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Thank you. Graduating class,

forward march!

"New York, New York"

♪ Start spreading the news ♪

♪ I'm leaving today ♪

♪ I want to be a part of it ♪

♪ New York, New York ♪

♪ These vagabond shoes ♪

♪ Are longing to stray ♪

And thank you, Mr. Mayor.

It's now my pleasure and personal pride

to introduce the police commissioner

of the city of New York,

the Honorable William J. Bratton.

‐ Good morning and congratulations

to you and to your families.

Over the last 24 years,

and most of you were still too young

to remember the devastation of the '80s and '90s,

this city reclaimed its streets.

It reclaimed its neighborhoods and its parks,

and we, the police,

were the integral and essential element

in doing that.

Well, the new mission

for the New York City Police Department

is going to be quite simply

to save the children of this city.

There are too many young men in this city carrying guns

who have been drawn into the crews and into the gangs,

and we need to prevent that from happening.

Raise your right hand and repeat after me.

"I do hereby pledge to defend..."

"I do hereby pledge to defend..."

"To promote the constitution

"of the United States...

"as a police officer...

"in the New York City Police Department

"to the best of my ability,

so help me, God."

Congratulations.

Ready, throw.

Hello?

Hey, son, listen. I'm gonna find, uh,

uh, the place, okay?

I don't know. Let me‐‐

let me do what I gotta do now.

I got this, uh‐‐got‐‐ I really got to do this.

Okay. Talk to you later.

‐ You've been going through some of the stuff

that I've been going through, and he went through.

I just want you to explain to Polanco here

everything that's been going on.

‐ Just because, uh, I‐‐

I didn't bring

the amount of summonses

and arrests

that they wanted me to bring to, uh‐‐

to the precinct,

uh, I've been punished and retaliated against.

‐ And you thought that after all

I have been through,

that after what he had been through,

that after all this shit

that we been through,

that exposing stuff and‐‐for his‐‐

exposing their numbers machine,

we thought that it was over,

but they still was doing the same shit.

This is‐that's the same, like, uh...

‐ But it's worse, because you came out,

right? First, it was Schoolcraft.

They buried his story.

You came out. They bury your story.

I‐‐I went to, um, federal court,

and then they buried my story.

We know what was going on out there,

and we know what's hurting cops,

and we know the morale of cops is very low.

Everybody that you meet‐‐

Everybody's, "Fuck this job, fuck this fucking job.

- Fuck this fucking job." - Yes.

‐ That's our morale. That's what‐‐

That's how everybody feel. ‐ Yeah.

I've heard the lieutenant

give him a quota.

I've heard the sergeant threaten him

if he didn't follow the quota.

If nothing works,

then we're gonna have‐‐ eventually have to sue.

If‐‐if they give us no recourse,

we're gonna have to sue, and‐‐and

make‐‐we have to make some change.

I feel like we have to tell you this,

because once you're out, you cannot go back.

‐ No. ‐ No.

They'll eat you alive. ‐ Can't go back.

‐ And they're not your friends. ‐ We're strong

as a unit... ‐ They're not your friends.

but individually, we have to be strong, too.

‐ They are not your friends.

‐ And we also, uh,

we rely on each other.

Something bad happens to you,

you call me, you call him,

before you lash out at anybody.

Do not trust anybody else.

- Nope. - They're gonna

come after you in many ways.

You gotta be prepared.

‐ Investigator Gomez. Can I help you?

An inmate at New York City

Department of Corrections is calling,

subject to recording and monitoring.

Yeah, how you doing? This is, um, Investigator Gomez. Who's this?

Brady Robinson?

Bandy Robinson?

What can I do for you, sir?

Okay, well, what kind of case do you have?

A murder case?

Where are you located?

Rikers, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, where?

I want you to call your mom,

sister, whoever it is,

and let them know

that private investigator Manuel Gomez

is going to be taking your case if you innocent,

but do not waste your family's money

if you're not. Okay?

‐ All right, then, well, if you're innocent,

I will get you out and free.

I'm gonna go there and see you.

I need you to have all your paperwork ready.

I need to write down a list of people, witnesses,

so I can start my investigation.

Okay. I'ma let you know now,

I'm gonna see‐‐ I'm gonna see you‐‐

...Securus. Goodbye. ‐ Damn it.

Jesus Christ.

All right.

Hold on a second.

‐ This is the best.

Real best in New York.

Can I get, uh,

uh, two of these,

and, uh...

‐ And it's free, though.

I'm breaking his cherry. He's never had a lobster tail.

Now this‐‐ this is emotional.

But this, you gotta try outside the car,

'cause we're gonna get it all over the place.

All right. ‐

- Here. - Thank you.

‐ I'll trade off with you.

What, you're gonna shoot?

‐ Uh‐huh. I'll shoot you.

Right, try that. ‐ You're gonna shoot me

trying the lobster tail?

‐ Oh, my God. That is a lot of pastry.

No, no, no, no, no. Not from there.

You gotta crack it down‐‐ there's a way to eat it.

Been a private investigator now

for about 3 1/2 years.

Um, I was, before that,

I was a military intelligence officer

for the Army.

I've been on numerous missions

with the, uh, United States Marshals

hunting fugitives,

worked for the Department of State

for the US embassy in Kabul, protecting‐‐

help protecting the US ambassador.

I used to also be a cop.

Uh, when I was a police officer,

I saw a lot, but the police department‐‐

they want you to be a kind of cop

that keeps his mouth shut and doesn't say anything,

and I refused to do that.

So I was forced off the job

in 2011,

and I decided to do what I do best,

which is investigate crimes.

Sorry to bother you.

I'm not a molester.

I'm investigator Manuel Gomez.

I'm a private investigator.

I'm out here, looking at some cops from 4‐2

that have been harassing people,

so if you guys have anybody,

any of your brothers have any problem, day or night.

So what's your first name? ‐ Tomarley.

‐ I'm private investigator Manuel Gomez.

‐ All right, nice to meet you.

‐ So go ahead. So what happened to you?

‐ I was working out, and they grabbed me like this.

Then, when they put the handcuffs on me,

they walking me to the car and they, like‐‐

I'm like, "What am I being charged for?"

I was asking the whole time.

When I got to see my lawyer, my lawyer told me

I was getting charged with criminal possession

of a weapon.

‐ But there was no weapon.

There was no weapon.

They just told my mom to come get me.

I'm 17. ‐ Okay.

And this got dismissed?

‐ Yeah, I have no criminal records.

Hey, how are you?

Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, who's that?

No, no, no.

I'm‐‐he's filming me‐‐ ‐ You trouble?

Hold on. Let me finish.

I'm not that ugly. I'm not that ugly.

I see a camcorder and‐‐ ‐ No, no, no.

He's filming me because I'm‐‐I'm doing‐‐

I'm doing an investigation.

What's your first name?

‐ Shaheen. ‐ Shaheen what?

‐ Micardo. ‐ Micardo. What's up?

All right. Come on in the way.

I don't bite, man.

Take this shit off, man. Sit down with me.

What's wrong with you? Here, hold on a second.

I'm so sorry‐‐ MANUEL: Listen.

No, don't worry about it. Don't be sorry.

I'm not that ugly. Listen, here's the deal.

We're putting a‐‐ a major lawsuit

against the department for violating

the state law on quotas.

So what I want to know is, how many arrests

do you have that were dismissed?

‐ All‐‐all of them.

Every one that I got arrested for.

I never got arrested for no...

‐ And they were all dismissed? ‐ All of them got dismissed.

‐ Okay, how many, would you say?

‐ Shit, I don't‐‐ MANUEL: Five? Four? Six?

‐ More than five. Like, more than five.

What, seven?

‐ Yeah, probably around that.

- Like, seven, five. - Seven times.

I want you to go in the courthouse.

Bring your ID.

And you're gonna get all the cases

that says, "Dismissed."

‐ All right. ‐ Okay?

And you're gonna bring them to me,

you're gonna call me up and says, "Manuel,

I've got my cases."

All right? ‐ All right.

And then, I'm gonna file a lawsuit

for all those false arrests.

All right, I want you to do me a solid.

I want you to go home to your mom

and I want you to go in there and tell her

that I'm gonna be your man now.

All right? You gonna be my step‐son.

That dude is crazy.

All right? All right? I am crazy.

I'm crazy, but I'm good.

You got a problem getting paid?

You got a problem getting justice?

‐ Not at all, no. ‐ All right.

So you're gonna join the family?

‐ You know that.

I could be here all night long

meeting people like that kid,

Mr. Micardo,

without a doubt. Without a doubt.

But I mean, come on.

The guy was arrested seven times.

All the arrests were dismissed.

What does that tell you?

You're taking days out of this kid's life,

fingerprinting him,

and you're doing this to the point

where eventually, you're gonna get something

to stick against the wall,

because the‐‐the judge is going to say,

"Oh, my God, why does he have so many arrests?"

Not that, "Oh, my God, he has so many arrests

"because the cops are harassing him,

and that‐‐that they were dismissed."

No, they don't see that.

This is what kills me.

I mean, it‐‐it's blatant.

The evidence is clear as day,

and they don't do anything about it.

And it's disgusting.

It really is.

- Hello, hello. - Hello.

Excuse me.

Detective Utone, my driver. ‐ How are you?

‐ Commissioner also inside are two of the community partners

‐ Okay, good. ‐ You see them

right in the front. ‐ And do we have the‐‐

is this just the, uh, new officers, or do you have...

‐ Some of the training officers.

Not all of them, but some of them are in the front row.

Attention!

At ease, please.

As you were. Take seats.

‐ Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, sir.

‐ The admonition I bring to you

is "be cops."

Be what cops are supposed to be.

Honest.

With pride, with commitment.

You cannot break the law to enforce the law.

And there may be temptations.

You're gonna deal, unfortunately‐‐

as many great people as there are out there‐‐

you're gonna meet a lot of great people.

There's also some very bad people out there,

and you're gonna want to get them.

You're gonna want to arrest them.

You're gonna want to put them in jail

You want to get them out of these neighborhoods

and put them in prison,

'cause some of them just are never gonna change.

They are criminals, and that's unfortunate,

but that's the reality.

The crises that we now have

is, "Can the NYPD

"continue to make the city even safer,

"but in doing it,

"continue to improve relationships,

"particularly, now, in neighborhoods

"that still have too much crime,

"by policing in a constitutional way,

"a respectful way, and a consistent way,

and with integrity?"

Let me emphasize that term "integrity."

If you see‐‐if you see a SUV,

then I would say, really, put it down.

Okay, cop's coming.

‐ You think they can see you from there?

Yeah.

‐ I don't care, really.

I really don't give a shit, man.

Cold and cloudy today in New York City

now that our winter storm has exited,

leaving behind some much cooler air:

31 degrees today.

We're going to be feeling very chilly

in the overnight hours.

- How you doing? - Hey.

Yeah, yeah.

You know‐‐ you know what it is?

What do you mean?

Oh, you were a cop? Where, where?

‐ Oh, yeah, this is doing something‐‐

they're doing retaliation on me. That's what it is.

Because, uh... ‐ You want to get

a hot chocolate? I go get a hot chocolate,

you go inside and drink it?

‐ I‐I'll go later. I'll go later.

Thing is, I have to, um,

I have to go by...

You know, these guys are watching me closely.

Yeah. ‐ Somebody's there in the car,

and they're watching you, too.

‐ Huh? ‐ Sitting in the car

over there.

What's up, boss?

How you doing?

What's going on?

What's up, sarge? How you doing?

- How's it going? - Not much.

All right, you're‐‐

your hat‐‐ you're out of uniform.

- The hat. - The hat? Why?

It's not s‐‐ it's not supposed to‐‐

not expected to be below 32.

Yeah, it was, uh‐‐

it was night‐‐

it was, uh, this morning.

No, f‐for the tour.

For the tour, it's expected to be 38 degrees.

- 38 degrees? - Correct.

Oh, so I get a CD for this?

I'm just saying, you're out of uniform,

and I'm‐‐I'm gonna put you in the book.

Being out of uniform.

All right, when I came out,

it was, uh, below 32.

Uh, it's expected to be 38 degrees today.

It felt very, very cold. Right?

It's not what it feels like.

It's what it‐‐ SANDY: I‐it's not?

It's expected.

All right. Take care.

We are also holding a press conference tomorrow,

which I'm encouraging each and every one of you

to make sure that you come out and participate.

Visibility is going to be everything

in this effort.

We believe that there's enough

in the force for us to be able

to have some dramatic change

take place in the police department.

We have all these people that end up retiring

and then claim how everything was unfair,

and they had all the opportunity‐‐

the same opportunity we've taken while we're

active on the job‐‐ to speak for these issues,

and why these gentlemen are spoken on the issues

that they can take advantage

and step up and speak to the issue

without being scared.

Uh, and we had a class‐action lawsuit

that obviously represented that.

We're hoping to pursue another class‐action lawsuit

that would probably be bigger than the first.

On that note,

please stand up and introduce yourself,

and tell us about your current case.

Before they tell you their story,

I just want to put this into perspective.

There's a quota law. It's no longer the bill.

It's the quota law.

That means that I,

or no other... police supervisor,

can go out and actually tell

a particular police officer

that you have to write 20, 30, 40 summonses.

It's illegal. Okay?

When you have supervisors

and these officers will describe one,

when you have supervisors

that are using police officers

as a revenue‐producing agent for the city,

then you're violating the quota law.

So you guys, go ahead and introduce yourselves

and speak.

‐ Um, Officer Serrano, from‐‐formerly from

the four precinct in the Bronx.

Um, South Bronx.

And I work in, um, Heights.

And my situation‐‐ there were many.

I was told by the XO and the CO

that I had to stop black people.

These were his words.

"You must stop black people

between 14 to 21."

I said no.

We went at it,

I got suspended,

charges and specs, blah, blah, blah.

‐ From the beginning, I saw

how this job was,

that it was not about helping people,

not helping our community. It's about numbers.

I always spoke my mind.

Always said, "You know what?

"It's not about the numbers.

It's about the quality. It's about helping people."

That did not sit well with the brass in my precinct.

They thought I was a rebel‐rouser.

We got people who got summons where they live.

They got arrested where they live

for trespassing.

We have a bunch of those. ‐ Yes.

We've all seen the guys playing dominos.

Older gentlemen

chilling on the side of the bodega,

playing dominos, minding their fucking business.

Excuse me.

What do we do? It's the 29th.

I have to hit them with C summons,

because I was told, "Give a C summons, or else,"

and the two of them are in luck.

That's the only one I see,

'cause the bad guys aren't right there.

I'm doing day tours right now. They're not out.

The drug dealers are sleeping.

So who am I targeting?

These four gentlemen,

and that's where the community‐‐

um, community problem arises.

Oh, that's Antonio. Look, the detective.

We're got to go. See the detective?

‐ Excuse me, guys.

Look, and they coming up the block, too.

They coming up the block.

They looking at us.

‐ This is crazy. This is, like,

that second, third patrol that went around already.

Telling you, bro, we gotta move from here.

‐ It's going to be a little hot and dusty,

'cause we haven't been staying here.

This was my son's room, over here.

Make sure...

These are the main from the family here.

That's my oldest,

my youngest,

that's Pedro,

that's my other daughter.

She just graduated high school.

I didn't get to upgrade his picture,

'cause he's graduating in there now.

He's not graduating outside.

Some of these cops are so hungry for arrests,

they will follow my kids home,

come into my building,

knock on the door.

After that, I couldn't let my kids go through that,

so because of that, I just left,

from the morning to the night.

I told my kids, "Pack luggage,"

and I took them out of here.

Around here, me‐‐me personally, I could tell you‐‐

there's multiple kids

with the same pro‐‐ with the same, like this.

They get arrested, they go,

and there's not a shred of evidence,

All they do is arrest them without no evidence,

and then what the courts does‐‐ dismiss the case.

This is all the dismissals.

But for what? ‐ Attempt of murder.

Charges dismissed.

Reckless endangerment with a weapon, dismissed.

Again, reckless endangerment with a weapon.

They just declined prosecution.

All this costs money.

There's, like, a few more,

and I gave them to the lawyer.

All dismissed? ‐ Yeah, all dismissed.

Um...

It came to the point, I hired this private investigator.

I said, "I need somebody to speak for me.

"I need somebody to go

"to the district attorney's office,

"explain that every time they're arresting this kid,

they messing up his life."

For months, private investigator

Manuel Gomez

has pounded the pavement

in this South Bronx neighborhood.

Do you guys live in the area?

That shooting happening on September 1st,

who was shooting

So you've been all over here?

- All over here. - Determined to prove

that 16‐year‐old Pedro Pablo Hernandez

didn't open fire with a gun during a street dispute

here in September of last year.

‐ Five witnesses say that he didn't do the shooting.

Hernandez, a high school student

with no criminal record,

has been on Rikers since July,

his mother unable to post the $250,000 bond.

‐ My son is mentally devastated.

He sometimes...

He tells me he wants to die.

Cops have arrested Hernandez several times,

most of the cases dismissed

thanks to alibi evidence

obtained by PI Gomez and the Hernandez attorney...

This is a call for all New York City officers.

This is the opportunity you have

to now come forward and highlight

the illegal quota system

in the New York City Police Department.

This is what the commanding officer wrote

to officers who are on patrol,

saying that if you don't give the summonses

that generate money for the New York‐‐

for New York City‐‐ that these officers

are going to be disciplined and punished.

This suit was filed on March 2nd

in the southern district right here.

Since then, we have had at least 30

New York City police officers

who have come forward and told us

that they suffer from the same conditions.

Out of those 30, we have signed up

eight additional plaintiffs who wish to be named,

and more are still coming forward.

Now, what‐‐what is the point of the lawsuit?

The system that police officers are forced to implement

is driven by numbers.

Ever since CompStat,

it's all about numbers,

Numbers‐‐we're talking about enforcement activity,

and the kind of impact that it has put

on the police officers

and the community.

The National Latino Officers' Association

claims police officers are being evaluated

on a quota system,

even though that's against the law.

According to the group, officers are mandated

they make at least one arrest a month

and hand out at least 25 summonses.

‐ One second.

All right, so what I'm telling you

is make sure you tell the rest of the guys as well.

Make sure you're wearing your best all the time.

I said we've reached the point of no return

because there's some people understand what we're doing,

and some people are going to be scared

about what we're doing. All right?

So dot your I's, cross your T's.

Treat it like a game for now, so you don't get upset.

Don't go home angry about it.

You have to mentally adjust to it.

Okay? And you treat it like a game.

You play baseball or whatever it is.

You enjoy it You're g‐‐

they make a move, you make a move.

You keep yourself balanced.

You keep yourself balanced,

they can't hurt you. ‐ Mm‐hm.

Ever you think

you need to talk to somebody,

or it's not going the way you think it should,

then we're a phone call away.

That's‐‐that's the point‐‐ why we do what we do,

because you're never alone in this process.

- Okay? - Thank you.

Uh, it's best to‐‐

‐ Uh, call you guys, right? ‐ Yes.

‐ What time or more for the next two days?

What time? ‐ Any‐‐anytime.

‐ Okay.

‐ And you guys are based in Manhattan?

So right after the press conference

wrapped up,

I went over to the attorneys.

I said, you know, "I'm a police officer,

"and I think I can add some ammunition

to this case."

The commander felt that my numbers were too low.

I basically wasn't meeting the quota,

so the plan to sabotage my promotion

was already being discussed.

Okay.

‐ Yeah. I was like, "Wow."

When he said that ou‐‐ I mean, I knew what it was,

but, you know, for him to actually say it...

To be asked to participate

in something that disenfranchises

black folks even more‐‐

it's horrible.

So who they do‐‐ what they doing to you?

‐ I been here for two years, and they always stop me.

Just‐‐just when we walking, they stopping me.

And they stop you and do what?

- ‐ Huh? - And do what?

‐ Check me.

Check out his nuts.

‐ Put me in the car for a few, and then just let me go.

Or they just let me go.

‐ Nobody's allowed to violate your rights.

Did you know this?

So he's over here‐‐ do you know this?

Did you know that nobody can come over here

and frisk you and go like this

and go in your pockets and start doing that?

The next time one of them stop you,

whoever it is,

ah, see, if it's that one right there,

you gonna let me know.

I need you to take me to where it happened

the night of the incident.

I'm right here

and they got me up against the gate like that.

So when they got me up against like that,

I'm like‐‐I'm telling them,

like "Oh, we try‐‐ we tried to stop."

Like, "What are you all arresting me for?"

Like, "What's this for?" You know what I mean?

‐ They just pull up on me right here

by the fire hydrant, hop off, jump out,

"Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands."

I give them my hands. I'm coming up to them,

I‐I know they're police. I'm coming up to them.

I ain't do nothing wrong, officers.

I ain't do nothing wrong. "Throw your hands up."

Put my hands up. They were searching me so hard,

take my jacket off,

they picking at my pants. I even took my belt off

so my jeans could be loose

and they could really feel everything on me.

‐ I'm like, "Come on, stop grabbing me.

"What y'all grabbing me for?

"There's no reason for y'all to grab me.

"Y'all‐‐y'all want a reason for me try to resist arrest

"with‐‐trying to fight with y'all.

"I'm not gonna do that, 'cause I don't wanna

"get locked up.

So my mom's sitting there, watching,

And that's when one of them smacked me‐‐boom!

‐ I'm falling! They slammed me

into my leg.

You know that. Like, I'm falling.

‐ All right. All right.

‐ Put my pants‐‐ pick up.

Don't touch me, 'cause I'm pregnant.

And take the light off my face.

Take the light off my face.

‐ And all this got dismissed?

‐ All this got dismissed. ‐ All right.

Now, what I want you to do is,

you're gonna call and make a CCRB complaint.

Yeah, this is the only way we're gonna put a stop to this.

That's why you're making complaints against them.

If you are the victim, say "self."

‐ Say "self." ‐ Self.

Edwell Guerrero.

‐ Slower. Louder.

Please describe the officer's actions

that you would like to file a complaint about.

‐ They frisked me and searched me

Frisked me, searched me...

‐ And took my clothes off, naked.

And took my clothes off, naked.

‐ I was falsely arrested by the police officer,

and then they released me two hours later,

after strip‐searching me twice in the precinct.

Your complaint

has been registered. Thank you for calling

the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Uh, he's coming in, Judge.

This is, uh, Hernandez?

Yeah.

‐ Right here.

‐ Next is account number 12, Pedro Hernandez

First case.

‐ Yeah, I know, just what I would like

to put on the record. Um, you know,

we went through great pains

to‐‐to find this week,

which is a‐‐a suitable week

for defense as well as prosecution,

to try this case.

Um, I understand that the matter

was adjourned from two days ago

administrated by the court, till today.

Um, I just don't see why the prosecution

were not ready for trial.

Um, the last time it was adjourned

was through the scheduling of the prosecution

and the prosecuting attorney.

Um, I just don't understand what their‐‐the reason

for the adjournment is this time.

‐ My client's 17 years old now.

‐ There was an informal offer of a non‐incarcatory

um, plea with the youthful offender status

that's been offered twice.

My client's rejected that both times.

‐ He maintains he's innocent, Your Honor.

‐ And I thank the court for addressing the‐‐

the issue, Your Honor, and I've‐‐I've had

extensive negotiations

and discussions with him,

concerning plea bargain offers,

and he understands the risk involved

in a trial, but it's his position

to, um, reject those offers.

7-12, step in.

‐ And I pretty much keep everything.

This was, a while back,

put up in the, uh‐‐

in the precinct,

you know, telling us, basically,

we need X amount of cell phones,

X amount of seat belts,

X amount of double‐parkers,

X amount of bus stops.

Ah, this one.

So this

is that.

How do you justify

taking stuff off, uh,

the commander's desk?

‐ Um, hey.

When we say we're threatened

or a boss said this,

or there is quotas,

nobody‐‐nobody's going to believe you

unless you have that physical proof.

I had a sergeant tell basically everybody,

"Your job as a police officer is to lock people up."

But that's not my job, to lock people up.

Our job is to keep the peace, to protect property,

but a lot of officers, they really don't know that.

I wish one of those chiefs from headquarters

could watch me on a damn patrol.

Watch. Out of‐‐out of the eight hours I'm on patrol,

I have at least 30 people come up and shake my hand.

What's up, boss? How are things going, man?

- How are things going, man? - Good to see you, man.

Yeah.

Wherever they put me,

I'm going to talk to people. I'm going to be like,

"Hello, what's going on?" Shake his hand,

because that's the type of person I am,

and that's the way

all of us should be,

but nobody sees this,

because the last few years,

officers have been trained

to be different.

A lot of times, new officers don't know

how to talk to people.

What's up, what's up, what's up?

This is why you won't do that.

What's up, big man? Everything good?

Yeah, they're playing with those fools.

Big man, what's up, man? Everything good?

Walk up in here, talking all that fucking shit.

- Fucking corny‐ass fucking... - You good, though?

- You good, big man? - Very, very good.

We can either, like, beat them up

and fight him and drag him and cuff him,

or‐‐or you could talk to him.

Yo‐‐yo, don't spend the dough in there no more, man.

Don't spend the dough in there no more.

But this way‐‐this way, it's the whole point.

I was fucking with a young boy.

This fucking faggot right here come up

- in there, popping shit. - Hey, hey, chill, chill.

My man, my man, that‐‐ that's what's up, yo.

Yo, don't spend your cheese here no more, man.

That's it, man.

You got all these other bodegas, man.

Don't go in there no more, man.

Don't spend your dough in that motherfucker

- no more, man. - Always fucking bothering

me, then he gonna‐‐ MAN 1: Man...

No, we good, man. We good.

Then he wanna act like he gonna fight,

so I come outside.

He grabbed the weapons. He wanna fucking fight.

It's done, man. It's done, it's done.

A situation like that

could've been turned into something crazy.

I'm not saying every time

you're gonna be able to talk somebody down,

but I tell you, like, these new guys

don't know how to handle a situation like that.

They're so used to just fighting,

beating up somebody, they don't know how

to de‐elevate anything. They don't know how

to defuse it.

- Hold on. - Don't touch me, please.

Do not touch me.

Hey, look, man.

Don't, don't don't...

I can't breathe!

I c‐‐br‐‐

I can't breathe.

Bill Bratton's leadership is under attack.

The man accused of illegally selling cigarettes

died as NYPD officers wrestled with him.

Eric Garner's arrest, caught on video,

led to protests.

We love you, Eric!

I'm sorry. Claire, please let them out,

please. Watch your back, sir.

Please let the family out.

I can't breathe!

I can't breathe!

I can't breathe! I can't breathe!

‐ We could talk about Ferguson.

We can talk about Florida.

We can talk about Brooklyn.

We can talk about

Fruitvale Station, Oscar Grant.

I mean, it's continuous.

It just keeps going.

It just keeps going. What do you want us to do?

How long do you think

you gonna keep the powder keg cap on?

‐ Die in!

Die in! ‐ Die in!

Die in!

I can't breathe!

I can't breathe!

Commissioner, critics are blaming

your broken windows policy.

It's been hailed all around the world as successful,

going after low‐level crimes before big ones happen.

Okay? So in this case,

many people are upset, however,

because they feel it's targeting

communities of color.

How do you respond to that?

‐ We are not targeting communities of color.

We are targeting behavior.

Unfortunately, there are a number of neighborhoods

in the city that still have the highest crime rates

and that's been the case, unfortunately, 20, 30 years,

even though crime in those neighborhoods

is down 70 or 80 percent,

so that's where I put a lot of extra police

into those neighborhoods.

They have thousands of extra police

in those neighborhoods to keep the crime down.

While they're there, they are seeing other offenses

that they're going to act upon.

‐ Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

‐ Black officers!

Puerto Rican officers!

Nobody likes you!

Nobody!

You all are hated.

You are hated in New York.

You are hated throughout the United States.

This is anger. This is not ignorance.

This is just anger, officer.

We have to see the way they talk about us behind our back,

and we have to be very careful.

But we do have some support amongst cops.

‐ Yeah, a lot of support. ‐ The support that I have‐‐

‐ Let Felicia‐‐she was going to say a few words.

‐ Yeah, let Felicia speak. ‐ I'm not sure that any‐‐

everybody's connected the dots,

but, um‐‐so, um, Eric Garner‐‐

he‐‐he got killed.

It was a part of‐‐because they were chasing for activity.

And that's the reason:

the quotas.

That's the reason why we're here.

The guy in the Bronx, Graham,

it's the same thing. They're chasing him

because they're trying to get the activity.

They're trying to get that quota.

You know what I mean? They go‐‐you go extra hard,

not knowing‐‐ the 29th of the month,

if you don't have your arrest,

you're gonna do anything you have to do‐‐

not everybody, you know,

but 50%. I would say 50% of the cops,

they're‐‐they don't want to suffer the consequences

of not having that arrest.

'Cause you're gonna suffer consequences,

like we all are suffering consequences

of not having those arrests, you know?

‐ Being a police officer is not easy.

The stuff that we see, the stuff that we deal with,

is not‐‐for one human being to see sometime,

it's‐‐it's bad.

And then for somebody else to say that we're not working

simply because we don't want to arrest the innocent

and be labeled as lazy and all this...

We need to redefine the word "working" as a police officer.

‐ I‐I went to a job today, another domestic.

A mother called the cops. A little girl‐‐

she didn't want to go to school.

She had state tests. Well, she said,

"I'm not going to school," so I said,

I took her in her room, and I said,

"You gotta go to school."

Two other officers came in. They were assisting us.

It was actually their job. And I said to myself,

"I'm so happy I got here before them."

So I said to the mom, "I'm gonna take her to school."

I took her to school, I talked to school safety

about her, I talked to the principal,

I‐‐"Please excuse her for being late.

"She's not in trouble. I just brought her to school,

I was talking to her," blah, blah, blah,

and it made me feel good. You know what I mean?

That‐‐that I could do that

and knowing that if I wasn't there,

it would‐‐her day would've went much different.

‐ That is so wet!

Yeah!

Oh, no.

Right there with the blue shirt.

Coming.

There's technical difficulties in there,

so you're gonna have to, like, wait.

She's all‐‐ this is, like...

‐ Ma, she gonna have to take this off, right?

‐ No, I can do it myself.

‐ How are you gonna do it?

You cannot sew from the outside.

‐ I'm not taking it off.

Wait, actually, I want to talk to him.

- I didn't get one. - Hold on.

Your breast is still out. I don't like it.

‐ Oh, my God. What do you want me

- to do about it now? - I don't like it.

I can fix it.

‐ All right, bye, guys.

‐ I'm gonna follow you.

The neighbors are probably like,

"What the hell's going on over there?

Those black people."

There's not many blacks over there.

I'm just looking at all of the guys in the corner,

and like, shaking my head. Like, "Oh, boy.

What are they gonna think about me now?"

Between my divorce and this job,

I've just been‐‐ I'm tired of fighting.

I don't know. Can't think about it.

I can't worry about it. I'll get depressed,

I'll start crying,

I'll say, "It's not fair,"

and just, you know, what's the point of it all?

It's only gonna make me look old.

Oh, my gosh. Are these our friends?

Who went‐‐who went down in the last picture?

Me?

Sit down! Gotta take a picture!

Starting with the preteen years,

a lot of my friends started

emulating the behavior that they saw on the streets.

First started with them smoking weed,

and then, within a year of smoking weed,

they were doing gunpoint robberies

on Flatbush Avenue,

and I was shocked

when‐‐when I realized that my g‐‐

my friends were doing gunpoint robberies.

I‐I couldn't believe it.

And they hadn't grown up

as poor as I was.

No, their mothers were struggling,

but their mothers were working,

their mothers made sure that they ate.

I‐‐I used to walk around, dizzy

from not eating.

As much‐‐as much as I loved the weekend

as any kid would love the weekend‐‐

Saturday morning cartoons, no school‐‐

I also dreaded the weekends, because no school food,

and that was‐‐the majority of my calories

came from school lunch.

Um...

I‐it was tough. It was tough, coming up.

How much of you is in this

with a settlement in mind?

‐ You can offer me all the money in the world.

No settlement.

This system has to change.

With a settlement, the system continues,

and I'm not for that,

and I hope that others understand this.

You know, some may join the class action

because of what was done to them.

I joined to change this.

‐ Can we have somebody like you in the meeting

If we decide to bring you in?

If there is a meeting, like you said,

one of us, two of us, in the meeting?

You've been more like an expert.

I'll consider somebody

who went through the system already,

some advisor who went through this already.

We're gonna walk out‐‐ walk in there blind,

and that is not necessarily what we want.

Uh, yes, it would be nice to get paid...

‐ M‐money is‐‐listen.

I hate to say it that way.

A‐are they gonna fix everything

they did wrong to you?

‐ No, no, no, no, no. ‐ But money is absolutely

the objective.

Okay?

‐ Damages.

‐ The damages is

when you hurt them in their pocketbook,

that's long‐lasting.

You follow me?

The settlement for $26.8 million‐‐

they're still talking about that today.

Right? But it also made the blueprints

for every other police agency to follow.

If the things that they're giving you

are significant in terms

of systemic changes and permanency,

then you may have to grab it,

but when you go to trial, it's all about money.

It ain't about nothing else.

Settlement is about changing the process.

‐ What about the‐‐ the injunctions?

What about the changes?

‐ A trial is about dollars and cents.

It's about damages. ‐ Damages.

So when you go to trial

and you go all the way down,

it's gonna be like, okay,

so the pocket's a little bigger

and we're dividing more money,

but systemic changes‐‐ they don't have the authority

to impose it.

Got you.

Want something to drink?

‐ I guess.

You guys have soda?

Yeah, there's some of it somewhere.

This media thing‐‐ what are they gonna ask you?

This is on a news station?

‐ NBC. ‐ NBC, okay.

So whatever you're speaking about is to the point.

There's no explanations.

This is a punchline business.

What is going to get the people's attention

that you're talking about?

The illegal quota systems.

The, um, illegal arrests they're forcing us to make.

Uh, the quotas targeting minority people, and‐‐

‐ Hey, listen, it's k‐killing communities of color,

and these are‐‐that‐‐

that warrants a response, right?

So what do you mean, officer, by "killing"?

They're killing them.

They're locking them up for no reason.

What you need is community backing.

If the community backs you,

then this gets a life of its own.

If the community's not backing you,

it's you and the police department,

and nobody gives a damn.

'Cause you're talking about a public safety issue,

where they're generating billions of dollars

on the backs of poor people every day.

See, that's a headline.

That's it. ‐ Yes, it is.

‐ This administration

this‐‐was supposed to be progressive,

and things like, uh, affordable housing

universal health care‐‐ uh, universal, uh, pre‐K‐‐

what's the point when in 12 years,

that four‐year‐old will be swept

into a quota system?

And now you gotta take that

and dumb it down.

Okay?

Connecting too many dots.

‐ You gotta‐‐ you gotta dumb it down,

'cause remember, your whole point

from point A to B‐‐ never get there.

Got it. ‐ So dumb it down.

- ‐ Simplify. - They'll get lost.

- ‐ I got it. - And‐‐and is this‐‐

is the mayor responsible for this?

‐ Yeah.

‐ No.

‐ Well, not‐‐he's not responsible,

but he's in a position where he...

‐ Listen to what they ask you. This is like baiting the‐‐

Oh, I see what you mean. ‐ Baiting the cow, right?

Because they're telling you, "Is the mayor

responsible for this?" "Yes, he is."

"No, he's not, 'cause this has always been around."

Right?

‐ Gonna be a solution.

Right, but the mayor ha‐‐

can be a solution to it.

‐ I'll make a‐‐make us a member

of the...

♪ You can scream if you want to, baby ♪

♪ But no one can hear ♪

♪ You can fight through the night ♪

♪ But by daylight you'll disappear ♪

♪ If there's a way to be okay, I'm sorry ♪

♪ It's just not clear ♪

♪ While you lay ♪

♪ Let me say ♪

♪ That you're the only one here ♪

♪ By the way ♪

♪ Maybe ♪

♪ Don't worry ♪

♪ It's okay ♪

♪ Just face your fear ♪

Truly explosive allegations

in an I‐Team exclusive interview.

They're coming from police officers who are

part of what's being called the NYPD 12,

12 cops who filed a class action lawsuit

in federal court.

‐ The department says there are no quotas.

‐ Well, I can tell you.

I'm a police officer.

There are quotas in the NYPD.

‐ Are they lying?

‐ Absolutely.

It's illegal for them to admit it.

‐ The worst thing you can have is a police officer

that needs an arrest for the month.

‐ You might not see nothing. You're supposed to be visible.

You might not see anything, but you go hunting,

like, bounty hunting, for an arrest.

Kids getting locked up for‐‐for‐‐for BS.

Come out there to ride their bicycles...

‐ The problem is, when you go hunting,

when you put any type of numbers

of a police officer to perform,

we are gonna go to the most vulnerable.

‐ The most vulnerable? ‐ Of course.

We're gonna go to LGBT community.

We're gonna go to the black community.

We're gonna go to those people

that have no vote, that have no power.

‐ All they want us to do is go out there and lock them up.

They told us, it's‐‐ it's easy to get numbers

out here, because you‐‐ you work

in this type of community.

So you're all minorities.

How does that make you fe‐‐

‐ This is something coming from the top

that trickles its way down,

and this is why we're all here today.

Are you arresting for stuff

that you shouldn't be arresting for?

‐ Well, that's why we're here.

We don't do it.

We refuse, and because of that,

we are retaliated against.

‐ Because you're not harassing people,

you're being punished.

That doesn't make for a great work environment,

because they want you to harass people.

You know, this is a big step,

to come forward like this.

It's not easy. It's not easy.

Um, we are the enemies.

We are the people that nobody talk to.

We are the rats that speak out.

It takes a lot of guts to stand where we stand,

knowing that our career is basically over

the second we speak against such a mafia.

‐ Again, the police commissioner

declined to go on camera

to address the allegations,

for quotas or racial discrimination.

‐ Uh, it just gives me, like,

butterflies in my stomach, you know?

‐ Yeah, it's nervo‐‐ it's nerve‐rattling.

I think that they'll, uh, try to make us

as uncomfortable as they can

without actually, you know,

making it seem like they're retaliating against us.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen,

because, you know, this is‐‐ this is a big thing,

'cause...

It's not just the 12 of us

that's been har‐‐harassed, like I said.

It's much more,

and they‐‐they don't want everybody coming forward,

so they have to do some type of retaliation

to put fear in others

to discourage them from coming forward,

and...

what‐‐what they're going to decide to do, I'm not sure.

So basically, we're here today

filing a opposition

to the city's motion to dismiss

for our NYPD 12 class action.

All the NYPD 12 has recordings

of their‐‐ of their supervisors

pushing them to meet their quotas.

Now, it's implied that‐‐

well, it's not‐‐ it's pretty explicit, actually,

in several different precincts,

that you need to target males,

especially black and Hispanic males, 14 to 21.

‐ And in the class action, we also have proof

where a, um, police captain

puts the quotas‐‐ number that he wants

on the wall, and then tells the guys

"If you don't get these numbers,

you're gonna be working at Pizza Hut."

Now, you can't make that up.

This is what's going on,

and in this lawsuit, we'll show this.

This department cannot correct itself,

monitor itself, and punish itself.

We need an independent body to do this,

and this lawsuit will be the foundation to do that.

Have you noticed that they've been treating you

any differently at all since NBC's interview?

Yeah, immediately. Immediately, I was, you know,

I g‐‐I got ostracized,

and‐‐you know, and then they put me here.

They bury me here.

This foot post‐‐ hear how they were like,

"You can't even leave.

You have to stay in this area.

Even though I see something over here,

I can't address it.

I have to stay here.

You know, they took away my overtime,

and now I'm like, "Well, damn.

"What if they put me on midnights?

"What's going to happen to me if they put me on midnights,

"my daughter's going to college,

"and I have a ten‐year‐old at home?

What is going to happen?"

‐ They gave me a‐‐ a low evaluation.

They put a bunch of false statements

on the evaluation to bring my numbers down

to place me on performance monitoring.

This evaluation, I receive a 2.5 average.

They put you on‐‐ on midnights?

They put me on midnights,

they changed my tour,

then they split up me and my partner.

It's just the way they went about it.

It was very sneaky, very snake‐ish.

You know? So...

I don't know what they're going to pull next,

so I'm waiting‐‐ I'm waiting to see

what else they're going to pull.

‐ This is actually something

that was placed on my desk.

This is the last six months

of my life.

As you see, all the orange,

I'm in a sector car.

The 31st of March

was when the NBC News interview aired.

Since then, I was basically taken outside of my car.

Retaliation, retaliation, retaliation, retaliation.

‐ Last week, I found myself, like, working with my partner,

and I said to him,

"I gotta get a summons.

"You know, I gotta get something.

I have to bring in something this month,"

and I didn't like the way that made me feel,

because I'm scared, you know?

So what do you think

is coming out of the pipe? Like...

‐ Well, now, I'm gonna record everything,

because I'm afraid that, you know,

they're making things up as they're going along.

So it's‐‐it's ridiculous.

When did this start picking up?

‐ Oh, right after the NBC.

Yeah, right after the NBC,

uh, press release.

I kind of knew that because that's the answer‐‐

‐ Yeah, all the guys were saying the same thing?

Oh, yeah.

All right, so‐‐

so you hold that.

You see the top button, right?

Now it's recording.

‐ Now to record...

hold it for one quick second.

It's recording the fan.

Record Steve.

Now we turn it off.

Recently, that sergeant

she just addressed roll call, and made the statement

that I was recording

and videotaping everybody

in the precinct

when it wasn't true.

She just said it out loud

for everybody to hear,

and I‐‐I couldn't do anything,

and I felt sick.

I fainted because I felt powerless.

‐ You‐‐you fainted at roll call?

- ‐ At roll call. - Everybody was there?

‐ Everybody was there. ‐ Ritchie, were you there?

Yes, I was there.

I was shocked that she said all of that,

and on top of that, Sandy's on the floor,

basically clutching his chest with pain.

She's saying, "Why you faking?"

‐ It's‐‐it's taking‐‐

I feel like I don't even want to go to work.

‐ It still hot, or it got cooler in there?

‐ And the underwears. That's what you had told me

- the last time. - Yeah.

‐ And I have the book that you wanted.

‐ "All Quiet on the Western" something.

He say they good, but if you don't get into it

at the beginning,

that then you won't get into it,

but that they good.

‐ Yeah.

Well, Pedro Hernandez has been in Rikers

for the past eight months

for a crime he didn't commit.

What are they saying that Pedro did?

‐ They say Pedro pulled out a gun

and shot into a group of kids,

but I found several witnesses

which prove that Pedro didn't shoot the kid,

and the cop that arrested Pedro

also had falsified six other arrests against him,

and he was promoted to detective,

because over the course of his career,

he's made over 1,000 arrests,

which exceeds the quota by three times.

Here's the shooting victim,

which I'll be meeting with

later on tonight.

Yeah, Shaun, you there?

I'm downstairs.

Come downstairs. I'm downstairs.

This is what I'm talking about.

I gotta put an end to this,

but I can't do it by myself.

All right?

Now's the time where I need you

to lace up your boots,

and be hard down with me and knuckle up,

'cause we're gonna go to a fight right now,

and the fight's gonna be in court,

and you gotta tell the truth.

And then, after that, we're gonna go

to your deposition,

and you're gonna tell them and the city,

and I want you to look them in the eye,

just like you're looking at me,

because when you looked at me like this,

guess what I did.

I believed you.

All right, Shaun.

So can you just run down with me one more time

on what happened the day you got shot?

On September 1, 2015,

were you in the Bronx?

‐ Yes, I was.

Okay. And what did you see?

‐ While I was walking to my friend's house,

I had seen a group of kids

arguing and screaming.

‐ So they was fighting,

and from out of nowhere,

you see this guy

shot, uh, the group.

‐ I ain't look back. I just started taking off

- started running. - Did you realize

you was shot, or...

‐ Yeah, after a while, I... started, like‐‐

I started feeling the pain in my leg.

Did you see the guy who shot the gun?

- ‐ Yes. - Do you know who he is?

‐ Yes, I do.

‐ No, a female and a light‐skinned cop

asked me questions.

I'm like, "I don't know. I ain't seen nothing."

They just keep on‐‐keep on asking me the same questions.

I'm like, "How am I supposed to tell you

something I don't know?" Like, I ain't got

to see his face or nothing, like...

So what did he want you to do?

‐ They want me to just say,

they want me to just say somebody that‐‐

somebody shot me that I did not know

from a hole in a wall.

By any chance,

was Pedro Hernandez there?

Did you see him shoot anybody?

Did you involved in the fight? ‐ No, I didn't.

I didn't saw him fighting

and I did not see him shoot no gun.

Was Pedro Hernandez involved in that shooting?

‐ No. ‐ Telling them, like,

"I don't remember nothing," like,

He like,

"Stop playing, 'fore I‐‐

'fore I punch your head into the wall."

‐ How come you wouldn't say Pedro shot you?

‐ 'Cause I ain't‐‐ I don't‐‐

never even heard of him

until, like, that situation happened.

Like...

That took a lot of strength

for you to deal with that

and stay arrested for two days.

‐ Mm.

Wow. Any other cat

would've just said,

- ‐ "That's him." - "That's him,"

just to get out of there, but you didn't.

- ‐ No. - I got a lot

of respect for you.

That took a lot of honor. God bless you.

Hey, Jessica?

How are you?

Did you see the video?

‐ No.

I lost her.

She'll call me back.

That's the first time I heard that mother happy.

‐ We also want to acknowledge

other, uh, police officers

who have really taken on a lot of heat

for them coming out and whistle‐blowing

on‐‐on the issues of quotas

that‐‐of ticketing and whatnot,

and we want to let them know

that we have their backs

'cause that is what...

‐ I spoke to him. It wasn't a good conversation.

He wasn't supportive, um, at, um‐‐

of what we did at NBC studios,

He didn't‐‐he felt he didn't see the need for it,

and I tell him, "You're crazy if you believe that, man.

We're fighting‐‐ this is David versus Goliath."

‐ Yeah. ‐ Without public outreach,

without public support, we're nothing.

I saw a friend here from the academy.

She didn't want to speak to me, man.

‐ What? ‐ I said I saw a friend here

from the academy. She didn't want to speak to me.

‐ Right here? Wow.

Which one was it?

‐ I'll sh‐‐I'll show you.

We're rated on a five‐point scale

with half‐intervals.

So anything below a three

can ruin your career for the rest of your career.

These are the comments. So I started off reading it.

I was shocked, because I thought you‐‐

you can only put three comments.

I couldn't even know you could even put

so many comments

in an evaluation.

And, you know, the first three were regular,

and then right here, number 25,

"Drive/Initiative."

"PO Raymond needs constant supervision.

"PO Raymond do not take any initiative

"or shows any drive unless specifically directed

by a supervisor."

Number 16, "Reasoning ability."

"PO Raymond cannot apply rules or procedures to situations

"or cannot see how events or information

"relate to the solution of a problem.

"He does not see how a series of events are related

"or connected to one another,

"nor can he form logical conclusions

from the events."

And I'm reading this, like, "Oh, my God."

Like, this thing is making me sound like...

I have a low IQ.

I mean, the grammar is off,

and stuff doesn't make sense.

A‐and it just goes on and on,

just horrible, horrible language,

and none of this applies to me whatsoever,

and I just couldn't believe what I was reading.

This is going to be very important

when the times comes to go to court,

because it really shows how much...

the‐‐the supervisors are under pressure themselves

to pressure us.

You know, there's chain of command.

The weight of this all starts from the top.

And when I say the top, I mean the very top.

Commissioner, deputy commissioners,

and even the mayor's office,

and the newly appointed mayor

probably bit off more than he can chew

and didn't understand just how much

the city's budget

depends on law enforcement

to generate part of that revenue

by issuing summonses and arrests.

'Cause the reality is, law enforcement

uses black bodies to generate revenue.

This is not a profile.

Saying it's the third time you're on the block,

'cause every time I‐‐ every time I‐‐

Patrolling the block. ‐ No, man.

You know what I'm saying?

‐ I'm saying this is a targeted block.

Last time you pulled over me, "Where the gun at?"

You don't ask someone where the gun at, bro.

‐ You‐‐you talk to me with respect,

I‐I respond with respect.

You can't talk to me like a dog

and expect me to just a‐answer with respect.

Respect goes both ways, and everywhere you live,

it works. Try it.

Don't just pull up one of the black dudes.

Now to an update on an I‐Team exclusive:

the interview with active NYPD officers

who claim that they are pressured

by supervisors

to meet quotas for arrests and summonses.

A number of additional officers

have actually reached out to us.

By the way, the PBA,

the NYPD officers' union,

did a survey recently.

Thousands of members responded,

and 89%

said they believed there are still quotas.

The police department flatly denies it.

The commissioner insists

his policies are focused on the quality of arrests

and summonses, not the quantity.

The officers' claims elicited this expletive

from the police commissioner.

‐ Bullshit. I said,

"Bullshit" is my response to that.

If any of my cops out there

still think we're pushing for the summonses, et cetera,

I'm sorry. We're pushing to reduce crime.

‐ The po‐‐the communities

are gonna see all those cops, right?

Your cops are‐‐start like,

coming out, but you're still cops,

and‐‐and just watching a clip,

you're not gonna get community support,

'cause they're gonna be like, "Yo, these are‐‐

they're still cops, putting me up against a wall."

Right? So my question is,

what is‐‐is a plan to kind of talk‐‐

if I'm like, "Yo, these cops want to meet y'all,"

they're going to be like, "I don't even feel safe

- talking to these cops," right? - But these are the cops

that are standing up against it.

‐ I completely hear you, all right,

but what I'm saying‐‐ JOHN: How‐‐I don't know how

we convey that message.

Well, that's what I'm asking now, right?

Can I say something real quick?

It's not really about what you guys are saying.

We support what you say. ‐ Exactly, exactly.

‐ It's about painting a broader picture

around how this will impact us

and the community long‐term,

and so, like, how will this lead to

less black bodies being violated?

How will this lead towards understanding

like, self‐determination and black liberation, right?

And so it's‐‐ what is that message

that is gonna help people to understand

that supporting you is supporting their cause

and their mission, right?

Absolutely. ‐ Know what it is?

People have to get to know us

and see how we are,

'cause you know what? Every community we police,

either Brooklyn or South Bronx,

we know how to interact with people.

We know how to solve people's problems.

‐ I think what she's saying is something different.

Yeah. ‐ And I understand

what she's saying.

What she's saying is

you're still a police officer,

and there are people in our community‐‐

there are people who I called to come to this meeting

that said, "I will not be there,

"because I don't work with police officers, period.

At all." ‐ Right.

‐ And they didn't come.

And the ones who told me they were coming

that are not here‐‐

I know exactly why

they didn't show up, right?

You all there may be sitting there, thinking,

"We're here. Like, what do you mean, why?"

But there are other elements to how you engage the community

that some folks on the face won't understand,

and that's why I say back to us

as the activists

what do we think

the messaging should be?

We're not here to endorse anything

with police departments.

Minister Farrakhan said to us,

"There are many good officers,

but too few to stand up."

‐ Mm‐hm. ‐ You have chosen to stand up.

‐ That's right. ‐ Right.

‐ You have chosen

to put your livelihood on the line.

You have chosen

to lose your job

that protects your children, my sister,

and to the brothers that are here,

that is what has to resonate.

Sister has a valid point.

The youth have to understand,

because they're the most besieged,

but all of us are besieged.

That's why we came to sit at the table.

‐ Uh, pr‐‐you all, had some kind of strategy.

What would you like for us to do,

and how would you like for us to do it?

‐ The public support is what lets the city,

the state, and the national government know

this is not just another lawsuit,

'cause you're not gonna get this again for 100 years.

12 cops willing to step up like this,

put their careers on the line.

So in order for this to be taken serious,

we need you.

It's‐‐and‐‐ and the analogy I use

is a parent that spanks their child.

You know, in the supermarket,

you can't spank the child, 'cause everyone's watching,

but when you get home, the child's gonna get it.

Right now, because of the‐‐ the "Times" article,

the NBC coverage, we're in the supermarket.

The department is waiting for this thing to die down

so they can spank us. ‐ Yes.

‐ And the only way that doesn't happen

is you guys, all right? So‐‐so‐‐

‐ How are‐‐how are they gonna spank you?

What's one technique?

‐ Well, we've already been enduring, uh, uh,

retaliation for not conforming to the quota,

but a‐at this point,

they're gonna try to fire us.

They're gonna set us up, they're gonna get‐‐

they have tactics with Internal Affairs.

They don't have to follow the law.

You know? Who‐‐ ‐ Because they are the law.

‐ There's no law. ‐ They are the law.

‐ You know, exactly, so

the‐‐at this point, you know,

g‐giving me this post

and killing my evaluation, my‐‐

listen, if I‐‐if I never have to be promoted

so my people can be treated better,

you can keep the promotion.

What NYPD 12 all share in common

is that we're all on monitoring.

Any police officer who... is considered,

um, a threat‐‐ they keep track of you.

The sergeant who is in charge of the monitoring

stopped me one day, and he said,

"Hey, I need to talk to you."

So we're about to meet him for the first time.

If it's legit, we have a lot to gain,

but he‐‐

it's a possibility he might try to sabotage it.

You know, when I saw all you guys on TV,

I wanted to let you know,

what you guys complain about‐‐

they did it to me.

I‐it disi‐‐ it affects white officers, too,

but just like anything else in the police department,

it gets minorities the worst.

Okay? And I'm familiar with

you guys coming through performance monitoring,

and I know that program.

I don't know if you guys remember my face,

but I used to speak to you guys

when you came down for performance monitoring.

I was the one.

How many times I sat down

with cops who tell me "I'm in performance monitoring

because I'm not locking up people"?

I've heard this before, and‐‐

but you know anything about performance monitoring?

‐ I don't know nothing about it except I'm on it,

so you need to hit me, like,

what the fuck is that like?

Well... there's so much to tell you,

okay, about the program, but the fact that you guys

are‐‐the fact that you guys are on it‐‐

they got you. Once you get

in this program, they got you.

No matter how well you perform,

it's not going to be good enough.

The performance monitoring program and evaluation

is supposed to be tools to measure performance

to measure, uh, whether a cop

is doing his job or not,

but they're both used as weapons

of retaliation, okay?

And weap‐‐and weapons of abuse.

But I‐‐I tell you like this, man.

The shit hit the fan,

you're on your fucking own. I'm‐‐I'm serious, man.

Then I guess my real question is,

how do you‐‐ DERICK: I wanna say.

I told some of the other guys, you know,

"I d‐‐I don't trust none of my bosses,

"I don't trust the fucking knucklehead

I'm sitting in the car with." You g‐‐you gotta

watch your own back.

You‐‐or they‐‐ because they're gonna

fuck with you, and they're gonna fuck with you,

and if you‐‐ if your shit's on point,

there‐‐there ain't nothing they can do.

Yeah, but what y'all don't understand, some‐‐

they don't do stuff by the book.

- They don't. - It's so much‐‐

As long as you do what you're supposed‐‐

‐ But it's‐‐but it's‐‐ no, but you can't

do stuff‐‐you understand, when you do stuff

by the book, they don't allow you

to do stuff by the book. That's not how‐‐

So they‐‐that can affect you.

They're looking for something, they got it.

Are they saying, "stop and frisk people"?

Are they literally saying,

"Get five black guys. Get five‐‐"

No, I'm‐‐it sounds‐‐ WOMAN: How literal is it?

- Yeah. - That's a good question.

Um, one thing that they're good at

in this color‐blind racism‐‐

they get the same racial outcome

without ever having to mention race,

and what allows this is the fact that

because of gentrification,

New York City has enclaves

of‐‐of certain ethnicities and nationalities,

so you get to focus on only blacks.

You get to say, "Hey, we're just responding to crime.

This is a black area."

‐ Mm. ‐ You have to remember,

New York is‐‐is the epicenter

of a lot of these issues,

so broken windows policing, um,

quota policing‐‐ this starts in New York.

Before you know it, you get it in Ferguson,

smaller towns.

As an‐‐another one in the 12 said,

"New York City is Ferguson on steroids.

This is where it started."

I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat.

I was so stressed out,

and I started crying,

and then the job doctor,

he sent me to a psychiatrist.

She asked me if I was, like, suicidal,

and I was like, "No, I'm just depressed."

You know, I'm having childcare issues.

I'm pregnant, and the job is punishing me,

and nobody seems to care.

She didn't really seem to care, either.

‐ Can you describe,

when you feel that chest pressure,

what you were doing?

‐ I was talking to my boss,

and, uh,

kind of, uh, conversation

went a little bit,

um, stressful.

It's just snowballing into me feeling

like the way I felt years ago, like, crazy hi‐‐

like, all these emotions going through you,

and you have nobody to talk to. When you go to‐‐

to the precinct, they'll tell you,

"Oh, you can talk "to people from POPPA,

and you can go talk to the police chaplain,"

and all those guys gonna do‐‐ they're gonna psych you

and they're gonna take away your gun.

They claim

that we have all these entities,

that when you have a problem with the police department,

you can go speak to,

but you can't speak to nobody.

‐ The captain called the medical district

and asked them to order me back to work,

and the district doctor said to me,

"You're making up every excuse

not to go to work."

I didn't know‐‐I was‐‐ I didn't know what to do.

I said, "Sir, this is not a game."

I went into pre‐term labor.

Like, I was having contractions at five months pregnant.

That's not okay.

You promoted‐‐ and his boss,

who murdered two black people in 15 months in New York City,

but Edwin Raymond, who scored number eight

on the promotional exam,

is not qualified to be a sergeant,

because his supervisor says

that his activity is not good enough.

This man should have been promoted

a long time ago.

So... something has to be done.

Mis‐‐Mr. Bratton,

the ball's in your court.

‐ I want to come back to the policing issues

but, you know, just‐‐ when before,

you told me about prayer,

um‐‐'cause this is probably the most stressful

period of your life. ‐ Absolutely, absolutely.

So what are you doing? What have you added

to be able to deal with this ongoing,

seemingly unending, super stressful situation?

‐ Good question. Um...

Well, one thing that's, um‐‐

it's‐‐you know, I could've never imagined

that this would be something that could help me,

but actually, I had a really tough childhood,

and, um, sometimes, I just think about...

the fact that I made it through that type of adversity,

and I‐‐I use that to strengthen me.

I also look back at, uh, our ancestors, you know?

We‐‐we benefit from their sacrifice.

I'm looking at it as a‐‐a patchwork quilt,

where every generation gets to sew its own piece.

Yeah. ‐ And the objective is

to continue to pass the quilt

till the quilt is big enough

to insulate us all

from the cold airs of oppression.

First at 5:00 right now,

an NYPD bombshell.

Four of the department's most senior chiefs

at the center of a scandal.

And now the police commissioner

is taking action as the federal government

investigates corruption.

CBS 2 political reporter

Marcia Kramer with the latest on this.

‐ Today, what we're asking

Mr. de Blasio, the mayor, to do

is to form a commission to investigate

the pervasive corruption,

official misconduct, and bribery

at the executive levels

of the New York City Police Department.

But officers were complaining

of corruption and quotas.

Commissioner Bratton said "That's bull,"

"That's nonsense,"

"Those officers should quit."

Now, the, uh, chiefs,

they'll be investigated

for corruption,

so that tells you right there,

Commissioner Bratton should step down.

You're gonna share everything?

We're‐‐we're‐‐ we're right here,

so thanks, officer. ‐ So proud of you, man.

How are you? ‐ Good.

‐ Well, I got some good news for you.

I found out that there's also another video,

and the video doesn't show you.

It shows someone else as the shooter,

and I'm in the process of getting that.

I also found out who the shooter was,

and I'm in the process of now meeting him

and getting him on video,

and I'm going to have that evidence

very shortly for you.

It's very rare I get to say this, Pedro,

but, um,

I'm 100% sure we're gonna win this case.

There is no way we can lose this case.

I know you're innocent,

and there's nothing that's gonna change that.

They're gonna try to make you another offer.

They're gonna try to offer you

another, uh, deal to get out of here.

Will you take that deal?

‐ No, I will not.

‐ Why? ‐ 'Cause I'm innocent.

If the department was questioned

about why is it that I wasn't promoted,

they would have no answer. There's no legitimate answer,

because it's just corruption.

So ultimately, me being out there

and willing to speak the truth‐‐

they had no choice

but to promote me.

As a result of their success

in competitive civil service examinations,

76 police officers

are being promoted to the rank of sergeant.

Will the members being promoted to the rank of sergeant

please rise to their seats

for the administration of the oath

by Chief Spano.

Attention!

Christopher Knoll?

It's a nightmare for them

to me to rise through the ranks,

because now I outrank

over 20,000 people.

And knowing how the department moves,

I'm sure they were looking to release something

to discredit me.

But whatever the consequences,

I am going to do whatever I have to do.

Edwin Raymond.

- ‐ What you doing to me? - It's okay, it's okay.

It's o‐‐ ‐ I'm fine.

‐ Well‐deserved. ‐ Thank you.

‐ I'm jealous.

‐ Right here. ‐ Okay.

I love you, brother.

Aw, man.

This feels great, but there's a lot more to do.

We have centuries of embedded ideologies,

and then so many other things to undo.

Cheers from protesters

greeted Police Commissioner Bill Bratton

as he walked out of city hall

after announcing his resignation.

His tenure was marked

by the Eric Garner chokehold case

and corruption,

but the mayor insisted

that that was not the reason Bratton packed it in.

‐ 110%,

has nothing to do with this.

I can't breathe! I can't breathe!

‐ I think our lawsuit had a lot to do

with this dude resigning. A lot to do with it.

‐ I was railroaded for doing what's right,

so to me, that shows the insincerity

uh, regarding what the department says

and what it does.

‐ To build upon a foundation

that was begun more than 20 years ago

that was the shared vision

when I, along with Jack Maple,

John Timoney, John Miller,

began to apply a new kind of science,

a new kind of rigor, to policing,

one that said that cops count,

police matter.

♪ Hey, hey, hey goodbye ♪

‐ This is the email

on case number

06885

of 2015.

The claims that have to do with the quota,

which are the most important claims

that are contained in the amended complaint,

have been dismissed entirely.

The most important part of the case is gone.

I'm not going to lie to you. The decision is depressing.

The judge is saying, based on how the quota law was written,

the cops cannot sue.

They can only file complaints

directly with the department.

It doesn't matter

whether what the department is doing is wrong or not.

The judge hasn't even reached

the merit of the substance of the claim.

The judge is just saying, simply,

you can't sue for this.

There's no right of action.

Wait, did the judge see any evidence

when making this determination?

‐ The judge has not gone to the point

where you can see evidence.

We just filed a complaint.

So what about the NYPD 12?

Do you think this is it for them?

‐ Oh, no. Obviously, I mean, not.

The case is not completely dismissed.

We still have a chance to move forward

with the 12 plaintiffs,

so the NYPD 12

is still intact,

but we are hanging on by a thread.

Basically, the judge said

we didn't come up with enough evidence to prove

that the way we were being retaliated against

was based on quotas or is racial.

One of the things‐‐ they also said that

why should it go to the federal court

if the department itself

has internal sources

to remedy our situation?

‐ I reported to OEO‐‐

Office of Equal Employment Management‐‐

I reported to Internal Affairs.

They did nothing about this.

Reported corruption. Nothing was done.

The judge knows

that this guy reported the corrup‐‐

reported to these agencies,

and she did nothing about it.

So that's l‐leading me to believe

there's something else going on here.

I'm trying to pass an agency

where you can report crime

and not worry about retaliation.

‐ And we have nowhere to go to say

Captain McCormack

is forcing me to stop black people.

‐ This agency would stop that.

What this is saying is what we've been trying to fight for,

what Frank Serpico is fighting for,

and cops before that.

‐ Right. ‐ But nobody's done it.

You look at all of them‐‐

Schoolcraft and Serpico and all of them,

every‐‐every time they did something,

it got shot down at first,

and they persevered and persevered,

and the good thing that I know that we have

a good fight.

We will prevail. That's‐‐that, I know.

It's just how long, is the question, and when.

We all put our jobs on the line,

and we put everything on the line

to try to expose what's going on

within the department,

and it's just disappointing

to know that

everything we were fighting for

is being dismissed.

You know?

But karma's a hell of a thing, you know?

You don't treat‐‐ you don't‐‐

you don't do that to someone,

especially someone carrying a child.

Felicia, I was wondering,

what do you think you'll tell this little guy

about this whole experience?

‐ Think I'll give‐‐

I won't tell him anything negative

about this experience.

As far as I'm concerned,

it never happened. It's over with.

That's black history.

You know?

Hm.

‐ I feel like I'm gonna faint.

Did he say what he wants to do

when he gets out? You know?

‐ Eat a home‐cooked meal.

He sent to his sister to prepare it.

Oh, yeah?

She's the best cook in the family?

‐ No, no, but in that,

she knows how to do the salmon

with coconut‐‐ coconut shrimps.

She knows how to do that good, so...

- But her rice is no good. - I feel like

I heard some chuckles back there.

Yeah. Far from the best, but...

‐ He sent that, to prepare that for him.

Won't be the same.

‐ I love you.

You did it.

All I can say is

my son is out

and...

best moment for a while now.

And you are prepared to go to trial with him?

‐ N‐now we're ready for trial.

‐ You're gonna see it through? ‐ Yes.

‐ Yay. ‐ And we're gonna win.

‐ Now the department says quotas doesn't exist,

but obviously, it does, if‐‐

if supervisors are still forcing police officers

to go out and bring back numbers.

- ‐ All right, good afternoon. - Good afternoon.

‐ Attention all roll call. Calling for orange.

Orange, you're covering base till 6:30.

- Two to the right. - To the right.

Who's targeted the most?

The minority community.

Just give me a second. Let me confirm from him first.

When I‐‐ when I decided to go public,

I was... I was nervous.

But, um, I feel what I'm doing

is‐‐is necessary.

You know, I‐‐ I believe in the struggle,

and with struggle, comes change.

‐ Come on, Pedro. Come on.

Come on.

Come on, this way. Left.

Come on.

‐ Being spied on, I bet.

Pedro, over there.

Are you all right? You okay?

‐ Yeah.

Hey, man.

I'm calming down my heartbeat.

All right, number ten, number ten,

number ten, which is... account number ten,

Pedro Hernandez.

I am calling, uh, ten,

and I will call seven immediately thereafter.

Um... seven.

At the arraignment, you're welcome to make

your application as well if you want to do anything.

Counselor, if you please?

‐ Uh, yes, on behalf of my client.

Alex Spiro.

Office of the district attorney,

Darcel D. Clark,

uh, deputy counsel,

Julian Bond O'Connor for the people.

- Good af‐‐ good morning, judge. - Good morning, sir.

‐ Yes, judge. Um...

The people have conducted

an investigation,

an extensive investigation, of this case,

notwithstanding

uh, witness accounts

in this case

have proven to be

inconsistent and contradictory.

Therefore, at this time,

the people move to dismiss the indictment

against Pedro Hernandez

in indictment 2105 of 2016.

You all right?

Look at him.

Mr. Hernandez, your thoughts on today?

‐ I want to thank private investigator

Manuel Gomez,

thanks to my family,

thanks to RFK,

thank everybody who was by my side

supported me through the way

and helped me get this case dismissed.

Did you ever have second thoughts?

What were your thoughts coming into this?

Well, my thoughts were just‐‐

"Have faith. Faith moves mountains."

and I'm just... "keep going."

But what about the college scholarship?

That's the big thing.

‐ Yeah, my college scholarship‐‐

I'm continuing on with that

and I'm gonna be going on to college

to start a new life.

I'm gonna go have a well‐deserved

cup of coffee

and, uh, just sit back and...

enjoy the, uh, moment of bliss.

Are you gonna‐‐ are you gonna go with Jessica

and the family, or...

‐ Uh, I gotta fight another case,

and then I'll see.

We'll hook up with the family

later on. Why, thank you.

I always knew something was coming,

and now something is finally here.

I have to deal with slander.

Let me show you something.

So they're saying you let a suspect go

just 'cause he's black?

‐ Yeah, I'm being accused of letting someone slide

simply because he's black.

And the irony is,

you know, this‐‐ this recent attempt at slander

is basically trying to deem me as the racist.

The NYPD 12 has

made themselves more vulnerable to...

to all types of dangers,

but at the same time,

has brought light to an issue

that we can no longer afford

to not acknowledge.

We're at a time where

there's just no room for anonymity.

There's no room for silence. We're way beyond that.

You know, the days when an officer sits in a silhouette

with a disguised voice‐‐ those days are gone.

You know?

This is the time where you have to be able to show your face

and you have to be able to speak the truth.