[Sound of a train moving, a bell ringing, and a train whistle]
This film is about a man and his job.
His job, like most jobs, does not
promise fame and fortune.
And a man, like most men, cannot promise to be infallible.
Richard Highland is just a cop.
He works in his hometown of Madison,
which is typical of most middle-sized American cities.
He is one of a hundred Madison police officers who wear a
uniform which is surrounded by myth and controversy.
In some cases, the myth may be true and the
controversy justified.
But this film does not try to capture the popular image
of police work created by television and the movies.
In the two months the camera crew spent
with Officer Highland, there were no murders,
rapes, armed robberies, or riots during his shift.
This is about a man who is not in a constant adventure
of enforcing the law, but one who spends his
working hours in trying to preserve the peace.
[Sound of a train moving, a bell ringing, and a train whistle]
[Squad 8.]
[8, go ahead.]
[5-4-0, what's going on?]
[Juvenile complaint.]
[8, I was just down there, uh, in contact with this
party. It's a reference list.
I have their names.]
[10-4, uh, is this party 10-96, Brad?]
[He's a former policeman.
I'm surprised he didn't tell you.]
[Yeah, I thought I recognized the voice, Dick.
He stated something this time about
somebody coming back, though.
Beat him up?]
[He's got their daughters.]
[I'm getting two calls.
Apparently since your handle left the last car, he
just swung down and found out what the problem is
on his wife, isn't there?]
[10-4.]
[What do you got that for in your hand?]
[Listen, I got them kids coming here.]
[Why don't you give it to me?]
[Oh, I got that from a police department.]
[Why don't everyone see you come to the door of
the club in your hands?
Why don't you know that?]
[I ain't gonna come up there when I don't know who's there.]
[You called us.
You sat right there and heard them
dispatch me, didn't you?]
[Yeah, but I didn't know who was coming at the door.
I don't know if it was them
kids coming back or not.]
[Well, I know them better than that.]
[Come here, let me tell you something.]
[You can tell me right now.]
[I'll tell you something.
I'll tell you.]
[I really, I sat in here and I answered the door.
My legs are not bad.]
[Yeah.]
[I ain't got no wind to do much.]
[The kid said you were down there a half a month.
Now listen, I don't want to see you in that club
again. In fact, you'd be smart to give it to me.]
[Oh, no, I got that from a police department.
It's a Relic.
Treat it as a Relic.
Treat it as a Relic.]
[I have.
I never used it.
I never had a man in the club in
my life.
I never fired a shot in my life.
Stopped anyway.]
[Don't start carrying the club around.]
[I can't.
I can't.
I ain't got any wind in me.
I got amnesia from that, you know.]
[That's right.]
[Now listen, are you going to bring the kids
ahead of me or what?]
[No, I'm going to wait Walter stories.
You don't want to do this.
They said you were cutting him down.]
[The last time I got a dog, he was right out in front
of the door.
I sat in my bed, ready, put the chair
right back over there.
So I get over there on time.]
[I act open as that punk.
What the hell you ring my doorbell for?
And you get the hell out of here, don't
bother me anymore.
Bye, guys.]
[No, from now on, we're not going to do this anymore.
It's going to be one thing and one thing only.]
[If you have problems on your...
you call us.]
[A real good night.]
[Squad 8.]
[Hey, Clint.]
[10-8 from 540 West Overland.
It's the same party and the same two juveniles.]
[That's right.]
[You know, that irritates me because of that.]
[Stan, you come right to the door of the club.]
[Okay.]
[I should have stopped in there and grabbed that club and run.
Really, got it away from me.]
[Hey, what do you think of the club, Earl?
Oh, that's nice.]
[Yeah, it's a souvenir.]
[A souvenir.]
[A souvenir of my retirement.
You're nuts.]
[And I think he gets a lot of ears down there to
listen to him, you know?]
[Sure. It was so long ago that he's retired that things have
changed so much he doesn't realize how things operate.]
[He still thinks the old school.]
[You're real good at that, buddy.
Oh, boy.]
[Give me the club, Earl.
Can't give you.
A souvenir of my retirement.]
[He used to do a lot of good things.]
[I imagine your mother's got some sad tale
to tell about him.]
[Yeah, she's got that radio down there, you know.]
[She knows who I am and everybody down there
more or less knows who I am and you too.]
[Because you answer so many calls down there.
So every time something happens,
you've got to tell everybody.]
[My mother tends to be a little excited when something's
going on, you know.]
[He listens.
He has that thing on 24 hours a day.]
[Sure he does.
It was on that night.
I said, "Earl, you got the radio right there?"]
[And it was on repeat or two, and I told him
that's what I thought about it all year or two.]
[He was chasing them kids down the hall.
Surprised he can walk on crutches as good
as he can, without crutches.]
[Because the first time I ever seen him before,
he was without crutches.]
[He come down the hallway, the first, you know, part
of it, we were on there.]
[Real congenial with the kids, and then next thing
you know, there's a man beating kids down there.]
[The kids are beating men or something like that.]
[Squad 8, check over on Moorland Road for snowmobiles
riding on city property.]
[Complain, didn't leave a name.
Just say that they were driving around out
there, checking to see if they were locating anything.]
[10-4.]
[They drive, you know, around the Gishole property out
there, and then they go along the Gishole property, down
to the railroad tracks, across the railroad tracks,
and go across to Englehurst.]
[So there's not a heck of a lot you can do about
it, because they're...]
[42.]
[I'll be assisting you on the snowmobile deal.]
[10-9-42.]
[I will be assisting you on the snowmobile deal.]
[10-4-42.]
[I'll go out there, eh?
Thanks, best.]
[See where they're going by, right down the
railroad tracks, too.]
[Yeah.]
[You know, behind...
you know where Englehurst
Garage is up there?]
[Just before that dump, where you were that time?
Not dump, gravel penitentiary?]
[Yeah.]
[That's Englehurst property there, too.
That's where they go back and through there,
towards the railroad tracks.]
[Thank you.
I'll see you out there.]
[Okay.]
[10-4-42.]
[They drive, you know, around the Gishole property out
there, and then they go along the Gishole property,
across the railroad tracks, and go across to Englehurst.]
[Where do you live at?]
[I live in Compton, Manitou.
Up at Dane Street.]
[Dane Street.
Where do you live at?]
[Down on Coster Street.]
[Down on Coster.
Where are you trailered at?]
[I come from my house with it.]
[Coster Street?]
[Yeah.]
[Don't you know you can be cited for that?]
[I'm not on the road when I go.]
[You don't come through the city.
You go, you know, out...
how do you leave Coster Street and get away from the city?]
[Go through the back fields, up, across the railroad tracks
and down.
You know, heading, like, towards Syedon Road.]
[Coster Street.]
[You know where the viaduct is, right at Coster?]
[Yeah.]
[You just go right down through there.
You go right down through there, you go take your...
]
[Okay. Let me first explain to you.
The railroad does not want you on their property.]
[Excuse me.
What's he doing?]
[They're with me.]
[What's he taking pictures of?]
[They're taking pictures of me.
Okay? They do not want you on the railroad
property down there, all the way back.
They do not want you on the school property,
which is Badger School.
Also, out there at the sewer plant.
That is city property.]
[You know Lenny Preston?]
[I know Lenny Preston.]
[He's the one that...
he said that you could ride
out all around there.]
[That is still city property.
And that's what the complaint come in today.]
[We haven't been that far all day today.
We got to Englehart just to get to
buy some plugs and stuff.]
[There's hundreds of people that go that way.]
[I know.
But like I say, one ruins it for them all.
Whoever it is.
Like I said, I'm going to stop and contact
everybody. And one bad apple ruins it for the whole borough.]
[That's right.]
[Right?]
[Yeah.]
[You still live in the hardware, Tony?]
[No, it's on the concert.]
[You've been in contact long.]
[You can't leave a guy alone to get some plugs, can you?]
[I knew your dad.]
[Yeah.]
[Well, gentlemen, one thing I can tell you right now,
don't leave yourself open for this type of incident.]
[See, on city property, you're cold.]
[Is there a fire or something on city traffic?]
[The same as traffic.
There's written citations written down on it.]
[How far down is this turning to Fitchburg or something,
like down that way?]
[This here right now is in the town of Madison.]
[Right here?]
[Right here.]
[Is this Rimrock Road divided?]
[No.]
[So if we're on this side, we're all right.
Can you ride to the town of Madison?]
[No, they don't allow it either.
But any time you come from Englehart, you cannot
help but go in the city.]
[Unless, of course, you go way down to the Beltline,
you know, or to the old Highway 14 and bring it up.]
[But then the town's going to be sitting on
this highway for you.]
[Okay.]
[The Beltline.
Now this guy, whoever wrote this
map, I wouldn't trust him a bit.
Put the Beltline down there.
Come on, Elvin.]
[He's got a little bit of the next level.]
[Well, this is the annexation map the city drew up.]
[Yeah, that's where we've switched up.
Because the Beltline isn't
there at all, you know.]
[I can be wrong, but that's what the information I got and the
girl from the office told me.]
[Where's Dunkin' Donut here, though?]
[That would be right in there.]
[Must be here.]
[No, it's right in there.]
[Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Here's Derby.]
[And Oak.
It's got to be right there.]
[Yeah, Oak Street.
North Avenue.
Yeah. And then it's right in here.]
[Right here.]
[Yeah.]
[North edge of Oak Street to Ridgewood is all city.
Now that's what they tell me.
See, this is all city in here in front of the
Wisconsin Electric Co-op.]
[I was arguing with about a half a dozen of them
down there one time.]
[You never win either when you're arguing with those
Elvin. You know that.]
[I did win that time because the officer on duty out here
saw me the next day and he came around and apologized.]
[I'd never apologize.
I'd never admit to that.]
[He didn't know that.]
[I told him the other night, I said, "Easy sliding is
over now.
I'm back.
There's no more easy access."]
[Well, the reason this came up today, she called me.]
[I'm a goofy nail on every accident.]
[There's Elvin Nielson.
He can argue with you.]
[Oh, yeah.]
[According to the map, I slipped one on you last night.]
[According to the map, you tried to slip one on us.]
[Now I only owe you five of them.]
[Now you only owe us four because you're
getting this one back.]
[That still ain't clear in my mind.
I can't accept that.
You're going to come up better than that, Frank.]
[That's the town.]
[That's city.
This is Kentucky Pride Chicken, Huey.
Right there, and there's the
Sinclair Station between Ridgewood and Dane Street.
This here shows like that.]
[What are all these X's here?]
[This.]
[That's city.]
[Okay, but who said the accident happened there?
It happened in the intersection here.
It didn't happen up here.
The whole intersection's yours.]
[I maintain it isn't.]
[I maintain that it isn't.]
[16-8, 10-8.]
[That's a helmet of all time.
Get some gas.]
[I maintain that it is not ours.]
[Go ahead.
Unit's off, repeaters.
3-28.]
[Yeah, I'm good.]
[Definitely not ours.]
[Well, who's got the 50?]
[See, he's talking all the time.
Up here, I said, "Wait a minute, you're in
the wrong intersection.
You're down here."]
[That's why it doesn't make sense to pick up just the
property on one side and then...
See, there's no cutoff here.
I know that there's down here by a huge place
that's out of the city.]
[I'll have to go and check that now.
He's got me all hostile.]
[This ring dropped out of his pocket, you said?]
[No, he found his hand in the ring, fell out of his hand.
And so I was looking for him.
When I found him, he'd gone.]
[Oh, I see.]
[So I told Larry yesterday, "Where have you been?"
He said, "Now."
When I talked to you yesterday, I said, "Where have
you been?"
He said, "Now."
I said, "Well, tell him I got a
ring for him."
He said, "Okay."]
[So, okay.]
[I might meet him later.
I don't know.]
[Now, you know what I'm talking about.
I did some checking, and this ring...
Here, look.
Here, Jim.
Come up here and look.]
[I'm looking.]
[No, you can't read it from back here.
The ring...
Pull the ring out of your pocket,
and you hold onto it, and you tell me what it says
around the edge of the ring.]
[Now, the man that owns the ring described it to me.
Okay?]
[What is...
What color...
I'll tell you what color stone this guy has.
He's got a green stone, correct?]
[Right.]
[Okay, what's it say around the stone in the print?]
[If you can't read it, spell it to me.]
[You're gonna give it a twist, right?]
[Yes.]
[H-O-U-L...]
[No, H-O-L-Y, then dash...]
[Yeah, H-O-L-Y...]
[Then it says S-E-M...]
[No, N...
I'm going the wrong way.]
[You're going the wrong way, Jim.]
[You go the other way.
Go clockwise.
Next one is S-E-M-I-N-E-R-Y.]
[Yeah, yeah, yeah.
S-E-M-I-N-E-R-Y.]
[And the numbers on it are 1968.]
[It's a cross.]
[The numbers on it are 1968, correct?]
[On one side of the ring, this man described it to me
as it has a fish on one side of the ring, and it has a
diocesan symbol, which is a symbol of the Catholic Church.]
[It's got a bird.
It ain't no fish.]
[He says it's a fish.]
[Are you sure it's a bird?]
[Yeah, it's a bird.]
[There's also, on the inside, the initials are D-M-G.]
[Yeah, D-M-G.]
[That's who it belongs to, doesn't it?]
[I don't know.
I mean...]
[Why don't you give it to me, Jim, and I'll take
it and give it to you?]
[Well, I'm gonna get some money out of him now.]
[No, he's not gonna pay any money for it, Jim.]
[Why?]
[Because I think it was stolen from him in the first place.]
[Well, I ain't got nothing to do with that.
I found it, you know.]
[See, see, see.]
[You want to talk to me, well, you ought to give me two dollars
or a dollar or something, but you don't give me nothing.]
[Jim, what I'm trying to say, I will tell him where
I locate it if you want me to give him your name.]
[But you don't know me, don't you?]
[Well, if he...]
[What is your address?
No, Jimmy, where you receive
your mail?
Where do you receive your mail at?
Where do you get your mail?]
[Bear Street.]
[Bear Street, 2031?]
[No, right there.]
[Bell Street, 1929?]
[Yeah, you know where that is.]
[Okay. Jim, if he feels that you were justly...]
[I don't care now, bro.
If I catch him again, and he
lost it, and he don't give me no money, I'm gonna take
it from him anyway.
I'm gonna take it this way.]
[Jimmy, if the man wants to give you a reward, fine.
But I also should advise you that, right now...]
[But I found it, right, I found it.]
[Wait a minute now.
The property is stolen, right?]
[It is?]
[Yeah. What is possession of stolen property mean?]
[Well, did I have it?
Did I take any money from it?
I took no money from it.
Did I tell you that?
I mean, I took some money from it, but you took it,
right? I took no money from it, so I have to find it, right?
Now, you take my picture.
Take it.
I hope you take all of it.
Take this picture, too.]
[Jimmy, if the man wants to give you a reward, I will see
that it comes back to you.
But I can't realistically say this
time you should give it to me.]
[You're not coming to pick me up, man, and this shit.]
[No, I'm not going to.
Here, why don't you give me the ring?
Come on, Jimmy.]
[I'm beginning to trust you, dick, but...]
[You're beginning to trust me?]
[I'm beginning to trust you, but you get, you get
slick. You just like, uh, not real, uh, crazy.]
[Do you trust Red more than you trust me?]
[Huh?]
[Do you trust Red more than you trust me?]
[Yeah, I trust Red more than I trust you.
'Cause Red calls you, he picks me up.]
[Red calls me to pick you up?]
[Yeah, he calls you to pick you up.]
[I never call Red to pick you up.]
[No, 'cause that's a little bitty car.
I think I hear him grab me, I ain't no
way. Beep, beep.
Yeah, I think I hear him grab me.]
[Paul, Jimmy, here.
Give me the ring.]
[Let me have a pistol, man.
I'm going to give you the ring, but let me have a
pistol. I'm going to give you a drink.
Would you be there?]
[What?]
[I'm going to give you a drink.
What would you have?]
[Paul, don't you have any money on you?]
[No, I'm good.
What's the deal with it?
Let me have this thing.]
[You don't have any money on you?]
[No, I'm good.]
[When are you going to go to work, Jim?]
[I'm not going to go.
I just got out of the plane.
I don't know where I go.]
[Yeah, you're not going to go out and just buy a meal
or anything.
You're going to go out and buy a...
well, probably a jug of wine.]
[Well, if you let me have this thing, no, I ain't going to
have a jug of wine.
I'm going to...
what's the deal with it?]
[Listen, I'll take the ring over to him and I'll come
back and talk to you, okay?]
[You can come over.]
[You better bring that beer out back.
That beer out right there.]
[Jimmy, that's a fish right there.]
[I know that's a mason.
I might know a mason.]
[That's a fish.]
[A mason?]
[This is a fish right here, not a bird.
That's not a bird.]
[Well, it's a mason ring, though.]
[No, it's not a mason ring.
This is a Catholic ring.]
[I'm a Catholic, would you believe that?]
[Well, then I would...
sure you want to think that you'd
sure like to see this get back to this good Catholic boy.]
[Well, I don't know if he's good or not.
If he's lousy in the bar, he can't be good, can he?]
[He didn't lose in the bar, though.]
[Then I want some money for it because I took care of
it. You see this, though.]
[You took care of it.]
[All right, if you mind, I want some money for it.
I want a fifty cents.]
[I'll be very short.
Are you going to stay around here for a while?]
[Yeah, but I want...
you ain't got me a fifty cents yet.]
[Huh?]
[Give me a fifty cents and I'll get the money
and then I'm going to...]
[Give you a first cent?]
[I'm going to get the money back when he...]
[You want to borrow a fifty cents?]
[Yeah, well, I want to.]
[He's not going to give me any money.]
[When he...
you bring him back with you and I'm going to
get the money and pay you.]
[I can't let him ride in the car unless he's under
arrest. You know that.]
[Well, you put him under arrest and you put him
out when you have him.
I give him a ride back.]
[What am I going to do when I get here?
Am I going to un-arrest him?]
[You're going to tell me you're un-arrested.
I take care of it.
I give him a bus fare.
Give him the money.]
[How come you've been hanging out here, by the way?]
[I started waiting on you.
I know you said you'd be back.]
[Okay, I will be back.]
[Yeah, next week?]
[I'll be back in about fifteen minutes.]
[You bring me some money, Matthew.]
[If he wants to offer you a reward, I'll have him
get a hold of you, okay?]
[Oh, what's your name?]
[I'll be back shortly.
You going to stay around here for a while?]
[Would you be?]
[All night.]
[I'm going to walk in my car.
You going to stop me if I just sit down?]
[You're not supposed to drive your car, Jim.
I told you.]
[Well, would you be where I drive my car home
and park it and do it?]
[Okay, Jim.
I'll see you, uh...]
[I'm going to show you something.
I'm going to show you the FBI.]
[Okay, I'll show the FBI.
Jim?]
[Yeah.]
[I'll be back.]
[Hi, Mr.
Gifford?]
[Yep.]
[Danny, does this look like, uh, does it belong to you?]
[With the initials D-F-G?]
[Yep, that's exact.
That's it.
I remember they had a scratch on there, too.]
[Yeah, this is, uh, is Daniel?]
[Mm-hmm.]
[Mark, right?]
[Mm-hmm.]
[Danny, can you tell me about when you lost it?
We had that over the phone, but...]
[Well, I thought it was missing, uh, last fall,
actually. About a year ago.]
[Okay. So that'd be '69, right?
'70. '70.
Fall of '70?]
[Right.]
[What is the ring that laid it to you?]
[What did you say?]
[Yeah.]
[Uh, 2950, I think.]
[30, yeah.
2950?]
[Yeah. 30's close enough for...
key inside your memory.]
[Danny, that's all I have.
I'm glad to see you got it back.]
[Yeah, so am I.]
[Okay?]
[Okay. I really appreciate it.]
[You're welcome.]
[Squad 8, go to 1312 South Park Street.
1312 South Park Street, Coles.
Take a report of a theft.
See the security officer.
Purse was taken from a shopping cart of a customer.]
[Well, it's sort of like a box purse, you know.
And then it just closes on top.]
[Is it a wicker purse type?]
[It's plastic, I think.]
[Colored?]
[Black.]
[Black plastic?
Like patent leather?]
[No, it's sort of rough.
Rough, a little bit rough leather.]
[It's just plain.
Just closes.]
[What did you have in the purse?]
[Oh, I'm trying to figure out.
I had my telephone savings and, uh...]
[How much would that be?]
[That was six dollars I had, and then I had, uh...]
[I must have had about thirty, thirty-five dollars.]
[Now, what is, uh...]
[The description is probably that, uh, you
believe that was...]
[Well, we were at the bread counter.
I wanted to get a loaf of bread, and she
happened to come along, and she started talking.]
[And we were, and then she started talking, telling
me about she just had a baby, and that she had
five children home, and...]
[She couldn't decide on what, what kind of bread she
wanted. Gardeners, or, uh...]
[She had another loaf, and then she says, well, she put
it back again, she says, "I think I'll try gardeners."]
[Then I was telling her what bread I use, but then there
was a small, young lady standing on the other side
of the counter, across from us, from the bread counter.]
[And she was about this tall, she had on a little black coat,
not real, but, you know, just yellow, kind of, but a real
small, slender little coat.]
[Well, it, it, it dawns to me now that while I was
talking to her, it seems to me when I turned around and
quit talking to her, she was gone, this girl was gone,
and my purse was gone, too.]
[Did you check the store, and was this open first thing?]
[I looked best I could before you came, but they're, they're
low on stock, they're pushing everything to the front,
and almost everything, you know, there's so many places
where they're low on stock.]
[It was so funny, after I got to keep talking to her, and
missed my purse, and this other purse was gone, too,
this little purse, and she was so willing to help me,
she started running all over the store, and she started
running outside, checking, she said, "I'll go outside
and check the cars for you."]
[Now, maybe they were together on this, I don't know.]
[This is very possible.]
[And then she left.]
[That's what I'm coming to think now, after I think it over.]
[All right, Linda, will you check the store real close
for the purse?
And I'm sure if you locate it, you'll
notify Mrs.
Olson. I'll give you your telephone number.]
[Oh, I, you know, I have an idea.
This young one ran outside with it, probably in the car.]
[Oh, we'd like to get the purse back to you, because I'm sure,
all your personal papers.]
[Oh, yeah.]
[She doesn't, um, the state, she has no money at all.
They took everything she has, you
know, she was forced, does the state have a policy that,
in a case where she's on Social Security, that she can
call the welfare department?]
[Is this so happy this much?
Did they give her food stamps or something?]
[I don't know how this works, ma'am.
I really don't.]
[It happened to be the month after I got my Social
Security check, I paid all my insurance, two insurance,
three insurance in fact, life, health, and my rent.]
[We'll sure, we'll sure try to get her back for you, though,
if you can understand that.
And I'm going to ask Linda to possibly go to the store
and look, if the purse has been, money might not be in
it, but we'd sure like to get that back, because that's
got all your identification.]
[Okay, thank you.]
[All right.
And Linda, do me a favor.
If these parties come back in the store, give
us a call and possibly we can identify who they are,
and we can, we'll give us a little more to work on, okay?]
[All right.
Mom, if I recover the purse, do you
want me to notify you, too?]
[You can notify Mrs.
Olson, or you can call us and we'll
take it back, Mrs.
Olson.]
[All right, fine.]
[Mrs. Olson, I'm sorry, this happened, okay?]
[Thank you.]
[Sounds of door opening and closing.]
[Squad 8.]
[Linda's old book.
Here's the purse.]
[I don't know what that book, what is that?]
[Oh, I guess, yeah, it's just some addresses and things.
I know now.
I didn't even remember I had that in there.
Yeah, this is all.
Here's where I had the, here's where I had
about $15.
And here's where I kept some of the other money.
Some telephone numbers in there, my identification card.]
[And you got your black coin purse.
And we're missing the money.
We have the purse returned.]
[Yeah. Everything else is here.]
[They found the purse down at the, near the intersection
of Winker Drive and Salt Street.
This would be behind the old A-Mart store.]
[Oh, I thought maybe, you know, that you might have
just made believe and called after they told us.]
[No, no.
All right, well, we'll still be working on
the money angle, and at least the purse is back.]
[Well, I don't, we'll never see the money.
Don't forget it.
I know that, I think that's the
pair that's got it, though.]
[All right.
Well, we're halfway home, okay?]
[Yes, I'm so glad I don't have to go through all this.
So if the money helps them, so God bless them then.]
[Well, I need to help you a little more than they do.]
[Thank you so much.]
[Squad 8, 616 South Brooks.
Party disturbing.
616 South Brooks Street.
Possibly intoxicated.
A white male disturbing an Ollie.]
[I just called Schmidte.]
[What do you got?]
[Oh, who's this?
Is this Schmidte?
Hold on a minute, what is he?]
[Yeah, that's my buddy.]
[Who do you want him for?]
[I want him to take my car home because my transmission is out.]
[Where do you live at?]
[Are you kidding?]
[No, I'm not kidding.
Where do you live?]
[Say, Dave.
What's the address here?]
[616 South Brooks.]
[616 South Brooks.
My transmission went out in my
car. Come over and drive me home, will you?
Okay. You see?]
[What's your name?]
[Joe Bull from Kokomo.]
[What is your name?
I'll get my notification off.]
[Don't give me.
Listen, Mac.]
[My name's Larry.]
[Listen, Mac.
What is your name?
You have to do something.]
[Do you want me to tell you?
I'm just on an Irish tour tonight,
and my car busted out on me.]
[Yeah?]
[I just want to go home.
That's all I want to do.]
[Yeah, I want to ask you your name, mister.]
[Tell her your name.]
[You have somebody's notification on you?]
[Please tell him it was me.
Who was the guy with the handle?]
[You have somebody's notification on you now or not?]
[Okay, yeah.
I'll give it to you.]
[You do that, we can go someplace where we'll find out
where it's at.
I'll get it out.]
[Okay.]
[Do you have to do this, gentlemen, to a guy?]
[Yes. Now get the identification off, mister.]
[Do I look like I'm robbing an apartment building?]
[You're in a private dwelling right now.]
[Was I right?]
[That's right.
Do you live here?]
[Absolutely not.]
[Okay, then.
You have no business here, then, correct?]
[Right. Right.]
[Get it off.]
[Who was the guy with this?]
[Don't worry about that.
Get your identification off right now.]
[Dave's going to come down and pick up your car
now. Get that E.L.
out.]
[Beg your pardon?]
[Dave's going to come down and pick up your car.]
[Who's the...
What did you say?]
[Yes, sir, I did, in case...]
[What did you just say to me?]
[Dave's coming down to pick up your car.
Let's get rid of it.]
[Well, that's not necessary.]
[It is, isn't it?]
[No, absolutely not.
It's not necessary.]
[Come on, Wally.]
[Get that shit out of me, man.]
[I said, get it out.]
[Don't you fuss my wife.]
[I'm not fussing your wife.]
[Don't you fuss my wife.
Get out of the car, Wally.]
[Don't you fuss my wife, man.]
[Wally, I don't want to do anything to you, and
I'll step out of the car.]
[I learned to see you cooperate.]
[Move that joker in the corner.]
[You're going to behave?]
[Yes.]
[Okay, Wally, fine.
I don't want to fight any pressure.]
[Leave my wife's ankle, will you?]
[It's up to me.]
[It's out of my sight, I guess.
I don't want...
Okay, then behave, Wally.]
[We don't want to hurt you at all.]
[How come did I get in this here tonight?]
[You lousy two-bitters.]
[Now I know what...
what my long hair means about you lousy cops.]
[That's what you are.
You're stinkers.]
[Everybody's in there lyric-picking.]
[Is that right?]
[Mm-hmm.]
[Well, how the hell did you come to that deduction?]
[Don't tell me you...
you graduated from high school.]
[Yeah, I did.]
[Listen, my kid's a cop.
I want to get out of here.]
[Where's he a policeman at?]
[I don't want to tell you his name because
I'll insult his dignity.]
[You better give away your name, then, will you?]
[I beg your pardon?]
[I would give away your name if you told us his name.]
[Not for you, pal.
I won't even tell it to you.]
[All right.]
[That's your prerogative, sir.]
[Leave me here all night.]
[Well, we'll be here longer than that until
we know who you are.]
[Oh, blow it out of your ass, will you, Max?]
[No. No, I'm not going to come out.]
[Wait a minute.
Don't... don't bust it.
Don't bust my ass.]
[Who's the guy with the...?]
[He's a friend of mine.]
[Okay. Let it go.
It hurts.
Okay. It hurts.]
[All right.
Go on.]
[I'm too intelligent for this belonging.
Go. Up to the counter.]
[He has no business in there in the first place.
He has no connections there at all.]
[He walked in there.
He used a telephone.
He's standing there and hollers over a telephone.]
[That telephone is there for one purpose.
It's for the service of the people
that live in that dwelling.]
[You know, I'd been perfectly content to get the guy
right home or let him ride with the wrecker.]
[But the thing that...
the vibe of the people there
was that he was standing in the hallways raising hell.]
[You know, hollering, screaming, "I want to talk to Dave."]
[Well, people are...
it's ten o'clock at night.
People want to go to bed.]
[The woman says, "Get him out of here.
We don't want him in here."]
[It's a...
it's all a woman's dorm...
not a dorm, but a woman's apartment there.]
[And I asked him, you know, "What is your name?"]
[You know, right away, "Joe Blow from Kokomo."]
["Where do you live at?"]
["None of your goddamn business."]
[You know, and this...
you don't have to think roughly.]
[Working good?]
[So it's just a case of, uh...
you know, he's impudent.]
[...a 911 picture.
A report of Joe and Al's, uh,
stealing trash can covers.]
[There's a little training disturbance there,
across the street.]
[They were here just before we called you.
They were right out here in front.]
[Right.]
[A whole bunch of them.]
[They had sticks about so long, and they had...
everybody was grabbing garbage cans.]
[They took the garbage can lid off of our garbage cans.]
[And we have to be responsible for paying for them.]
[Right. You had two rubbish cans?]
[Yeah, we got two rubbish cans.]
[But, uh, behind that brick wall, see, when we were
in here, we had to...]
[...pay $40 for more damages.]
[We've done this property of any kind.]
[I'll direct a report to the City Housing Authority on this
also, so it's been reported that you're not responsible.]
[No, they, um...
they're hella responsible for any
damage that's done here.]
[I'll see if I can't locate the cans to bring them back here.]
[Where'd you find them?]
[Yeah, well, they want them back on top of their
garbage cans, okay?]
[Mm-hmm.]
[But just run them down there and have them put back.
You'd be...
you'd be in a good position, alright?]
[Okay.]
[Thank you.]
[...]
[You gonna help him today?]
[What?]
[You gonna help her?]
[Don't run over here empty-handed.
Go back and get that garbage can cover.]
[Yeah, go get 'em and bring 'em back.
Take 'em back down there to 2011 and put 'em
back on the garbage can.]
[Hey, I didn't take nothing from there.]
[Well, who did?]
[He took 'em from one of them guys, didn't he?]
[Yeah.]
[I didn't take none.]
[I didn't take one.]
[I didn't have one.]
[Well, who took 'em then?
Somebody took two of 'em.]
[Who, me?]
[Yeah.]
[Well, damn, I'm taking this one on the bench.]
[Well, take 'em all down there.
You're the biggest one here.]
[Yeah.]
[They gonna notice me as a criminal then.]
[No, no.
I told 'em that you'd be bringing it back, okay?]
[You didn't tell my name, did you?]
[I'm gonna lose paper, man.]
[I'll tell 'em if you don't take it back.]
[Aw, man.]
[Alright.]
[Thank you, Pastor Joe.]
[Bye, man.]
[Bye, Pastor Joe.]
[This is his brother.]
[Which one's going down there at that, uh, what is it?]
[I don't know.]
[Let's go get 'em.]
[Who took two from the sinner?]
[Here, that's a good one.]
[I took one.
Here's mine.]
[Okay, so, take 'em out, alright?]
[I didn't say two.
I said one of 'em.]
[He got one of the sinners.]
[Squad 8.]
[8, go ahead.]
[Case in time for juvenile complaint.
2-0-1-1, Fisher.]
[Okay, 6-9-9.
4-22.]
[8-10-4.]
[Squad 8, 4-0-3, West Lakeside, a theft.
Lakeside Liquor Store.]
[8-10-4.]
[Vincent B.
Biesle asked for some gin, and I walked over
here, and I showed him the gin, and this other kid was mucking
around with these bottles.
And last night this kid was in, and I would have swore
that I had a Mr.
Boston vodka missing, because they'd
just filled the shelf, see?]
[I see.]
[And he had his hands in his pocket, and I was just...]
[Can you give me a description of the meal
that's in the, uh...]
[Blonde, short, plaid.
Here's this guy back, Mr.
Biesle.]
[He come in at the same time, and I think I seen him pulling
the driver together.
But Biesle said he wasn't.
And, uh, so he's got two bottles.]
[Which way does this kid go around?]
[He runs towards the closet.
But how I know he got the bottle for sure is
because I followed him out.
I wanted him to take his hands out of his pocket,
and he wouldn't do it.
And I followed him out, and then he had thrown it out to
your side of the building, and I said, "That's a bottle."
But I wasn't going to throw it.]
[Maybe you can give me a description of this party.]
[He's wearing a jacket.]
[Color jacket.]
[Leather. I think it was leather.]
[Well, you tell me.
She'll already give me a description.]
[Oh.]
[The leather's kind of, uh, uh, like you get here.
Kind of a little pocket on there or something.]
[This isn't leather.
This is satin.]
[Oh, this is leather, yeah.
And, uh...]
[How old of man was this?]
[Young.]
[Behold.]
[Twenty-three.]
[Twenty-three?]
[How tall is he?]
[Tall as I am.]
[Is he as tall as I am?]
[Uh, no, I don't think so.]
[Which way does this party leave?]
[He was right there the last time I saw him.
I walked out there, and I said, "Do
you take something from that lady?"
And he said, "No."]
[Which way did he go, then?]
[And I came back in here, and he was standing right there.
Right by that telephone pole there.]
[Okay. Do you know where the guy is?]
[No.]
[I went up there, and I saw this guy, and I asked him.
I don't know where they are.]
[How about, uh, did he get on the tracks, then?]
[I don't know.
He was standing right outside here.]
[I've never seen him before.
I've never seen him before, no.]
[Okay. Vincent, you can take off if you wish.
Thank you for your cooperation.]
[Oh, okay.]
[You owe advices, of course, if you observe
this party, won't you?]
[Always.]
[Okay.]
[Have you ever seen him before?]
[This Feesley has come in a number of times before,
and he's not causing me a problem or anything.]
[What, uh, does his description...]
[This young fellow was in, this young fellow last night
that was, that was in now, that had called you on,
was in last night, and I was sure, I had just stacked
my shelves, that a vial of Mr.
Boston vodka was gone.]
[And he kept holding his hands in his pocket like
this, but another guy was with him last night, and I
didn't say too much because I was kind of scared of him.]
[And they only got a bag of popcorn.
So then this one that I called you on today,
come back today, and Feesley got some gin, and when I
was over there at the gin, this other kid was monkeying
with the vodka, and he said, "How much is this and that?"]
[You know, and I told him, and I knew how many bottles
was there.
He kept his hands in his pocket, and he had
a ten dollar bill with him.]
[So I said, "When you got the dollars, just take your
hands out of your pocket."
He says, "I don't have to."
I says, "Take them out."
He says, "I don't have to."]
[He went out the door, and I followed him out, and then
he threw the bottle of vodka to the side of the building,
and I went after him.]
[Did you break it in the break?]
[No, but I wasn't going to go and have him cover me,
and as he backed the bottle, no, I went back again.
And I went out, and he started
to run up the street.]
[Of course.]
[He went, when the last I'd seen him was past the Franklin
School, towards the Creslin.]
[Squad 8, see the complainant at Arken Wingrave at Texaco
Station. Reference and exposure occurred in the 600 block of
Pine Street.
600 block of Pine Street, and exposure.
I see an off-duty officer there.]
[What'd he do?]
[Well, you know, I don't know for sure
just what he did, but evidently he didn't say a word to the
kids. He walked by, whether he was playing with himself or
not, I don't know, but he was exposed.
Daddy says, "Gee, it was cold out there, too."]
[We had an exposure with one of our other daughters earlier
this summer, and it sounds like about the same guy,
really. Did you see him walk up on the school?
Do you think it was the 600 block school?
Something to do with that.]
[No, Cedar.
Cedar, I mean.]
[Yeah, 600.
All right, I'm going to check on it and
see who lives there now, and possibly we can get a...
]
[As far as I know, the guy, I know he didn't say anything,
and I don't think he made too many gestures, but he was...]
[Wasn't bi-opened at all?]
[Yeah, completely exposed.]
[All right.
Guess I'm going to concentrate on looking
for the guy he just...]
[Was it a ski-jacket?]
[Well, Barb says she thought it was one with a fur collar
on the back.
Patty says, "No, no, it didn't have a fur
collar, just a green jacket."]
[It was probably of that type, you know, like this
here, something like that.]
[All right, let's see if we can...
Can they identify him?]
[Gosh, I think so.
Patty walked...
About an hour before, Patty had walked over to
Barb's house over on Spruce, across Michatree, and she saw
the guy wandering around then.]
[Excuse me, excuse me.]
[He came back, he was...
He came...
He was off Park Street.
He came from about where General Trading used to be up
there, they said, and they came in.
He walked across Gas Villesque platform, and, uh...]
[Listen, I'll start working, because he probably doesn't live
on Spruce at all.
He's just probably ducked up in there.]
[Well, I don't know.
If they saw him that good, they
could identify the guy.]
[We had this other guy disappear right close there,
too, you know, last summer.
I was out with him seconds after it happened, and he
was gone.
He got into one.]
[Okay, we'll start looking.]
[Rather tall and slim, and wearing a green ski-type
jacket. I read the first part of that line back.]
[He had exposed himself to the girls.]
[Uh, by opening the zipper to his pants as
they approached him.]
[This description was given out to area units, and I
was assisted by Officer Reese and Officer Strong.]
[At the time of this report, no results had been obtained in
locating the described subject.]
[All right, Helen.
Thank you.
Bye.]
[The next day, Mike and I were in the office.]
[Mike?]
[Yeah?]
[Take your phone.
We'll see you.]
[Yeah, thanks.
Bye.]
[Caught me here, and of course caught me right down here.
And this here was, you know, the gloves fits kind of loose,
but caught me right there.
So you can see it was, she caught me pretty
damn quick.
And it's...
There's my snowblower.
See what happened.
I was cleaning out here, and that's
where I hit it.
But it's got an awful lot of snow.
And the kids, they notice it right away, surprisingly.
You know, they...
The first week back, they're, "What'd you
do with your finger?"
And I said, "I cut it off."
And of course, it's something different, but...
They notice it quite a bit.
I wouldn't hesitate a bit to scrap it, you know,
somebody would, but...
I know I'd be doing things different than I used to do.
But I haven't had any use to you...
I didn't need to scrap it for quite a while, and then
not looking forward to it.
But you never know when you do have to, and when you
do, you kind of just leave everything aside and, you know,
take your hat off and go in.
But something like that, you always know you got help behind
you, and you just get a hold of something, and that's it.
Last night I saw him in there, I said, you know, he was
signing reports, and I said, "What'd you get shooting?"
He says, "93."
"He's a good shot."
I said, "You're lying."
And he says, "I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll shoot with you for a score."
"Whoever has the highest score will buy a, you know, food."
I said, "The other guy has to buy him a drink."
He says, "That's not a good idea."
I turned right around, I says, "But you gotta score."
"If it's 40, you're out of your mind."
"All right," he says, "I'll bet you 40."
That was it.
Five rounds, fire the five, reload five more.
We'll pull a target, score it, send it back down,
fire a second ten, and record the best of two.
Enjoy it.
[gunshots]
[gunshot]
[Gunfire]
[Children talking]
[Man] And hopefully you followed him.