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(tense rock music)

(radio chattering)

- I hate getting calls where there's a kid in danger.

(dog barking)

It's getting to be a little scary.

- It's my worst nightmare to hear

my own address be called over the radio.

Stay inside.

- We have a brown bear right now that's a ticking time bomb.

(bear roars)

Right there.

(rubber bullet clacks)

(tense violin music)

(bear roars)

(relaxed rock music)

(radio beeping)

- No matter what the situation is,

no matter how bad it gets,

the worst thing a police can do is lose control.

- [Derrick] Put your hands behind your back.

- [Suspect] Get your hands off me!

- [Derrick] I don't want to have to use force on you.

(tense violin tones)

- [Derrick] My name is Officer Derrick Winter.

I'm a Police Officer with the Fairbanks Police Department.

I just moved up to Alaska

because it's where my wife's from.

- He just misses his daddy. (wife chuckles)

- Yeah, I'm good.

- [Wife] Bye.

- [Derrick] This is my first winter in Alaska.

Prior to coming to Fairbanks,

I was a Police Officer in Kansas.

It was a huge risk moving to Alaska.

The first time I was ever in Fairbanks

was my first day on the job.

So I kind of took a leap of faith moving up here.

So I'm just excited to see if it's gonna work out.

It's Friday night and I'm the only Officer

working swing shift with my Watch Commander.

(anxious electronic music)

- [Dispatcher] Dispatch.

- There's someone at a grocery store

throwing carts at people because they won't buy him alcohol.

(anxious violin music)

Oh, there he is.

What's going on with him?

- [Derrick] What's he doing?

- [Derrick] Hey, just have a seat.

- Just have a seat. Have a seat.

- Get on the ground, get on the ground.

- You're not gonna talk to me like that.

- I don't want to have to use force on you.

- Put your hands behind your back.

- [Suspect] Get off me!

- Put your hands behind your back now.

- [Suspect] Get off me.

- Put your hands behind your back.

- 10-four, guy's combative.

I'll need assistance getting him in handcuffs.

- [Suspect] Get off me.

- Why are you causing a disturbance?

- You want to go, right?

- [Derrick] You just gotta go in handcuffs.

- That's it.

We're gonna take you somewhere warm.

- Oh.

- But you can't be yelling like this.

- [Derrick] Being the sole officer out here,

that can be a little terrifying,

just knowing that if something goes sideways.

- Mother (beep), get the (beep) off me.

- You're it.

- [Suspect] Do you understand that?

Get your hands off me!

- Stay down. - Get off me.

- Stay down, you're gonna get pepper sprayed.

- [Suspect] You're about to get dead.

Leave me alone!

- He's causing a disturbance, he's yelling at me.

He's passed out drunk.

- [Suspect] Get him away from me.

- [Sweet] Hey, we're gonna put you in cuffs

and then we'll get you over there, all right?

- [Suspect] No, I did nothing wrong.

- [Sweet] Okay.

- You're not being charged with anything.

- [Sweet] This is a safety thing.

- All right my man, we're gonna go in the car.

- Be careful.

Watch your head.

- When I got here, he started screaming at me,

gets in my face, so I grabbed his arm

and I pushed him down on that.

- Okay. - And held him.

(relaxed rock music)

- Hey, just have a seat. - No, you have a seat.

- Have a seat. - I am not causing trouble.

- [Derrick] Put your hands behind your back.

- [Suspect] I'm fine!

- I usually try to critique myself.

Why are you causing a disturbance?

Things I did well and things I didn't do well.

- [Suspect] Are you gonna let me up now?

- The last thing I wanna do is tase someone.

- [Suspect] You need to get the (beep) off me.

- Pepper spray someone. - Get away from me, Satan.

- Shoot someone. - Leave me alone!

(relaxed rock music)

- [Derrick] Police work moves very fast.

But keeping your composure is very key in this job

because when officers go in the black like that,

bad things can happen.

(electronic beep)

(relaxed guitar music)

- Sitka is the only city on the Baranof Islands.

This is a pristine place.

Your yard is

the forest.

(relaxed country guitar music)

I'm Officer Josh Steele.

That is one heck of a sunset.

I still don't get used to it.

Like it's 10 o'clock and it's still light.

I started my career out in Utah.

Got to the point to where I wanted something different.

I just wanted to come to Alaska

and live the Alaska lifestyle.

What is that, is that like a worm of some sort?

Yeah, I'm not gonna mess with that thing.

This reminds me of "Alien vs. Predator."

I don't think I have a big enough gun to kill that thing.

- [Dispatcher] Sitka Police.

- We have a brown bear right now

that's kinda going through a person's garbage

and I guess it scared the family back into the house.

Where I was from in the lower 48,

we never dealt with bears, so I was telling my Chief,

I don't know how to shoo a bear away.

I'd never learned that in the Academy.

He's like, "Yeah, just go up there

and blare your horn or something, you know?"

I'm like, "Okay."

(anxious electronic music)

- 10-four.

Right now he's on the outskirts of town.

(electronic pinging)

Yep, there it is, see, flipped the trash can over.

You can see where he's dragged the garbage.

This bear's hungry, so you get a kid out here

or a dog or whatever, he can be a very dangerous.

This is definitely a bear print there.

It's not a very big bear.

I think this is Little Yogi.

This bear is famous.

Yogi's about three years old, not full grown

but he doesn't know the strength that he really has.

When it was a cub, the mama taught it how

to get into the garbage 'cause that's an easy meal.

I've been chasing him for nearly a year.

Yogi's always one to two steps ahead of us.

I just got attached to Yogi.

Yeah, this was definitely Yogi.

(tense electronic music)

(low growl)

(relaxed flute music)

(electronic beep)

(relaxed tempo drumbeat)

- You're always gonna be running into a bear.

Somebody can get hurt.

- We've got an electric fence, 14,000 volts.

Here's a swing set inside the safe zone.

- [Woman] Once there's a bear sighting,

we get alerted through a Facebook group.

- I run every day.

There's been a time or two where I've ran with a gun.

45-70 that's been modified to shoot a 457.

Then I got this one, it would definitely stop a bear.

(gunshot booms)

- Right now, he's on the edge of the town.

My goal right now is to get him out of here.

I'd rather scare it away than shoot it.

That's my last option.

I heard him go right through these bushes.

But I think we missed him by a couple minutes.

Yogi is a pretty smart bear.

(anxious electronic music)

He's got a system of trails

right off the roadway he's using.

(electronic beeping)

- Copy.

Yogi just came across and is

hitting the trashcan as we're speaking.

Gosh dang it.

(anxious drumbeat)

I'm worried that he's heading closer into downtown Sitka.

That's a huge safety concern.

We're running out of time with him.

I will definitely put down Yogi if I have to.

(electronic beep)

(relaxed electronic music)

(baby coos)

- Hi, Alvin.

Can I hold you while you're crying?

Or do you love mommy so much that you're gonna cry?

My wife went back To work.

We work opposite schedules,

so it's either me or her watching Alvin.

- Ba ba ba ba.

- Oh! - He just threw up.

We have been in this apartment

since we moved here from Kansas.

This is our temporary home until we find a house.

You can go back to mommy.

(Derrick's wife giggles)

Alvin definitely changed my mindset on the job.

It's not about me anymore.

It's about being able to raise my kid

and I obviously can't do that if something happens to me.

All right Alvin, we'll get out of here.

All right, I love you. (Alvin crying)

Bye.

- Be safe.

- Be back, love you.

It's hard being so young.

How many people go to work every day

and they have to wear a bulletproof vest to be safe?

- [Dispatcher] Hello, this is 911, what city please?

- Are you serious?

Five-four.

It's the apartment building that me and my family live in.

Damn it.

- Hey, are you at home?

- We just got a call about

(beep) running naked breaking down doors yelling at people.

Stay inside.

It's my worst nightmare.

(anxious violin music)

(siren blaring)

- We have a subject that broke a door to an apartment

in the building that me and my family live in.

The subject is a frequent flyer for us in Fairbanks.

- Back off, now.

(suspect babbling)

- You gotta calm down.

You scared a bunch of people in there.

He is one of the most arrested people in Fairbanks.

- [Suspect] No, I don't want to go to the hospital.

- Put your hands behind your back now.

- We need to get him out of there.

(siren blaring)

- Put your hand on your head.

- [Suspect] For the whole world.

- [Derrick] What happened in your dad's apartment today?

Did you break anything in here?

- These mother (beep).

- He doesn't have it with him?

- [Derrick] When someone has a known mental health

diagnosis and if they're not on their medications,

they can potentially become very dangerous.

-No!

- Put your hands--

- All right, come on.

If you come anywhere on this property,

you're going to jail again, okay?

All right, come on.

- We're over here.

The medicine clinic.

- Have a seat.

It's kind of a sad deal when people get that way.

There's really not that many resources

up here in Fairbanks for people suffering

from some kind of mental health crisis.

(anxious violin music)

I don't know, I don't know what to say about that one.

Definitely an issue though.

Hey babe, you doing okay?

- We got him for today though.

So you don't have to deal with them.

We wanted to live in a safe neighborhood with no crime.

I accept that I'm in a dangerous job.

That's what I signed up for but

it's not what my family signed up for.

I love you.

When those dangerous situations

show up at my front doorstep,

that's when it crosses the line for me.

(electronic beep)

(relaxed electronic music)

- [Dispatcher] Sitka Police.

- [Josh] Yeah, this is definitely Yogi right there.

See the white stripe?

- He really does have a white stripe.

- Yeah, he does.

Yogi has a white stripe along

its neck area and it's very distinguishable.

Yogi's situation is not going good.

We get calls all the time for Yogi.

I mean, he's coming in town and getting more and more bold.

(anxious electronic music)

- [Josh] We're trying to track him.

- [Josh] Yep.

- I understand.

There's his bear poop right there.

So the bear's just right down here.

You can see where he's dragged garbage.

He's kinda back behind.

You can hear him breaking branches back there.

He's probably 100 yards just straight from us.

I was hoping to hit him with

a rubber bullet but he's too far away.

Oh man.

Yogi outsmarted me again.

We're just gonna wait the bear out.

It'll be back.

The resident stated that Yogi kinda stalked him.

That's a really huge concern for us because now

he's in that predator mode that

he's showing signs of not being scared.

He's looking at humans as a food source.

Unfortunately with Yogi,

it's kind of a ticking time bomb right now

and that's the heartbreaking part of it.

I feel for the bear but I don't want

anybody to be mauled or harmed or even killed on my watch.

- [Dispatcher] 911, where's your emergency?

- Is he out of the ditch now?

- 10-four.

He's trying to get out but he's slamming into other cars.

Probably a DUI.

Somewhere right here.

We're on scene and yeah, the driver, he's gone.

He's fled on foot.

- Right here?

(anxious ensemble music)

- [Josh] Dispatch off of 25.

I'm in pursuit, going into the woods

and the suspect could be armed.

Hey Brad, do you want to check over by the buses?

- [Wheeler] Did you check further down, up in there?

- Yeah, I can.

They said that he was right behind the buses.

Let's see.

Hey, see your hands.

(tense booming tones)

(tense electronic music)

- Hey, get down.

- Yeah. - Give me your hands.

- [Suspect] Here's my hands.

- Hands behind your back.

Don't grab me.

- Yeah.

Okay, stand up.

All right, I'm gonna escort you out.

What's going on, man?

What the hell?

- [Josh] You got insurance on your vehicle, right?

- Not really.

- Not really?

- [Josh] You just cremated like four other cars.

- [Suspect] I know.

- I can smell the alcohol on you.

(relaxed electronic music)

Okay, big deep breath and go.

Keep on going, blow harder.

You're only halfway there, you're 3/4ths, okay.

Okay, you're a .163.

That's way too much, that's double the limit, okay?

You're being arrested for driving

under the influence of alcohol tonight, okay?

Make better choices, buddy.

No more of that drinking and driving.

Tonight, I was lucky and got a guy

that was just really cooperative and calm for a DUI.

I've had many that were belligerent but this guy,

he admits his mistakes and hopefully he learns from it.

(relaxed guitar music)

That guy was easier to find than Yogi is.

(electronic beep)

(relaxed guitar music)

- I want you on calls to start

yelling at people, "Winter is coming."

If you don't, I'm gonna start yelling that on calls.

"Winter is coming!"

(laughs)

- I'm Gerrit Butler.

I've lived in Fairbanks my whole life.

You okay? - Yeah man, I'm fine.

- I'll help you, you're not in trouble.

Come on man, I'll help you.

This is always gonna be home.

I understand.

I love Fairbanks.

I want to keep living here as long as I can

and I want to raise my kids here

and my girlfriend is pregnant with a little baby.

It's still relatively early but yeah, kinda exciting.

- [Dispatcher] Dispatch.

- We're heading to one of the neighborhoods

on the east side of town.

There's a boy, six years old who wandered

off from his house and it took 30 minutes

before his parents noticed he was gone.

They have no idea where he's at.

- How are you?

- Are you dad?

- [Derrick] Okay.

- [Gerrit] I'm gonna check

all the parks and basketball courts.

Have you guys seen a boy named Ivan?

- No?

- Yeah.

He's wearing a dinosaur t-shirt.

- So if you guys see him,

just give us a call, okay?

Thank you.

(anxious electronic music)

- We have a bunch of officers in the area looking for him.

A six year old, that's really little.

I know if my kid was missing,

I'd do anything I could to try to find them.

- Sir, where was he last seen?

- Hey, we're looking for a little boy.

He's got green sweat pants and a dinosaur t-shirt.

- Perfect.

Hi guys.

We're looking for a missing boy.

Okay, thank you.

- That's a lot of time.

(anxious piano, electronic music)

We got drones, we got dogs.

We got every officer in Fairbanks looking for this kid.

So if you see him, just let us know, call 911.

- Yes sir. - Thanks, bud.

We're just looking for a little kid.

- Nothing yet.

Where is this kid?

Yeah, that's what we're doing right now.

Just kinda looking for him.

- Okay. - All right.

If you see him, give me a call.

- Will do. - Thanks, Nance.

No one's even come up with anything

remotely close of seeing him.

- [Dispatcher] Five-O west.

- We're getting pretty close to that point

where it's getting to be a little scary.

(tense booming tones)

(birds chirping)

It's hard to say at this point

whether the kid was taken or if he's lost.

- I could see a six year old getting lost in here.

You know, I get lost in here.

He can't find his way back home.

We got multiple agencies out looking now.

The Troopers are looking.

We have FBI out looking, searching the area.

It's worth a check again just in case he was in-between.

- Good luck. - Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(anxious electronic, piano music)

- We can't find him. - Okay, thank you.

Thanks for looking.

If you guys see him, just call us, call 911.

- [Bystander] Drive safe.

- 10-four. - If we see him,

we'll call you. - Perfect.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

- Oh man.

Well, I'm glad he's okay.

- The child was sleeping in a vehicle

in the driveway of the residence.

He was in the divider?

- Yeah, so in the way back.

- Yeah. - That collapsed seat.

So he was down under there. - Okay.

I mean the kid's okay, that's perfect.

That's what we want, now I can go de-stress.

Problem solved.

- I'm sure those parents are

breathing a sigh of relief right now.

I hate getting calls where there's a kid in danger.

Your breath gets taken away instantly.

I can relate.

(relaxed guitar music)

- When I moved to Alaska, I was definitely scared of bears.

Then I just kinda fell in love with 'em.

(electronic pinging)

Yogi is definitely in town.

His chances of having human contact went up tremendously.

Did you see which way it went?

- [Resident] No. - Okay.

Just keep your head up.

He's probably four blocks from a school.

That's actually got us really super worried now.

- [Dispatcher] Sitka Police, this is Shelby.

- Yogi's back.

Hey, can you see if you can get 15

out here with the rubber shotgun rounds?

10-four.

The ultimate goal is to scare him away,

keep him away from town for a long time

so he has a long, prosperous life.

But we have to be ready in case

Yogi decides to stand his ground or even charges.

(anxious violin, electronic music)

- Okay.

- Oh, okay.

- Did he drag all the trash up in the woods?

(distant dog barking)

- Okay, there he goes.

You see him?

You see the big dark thing?

(tense warbling tones)

Right there, right to your right.

That is him, where you're shining that light.

(anxious ensemble music)

- [Josh] He actually huffed at us.

Now he's starting to hold his ground.

(rubber bullet clacks)

- Did I hit him? - Yeah.

You got him right in the face.

See him?

- He must've fled.

Well, it's better than being dead, right?

Nice job, buddy.

I don't want to ever play paintball with you.

(Josh laughs)

He did run off.

We've shot him in the head with a rubber bullet

and we did get a good shot

and the good thing is that he did not stop running.

(relaxed piano music)

Keeping the residents safe is my main job

but I also believe that coexisting with the bears

is necessary.

I think that's a big part of Alaska.

I'm hoping to one day see Yogi

growing up and fishing at the rivers.

(soft piano music)

(relaxed electronic music)

- [Derrick] We'll head over there to investigate,

just to make sure nothing's going on.

(anxious warbling tones)

- [Gerrit] How's a going?

- What'd you find? - Hey, thanks for showing up.

- What is it, just clothes?

- They were concerned someone

fell into the river and never came out.

- I know that there were kids

jumping off the bridge yesterday.

- That's right, it's probably their clothes.

- Probably. - 'Cause they're all wet.

That makes sense.

(relaxed guitar music)

- [Gerrit] Happy Father's Day.

- [Derrick] Happy new Father's Day to you too.

- Yeah, yeah.

- So I'm also going to be a new father.

- No, you're not.

You're (beep) me. - No.

Our little family is getting bigger up here in Alaska.

- Are you excited? - I'm excited.

Alvin's gonna be a big brother already.

We got the new house that has plenty of room.

It's nice to be out of our apartment.

Where we used to live, I was always

kind of worried about my wife and kid's safety.

Storza's dog.

Hi, that's Moose.

- [Butler] You want to keep any of this wood?

- [Derrick] You see how much wood I have, Butler?

We're all one big family here

at Fairbanks Police Department.

I kinda worry there's like a body down there or something.

- [Officer] There might be.

- [Derrick] Being in a new house,

we had a lot of work to do.

So I really appreciate them coming over.

- This wood in the garbage. - Yeah.

I kinda took a leap of faith moving to Alaska

and we finally feel like kinda settled

and I think it's gonna work out.

(upbeat guitar music)