Original subtitles

(upbeat music)

- Trying to be the best cop you can in the situation.

You're in the middle of the road, passed out.

It's frustrating.

- It's really hard to tell when you did a good job.

Are you okay?

- I mean, I signed up to help people.

You're in the middle of the road now.

- I don't care.

- No, no, no.

If somebody got shot, you need to tell us.

I can only make people tell me so much.

Do you not understand the rules?

(child crying)

(dramatic music)

(roar)

(audience clapping)

(chirping)

- [P.A.] (indistinct) somebody's been shot.

(siren blaring)

- [Wixon] I signed up to be a police officer to help people

on some of the worst days of their entire life.

Come on Dunne.

(siren blaring)

You wanna solve the problem, take care of it,

but sometimes we can only do so much.

Where is the gun?

(dispatch talking)

My name is Officer. Wixon.

(bright music)

Fairbanks is home to me, I grew up here

and I think I have a little extra attachment to it.

That's why I like to go out and be proactive.

Can I help you any more tonight?

Do you need anything else from me?

I'm that officer who's out there driving around.

I wasn't gonna sit behind a desk.

I wanna be out and about doing something great

for the city of Fairbanks.

One, two, just in case one don't work.

And in the long run,

you're putting people away who shouldn't be on the street

that I don't want around my family or my friends.

Keep coming, stop right there, go down on your knees.

It's like a win-win for everybody.

(bright music)

- 911 What city please.

(keyboard keys clacking)

(alarm beeping)

(footsteps plodding)

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

- Come on city, talk to us.

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

Ah somebody just got shot at the bowling alley,

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

- Is he armed?

- Sixteen, I'm right behind you.

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

(sirens wailing)

- [Wixon] Cool.

- Put your hands behind your back.

- I'm not doing nothing. - Behind your back.

(woman crying)

- Hey, hey, hey, do you have a gun on you?

- Okay, do you have any injuries?

- Okay, have you been shot at all?

- Okay, all right, do you have any-

- I'm gonna stand you up okay?

- You can ask her, I did not do it.

- Stand up!

- Alright, now we're gonna stand up one, two, three up.

- Please. - Okay.

Hey, hey decent breath, take deep breathe.

Did you witness a shooting?

We need to make sure everybody's okay.

Did you see it, did you see or hear a shooting?

Yes or no?

- You heard it okay, where did you hear at?

- Are you gonna explain to me what's going on

or are we gonna continue playing this game?

- I'm not gonna paly any games Officer.

I did not shoot a gun, sir.

- Okay. - I was just walking.

- When you're ready to talk to me, let me know.

- Sir. (car door thuds)

- If somebody got shot and you know what happened,

you need to tell us.

- Okay.

- Did he fire a gun?

Yes?

- Did he hit at someone?

- No, okay.

Is the friend, the friend you were with?

Yes or no?

- Okay, all right.

S5, that's the shooter, she just said so.

- Again you lied to me.

So somebody was giving her some problems

and you pulled out a gun and fired it.

- I did not, sir.

- Hey, one last question, where's the gun?

- I don't know where it is.

- Hey if some little kid finds that gun and hurts himself-

- I don't know where it is.

- When did he drop the gun?

- I don't know, I wasn't watching him.

- Come on, let's go.

Take a seat. - Have a seat.

- There's a gun somewhere in this area.

- So she says that some people approached her,

threatened her and he pulled a gun and fired it.

Didn't hit anybody, she doesn't know where the gun is,

but she also says she doesn't think

anyone got shot as well either.

- Okay, at this point I don't believe that we have a victim.

Can you just check with the hospital

and make sure that nobody has arrived over there

with a gunshot wound.

Okay, let's start from the beginning.

- Who's you cousin?

- Where's it at?

- Tell me what took place.

- Who's he guy?

He was like-

- Trying to get you to shoot this other person.

- [Laska] Okay.

- What was (beep) wearing?

(sirens wailing) (car engine revving)

Put your hands up,

go on your knees,

put your hands on your head.

I'm gonna grab your hands. Give me your-

One detained on ninth.

Sir are you armed in any way?

(indistinct)

- Yeah, go for it, he's detained.

He didn't have the gun on him, but we contacted,

so he's obviously- - He has the gun.

- S5 you were trying to reach me.

- Male in gray sweatshirt, he was walking down ninth

when we were responding.

I've got him detained at this time,

says that he doesn't know what's going on.

- 10-4.

- Copy, we're gonna try to locate the firearm over here

and then we'll move on from there.

(red hood man screaming)

- It appears that there were a number of people involved,

we've currently got three detained.

But the most concerning part is

that we don't know where the gun is.

- So he came through the buildings over here,

- [Wixon] Okay.

- and they walked through the snow over here.

- Took the gun ditched it somewhere in here.

- [Wixon] Somewhere over there.

Did you already check underneath the cars?

- [Laska] Oh, that's what I'm doing now.

- [Wixon] All right, I'll do these.

- I'm wondering if they came from that way.

- Let me walk on the grass.

See if there's any on this side.

- I'm gonna go this way here, Tom.

I don't have any tracks over here yet so.

Nothing over there.

If he's somewhere between here and a bowling alley,

if somebody did have it and they did ditch it then.

(red hood man screaming)

- Yo he's banging on your door again.

- Do you not understand the rules?

- That's why I'm trying to get your attention.

- Where's the gun?

- I don't know where it is.

He left, we split up, he had the gun.

- If a kid finds that gun and shoot somebody,

you're gonna get charged with it.

Where is the gun?

Where is it?

- Can I tell you what happened?

- No, where is the gun?

(dramatic music)

(bluesy music)

(digital chirp)

- You're gonna get charged with it?

Where is the gun?

Where is the gun?

(dramatic music)

- The biggest concern we all have right now,

we're really trying to find this gun.

I need to know about this for the safety of the public.

- It's gotta be on the ground somewhere, right?

- Well he doesn't have it with him now.

- She is not confident who took off with the gun a 100%.

At the moment we got absolutely really nothing.

The gun's gotta be on the ground somewhere.

If some kid find oh-

(suspenseful music)

That is a, definitely a fear that all of us have right now

is that the wrong person finds it.

People don't wanna tell us anything,

it's very frustrating.

- Yeah.

- Nobody wants to tell us that they were the victim,

so without a victim of a crime, there can't be a crime.

Hey, I'm letting you go.

Do you feel safe walking away?

Yes?

Okay, all right.

Do you wanna walk away with that, gentlemen?

No?

Do you wanna leave before he leaves or after?

- Before okay.

- Listen to me for just a second.

- Unfortunately she doesn't wanna talk to you.

- [Rosenbalm] You're free to go.

- You're sure you feel safe?

- All right, have a good night okay.

- The fact that she didn't even wanna be around

the gentleman that was possibly protecting her

means she definitely saw more than she's letting on.

Can't prove anything at the moment,

but the fact that she wanted to leave

and didn't wanna be anywhere near him, says something.

- You're free to go.

Thank you.

- [Wixon] Nope.

There are times it makes you wonder,

am I really making much of a difference out there.

(melancholic music)

- He is a damn good man all right?

I'm a little hell raiser (laughing).

- All right.

Bye.

I put the badge on every day because it's the only thing

I can imagine myself doing.

I love your costume, it's very good.

I like to get out and talk to the kids and talk to people.

How's everything?

- Good. - Good?

Gets me out of my car.

How are you?

You guys know that you can't drink over here.

I worked in a grocery store for 11 years

and I worked loss prevention.

Hey buddy, just wake up for me, okay.

And catch people who steal,

and I was arresting people before I was ever a cop.

Does that sound good?

I've been dealing with a lot of the transient community

for like 15 years because of my other jobs.

- Hi Mama Jean, how are you?

Are you doing good?

I know a lot of them,

but I treat everybody the same.

Good seeing you guys.

I think I can serve a purpose for the community

and help people and hopefully make a difference somehow.

(soft music)

We're heading to a disturbance over here

at the Westmark hotel.

We already have a Sergeant here so

we're gonna catch up and back him up real quick.

(energetic music)

- [Butler] Okay.

- That's what I got so far.

- Does he have any weapons or anything?

- Did you see any guns, knives, hand grenades?

- Oh he slapped you?

Okay, is he drunk?

- Okay, is it just him in there?

- Okay, all right.

- Knock, see if they say anything.

So if they still don't reply we will.

You want em out so we can go in.

(door thuds)

- Management.

- The owner of the hotel, please open the door.

(suspenseful music)

(door thuds)

Fairbanks Police, open the door.

- You open the door or I open it.

(door opens)

Who else's in here?

- [Officer] I got it.

- [Butler] 10-4, hotel wants to press charges,

so they will be 10-80 for criminal trespass too.

- [Butler] Arnold's a member of the transient community.

I've dealt with him a lot,

but it's never been anything too crazy.

Did anybody hit the button?

- [Officer] Go for it.

- We're all just standing here staring at it.

- You sure can.

They were guests of the individual who paid for the room

and they're causing some issues.

They're gonna be arrested for trespassing.

I appreciate you guys being cooperative,

you're just a little intoxicated, it's okay.

Yap you can do that, that's fine.

I'll run into you in the lobby here in a couple of minutes.

- Hey no making out.

(soothing music)

- He's going to the same place.

- Okay, I don't think you're gonna be alone.

- Have a seat, bud.

I appreciate you being cool with me.

- Yeah. - All right bud.

Alright.

You good?

- All right buddy.

(soft music)

You know?

- Do you run a harem?

- (laughing) No, no, no, no,

I don't want nothing like that.

- You just said you were a pimp so I thought

maybe you run a harem.

- Hell no.

- I was just, you said it, I was just.

- Oh I get you, okay.

- How long have you guys been together?

- Three years? - Yup.

- That's pretty good.

- Oh yeah? - Yeah, she wants-

- Will you invite me to the wedding?

- I appreciate that.

- You know, I would show up.

- She coming, they just went a different way.

There they are, they're right behind us.

(melancholic music)

All right man, well, you don't get in any trouble in here

okay, you stay safe.

- [Arnold] I'll be alright.

- [Butler] Thanks for working with us Arnold.

- [Arnold] Oh no problem.

- [Butler] It was just a little easier, you know?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- You seem like a good guy.

- Cooperation is number one.

- Best policy.

- Yup. - Hold on.

(car door thuds)

- Hold on, hold on, hold on,

hold on.

(melancholic music)

- [Butler] One kiss, that's it.

Okay, now don't do that in booking,

'cause you guys will get in trouble.

Enough, enough, enough.

- It's always a balancing act

when you're dealing with a transient community.

You gotta uphold the law and then you also have to make sure

that you're treating them with respect

and hope that they treat you with respect.

I hope it really makes a difference.

(air whooshing)

(suspenseful music)

We're on our way to Cina Landings loop.

There is a report of a vehicle

stopped in the middle of the roadway.

You kinda roll up to these situations

with an open outlook and you never know

what kind of situation can turn up over here.

Echo, tango (beep).

(siren blaring)

(suspenseful music)

(dispatch talking indistinctly)

(dramatic music)

(intriguing music)

- 09-54, I'm right down the road,

if you want a stand by.

- Hola,

hands up,

hands up.

There you go, perfect.

How are you?

What are you guys doing?

Hands up?

(car door thuds)

What are you doing?

- You didn't pull over at all.

- No, no, no, but look,

you're in the middle of the road, passed out,

with your face on the steering wheel.

- Oh. That's what I'm telling you.

Does that make sense?

- Okay.

Obviously I know we're not stupid.

What I'm trying to say is, don't do this here

in the middle

of the road.

Arg, I don't understand, man.

- Give me that blue thing right there.

Thank you.

- Is that syringes?

- No.

- Oh, it's your pipe.

(plastic rattling)

- What's in here?

Can I open it?

- I can't open it?

Get out of the car.

Put your hands on your back, put your hands on your back.

Right now you're currently being detained, okay.

- Thank you for being chill bro, I appreciate it.

- I didn't know what was in that thing.

- You said it wasn't yours?

- It wasn't mine, that was my boyfriend.

- (beep) Your boyfriend?

- No comment.

- All right.

- Hey Derek, I think that's your dope right there.

- I don't think that's dope.

- It might be, yeah.

- It's sealed on both sides.

- I think there's probably dope in there too.

It's just a matter of we can't open it.

- Do you see any actual drugs, we can articulate as drugs?

- We have tons of paraphernalia,

I'm not seeing any active product,

'cause I think they used it.

She looked like she was locked up

when I came up to the window.

- I'm gonna see if the tow going.

- Okay.

- So here's what's going on okay.

Right now we suspect that there are drugs in the car, okay,

so we're taking your car.

We are going to apply for a search warrant

and if it's granted or not, we're gonna search the car.

- Okay?

So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna release you

and you need to-

- Nope, nothing's allowed to leave the vehicle right now.

- She's asking about a cell phone and debit card

if that's possible. - Nope.

Everything's staying in the car.

Yeah, that's, I'm perfectly fine with it.

- We got a shaved key too.

- Oh really?

So shave key, is a key that people grind down the notches

and you can force it into the ignition of an older vehicle

and sometimes you're able to turn the ignition

and start that vehicle.

- Is it your car?

- Whose car is it?

- What's your friend's name?

- All right, you're free to go.

- It's frustrating.

Having drug paraphernalia isn't a crime.

You gotta actually have product.

I don't understand why people can just

get away with what they do.

(relaxing music)

It just doesn't make any sense.

(machine vibrating)

That bothers me, but there's nothing I can do.

The only thing I can do is try and enforce the law,

but there's no way I'm gonna be able to stop it completely.

That's a job for the X-Men.

(car engine revving)

(serene music)

- The sun is actually out when I go home now,

you know what else is nice about springtime in Alaska?

Mosquitoes.

(upbeat music)

Oh mosquitoes are bad at your place.

Oh yeah, I can smell a very strong odor

of marijuana coming.

'Cause she said she had smoked some marijuana,

but not enough for me to make an arrest on.

I originally had to get in because

the mosquitoes are brutal.

I would rather have 40 below than all these mosquitoes.

Every day of the week.

Oh my God, there's more in here.

They're everywhere.

Fun times.

What do you know, right there.

Family insect repellent, hah.

That's the good stuff folks.

(bouncy music)

Oh, they're not coming after me.

Maybe it is working.

(car door thuds)

(crickets chirping)

(crackling)

(bell dings)

- [Dispatcher] 911.

- 05-029, caller is,

(car engine revving)

(car door thuds)

(footsteps plodding)

- What's going on buddy?

- Well, someone called 911 about it, okay.

- Here's my wallet.

- What do I need your wallet for bud?

- The ID, so you can see,

that's the name they called you about?

- Yup. - Okay.

That literally-

- Are you still active duty?

- Yes I am. - Okay.

All right, so why are the police here tonight, man?

Is it your girlfriend?

- We're (beep) engaged.

- Okay, all right.

- How can I help you ma'am? - Go back inside.

- I'm just giving him his (beep).

- Don't care about any of that, (beep) burn it.

- That's all I'm doing.

All I want is him out of my house, this is my house.

I have lease on here and he does not.

- And I told you give me my phone and I will leave.

- Get off the property, I'm calling my landlord.

- All right.

- Have him leave the property he's-

- This will (beep) make everybody happy, lets go.

(dramatic music)

(ice crackling)

- Why are we here?

What's going on tonight?

- [Woman] I just want him out.

- Are you guys engaged or something?

- Not anymore, no.

- Not anymore? Okay.

Did that happen tonight or what?

- After what I saw, yes.

- So that's, what's going on tonight?

- Yes I just want him out of my house.

- Okay.

So if he leaves tonight, is that going to solve the problem?

- Yes just please have him leave, that's all I care about.

- All right.

Sounds like the male had been caught cheating on her,

with an ex and she wanted him out.

I can let this gentleman walk back to the base

where he'll be held accountable.

But I'm not going to do that.

Do you want a ride back to the base or not.

- No I don't give a (beep), I'll walk, I don't care.

- No, no, no.

Hey, you're in the middle of the road now.

- Yeah, they can (beep) it hit me too

I don't care at this point.

- Yes, but I'm not going to let you

walk allover Fairbanks intoxicated.

- Here's my belongings.

- I gotta protect this guy from himself.

- [Man] Here's my phone.

Here's my (beep) wallet.

- All right.

Go ahead and put your hands on your back then for me, bud

and drop the cigarette.

Just put your hands behind your back, you're going in cuffs.

All right? You're not going to my car like this.

Go ahead. I don't care at this point.

Yeah I got it. No, no, no,

- No, you're active duty

you do not have the right to detain me.

- Yes I do. - No you, no.

- Hey, just trust me I do, okay?

Your chain of command says otherwise, okay?

We're going to walk to my car.

- Sir, with all due respect-

- City 5, the male is obtained.

- Sir, with all due respect, I know my rights.

- Correct.

- And you have no right to detain me

if you do not have a reason to detain me

and I will call my chain of command right now,

I'll have them come pick me up.

- 10 four, are they willing to meet me at the gate

or do I got to go to the PMO?

10 four that works.

Being a police officer is more than just arresting people.

At the end of the day, our goal is to make the public safer.

(chattering on radio)

He can hop out and I'll grab his stuff.

He lives on base.

(chattering on radio)

Your call what you want to do with him.

- [Officer Andrew] Your wallet And your phone in there bud.

- Thank you, you need anything from me?

- All right.

- Yeah. Have a good one.

- That's the plan, you too.

♪

- [Dispatcher] Dispatch.

(police sirens wailing)

- 10 four on route, which side of the river?

(police sirens wailing)

- Somebody who fell out of a tree and landed in the river,

Fire is responding as well.

(siren balring)

(ominous music)

(dramatic music)

(crows cawing)

(river babbling)

(police sirens wailing)

(intense pulsing music)

- City 0-9, we'll probably need a TSP for a couple others

that are in the area.

- [Dispatch] 10 four.

- [Butler] All right now, just crawl up, there you go.

All right.

- [Butler] Oh yeah.

He's all right. He's right. We got him.

You okay?

- [Gerrit] I get it. But I don't want you to-

- Hey let's help him go sit over here.

They're going to check on you.

We heard you fell out of a tree.

- The caller.

- Are you okay?

(laughing) - Yeah we're fine.

- [Gerrit] Okay, yeah., you guys are good thank you.

Well, let's get you away from the river, okay?

- I don't want you to sit right here.

Cause you already fell in once.

I don't want you to fall in again, come on.

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

I'll help you.

- I'll help you, come on.

- (beep) You wouldn't go swimming in them nice shoes.

You know that.

Let me help you.

All right man.

He was obviously intoxicated and fell in cause he's still

wearing his nice shoes so...

Do you need anything from me?

Do me a favor. Stay away-

(man laughing)

Stay away from the river.

Okay. All right (beep)

Hey, you be careful, okay?

I mean, I don't hug everybody obviously,

but guys I trust like (beep) I trust that guy pretty good.

I'll definitely give him a hug if they want a hug,

but also do it safely.

Do me a favor. Just stay away from the river, okay?

- All right.

- All right.

Take care.

Good seeing you.

- I've known him for like 15 years.

- Yeah.

- I like (beep) he's a good dude when he's sober.

(melancholy music)

(crackling)

(crackling)

- 10 four, 10-19.

So officer Bonham has pulled over a vehicle

and it sounds like it's a possible DUI

so we're going to come out

and just a second officer for safety reasons.

- So he can worry about doing his test,

I'll worry about anything else in the area.

- All right, I'm going to ask you to provide a sample

of your breath please, I'll hold it for you

and blow.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Thank you.

- Look at that, little baby.

- Just doing a search.

Trying not to disturb the little one.

Two twisted tea alcohol,

then an empty one over here.

(baby crying)

Oh no.

(baby continues crying)

(dramatic music)

(crackling)

(baby crying)

- I know bud, I know

- All right, right now you're under arrest for DUI.

- You're too impaired.

She failed the walking,

the counting, the alphabet and the balance test.

She failed all of those.

- Oh my (beep)

- [Andrew] You know about the kid in the back, right?

- [Bonham] Yeah.

- [Woman] Can I call my husband please?

I could call him on the phone right now please.

- All right, okay.

- We'll get it taken care of okay?

How old is the child?

- Please, please, please, please.

- We're going to have to.

- The female is 10-80, we have a child in the car.

We need to get dad down here.

- [Bonham] All right officer Wixon is gonna remain

on scene here.

- All right.

(baby crying)

this is where we get creative?

Hey look, look,

See the light?

See the light?

Hey, hey,

I don't want to take someone else's kid.

It's okay bud, you can- (baby crying)

Look at the light, look at the light.

(baby continues crying) Ay, yai yai.

16:05,

So far dad's not here,

and little one's woke up and is not happy.

(baby crying)

City 0-5 any luck?

10 four.

So it sounds like we might've gotten someone on their way

that supposed to be picking the kid up.

If the family friend doesn't show up,

we're going to have to call

the office of children services.

But who knows what kind of luck we'll have

with them at 2:00 AM.

(baby crying)

Hey, what's your name, sir?

- You're the friend? Okay.

So you're willing to take the little one?

- Okay.

I think the little one cried himself to sleep.

So can I get an ID from you once you get him in the car?

- Yeah.

- City 0-5 the RO male secured the vehicle

and has taken the child for the night.

Hey man. I appreciate it.

Have a good night. Okay?

- All right. Thank you man.

10 four.

Sometimes in the job,

you'll see things that break your heart,

but we can't turn away.

Poor kiddo.

Just makes me so upset.

- Hey guys, how are you?

Are you doing good?

You doing good?

- Thank you.

How's your family?

- We're hanging in there, that's for sure,

as much as we can.

All right, well that's good.

All right, Well that weed stinks in your pocket.

I'm just saying - Oh yeah I know.

- It's really strong.

You're welcome guys.

I definitely became a police officer because I wanted

to make a difference.

Yeah. That weed stunk dude.

(radio beeping) (radio chatter)

But it's really hard to tell when you did a good job.

Trying to be the best cop you can in the situation

that you're given is, you know,

all you can do or trying to even just be a good person.

That for me is enough.