wanted an interview.

All that. I'm like, holy shit.

What do I do?

- Called my lawyer.
- This is Bobby Mims.

I said, "Get over
here now, please."

And I said, "Well, first of all,
don't talk to Fox.

They're about as far
right wing as you can get.

Barry:
I said, "I know my arguments."

If I get on television
and I whoop my enemy,

that's going to last.

So I chose Fox on purpose.

is already riled
up about this next guest.

You have to imagine
a cop who advises

dopers how to hide their stash.

You know, Barry,
you're reminding

more of what NAMBLA does
with sex offenders.

NAMBLA teaches the child
rapist how to do it,

how to get away with it.

There is a big difference in
somebody that molests a child

and somebody that
smokes a joint.

In fact, we're kicking child
molesters out of prison

at an alarming rate

to make room for the
750,000 pot smokers a year.

You're also teaching
the bad guys.

And you know the correlation

between marijuana
and these kind of crimes. - They're not bad guys.

So you're making
crime worse, too.

And you should be
ashamed of yourself.

No, no. You should be ashamed
for those type of statements.

I don't have much to say about
those early media appearances

other than
he kicked ass on them.

It's not just pot
that they might have.

If pot smokers are criminals,

then 42% of America
is criminals,

according to the CDC, 42% of
America has tried marijuana.

He was one of the first
to start showing

how it really goes on in drug
interdictions and drug busts.

And he had, quite frankly,
had a lot more credibility

than we do as criminal
defense lawyers

because we represent criminals.

Barry Cooper,
why would you do this?

Logic, reason, and compassion,
and the facts and the evidence.

He's doing radio interviews.

He's taking phone calls.

The whole thing escalated.

It's going to take
true activism.

And this is activism?
This is activism? - It's going to take compassion.

- You're trying to--
- It's going to take reason and logic--

You're trying to help drug
dealers. - end the war on drugs.

It just seems like
a way to get stoners

into some really goofy
problems with police, to me.

You know, but I mean,
it's just vile.

I mean, these people
are just vile.

I kind of liked when he was
an asshole to other assholes.

People smoke pot, and then
they use bad judgment. - Let me speak.

David:
Barry didn't back down.

He would state the facts.

According to FARS, the Fatal
Accident Reporting System,

alcohol and tobacco
kills 100,000 people.

And because of his background,
it was much harder

for them to dismiss him.

Not one single death
has been contributed

to marijuana overdose.

- It's my opinion.
- You're letting her spew garbage.

The DEA had made
a statement in the paper

that they didn't know if they
were going to arrest me or not.

Phones were ringing,
helicopters flying around,

little airplanes.

I couldn't tell which
ones were reporters

and which ones were cops.

Accusations about dope-smoking
cops and responses

from some very angry
narcotics officers.

In a word, betrayal.

You cannot turn your back
on your people.

When you do,
you're going to wake up,

and God is going to
chuck you out the door,

because you're a liar
and you're a thief.

Barry: The cops are pissed.

That may have something
to do with the white truck

that followed us around
all day yesterday.

I started to get real spooked.

What Barry saw as justice

the government saw as betrayal.

Barry:
OK, man, what you want?

After I released
the "Never Get Busted" DVDs,

you have no idea how many times
I woke up with the police

beating on our door.

I lost count how many times.

More than 20, less than 50.

This is like the fifth
or sixth time

y'all have been here
for weird, crazy stuff.

Officer: Okay, sir,

well this is the first
time I've ever been here.

They constantly harassed me,
pulled me over, and searched me.

Hello?

And that's when I got a call
from this guy out in Hollywood.

This is Barry Cooper.

David Ballard:
My name is David Ballard.

I'm a Hollywood producer.

And I put two
and two together,

and I had the idea of pitching
a reality show.

I was going to
call it "KopBusters."

We are headed to Hollywood.

We're on the airplane in Austin.

All right.

- Big movie deal.
- Toodles.

Barry:
Bought a plane ticket and flew over to see this guy.

David Ballard:
My name is David Ballard.

I'm a writer, producer, actor.

Ahh!

And I helped Barry Cooper
get into show biz.

I produced a show
called "MANswers."

It was as politically
incorrect a show

as you could possibly imagine.

Narrator:
When the bullets start flying, a dude's ass is grass

unless he's got protection.

But why should a guy buy
a bulletproof vest

when he can grow one instead?

How fat would a dude have
to be to stop a bullet?

The mandate of MANswers

was boobs, beer,
guns, and drugs.

As part of my official duties,

I was required to watch every
ridiculous video ever made.

So hiding marijuana
in food is a good idea.

David Ballard:
I watched "Never Get Busted."

Barry knew a ton about drugs.

It's a really good idea--

David Ballard:
It was MANswers 101.

Sign this guy up.

It's like your classic moment
where you call someone

and you go, "Hey, kid,
you're going to be a star."

OK, right now, say it.

- Welcome to Hollywood.
- All right.

Wait, wait, wait, David.
Wait, wait, wait.

So we're here with
our manager, Dave-o.

We're about to sign
some big deals.

Watch what I'm telling you.
Bye. - Don't jinx it.

One of the stories
we did with Barry was--

Can a police dog sniff
drugs and get high.

If a police dog were to ingest
crack cocaine during a bust,

that canine would get high.

You know, the guy, he's--
pretty much of a natural.

- Barry: And who are you?
- I'm Sabrina.

Sabrina, what do you do
up here in this office? - Intern.

Barry: The intern. Very nice.
Very nice. OK.

After we finished MANswers,

Barry pitched me this idea

for a reality show
called "KopBusters,"

where he would go around
and bust crooked cops.

I was like, OK, cool.

Let's try and sign a deal.

Get in the picture.

We'll go see Kevin Booth.

We're going by his
Hollywood house on the way

to the hotel to have a meeting.

I think it's been pretty well
established that Barry is not,

by nature, a shy individual.

Barry:
Look at the list of people where we'll be meeting.

He didn't think
it's any big deal

to call up Adam Sandler's
production company,

or Steven Spielberg.

Barry: Oh, shit, I wasn't
recording that whole time.

David Ballard:
So we went all over the place.

And Barry went in there
and did his thing.

I'd ask him, I'd say, hey,
I can bust these cops.

Would y'all make
a reality show out of it?

And they're like, "Yeah,
but go bust one first."

And that's when I got a call

that got the whole
thing started.

Hey, this is Barry Cooper.

Leave a message.

Woman: This is a message
for Barry Cooper.

I want to talk to you
about a friend of mine,

Yolanda Madden.

Something really bad happened
to her with the cops in Texas.

Officer: Can you turn
your truck off for me?

This your daughter?
Yolanda: Sure is.

Officer: What's your name?
Yolanda: Yolanda Madden.

OK, step back here for me
real quick.

Come on back here.

Yolanda:
I just know that was the beginning of an end for me.

Any drugs that are in there?

Growing up, we were
always taught,

you know, as long as
you do the right thing,

the right thing
comes back to you.

That police were the good guys.

If you're in trouble, they
are the ones to go to.

But if things like
this can happen to me,

you have to ask yourself

how many innocent people
are locked up.

My name is Yolanda Madden Smith.

My part
in the Barry Cooper story

is how KopBusters started.

Man: 91.7--
Woman: TX and G Houston--

Man: Houston's--
Woman: Positive hip hop and--

Man: Pop.

♪ Mama told me ♪

Yolanda:
The day started like any other day.

My daughter and I were
going to run to town

to go to the grocery store.

My son was at home.

He was quite a bit
older than my daughter.

Being a single working mom
with two kids was nonstop.

I loved every minute
of it, though.

I got a phone call.

- Hello?
- Hey, Yolanda.

It's Keith.

Keith is one of
my son's friends.

He said there was
a Game Boy bag that my son

had left at his apartment.

You want to swing
by and pick it up?

My daughter and I went
by Keith's apartment.

He came out.

I throw the Game Boy bag
into my backpack that I had

and go to the grocery store.

When we pulled into the
grocery store parking lot,

the next thing I knew,
I had a cop car behind me.

And suddenly,
I'm surrounded by police.

Told me that they were doing
a narcotics investigation.

Asked me if they could
search the truck.

And I'm thinking to myself,
this is my dad's company truck.

You know? No.

No, you can't
search the truck.

And that didn't matter.

They searched it anyway.

There was an officer
that went up

to the driver's side of
the truck, reached in,

and pulled out the Game Boy bag.

The next thing I know, they're
cuffing me and putting me

in the back of the police car.

They charged me with
possession with intent

to distribute methamphetamines.

It didn't matter how many times
you tell them, that's not mine.

They don't believe you.

As soon as I could get a phone
call, I called my father.

When I got the call, Yolanda
totally freaked out.

She was totally upset.

She was shaking.

She said that she was
totally innocent.

But she was really honest.

That was just part of the core
values we brought her up with.

My name's Raymond Madden.

I build electronic equipment
for the oil field.

I grew up in a little panhandle
town in Borger, Texas.

I was taught right's right
and wrong's wrong.

I was a total patriot.

I joined the military,

seven-year active
duty in Vietnam.

I thought that was my duty.

Good, strong values
in the Marine Corps.

Honour, duty, honesty.

They were words
that meant something.

I believed that
you know, right's right

and an innocent person
ain't going to go to jail.

I told Yolanda that we're
going to fight this,

because the truth is
always the truth.

After I had bailed her out,
we went and got an attorney.

Before the trial, I needed
to prove all these things

that these cops were
saying are lies.

I had Yolanda drug tested,

which would prove
she wasn't on drugs.

Those come back negative.

I went down the next morning
to the police station

and asked to see
the traffic stop video.

We were told
that video does not exist.

Finally, a couple of
weeks before trial,

I was able to come up
to get this video.

In fact, we got the video
just before

it was going to be destroyed,
which was really interesting.

Why do you destroy any
evidence on an ongoing case?

When I looked at the video,

that's when I'd seen what the
whole story was really about.

Come on back here.

What's going on?

Any drugs or weapons in there?

Yes, any drugs in
there right now?

Weapons?

Nothing at all.

We got information there's
supposed to be drugs in there.

Wait a minute.

We got information there's
supposed to be drugs in there.

We got information there's
supposed to be drugs in there.

They knew there was
drugs in there.

There was drugs
in the bag that Yolanda

had picked up a few minutes

before she was
stopped by the police.

Next morning,
I went to see the guy

that gave the bag to Yolanda.

This guy actually confessed
to me that he set Yolanda up.

His name was Keith Phillips.

He was in trouble because
he had gotten arrested

for possession of
methamphetamine.

The cops gave him
choices of going to jail

or working off
their drug charges.

He told me the police were
looking for this big time

meth dealer called
the Ice Queen.

The police didn't know
who the Ice Queen was,

but they had a list
of names of people

who were new to the area.

Yolanda had just moved
back here to Odessa.

Her name was on that list.

He was encouraged
by the cops to call Yolanda

and set up a meeting
with Yolanda.

And then when he got there,

they gave him this bag that
was found in Yolanda's truck,

and he went and handed it

to Yolanda under
false pretenses.

It's like, "Wow,
will you testify?

He didn't know.

If he testified, he was
going to go to jail.

Finally, he said,
"Look, I'll testify."

Well, if this guy's
going to testify,

Yolanda's going home.

It's a slam dunk.

But when Keith testified
to the truth of the trial,

the judge found
that preposterous

that the cops would do
something like that.

No way.

I will never forget hearing
the guilty and realize, wow,

now what?

Raymond: It's the biggest
shock of my life.

I never imagined
her being sentenced

to eight years in prison for
something that she did not do.

I've had some pretty tough
experiences in Vietnam,

but I've never had anything that
tore my heart out like that.

I had to be--

I had
to be strong for her.

I had to take her down to jail.

My mom left the night
before with my kids,

so they didn't have
to see me like this.

And then Dad and I really
didn't sleep that night.

The thoughts in my head is I
was about ready just to beg him

to get me out of there.

But I didn't, because
I knew he would have.

The guards were
walking me to my unit

when I heard the women
calling out, "Welcome to hell."

And I thought,
what am I doing here?

I don't belong here.

Raymond:
I didn't give up.

I spent four years spending
all kinds of money

trying to get an appeal
but they kept being denied.

I went to the sheriff.
I went to the FBI.

They said they couldn't
do anything for me.

I had been threatened
by the cops.

They told me,
you need to drop this.

Let your daughter
serve her time,

because what happened
to her can happen to you.

I had become desperate.

I was looking for some help.

And that's when I found
out about Barry Cooper,

that this guy was a cop buster.

Well, one thing I needed
was some cops busted.

Automated voice:
You have 10 new messages.

First new message received.

Barry: When I got back
from Hollywood,

I started going
through my messages.

Yolanda: This is a message
for Barry Cooper.

"Out in Odessa, Texas, where you
used to work as a drug task

force agent, the police
planted methamphetamine

on this girl named
Yolanda Madden.

And she was sentenced to eight
years in federal prison.

Her father wants your help,

because he can't get
any media attention.

And he's got the proof
that these police

planted the drugs on her."

Well, proof's a big word for me.

I called her back.

I told her, if he's
serious about it,

tell him I'll meet him.

Raymond:
I needed to convince Barry that Yolanda's totally innocent.

I had to transport--

Break that down
into civilian time.

- About 4-- 4-- 4:50.
- OK.

Barry and I
come from different

sides of the spectrum.

I believe drugs are the
scourge of the earth.

And I thought, man,
this guy's a little bit weird.

He's tattooed.

He smokes marijuana.

So this was a totally
new deal to me.

But I was down to my
last hurrah here.

I mean, I needed to--
I needed to make

something happen.

I'm desperate.

And he showed up by my house
with this stack of documents.

And he tells me the whole story.

OK. And these are
all police logtimes?

Raymond: These are all--

They're on the camera.

They're on the video.

Barry:
Their police report said that upon stopping,

Yolanda jumped out of
the car crying, "Oh my god,

the drugs are in the car.

They're in the car."

And I watched the video.

Drugs in there right now,
drugs-- nothing at all?

She never said anything
like that, nothing.

They claim Yolanda confessed
to having the methamphetamine

during an interrogation
by Officer John Doe.

Well, I looked over
at the jail records,

and Officer John Doe was booking
another prisoner in at the time

he says he was getting
a confession from Yolanda.

An informant who had gotten
busted gave the bag to Yolanda.

A huge red flag.

That's called an informant
plant, and it's illegal.

I was aware of this when
I was working as a cop

because some of
the agents did that.

Barry:
And this is where we need to talk about Joe Commander.

This one right here,
this guy, Joe Commander,

the little short guy.

He was sort of the undeclared
boss of my narcotics unit.

He had connections fucking
from here to Egypt.

Joe: I told you lies
will get you in trouble.

Barry:
If I had a law enforcement mentor, it's Joe Commander.

He had a reputation as being
the baddest-ass cop in Texas.

We'd go up to a person that
we wanted to get out of town

and drive up, and for no
reason whatsoever at all,

jump out of our car with guns,
say "Put your hands behind

your back," we'd cuff him.

He'd be, like, "What's this
about? What's this about?"

We'd search him.

If they didn't have
anything on them,

we'd take a little bag of
cocaine out of our pocket,

stick it in their pocket,
and they're like,

"What the fuck
are you doing?

What's going--
What are you doing?"

"We're planting you
like Farmer Brown."

We'd reach in and pull
the cocaine out and say,

"You get the fuck out of Odessa,
or the next time,

you're going to jail
for this bag of coke."

And then we'd let them
go and drive off.

And they would leave.

And I'll tell you, if
there's any police officer

that you're gonna interview
for this documentary,

you would want to-- you would
want to talk to Joe Commander.

Joe: Some people call them
informants, I call them spies.

I had hundreds of spies.

You guys come put your hands
right up here on the front.

Both of you.

Right over here.

Right up here.

You too. How old are you?

- How old? 19? All right.
- 19.

Say on a traffic stop,
when I search the car

and I found narcotics, I'd take
the person in to the office,

interview them, debrief them,
and ask them straight up,

"Do you want to work
this case off?"

And they'd say,
"Well, what do I do?"

I said, "Well, I need you
to make three cases."

If they made three bigger cases
than what I got them with,

then their case would go away.

Man: Mr. Phillips, what
did Joe Commander do

when he arrested you?

Keith: They were threatening me
on taking my kids away.

And they wanted me pretty much
to give up any information

I knew about anybody.

Man:
Was one of the names that they asked you to help them with

Yolanda Madden?

Keith: Yes, sir.

Man: Who brought
up that name?

Was it you or them?

Keith: It was them.

Joe Commander had a picture of
her and was asking me about her

at that time.

Man:
So you gave her something that caused her to be

arrested by the police?

Keith:
I was asked to hand a little Game Boy case to Yolanda.

Man:
Just so I'm clear,

when you handed this package
to Miss Madden,

you didn't tell her
there were drugs in it?

Keith: Correct.

Barry:
Mr. Madden hired the best polygraph operator on the planet

who used to be a polygraph
operator for the FBI.

Polygraphed Yolanda.

"Were these your drugs?" "No."

Then she passed.

The informant on the deal
who set her up

polygraphed him,
and he passed too.

Raymond:
Joe Commander, probably one of the most corrupt

police officers in Texas.

A couple of years before
Yolanda was set up,

he was accused of planting
drugs on other people.

I found out that the feds
had Joe Commander

under investigation.

But nothing ever
happened to him.

It was only after the trial,

the assistant chief
of police told me,

he said, "Well, Raymond,

what happened is they planted
drugs on the wrong person."

And I said, "Well, Don,
tell me how you plant drugs

on the right person."

I never planted
drugs on anybody.

That was unacceptable.

I'm like, "Motherfucker,
they did your daughter, bro.

They did plant drugs on her."

Raymond:
Outside the courthouse, after the trial,

one of the cops said,
"God, we almost got caught."

And I'm sitting there
listening to that.

He had to drop her
off in prison.

His own daughter.

You ever been arrested before?
Woman: No, sir.

And it made me cry, because of
all the people I'd put in jail.

I also helped separate
parents from their children.

Barry felt he had a need to
make some things straight

that he had done out in Odessa.

So it was kind of a, you know,
a chance for redemption for him

and a chance for me to get
my daughter out of jail.

Barry:
Let me flowchart this.

And he just said, "We've got
to get publicity for Yolanda."

Barry:
I told Mr. Madden, "I'll get Yolanda's story on the news."

And I did.

And it almost cost me my life.

Candi: See that tattoo?

Barry: Three weeks from now,
we're going to make

this tattoo a reality.

Candi: Free our prisoners.

And Yolanda's name is
going to go right--

Barry: That's right.

Getting Yolanda out of prison.

That's the main goal.

Second, busting
these crooked cops.

Barry:
To get Yolanda Madden out of jail and prove

these cops are crooked,
we need to catch them

red-handed and get it on TV.

What you watching
on the Tube today?

When I worked undercover,
I would lure somebody

into a hotel room with drugs
and the other cops would be

in the other room filming all
of it with hidden cameras.

And then they'd run in and bust
the guy once the deal was done.

Relax, Cory.

We called it a trap house.

So my idea was we were
going to set a trap house

for the crooked cops.

We're about to go to the trap
house that Candi and I rented.

Candi: Woo-hoo!

Barry: The one on the right?
Candi: That's it, white and green.

Barry: That is--
Both: Perfect.

Candi:
We have a good one.

- Barry: This is perfect.
- This is perfect.

Barry: Perfect trap house.

The plan was to set up
a trap house

with a fake marijuana grow room,
then lure the cops in

so we could film them
performing an illegal raid.

We're going to set the grow
light here with a few plants,

of course not anything illegal.

I'll get the police
to raid it illegally

on a bump search warrant.

I'll have the media with me.

And when that happens, I'll
start screaming "Free Yolanda

and I'm doing this because
y'all planted drugs on Yolanda."

Internet's fine.

I'll let you know
when you get here.

Yeah, that's a go.

I would help set up
the camera crew

as Barry's
manager/producer/consultant.

Barry:
We're going to place our hidden cameras there, there.

When you think about it,
a sting operation,

it's sort of like making
a TV show already.

We will have
a "Free Yolanda" sign here

and instructions for the police
explaining to them

that they're on a reality
TV show, "KopBusters."

You find a location,
you set up the cameras,

and then there's the day
of production.

It's like, "Okay, action."

Narrator: Ten years ago, a crack
commando unit was sent to prison

by a military court
for a crime they didn't commit.

These men promptly escaped.

Barry: Mr. Madden agreed
to fund the operation.

Now we just needed
to hire a crack team

to pull this thing off.

Narrator: If you have a problem,
if no one else can help,

and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire the A-Team.

I'm a lawyer.

I'm a lawyer!

Don't get in my way!

And if you're prosecuting
my client,

you are in my way!

If you're watching this,

presumably either you
or a loved one

is looking for legal
representation.

And what I want to do
is explain my method.

Hello?
Barry: Hey, how are you doing?

Reposa:
Barry calls me up, starts telling me about Yolanda Madden.

And he's telling me
that this guy testifies

about planting fucking drugs,

and then the judge
convicts the person.

So that was real
difficult for me.

He tells me that we're
going to go to Midland,

where his old, you know,

Permian Basin Drug
Task Force buddies

are still just
doing all the same shit,

and we're going to trip him up.

So, without trying to set up
fucking dirty cops, let's ride.

♪ We'll fight
the powers that be just-- ♪

James: I'm a fan of
the rule of law.

We all need
general rules to govern.

What I can't stand
is when people abuse

their positions of power.

♪ Oh, we're not
going to take it ♪

Barry?

- Barry: Yeah.
- Finish it up.

Barry: All right, man,
I appreciate it.

James:
Personally, I have a high opinion of officers

that do do their job well.

I just have a very deep hatred
for the ones that cheat.

Barry, come on.

So when Barry asked for
my help, I said yes.

♪ Your life is-- ♪

Victor:
Barry approached me to be his bodyguard

after he knew that I was
really good with my hands.

And it wasn't in a boxing gym.

You know, we would
fight in a warehouse.

Bare knuckle, you win
$1,000 in 17 seconds.

Come on.

It's good money.

Barry:
You're on TV. Say something.

You were on TV yesterday.

Barry: I've never seen him
be bashful.

Growing up in a small town,
the police would harass you.

So when Barry called me
and told me the plan,

I said, "Hey, let's
go whip their asses."

Travis: I was sitting
and playing video games.

Barry's on the phone again.

"I think I'm going to
call it KopBusters.

I think I'm going to do it
that way and bust the cops

and point it back at them."

I remember thinking,
"What the fuck?

The cops will beat the
ever-loving shit out of you.

Barry, this is the line.

You can kiss my ass twice.

I'm out for good."

Our stated mission exactly
is to prove that these cops,

who were instrumental
in having this woman

put in federal prison,
are fucking liars.

That's right.

The whole idea is it's not a pot
issue, it's a freedom issue.

If they do the proper
investigation,

they won't kick the door in.

But if they are who I think they
are, that door's coming down.

If the cops think for one
second they're getting set up.

- Do you know what I mean?
- Oh, yeah.

I felt the plan
was quite ambitious

and certainly dangerous.

That wasn't my role,
was to have doubts.

My role was to help
advise on the legality

and the potential ramifications
of what could occur.

The legality was always
a great question

because no one's
ever thought of it.

Like, "Is it legal to do this?"

I mean, we're busting cops,

and no one else has ever
done this before.

Man: I got a question
for the attorneys.

Honestly, what are
we looking at?

Reposa:
As far as going to jail.

Whether or not you can
publish your footage.

What I'm saying is--
Barry: I think you can publish anything--

I do too.
Barry: When it comes to the cops.

It's domain.
It's investigative journalism.

Reposa:
We need the cops to break the law

by making an illegal
search of the house.

And we've got to do it without
breaking the law ourselves

because nobody here
wants to go to prison.

The law was very clear
about what the cops could get

a search warrant on.

They can't get a search warrant
based on just an anonymous tip.

Otherwise, I can get
mad at my neighbour

and pick up the phone
and make an anonymous call

and say my neighbour's got a
kilo of cocaine in the house

and get him raided.

This is the front door.

If we called the police

and said there's a marijuana
grow house on Lotte Street,

that's false report to
a police officer.

That's against the law.

But there's no such law
as false report to a preacher.

To get the cops
interested in the house,

I drafted a letter

as if I was
a pissed-off girlfriend

that said I got involved
with this guy

who's got 50 marijuana plants

growing at 232 Lotte Street,

and I feel guilty 'cause
I'm a Christian.

And by the way, there's
$11,000 hidden in the chimney.

Raymond: The bait we're
gonna use is money.

Barry knew drugs was not
what they was after.

It was money that they
were interested in.

And then Candi went
to a local church

and handed that
letter to a pastor

and said, "Look, I feel
bad about something.

Please read this letter."

So the preacher
gets the letter

and did exactly what we
thought he would do.

He went and turned it
in to the police.

Okay, we're going
to walk into the mall

and buy a prepaid
Visa debit card

to order equipment online.

Come on.

This operation was top secret.

I had to encrypt everything,
and I had to use blow-up phones.

You know, get a phone
from Walmart,

use it for a little bit, throw
it away, get another phone.

I had to really use
every technique I knew

to keep this from
getting leaked.

One of our agents just
quit all of a sudden.

He called and said he was
worried about going to jail,

and I tried to explain
to him we weren't doing

anything illegal,
but it's a high-pressure thing

going on here, I guess,
with some folks.

Understanding how police
illegally raid houses,

I set up a marijuana grow light.

Merry Christmas.

And instead of putting
marijuana plants under it,

I bought little Christmas trees.

We made a sign that said,
"There's nothing illegal

happening in this house.

You're part of a reality
show called 'KopBusters.'"

And within 10 minutes,
there will be

a group of activists
followed by a film crew.

We will all be
dressed in red shirts

that you see nailed
to the wall next to this sign,

and you will be approached.

What I wanted to do is
these cops raid a house.

I didn't want to jump
on them right then

while their adrenaline was up,
'cause we'd get shot.

I made that sign.

Yeah, spent hours on that.

Candi and my dad involved me in
pretty much all of the projects

and things that we did
regarding KopBusters

and Never Get Busted.

Oh, that's
our daughter. Sorry.

Hang on, let me go
get my daughter.

Okay, so my daughter just
got home from school.

This is Kenzie.

So we want to finish with
"Teenagers Smoking Pot."

I thought everything
was normal growing up,

but looking back, a lot of
things probably weren't.

Okay, here we go.

One, two, three, four,
five, hello, six, seven,

eight, nine, ten.

Okay, is the audio
and everything good?

Okay, thanks, I'm out of here.

We rigged the house
with hidden cameras

that live-streamed
to our hotel room

that we were sitting
in watching,

waiting for it to be raided.

We are now waiting...

...for that door to be
kicked in by the police.

That's what we're doing at--
2:00 in the morning?

Woman:
Yes, at 2:00 in the morning.

Barry and woman:
2:00 in the morning.

Both: Two.

Barry:
And nothing happens.

You start spending
another man's money,

you know, your 20, 30,
$40,000, into this deal,

and if it doesn't work,
Yolanda stays in prison

for another four years,

Mr. Madden loses all his money,

and I'm a failure.

Without getting raided? Yeah.

Raymond:
Just because of these cops, 'cause I want them--

I figured they'd try to
plant something on me.

Barry: Okay.

We might do something
to trigger the raid

like you're talking about.

I think we drop you
off two streets over,

and you just walk
down the street

and walk right up
to the front door and go in.

I'll do that. That's fine.

Here's what I want to make
sure before we release you

to do this.

Don't do something that
we didn't know about.

You got to do it exactly
like we discussed,

because we're making decisions
out here based on that.

Reposa: Well, okay, you know
what else we need?

Barry: In other words,
you're kind of a firecracker.

Hey, what's going on?
Barry: What are we up to?

No good!

Barry: Adam, if they stop you
walking to ID you,

what you gonna do?

Reposa:
I'm gonna be the person who goes in the house.

My job is to get the police
to breach a door.

Man: All right.

Adam's fixing to
come in the house.

Man 2:
There he is. Is he going in?

Candi: He's in.

Man:
Candi is on edge.

Oh, man.

Well, my lawyer has ADHD.

He's a wild one.

He calls.

He goes, "Man, I don't think
they're gonna raid us."

We're talking on the phone,

and he's telling me to hang
tight, and I'm feeling like,

"No, man, I need to see

if there's, you know, any way
to turn this thing up."

So I walk outside,

and then I see a, you know,
task force guy

drive up in the truck,
and he's looking at me,

and I'm looking at him,
and I know it's on.

Barry: Who is that?

Victor: There is a cop
inside the car.

Barry:
We've got cops out there.

Victor: Everywhere.

There's more pulling up, too.

Candi: Hang on.

Barry: There it is.
There he is. There he is.

Back door.

They're raiding it.

Let's go. Let's go.

We've got to get there
before the cops figure out

what's going on, and haul ass.
We've got one shot.

♪ Lonely shadows follow me ♪

♪ Lonely ghosts come a-calling ♪

♪ Lonely voices talk to me ♪

Man: Oh, should I do that?

Man 2:
No, no, no. We need to go.

All right, let's roll.

Barry: Oh, my God,
camera's rolling?

Man: I'm rolling.

Driver: So you did call
the TV guys, right?

Yes, they're on
their way now.

Get out and say, "Do you
have a search warrant?"

And if they don't, I'm
gonna say, "What were you doing in my house?"

That'll be the argument.

And then we need to
find Adam Raposa.

I'm in the back
of a cop car, handcuffed,

and they started telling me,

"Hey, we know what's in that
house," and I was like,

"The fuck you do, you stupid
motherfucker."

Officer: We've been set up.

Barry:
They're just about to leave.

Go, go, go, go, go, go!

I'm just honking to
leave them there.

All right, we're about
to come through.

I want you to stop right here.

Stop right here.
Stop right here. Right here.

Hey, I'm Barry Cooper
with KopBusters.

Why are you in my house?

Y'all planted drugs on Yolanda,
and we're gonna get her released

and get the crooked cops busted.

If you're a good cop,
great, but you're not.

You raided my house,
and nothing's going on.

Man: Hey, sir, apparently
you're the one in. Come here.

Barry: Hey, I want to see
the search warrant.

Oh, I thought he
was fucking crazy.

You know, I thought he
was gonna get shot down.

Officer: We're not giving
nobody no hassle.

You did, too.

Y'all planted
drugs on Yolanda,

and she's in prison
because of it.

That's giving people a hassle.
Officer: Sir.

I'll wait for
the media to get here.

That's crazy shit right there.

American police
will shoot you for that.

Where's Joe Commander?

Planting drugs on people.

Officer: Can't walk
in the roadway.

Officer 2: Can't walk
in the street.

Barry:
What are you gonna do, put me in jail for walking in a road?

When you guys illegally
entered my house?

Put me in jail for
walking down a sidewalk.

Officer: You've been warned.

You've been warned.

When they realized
that they've been had,

they were trying to find
a reason to arrest us.

Barry:
You guys are wrong on this one, and you know it.

You got burnt.

Reposa:
The cops were shook.

Well, what are
you gonna do?

You gonna put us in jail?

Who are you gonna be mad at?

Barry: How about
my attorney right there?

Is he under arrest?

He's been detained right now.

Barry: Is he under--
is he free to leave?

Barry: Is he free to leave?

Officer: Is he free to leave?
Officer 2: Yeah.

- Barry: Are we all free to leave?
- Yeah.

I am no longer in handcuffs.

I am the fuck out of here.

Oh, Renee, let's go!
Renee, let's go!

Barry, I'll send you a bill!

Fuck this fucking
batshit bullshit.

I am done.

Barry:
We'll see y'all in court!

And you'll be on TV! Ha!

It worked.

But the job is only half done.

We gotta get Yolanda's
story on the news.

Hey, yeah, Barry.
Did Jose send you here?

He did, he did.

Barry:
Once all the cops had left,

we got the Channel 7
news team in.

Reporter: Tell me what
happened at his house.

We set a trap to bust
crooked cops in Odessa.

It fucking worked!

Oh, man!

Victor:
That was awesome, dude.

Barry: Hey! Oh, man.

Reposa: And the most
fucked up thing is

the part that really mattered.

Get their attention,
get them to do something

in clear violation of the law,
and then get a media focus.

Everything fucking worked.

Reporter:
Our top story tonight, Odessa police are tricked

into raiding a fake drug den.

Reporter 2:
But why all the trouble?

Get Yolanda Madden
out of prison.

Ex-drug officer, Barry--

Yolanda:
We were watching the news.

The girls that I'm locked up
with were looking at the TV

and looking back at me
and like, "Oh, my gosh."

I bought the domain
KopBusters.com with a "K,"

and I posted all the evidence

so everybody could see that
these drugs had been planted

on Yolanda Madden.

And then I approached magazines.

Stephen:
Barry offered me an online exclusive.

We got millions of
readers just lit up.

And I linked to his
website from the story.

People were clicking through
like, "What the hell?"

And it went crazy.

It broke his website.

At the same time, I released
these videos on YouTube

to show the public
what the police did.

Reposa:
YouTube was pretty new.

I mean, it was when viral was,
like, starting to be a word.

Narrator:
Every year, thousands of men and women are sent to prison,

many because of corrupt cops.

Like, everyone had already
encountered everything but this.

Barry:
Hey, I'm Barry Cooper with KopBusters.

Why are you in my house?

"I'm Barry Cooper
with KopBusters.

Why are you in my house?"

"Hey, I'm Barry Cooper.

What the hell are y'all
doing in my house?"

"My name's Barry Cooper.

What are you doing in my house?"

I got chills watching him
do this explosive thing.

I would say I couldn't believe
it, but I could believe it.

He told me exactly
what he was gonna do,

and then he went and did it.

I gotta say,
in the High Times office,

we fucking cheered.

We stood up watching
this footage.

People screaming, "Fuck yeah!

Fuck you!

Fuckin' ain't right!"

You did too!

Y'all planted drugs on
Yolanda and she's--

David:
Simply to see it done to the police by an ex-cop

felt like you were
seeing something

you never were gonna
see in your whole life.

Stephen: Nobody had ever
busted the cops before

and shared it to so many
people all over the world.

There was millions and
millions and millions

of hits overnight.

It was just everywhere.

The term "KopBuster"
was the number one word

searched on Google
for two weeks.

Free Yolanda!

Now, even the most
cynical journalists

are going to have to
ask, "Who's Yolanda?"

I can prove absolutely
without a doubt she's innocent.

Reporter:
Her father says he's been trying to get a court

to retry the case
since the conviction.

A lot of the media
now had a reason

to look at that specific case.

Her family says
the drugs were planted

and they've got
evidence to prove it.

Today, they got their chance to
present some of that evidence

in an evidentiary hearing in
federal court in Midland.

And when that occurred,
something almost...

...unbelievable happened.

Former Odessa police
officer Barry Cooper

set up a fake drug house

to sting the Odessa
Police Department

on his reality
show "KopBusters."

Today, the family that
hired Cooper and his crew

to set up a sting are
getting what they want.

Yolanda Madden
is a free woman.

Federal judge Rob Janelle
vacated her sentence.

Getting to hold him and
not let go of him this time

was, uh, priceless.

Woman:
Oh, you look beautiful.

And then it was just all over.

That's the first time I got
to hold her in four years.

I'm in awe, you know?

I'm just glad to be home.

You know, a thank you
doesn't seem like enough.

I'm excited that we had a hand

in getting Yolanda
to this point,

but I'm bitter of the pain

that this has caused Yolanda
and her kids and her family,

so it's bittersweet to me.

Hey! Come over here, Yolanda!

Wow! Hey Raymond.

Good to see you, brother.

I'm so glad y'all took
the time to make it by.

Come here, girl.

Yolanda:
Barry's 100% the reason I got out early.

KopBusters and this
thing that he did

and the publicity that it drew

put pressure on
the courts, obviously.

You know, people started
asking questions and stuff

and making phone calls,
and so they have to stand up

and do the right
thing eventually.

I mean, I was really fucking
proud of my dad for that.

I still am proud of
my dad for that.

That doesn't
happen very often,

and I can say I can't
imagine a scenario today

where it would happen
again with me in my life.

I may have been getting
out and getting ready

to settle into my life,
but there were no officers

ever held accountable for
what happened in my case.

I never caught anybody
doing any wrongdoing

in that drug task force.

If I had of,
they'd have been reported.

KopBusters wasn't just going
after the police for corruption.

It was going against
the very drug task forces

and even some of the fellow
officers that Barry worked with.

You are poking the bear,
and not just any bear,

but a bear that you know
and that knows you,

and as personally
as Barry took things,

the reaction
was just as personal.

Keep the camera on.

Candi: Okay.

The police absolutely
considered me a traitor.

I got death threats.

They hated me.

Candi: Fuck.

Okay, I don't open
the door for the cops.

Candi: Here you go.

Barry:
But you can talk to me through the window.

We had a strict rule.

Never, ever, ever open
your door for the police.

You're under no obligation to
open the door for the cops.

If the police had a legal
right to be in your home,

they would kick the door in
and raid your house

with a search warrant.

If you do not open the door,
you will not go to jail.

Go get a warrant
and get me later.

But otherwise,
get the fuck out of here.

I don't like cops.

Don't like you. Go.

Do you really know who
you're talking to?

Oh, hey, kick the door
in, motherfucker.

Hey, kick the door in.

Fuck you. Don't come
to my door like that, boy.

Yeah, go on, punk.

The last arrest...

...they fucking hit me so hard.

I'm in the car with Kenzie.

I hear cops zooming up.

I'm like, "Oh, shit."

Pulled us over
two miles from my house.

They jumped out in fucking
body armour and guns like this.

And this is what bothered me,
is their hands were shaking.

And I knew when cops were
in the mood to shoot,

they wanted to be the one
to shoot Barry Cooper.

So I just ducked
my head like this,

peering up, seeing
their hands shaking,

surrounded, more cars swooping
in, helicopter overhead.

And I said, "It's okay, guys.

It's okay. It's okay.

Just handcuff me.

I won't hurt you.
I won't hurt you."

I'm not going to harm you guys.

Grabbing me like that.

Officer: You have the right
to remain silent,

not make any statement at all.

Any statement that you make

may be used to execute
your trial. You understand that?

Barry: I don't understand
what I'm under arrest for.

Barry:
It's okay, Kenzie. Don't worry.

Me and my dad just stared at
each other the whole time.

I didn't know what the
fuck was going on.

Officer: We're going to go back
and we're going to execute

a search warrant at your house.

You're either going to cooperate
with us, you're going to

tell us who's in the house
so we don't have issues,

or you're not.
That's the way it's going to go.

Barry:
Are you saying that you guys are going to go kick my door in?

Officer:
We're going to do what we have to do.

They started driving to my
house and my dad was following

behind in the cop car.

I had my phone on me and I was
texting Candi, "Lock the door."

Barry:
Burn me on it and I'm going to fuck you over real hard

if you scare my family.

Yes, I will. I'll get you
in court. I'll get you in court.

That's the why we're doing
it like this.

Barry:
If you terrorize my family, I'll get your ass in court.

Officer: Here's the way
it is, Barry.

I'll give you the same
respect you give me.

Barry: I don't respect you
motherfuckers for doing this.

What you're doing is fucked up.

I burnt that cop's ass,
got his ass. Officer: This has nothing--

This has to do--

We pull up to my house
and I'm in the driveway

and I see all these cops get out
and they have all their guns

and they're walking
up to my door

and every time I looked
at my dad, I just cried.

Officer: Is your wife going
to open the door?

Barry: If she sees cops,
she won't unless I tell her to.

But it's our rule, we don't
open the door to fucking cops.

Officer 2:
The wife and the small boy got off the bus earlier.

Officer:
Let's hustle on that fella.

Barry:
They had a warrant to search the house

so I couldn't stop
them from going in.

Oh, will you
help me?

Can you help me?

You don't need to be
helped any longer.

Barry: Candi and Zach
were at home watching TV.

I told Candi to open the door
so they didn't kick it in.

If I ever go looking for
my heart's desire again,

I won't look any further
than my own backyard.

I mean, it was terrifying,
especially because we didn't

know what was going on.

The cops didn't communicate
anything with us.

And think to yourself,
there's no place like home.

They make me and Candi
and Zach sit on the couch.

Then they start just
searching the whole house.

Dorothy:
There's no place like home.

There's no place like home.

I remember looking over
and seeing my wife and Zach

sitting on the couch.

I said, I'm gonna cooperate

and tell you where
everything is.

They were after
my KopBuster tapes,

and I just didn't want
them to hurt my family.

Say hi.

Raiding my family...

Child: Hi, Daddy.

...fucked me up.

Fucked me up.

And I remember sitting
in solitary confinement.

I thought, man,
they want to shoot me.

I started looking at the math,

and I noticed in
the United States,

any activist that was effective,

their retirement program
was death or prison.

I made up my mind right then.

I'm leaving the United States.

I hatched a plan
and snuck out of the country

into Southeast Asia.

They couldn't come get me there.

Life is hard, and we all have
to go through struggles.

It's how you deal
with the struggle.

It's how you deal with
the trauma that defines you.

After I fled the United States,
well, I lost everything.

I lost my country.

I lost all my possessions.

Had to sell everything
when I fled.

Lost my friends, family.

Spent nearly
a decade on the run.

And for a long time,

I didn't know how this
was going to pan out.

I live in a jungle now,
and I train rescue dogs.

I'm really thankful
to have what I have now.

I got a do-over.

And I'm not going to
squander it, man.

Good boy.

Tim R. Hey, Tim R.

Good to see you again.

You said, "Barry needs
to be attorney general."

No, I'm a horrible politician.

You know, I ran for
Texas attorney general.

I also started
Never Get Busted Live.

I'm using more wisdom and more
tact to get my point across.

I feel like I'm preaching again.

Barry's lost a lot
in this fight.

A lot in this fight.

From start to right now.

And him being in exile,

that's a whole
different toll on him.

♪ Our house ♪

♪ It's a very, very, very
fine house ♪

Kenzie:
I don't think that my dad will ever have true inner peace.

He's lost a whole lot, he's not
going to get any of it back.

When he went and picked
a fight with the cops

and went on the run,

he didn't think about
the consequences.

Travis:
Injustice is everywhere, and many of us want

to do something about it.

But Barry played that game
at a much bigger level

and at a much bigger scale.

So click that order button
now to nevergetbusted.com,

and I'll even pay your postage.

And it had the kind
of collateral damage

that not even in my
wildest dreams did I think

that the Texas Rangers
would raid his home

and he'd have to
flee the country.

Very nice to meet you, Paul.

I'm Barry.

Hey man, I'm Barry.

I just hope I'm doing okay.

But these are your people,
you're Filipino,

I'm a white guy, it's hard.

Leandrew: The thing about Barry,
he is that embodiment

of that warrior spirit,
that William Wallace, Spartacus,

like, no, I'm standing
up for what I believe

and I'm going to fight.

He fought the fucking
system in a way

that made millions of
people cheer for him.

Barry: Hey Rangers!

Why are y'all being
pricks like that?

You don't want me
busting crooked cops?

Do you see what happens if
you're tied up in this game

and then you try to turn
around and hate the game?

No, they're going
to hate the player.

They're going to
come at your ass

and they're going
to fuck you up.

How dare you come into
my home on a misdemeanour

pointing guns at my family.

Do you really know who
you're talking to?

Hey, kick the door
in, motherfucker!

Hey, kick the door in!

David:
This isn't the story of one cop who did bad stuff and then quit.

This is a story about
a system that's unjust.

Watch our TV show, KopBusters.

Whether you like Barry Cooper or
not, you got to agree with me

that he has brought
the issue to the fore.

Pot smokers do not belong
in jail!

Recreational marijuana is
now legal in California.

Alaska is now the third state--

Minnesota now the 23rd
state to legalize.

But in Texas, recreational use
of marijuana is still illegal.

In the patrol car.

Barry's a guardian angel.

He had enough experience
with officers,

he knew what made them tick.

This is called cop watching.

It's investigative journalism.

Man: It's not illegal to record,
I'm a journalist.

Barry:
Is he free to leave?

Man: Am I free to leave?

Barry:
Are we all free to leave?

- Officer: Yes!
- Then we can roam around

wherever we want!

A dirty, rotten,
mean motherfucker.

Man: Oh, my God!

That dude has such
a bug up his ass

about how bad he
was to other people

that he's just determined
to undo the harm,

even if it means
killing himself.

Y'all planted drugs on Yolanda,

and she's in prison
because of it.

I mean, for me, I would
have to tell you that

I am his biggest fan.

Barry:
This fucking worked!

I will always appreciate
what Barry did for me.

I mean, I may not
ever understand why.

Barry: Oh, man!
Victor: That was awesome, dude.

Thank you very much.
I'm Barry Cooper.

God bless all of
you for being here.

♪ Well, I was raised up
by a simple man ♪

♪ I grew up with a gun in
my hand ♪

♪ Taught me how to love
and how to fight ♪

♪ Taught me what's wrong
taught me what's right ♪

♪ Said you don't have
a choice to choose ♪

♪ You do what you can
and don't ever lose ♪

♪ Just remember,
even when I'm dead and gone ♪

♪ Stick to your guns, son,
make me proud ♪

♪ Don't ever back up,
don't ever back down ♪

♪ Stand your ground
and always tell it like it is ♪

♪ Yeah, this life's gonna be
real damn tough ♪

♪ You take them scars
and you call that bluff ♪

♪ Don't let me catch you
fitting in ♪

♪ Till it's time
to do outlaw shit ♪

I don't fucking know what

that fucking bat shit
motherfucker is doing,

but I guarantee you,
whatever it is,

it's fucking nuts.

You know, and that was
kind of how I got--