I Tried Police Academy

I want to believe that all

police

officers are good people who are genuinely trying to better the community, but it's counterintuitive when everything I see in the media tells a different story. The

police

academy

is a mental game if you let the nerves and mental game get away from you. that's when people crash and burn this is a video i've been interested in making for a long time the concept of having a police force should be a great thing it should be a great thing to feel protected have someone to call if an emergency happens and right now I don't think everyone in America feels comfortable making that call.

I want you to be very selective in choosing the location and the people for this video, so we're actually traveling to San Diego right now, which is the number that I imagine if we're going to be able to have this kind of conversation with someone, they should be the people who are medically doing well. My name is Sandy Albertson. I work at the San Diego Police Department. I have been lucky to be there. For 37 years, over the next few days, Michelle will experience a smart part of what it is like to be a law enforcement officer.

Most people have never done anything remotely similar to what we do. It comes with a lot of ups and downs and the police

academy

is. a mind game if you let the nerves and the mind game get away from you that's when people crash and burn so one of the cool things about San Diego is that there's a hardware unit in Beach Patrol that's different than most cities in the United States. You just toned it down, but those are things we look for because look, we have kayakers and all that on the water. I try to make sure everyone is safe.

It was really good to see him be on that side of things. He actually answered three. calls in a span of five minutes which I was not expecting at all, it seems that the boat capsized and they were pushed against the rocks, so the lifeguards are helping us, we are turning the boat around, many sailboats are still flipping over the heavy there is wind in this area, but they are usually able to get back up just as one of the officers stopped another boat because someone was sitting in the front of the boat unsafely. Hi, you guys can't ride on the bow if it falls. run him over thank you they didn't give them a ticket they didn't give them a citation I just felt like everyone on the boat was frustrated and embarrassed.

Now I can see a little how, as a police officer, it's hard to even politely ask people to be safer or do the right thing because people often assume the worst about you. Do you ever feel bad like embarrassing people. I don't feel like noodles should be ashamed. I wouldn't feel embarrassed if someone told me, hey, do it and it couldn't hurt you or other people. I'm Kristen Robinson. I have been an officer with the San Diego Police Department for almost four years and I am Jonathan Lowe. I'm the sergeant of the San Diego recruiting unit.

The police department has been active for 20 years. We are here today in the obstacle course. The things that you're going to experience today, whether it's the wall, the stairs, the simulated crawl, we want you to be able to do it in one continuous motion, so in my Marines. video I was able to experience the obstacle course at Parris Island. What is the difference between this obstacle course and the obstacle course? It's that we could see in the army that this is actually built to simulate a foot chase, as an officer we have to be able to do that.

Number one, be in good physical shape to keep up with a person and hopefully catch them. number two, be agile enough to overcome different obstacles, backyard fences, small walls, big walls and then number three, you also have to imagine the best boots with gun belt that most of us are. about 25 to 30 pounds more than we normally weigh, one more employee uniform, these are all things we have to think about and you have three minutes and 15 seconds to cross the finish line, oh my gosh, my heart rate It is so tall that it is already behind. line three two one we go, you turn around come back this way, you turn around here, good good rhythm, go under the bars, okay, go up the ladder, here we go, nice and easy, plant that hand down, swing well, climb the 3 foot wall, second ladder. just like you did a second ago, grab the swing, well, cross over and you'll climb the steps with each step up.

Make a circle with the clone on top. You're at 40, a touch on each step down as you go down. control your breathing you're at 117 right now go down we through these cones you're dodging obstacles you're dodging cars people turn come back look at your good balance come here on the four foot wall let's not pass anything a good six foot walk go all the way up jump up in the air here we go, you can do it right, hook your elbow now swing your foot, bring your heel over there, go, pull it right, okay, here we go, this is your partner now let's rescue him, sit him up straight, get close to his butt, stand up, stand up completely, stand up straight, first good move, your feet back, hold on to him, you're already halfway there, go straight, go straight, okay, get back up on your own.

You've got three more feet, you know, you've got to sit it down, you've got to get them up there, you're going good, okay, let's go all the way around, turn wide, go around that far cone to 31, now let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, Michelle, the last little one. sprint 100 yard sprint we're going down that part column 305 with ten seconds to spare good job here you're too tired this is what we tell people you're at the end of the course you just caught the guy but now they're going to fight you and you have to handcuff him a lot to think, yeah, three minutes, that was three minutes of being a police officer.

I'm KC Moss. I work for the Farms Training Unit at the San Diego Police Department. I've been in the department for about seven years. I'm Sergeant Chris Cerro. I am the range master for the firearms training unit and have been with the Department for 29 years. This is what their recruits receive at the police department. This is a Glock 17 Gen 5 like a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol. I think people think shooting is so easy it could shoot your shoelace off when you start thinking about moving targets and precision it's not like what you see in the movies it's much harder and requires much more concentration oh wow, these photos, so we have a few different targets up here, we're going to shoot in the center, right here, we're going to try to aim for that outlined box that we call the top one. area that is where all the organs that are going to help stop the threat are, there is always the question of why you couldn't shoot the knife out of his hand.

We

tried

to shoot someone in the hand. There is a higher probability that we are. It will miss and that bullet will continue down and hit something that we don't want to hit and that is not acceptable because we are responsible for every bullet that comes out of our gun, so I have a question about this, what do we do? These colors mean that this is actually a target for our less lethal weapons or a beanbag shotgun with a 40 millimeter launcher. The green zones are the yellow RV care zones in the red or hey we really don't want to hit anyone in those areas yeah that's right. nono plaza get that good picture oh my gosh my name is Shawn Takeo boss.

I have been a member of the San Diego police for just over 22 years. I have to work as a patrol officer. I have to work as a community relations officer where I lead neighborhood watch groups. I also worked in the Homicide Unit during my second year of college. I realized that this is the only job that really makes a difference in people's lives. I can tell stories of how I helped people. each and every day I have been a minister, so in CPR they were not breathing. I get there, I do CPR and now they're living life, it's a shocking moment.

Thank you very much for your service, first of all, a lot of my perspective on what Police Officers comes from social media. I want to have an open conversation with you about these topics because I understand that you may not have a story. Sometimes I think about myself in those situations. I don't know how or when I would decide to use them. a force against someone that is the amount of time you have to shoot that is the objective is to get out of the holster towards the target run in one second one second we do not draw a weapon because we can lower it who can use that level of force because that officer has afraid of your life or the life of another person, that is a tremendous responsibility.

Have you ever had to use a firearm while in the field twice? It was a little surreal, but it's surprising how much goes through your Keep in mind that in a very short time, the last incident I was involved in was a serious robbery suspect who was armed. He had no other options at the time he was reaching for his gun. I trained so hard for a moment and you hope so. It's worth it, yes, you know, the shooting can last about a second and a half, why not? It's like that, pointing out a case or a deal, and everyone has time to claim that there are incidents that go on and on, but the initial confrontation can be second. 1/2 2 seconds long now we're going to fire three rounds in 3 seconds that's our score from the 3 yard line are you ready?

Yeah, wait, holster, how can we trust the people who protect us if we see these crazy stories? of police brutality specifically against people of color on a daily basis, we have a community meeting and our officers are always there at those community meetings, so what I encourage is for the community to attend those meetings and participate. I think the daily dialogue The monthly dialogue was very, very important, we serve a population of about 1.4 to a million people, so we go out to all the communities to recruit, the more we represent the diverse community, the more it becomes establishes the trust you are talking about.

The people I am meeting are people who really work to improve the lives of citizens and protect people. It's really conflicting for me, when I'm constantly bombarded with negative things. Tomorrow I will be able to experience some of the most difficult things. Parts of this job are administering a Taser that sells pepper spray and I think that's going to be a completely different side to this that's going to give me a different perspective on what these trending stories are. Actually, we'll start with a little skating train and then. We're done with that. I'm going to chase a little driving.

The top priority is public safety, but we also want to make sure we catch the bad guys. And this we will show you what to do. How often have you chased what is a I guess in my career I participated in one of the most notable activities of the San Diego Police Department, which was chasing a stolen tank through the streets of the city. You have military experience. Crush cars and run over recreational vehicles. Nobody. I got hurt, thank God, but yeah, I drove all over town several years ago. It is in Youtube. In fact, we are going to do what is called oversteer.

That's when the rear end tilts, you know, drifting, with our light fishtail, you approach its turret. high and then you use that spill on the tires to the pavement, the rear ends are always going to go out, so the car stopped because the computer shut us down, it thinks we crashed the moment you feel that break in the back part where you have to turn. drifting is fun though here we go number two let's do it so when I say drive you drive like your life depends on it here we go you're doing well you're actually doing better than the average recruit we have. behind the wheel, so we're done with the drift training and now what we're going to do is show you how to chase bad guys in a police car, in addition to chasing a bad guy, we're going to have what we call a jam. vehicle out there they have the windows up and the stereo on, they are not during the sirens and they will stop right in front of you so you need to be able to stop and clear that intersection is basically what we are teaching.

If you do, we'll do three laps each lap, we'll go progressively a little bit faster, one of the things I hope you'll do is just call out directions northbound on Jones Street, whatever you want to say. Turn on the radio, watch the failure to yield the stolen police car, please, towards the open ticket, no, you're going to start, why did you turn it on the apron, the turn, keeping your eyes up, dripped towards in and then to the ground, so here? on this little straight stay on the outside course or lane a good straight break if they come into this inside part of the curve and let it drift who's interfering vehicles will probably be in play here soon so if you see another police car approaching you make eye contact and stop you want to be so focused on the suspect that we don't see a car pulling out of a driveway a child inbicycle a ball rolling into your street again safety is the number one factor here I don't want to get tunnel vision you don't want to get so involved in the search that you somehow miss what's going on around here yeah I mean I can't imagine doing this place, it's a different game when you're out there there's an adrenaline rush that hits us all, you get excited, you start breathing very fast, but as a police officer you're thinking about transmitting all the information to your colleagues, coordinating with the helicopter, you want our officers to have control. moments where they are chased physically by the car and emotionally with all the adrenaline and stress that happens when you get to the moment here and all you want to do is catch the bad guy, it's easy to have that vision, right, Marty?

Good job bro, this was really fun, good enough to pass for super, yeah. Do we need to get him a real badge? She's ready to go. I will refrain from that. I am Officer Ken Crease of the San Diego Police Department in one of our defensive tactics instructors. Today we will go over some of the forestry options that police officers used to stop people we will start at the lowest level that officers use and progress to the highest level each time you apply any amount of force, isn't it pretty, we take that type intervention very seriously and we use it.

As a last resort, the lowest level of force would be docile behavior. We're going to place a suspect here that he has a warrant for his arrest and you'll just show up and we'll put handcuffs on you. Hello my Name. I'm Officer Cara and we have a warrant for your arrest. Could you turn around? Put your hands together, touch your knuckles, spread your feet and lean back and lower down here. Excellent, have you ever dealt with someone so easy to arrest? Yes, we deal with people like that. At the time which is probably most of our stops, when we watch videos, you don't see anyone standing there saying, "Okay, arrest me." You don't have to agree with the reason we are interacting with you.

That is for the court of law, but it is not for fighting with us on the street Michelle this person is a protester they do not pose a threat to you see clearly they do not have weapons city in the middle of a street maybe pedestrian traffic they are not going to put standing then how can I do it? Put them on. I'm going to apply some pain compliance. I'll do it for you so you can feel it and then I want you to show it to Mike. I have given you orders to stand up. Let's apply the pain.

I decided you're going to refuse I'm going to control your head, stabilize it and there's a nerve right here I'll find it, we feel like yeah, look at that right there, just what I'm doing is I'm I'm going to push in and then forward I'll give you orders. , go ahead and get up, get up, okay, there you go, put your hands too small, you're back and that's it, it's just pain, there's no injury to the spot, it's just compressing a nerve. So Mike is going to direct it down and you're going to use it on Mike, now push it in, so what we're going to do is hey, I need you to get up.

I'm going to apply pain. I need you to get up or I'm going to apply the page, no I'm not going to go in, so you're going to push and we'll encourage him to stand up since you can fly, break your arm, get up, please get up now, he's going up. in a higher level active resistance force, you will approach Mike, you can tell him that he is under arrest on a warrant and he is not going to comply, so in this one we let you use some pepper spray, the pepper sprays who are in front and at this end. he's up a little bit, but sometimes you get a little bit of back spray depending on the wind.

Hello, my name is car officer and your arrest, we have a warrant for your arrest, so go ahead and let me know, they will pepper spray you if you don't turn around and get. your hands behind your back I'm going to spray you with pepper spray if you think he has a gun yes, he has a knife you could use a taser this is real this is a real taser you are exhibiting salt the behavior the suspect you say put you on the ground, They're going to shoot you with a stun gun, now you're going to say taser, taser, taser, that's the warning to the officers when he fires the darts, it makes a loud pop and could be misinterpreted as the shooting officers going in and grabbing a suspect. .

We are taking control of his wrists when he put a wrist lock on him. Wow, great shot to the leg, fantastic shot here, we have a good spread, this person was going to be a lot easier who else to arrest because you are going to have a tremendous neuromuscular block because this person wants to hurt the police officer, they are grabbing the officer, they are not trying to escape, they are actively fighting with the officer, so Tom can be introduced now, we avoid him by the neck. We lift because we don't want to seriously injure someone and we avoid any part of the spine behind the kidneys.

Arms are great targets. The legs. It feels very strange to use force against another person, especially holding the staff, it was really strange for me. because I've only seen the negative videos on social media of police officers using them on protesters, Suffolk is coming to beat you up, you can put your hand in that face which is where we want you if I take your face like this. It's hard for you to throw balance punches, now he'll come at you and then he'll move, he'll back up and then from there it'll be good, we'll evaluate, we'll do this back into a fight ready to go and we'll move and we'll get . some distance and we'll stay here, it feels weird, like I don't even want to be filmed hitting a dummy with a baton and yelling that I have to remember that these are all last resort techniques, that's why we always try. educating the public is obeying the police officer and there is a legal course for you then do not walk away do not serve to reach for your waist and then trigger a chain of events that is tremendously chaotic, tense uncertain and anything can happen it is important to know that It's not a nice thing and that's why our officers experimented with less lethal forms of course, like the Taser, we will use alligator clips, we won't shoot the darts at you, okay, but you will experience exactly the same effect of being hit with the darts you will get between 1200 and 2500 volts, what does that mean?

That means you'll get a little bit of current through your body that will lock your muscles for five seconds, what does that feel like? um it's hard to explain, I'll tell you it feels like some kind of jackhammer, will you hold on, no matter what, will they keep you from falling? We can do this, all the recruits, do it, just wait. five seconds wait, ready, yeah, hey, three, four, five, and you're done, yeah, good job, wait, stay with her, I know, don't move, we'll take the alligator clips off you, take the one that just retrieves breath for a second.

Well catch your breath let me ask you this if you were a suspect could you have fought back? Could you have attacked a police officer? That's why it's so effective and I always come back to this. I don't have to shoot you if you do what I tell you to do, she will be responding to a fight between two males. I will confront her. I'll pull a gun out of my butt and we'll see what her reaction is sometimes when they're at it. When they get out of the car, someone is recording them on video, things happen incredibly fast.

It's not that training is so important so that they can make decisions that are ethical and efficient in the blink of an eye. Hello sir, my name is Officer Auto. I'm going to need You have to go to that wall and turn around and put your hands behind it, you better look at it, just look at them, look at these hands, keep going, keep talking to him, shots, shots, shots, shots, check your gun, check your gun, get behind cover, boys, what are we? What we're going to do when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin died at the hands of George Zimmerman in 2012.

Protests erupted across the country. Tonight there is growing outrage after police shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri Sam, we are not going to let this go unchecked, this healing is going to be difficult , we as a society have to take this seriously and their income and then activists also take seriously the hard work that the police have. How do you feel about the influence of black lives and blue lives? It all comes down to a mutual and respected understanding that there are differences. It's okay that there are differences, but we need to grow together and grow in harmony.

Personally, it hurts when I see the shock I have. I worked hard for over 22 years to make sure I was there for the community. My family is part of this community, so it's difficult; However, our job is to always be there for people and when they called my 1 1, no matter what. We may not agree, we'll go there, not everyone will like us, I don't expect that, but when the wolves come and bad things happen, the police will be the ones running into danger, I'll be here, yeah, get on your knees . internal kick shell kick enter take all the place inside the shell target where is the guy no how did she do it really well she hasn't gone through any professional training before this and she has that kind of survival mentality so when she felt overwhelmed Here she just went to her natural instinct, it was amazing, she keeps moving, it's if we encourage her to take out a little bit, she has some distance, then she was able to get back into the fight and help her officer, so she did a wonderful job, who was The suspicious owner?

His partner was. She hit him, hit him, yeah, and remember it happened so fast. I asked you to write a police report right now. How detailed would it be? It would be a little difficult. You would have a lot of time slots there because I don't remember all that. Yes, it doesn't mean the officers lie either. I'm Sergeant Michael Bells. I work in the in-service training unit and am one of the department's active shooter instructors. We're going to create a scenario where you and I and another officer will respond to an active shooter call if we see him, we'll contact him if he sees us, he'll try to interact with us, especially with all the shootings that are going on, especially in the parks.

I've met students from there before. it feels very real my name is Francisco Loman I am a police officer with the San Diego Police Department on June 23, 2018 two of my partners and I responded to a domestic violence call at a condominium complex so We responded to an incident with an active shooter, our suspect. He's wearing a black sweatshirt and tan pants once you get there we start knocking on the door no one answers we see a lock on the door so that's the first threatening moment he likes weird jobs let's clear this first room in the Well, you cover the hallway.

You see someone next to you. There is no one behind the sofa. No, my sides are clear. Let's also keep moving. Then we start to smell smoke, so the messy violence goes away. Now there may be a fire inside, so we called the fire department. Josh, what are you taking to the next room? I'm going down the hallway, yeah, go ahead and get the first firefighter up there before we put a door in, you kind of have hair growing out of the back here, then get up. He breaks the door, the door opens, he steps out of the way and we immediately start getting shot at with an AR-15.

Josh, you have something on your side. Where do you seem to be going left? President. I would do it. he continues shooting us through the door through the wall it's one of my teammates Danny next to him I look I see him fall and there are two things that went through my mind either he's seriously hurt or he's dead he says I can't move he lost all feeling all over his body at this point trying to drag him out of the way and they're still shooting us through the wall Michelle, exit to your right, you'll keep us in the hallway.

Josh Duggar starts cleaning these rooms. We get to the end of the hallway where there is a window, so now partner Sean Wildermann sets up on a small balcony to cover us, the guy sticks his head out and starts shooting down the hallway like a sharp pain in my shoulder, I pull him down over my shoulder and it's like cherry red, just dripping blood. I didn't realize they shot me two more times in the chest and neck and he came out of my chin. You didn't even notice here. Not sorry at this point Danny began to suggest that the children return to his body and when I first headed and then followed a drop of approximately 20 feet, he immediately rushed to the hospital, this put me in a medically induced coma.

Later, Chuy when I woke up. That's when I realized I was in the hospital, so I'm alive. Yes, even doing this active shooter drill was terrifying and I knew he wasn't going to die. What would you like people to know about being a police officer when social media is on? filled with a story about who you are, that we care, that we truly care about the community, we understand that as officers we meet people at the worst time of their lives and we want them to feelcomfortable because we are there and that they are not afraid of us.

I mean, we go into every call with the mindset that everyone gets a fair shot. I personally think they are all good, unfortunately it almost doesn't work that way for us. My name is Josh Defoe. I am a sergeant in the police department where I work. our training division and what is our final event today for the final event today you will be sprayed with pepper spray. We do this through the officers at the police academy for a couple of reasons, the first is so they know what it feels like to accidentally get sprayed by, say, another officer or even a bad guy and so they know what it feels like to suspicious, so when the suspect says my face hurts a lot, they understand that it hurts a lot, let's cover one eye.

I'll give you a little blessing. pepper spray, you're going to go up to Officer Rowton, hit that bag, he's going to move like he's a suspect in the field that you have to fight and there you're going to go up to the officer fold and you're going to have to handcuff him, okay Jesus Christ? the best way to explain pepper spray was saturday it absolutely fucking sucks stop there it comes to life pepper spray feels like a combination of your skin on fire the hottest pepper you've ever tasted on the worst bee sting of your life I thought that I just felt the pain in one eye because I was covering the other one and I was bleeding in my other eye and when I got to the kicking and fighting part I couldn't even see, I was doing it completely fine, handcuffed.

They order buddy, you're back, there You go, I know you have to try to open that other eye, not too tight, not too tight. I'll take this, you need to use the other end, the other end, Finn, a handkerchief, okay, let's go in the water kept your head running sideways and you're out, you have to open your eye unless you open it, the worst part of The experience is that it lasts 24 hours, it spreads like a virus, everything the pepper spray touches burns. I was under the misconception that this might be a little easier than the military training I'd done before and it was still very, very difficult, the gas chamber the Marines really sucked at, but it ended a few minutes after we left. the camera.

It's been about half an hour and I still feel like the skin on my face is going to burn. I think it would definitely take me a long time to train the muscle to run towards danger when I first heard that Michelle was going to train with us. I was very excited about the opportunity for Michelle's audience to see an officer's perspective. I think what Michelle learned is how much stress an officer goes through, how many different things happen at the same time, how things can change in the blink of an eye. to go from a casual contact to a deadly encounter and officers have to be prepared for all of those things, it's really unfortunate when police brutality happens and I will continue to use my platform to fight against that, however at the same time there are many, many men and women in uniform who do the right thing every day and don't make the news headlines and I think it's important to recognize and honor them as well, so tomorrow's pride in San Diego will be a big event, hundreds of thousands of people come to San Diego just out of pride as a Sango Police Department, we are fortunate to have such a good working relationship with the LGBTQ community that they were always invited to march in uniform in the parade, so Michelle will join us and see that it is truly a celebration to come.

Together with our community, the parade is a lot of fun. I mean, you're just walking around, it's a way to really see how many people are really accepting of LGBT people. When I first came out, there were a lot of transgender people who had hate crimes committed against them and who hadn't. I don't feel safe coming into law enforcement, so that was something I wanted to change and it's not going to happen overnight, but we're getting there here in San Diego, that's by having a dialogue with our chiefs' advisory boards. communities where our community can participate. home and tell us what your needs are, these are all things that will help the community feel safer being a part of the LGBT community, it's important to me because when I first joined the police department I wasn't out, you know, I was afraid.

I joined 20 years ago. Times have changed a lot since then. Seeing that the Alexanian police department is really cultural and how attractive we are and how diverse we are encouraged me to come out as well and show them that we are part of the community also going into this experience I had a very limited understanding of what it really was. It means protecting a community. I feel like we just take this protection for granted. I really can't imagine the courage it takes to simply patrol a neighborhood knowing it could escalate. in a high speed chase, in a gunfight, in anything that requires some pretty amazing training, if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up, comment below what you want me to do next and accept the challenge, and if you are new . here, please subscribe.

I really encourage you to get more involved with your local police departments and I have listed some resources and links below if you would like to do this. Thank you very much for watching and have a great day.