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Yeah, yeah. You're out there naked as hell. You know, the first movement, You're ready to shoot. Somebody get good position. Good cover. Things happen and you look and you know Hey, I don't have to shoot that guy. He's just jumping around. Freeze! Don't move. You know,

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you take charge. Good evening, everybody. I'm Johnny Barnes, Selvin. The men and women you see in this room are already members of the Oakland Police Force. They have the awesome responsibility and the awesome authority to police the streets of Oakland. What kind of people go into

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this line of work? What are some of the problems they face on the streets of Oakland? And how are they trained to handle those problems? That's what this program is all about. You have to be 21 in a high school graduate. Hold a valid California driver's

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license, have good vision. You don't have to be tall anymore. But your weight must be proportionate to your height and oh, yes. You cannot have any felony convictions if you want to be in Oakland, Cop. From 1000 to 1200 men and women apply each year for

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the job of Oakland Police officer from 40 to 50 make it all the way through the police academy with a badge and the authority to police the city of Oakland. This is the 96th Academy. After this graduation ceremony, they'll face one year probation on the streets

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before their full fledged Oakland police officers, and their work is cut out for them. The open Tribune published these open crime statistics covering the 19 years from 1960 to 1979. In that time, the number of people murdered in Oakland rose from 20 in 1962 124 in

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1979 1960. There were 59 forcible rapes in Oakland last year, there were 440 for. The number of robberies climbed from 539 and 1962 3572 in 1979. The number of aggravated assaults from 437 to 2513 and the number of burglaries in the city of Oakland rose from

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3348 in 1962 a whopping 18,000 in 1979 and for 1980 81. Crime is definitely on the rise. People talk about the number of of killings in our city, the number of murders in our city and how that has seems to be rising. Well, if you look

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carefully at the at the history in each case, you would find that that the majority of the increase is related to the field to the activities of those in around peddling as a sale of narcotic and dope. Also, uh, this problem we haven't been able to

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come to grips with in terms of unemployment among youth and particularly minority youth and black and Chicano youth in our city, say, between the ages of 17 and 30 the numbers of unemployed the ratios have have increased even at times of prosperity where overall unemployment has

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gone down. We've seen a constant increase among this group of young people. So what do those who want to fight crime have to do to get the job? I would first take the written exam and then the physical agility, and then you would participate in an

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oral interview, and then you have a medical, including a psychiatric evaluation, a background investigation and if you were successful in. All right, You'll be an old completes office who chooses to be an Oakland cop. And how are they prepared for the job? Well, to who chose

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Oakland? Our officers, Raymond Barre and Bob Hammond. Brand new, fresh out of the 96th Academy rookies. Both are 36. Both are married. Both took large salary cuts to join the Oakland Police force. Officer Barry, why did you choose to become an Oakland cop? Well, the Korea

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opportunities, for one thing with the Oakland Police Department, they're pretty wide. Pretty. Very. It goes beyond just being the cop on patrol. I use that word. Coppin Books, Kind of, uh but it does the career opportunities to expand. You can do anything from being helicopter pilot,

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too. Technician departments, investigative departments. What happened right now we're just getting exposed to all of those departments and opportunities. Oakland is an expanding city, a growing city and usually with growth, you get a chance to grow, and I'm always ready to grow. What did you do

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before this? I was an ironworker, a structural ironworker. I, uh, was one of the first raising gang crews that worked on the World Trade Center in New York. And then I came to California. Before this, I was a captain in the central part department, and I

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have gotten to a point in my life where I felt that 20 more years, which is what I'll be putting in as far as my livelihood. I felt, for lack of anything else, to say board. I had to do something else. I had a lot of

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friends who are police officers, and I am 36 years old, and I decided after talking to a lot of my friends, that the police service offered me the challenge that I was looking for. There's no boredom here. I guarantee you, you live in Oakland. Do you

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think that's going to help you do your job better? Yeah, I think living in Oakland is going to help me a great deal. I get to know the community. I don't necessarily work within the very block that I live, but it will help me a great

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deal. I think it's your community. You think that makes a difference? Sure, you always take care of your home better than you take care of someone else's, you know, you at this point. Don't live in Oakland? No. Do you think that it's important for officers to

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live here and do you plan to move? I moved twice during my academy, and I'm not going to move for a while. I am tired of moving. I think it's important to live within the city. I've looked in different areas of the city during my academy.

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In moving twice, we looked in areas of Oakland and we put our house up for sale, and at that time the interest rates were such that our house didn't sell and we went back to it. So in the future, yes, I think it's important to live

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in your own city. But I haven't and I'm not my nose. Think that you respect respect. The police academy last six months while the State Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission requires a minimal 400 hours of in class preparation, Oakland police officers put in 785 hours

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in class. What to recruit studying the academy, everything from first aid in law to force in weaponry recruits spend 116 hours studying law. 60 hours of class time goes to community relations. Since 40% of violent crime in Oakland is committed by young people, police recruits make

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contact before they start patrolling the streets. In an effort to try to understand Oakland's youth, a young woman's car club was invited to the academy to talk about bettering police relations with Oakland's Latino youth. If you go to a group of lowriders and offer your expertise

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to get into anywhere but come to us, hey, we're asking you right now before your expertise as to how we can deal with it, we will be. Our community with lace style, especially, will be very responsive to having your efforts involved in trying to bridge that.

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That's why we're here. Mhm, yeah. 62 hours of Academy Time is spent on the use of force and weaponry. The targets on the shooting range are pictures of people like you and me. Some are holding guns and some are not. We designed nine different targets that

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we've set up judgment shoots for the officers. What's the judgment? Shoot a judgment, shoot the targets nine of them that we have. Six of them are armed suspects and three of them are unarmed and we bury them, stagger them, put them in different order and run

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the officers through chutes where they'll have a one second target turn, which means they'll have one second for the target to turn. They'll have to analyze it, make a decision to shoot, which means drawing their weapons, firing their rounds. And then we test on their accuracy.

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See how well they handle that situation and they're trying to shoot to kill. Yes, mhm. There's instance where police officers are shot at and they have to return the fire. I look at it very seriously, and if I'm in a position where my life is endangered

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or someone else's life is endangered, um, I'm gonna have to make that decision. It's a life threatening situation where you do eventually have to bring this weapon out. And if the seriousness wants it warrants it and I pull the trigger, it will be to incapacitate you.

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The gym at the Oakland Police Department is a place where seasoned officers like Hugo Huggy Bear Gonzalez and would be officers like these three recruits meat 74 hours of academy time, go to training and weapon list, defense and physical fitness, all officers need to know how

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to defend themselves, using their hands along the reason being that on occasion, the weapons that we do have our tools as our sticks are taken away from us. And then we have to resort back to our empty hands to defend ourselves with or to take someone

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into custody. With pressure on the wall, these recruits are being taught to search a house. They've been told that there are armed robbery suspects in the house. How real is the tension they feel at entering a dark, boarded up house filled with armed suspects? You decide.

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They say the hardest part of this exercise is going through the door. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Uh huh. Uh huh. Mhm. Mm, Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Hey. Mhm. Mhm. How do we have? All right.

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Moving. Good. How are you? My body. Mhm. Mhm. What will run? Mhm, right. Mhm. There you go. There. All right. Bye. Yeah, you. Oh, course. Mhm. Yeah. Thank you. Oh. Mm. What? What's wrong? Are you guys doing in my house? Okay. Cover him. Cover it up

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again. You were down there. Put your hand in there. Free. Oh, that's a good one, partner. Yeah. You got what? You're a dead man. Look back. Misfire could have gone for Uh huh. Okay, What did you do in here? Came in and I thought, Oh, God,

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we're here. I put my gun on first. I had him to cover my thought. Saw it, and I looked around here. When you point your gun, you don't If you're not careful you many times you didn't. The academy gives finals, both written and practical. The practical

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exams are called critical incidents. All right where you are, buddy? How's that remain? I want to turn around. No weapons. No. No. What are you doing by the car? It's my car. I've got a gun. You think around slow? I got in his pocket. Wasn't blood,

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you know. Be cool. What? Turn around. Mm. I'll be waiting. Right. Mhm. Okay. Are you guys doing around the car? Mm. That's it. Sure. I know where you got them. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna take this one, okay? Yeah. Mhm. You have the secret off. Okay. You

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should have searched him better than that. Okay. You should have found the screwdriver before you brought him back to the car. Okay? Positioning is not bad blowing the siren. You really didn't need to do that. Okay? The only thing that you're doing at that point is

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giving them the clue that they'd better start running at that point. Okay, So don't blow the siren, and it's not going to be a car stop. Okay? The approach was pretty good. Did you know where his hands were at all times? Not at all times. Okay.

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Trying to watch him watch their hands, watch the hands. Did you know where his hands were All the time? What he faced. So Okay, get the hands out where you can see him. Okay? He was standing similar to that with his hand in his pocket at

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one point. Okay? And you can't see beyond the best, so get the hands out where you can see him, okay? Oh, no, not that. How important are the trainees to this Department? Trainees are critically important. They're obviously important in the sense that they provide us needed

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resource. And we're waiting for them as each class comes out of the academy, we're waiting for them desperately. Officer Bob Foster, the president of the Oakland Police officers Association and a 14 year veteran, says the new recruits just aren't what they used to be. How do

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you think that the new recruits compare with the pre 1973 recruits? Those who were pre affirmative action? I don't think that they're being afforded the same type of training in the same type of outside experiences that were afforded those who came on and say 10 years

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ago. The training division and the police departments throughout the country and here in Oakland are having to deal with people who do not have as much self discipline as they did years ago. Well, do you think that the needs in the community have changed? And do

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you think that these recruits that are coming out now are equipped to address those changes? I don't think they're adequately equipped. No. While some veteran police officers agree with Officer Foster, they only agree off camera. There are many who disagree. The people that were hiring now,

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by and large, can do as good a job as what I saw when I came on 16 years ago, with the same degree of success and a much tougher job today, By the way those individuals that do state Okay, the standards were lower, and the department

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will never be the same If if and when they're given a chance to work with new officers coming in. I think you should ask them that same question again. And I think you get a different answer. I think they've forgotten maybe how it was to be

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in a recruit school. I think basically, what's wrong for my experience in talking to people that have shown an interest in law enforcement is that more often times than not you come across the person who wants to take the job because it's a job and they

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don't really understand that. It's a way of life. It's a culture all in itself. I'm new, but in that police subculture. But there's a definitely a report between officers MM and there's a feeling of friendship that is enjoyable to be around. Um, there's times when you're

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on the street and you're not totally like very certain people, even though you're helping them out. And it's nice to go into a group of people like yourself and be accepted. The camaraderie and the police subculture is a welcome thing. I always welcome any type of

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friendship being a part of the career that I chose or even on the outside of that career. Uh, that's definitely a welcome thing. All police officers must sign the law enforcement code of ethics. The coach says officers must maintain courageous calm in the face of danger,

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scorn or ridicule. They must be honest and thought, indeed, enforce the law courteously and appropriately and never employ unnecessary force or violence. That's what the code says how to Oakland residents view their police force. Stay tuned. What do you think of the job that the open

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police officers are doing broken? I think they're doing a pretty good job because everybody I know the try something gets caught. And I think that it's a very large city, and in order to do a good job, they have to be good. So I think I

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think that they're getting their man most of the time. No, I don't think they're doing the job because in the last few months, you know I'm watching the dope traffic on the corners. I see young kids out on the street. You know, there seemed to be

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more aggressive in trying to sell, you know, drugs on the corner, you know, And I don't think the police department is doing this job then, you know, and something is terribly wrong. Something has to be done about it. Senior citizens do have a problem of being

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having purses snatched, and they're afraid to go out at night. Whether the police don't have any effect on that, I don't know unless they have a large amount of more police on the street. Yeah, I think they're doing. They do a good job, but I think

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they need to learn how to talk to people. What do you mean by that? Well, the way they approach the way they, you know, start out talking to you. I think they need to come towards people differently. If you come and greet somebody in the right

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type of way, then they'll greet you in the same way that you greet them. But if you come off wrong automatically, they're going to go off on YouTube. I think the Oakland Police officers are very overworked organization of men doing a very good job in a

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city that's very difficult to operate as a police officer and they use their guns and their authority as a weapon to do what they do as they please, with, uh, with Public Citizen's with citizens. They have a special job to do, and it's a rough job.

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I wouldn't do it myself, But, uh, you put in life, you put your life on the line and I commend them. People should never forget that policing in our society is by definition, in my judgment, a negative institution. We exist the police system. In fact, the

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entire criminal justice system exists out of need. We are needed to help resolve people's problems, all of our problems. It is by definition, then a conflict ridden task. Our job is not to be loved. Our job is to accomplish what we have to accomplish as effectively

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and efficiently as possible with as much understanding, awareness and if you will warmth just human, the human skills as possible. If you're going to hire 600 people and put the tremendous authority that there is, you pin a badge on with all of the authority that goes

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with that badge, a big gun on place on that person's hip and a and a stick and the power that goes without that position and with 600 of them of anything. I don't care whether you're sick talking about 600 judges there, 600 lawyers or doctors or

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they're going to be a few bad apples. And and I don't think that the police can't live with that. And it's an old, thin line of blue philosophy that we have to. We stick together and their defensive about those by and large who who don't do

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the job the way they ought to do it. And as a result, a large number of the great majority of officers who do try to do their job in a professional way suffer from that image. Anyone looking at us, I think we'll find very quickly that

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we are extremely critical of ourselves. We will not tolerate misconduct, certainly will not tolerate anything approaching brutality, and we deal with it decisively and firmly. One is detected. What do you perceive your job to be? It begins with enforcement enforcement of laws that the community, the

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state city I have written down and depend on me and the Oakland Police Department to enforce. Then, after the enforcement of these laws. Uh, there's a community to serve out here. Major problem in our area is drugs, mainly heroin. How do you handle that? You've just

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got to go and the people who you feel are involved in this continually push them out of the area. Officer Barry is now working with one of the carefully selected field training officers, Officer Michael Soto, and his education goes on. They leave the home of a

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battered woman, and it's time for report writing and a critique from Officer Soto. Okay, they get the license number of a suspected lumber thieves Cadillac from the truckers who lost the lumber chase down that car but missed the owner. And it's time to write another report

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and get another critique. Officer Hammond and his field training officer, Officer Ray Luna, are on patrol in a part of East Oakland that's known for heavy drug trafficking. Some days they go from one possible drug trafficking arrest to another. My foremost ambition right now is to

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become a good officer, a good police officer. It takes about three years of hard work to become a good police officer. After that, I would like to possibly go into other areas. An area that I've become interested in right now as a thought is to become

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a technician at the crime scene. And the police work has so many aspects, so many fields. You can go into that when I become proficient at one and decided to go another. I hope at the end of my career, I will be able to say that

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I've had a good time. I've enjoyed it and it's been worthwhile. Like Officer Hammond want to achieve a level of perfection. I don't know if you're familiar with the term shabu me Japanese term, denoting that level of perfection, which is pretty high, and I'd like to

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apply it to this career, okay and shoot for that gold. Some veterans of the Oakland Police Department are saying that the idealism that Hammond and Barry have will last about a year. Others are saying that they will be cynics after only six months. They say they'll

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draw the late night dog watch a few times and see a few dead bodies, and that'll do it. But having and Barry say that they've chosen this career very carefully, they say they're betting with those who say that their idealism is going to last their entire

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career. As for me, I'm hoping that Hammond and Barry Wynn because if they win, then Oakland Winds to I'm Johnny Barnes. Selvin. Goodnight. Hello, Mrs Barclay. Jack's restaurant. Embarcadero Embarcadero. Where? On Embarcadero Street, near Jackson Square. Barkley. Jack's restaurant. There's been a robbery and a shooting.

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Barkley, Jack Barclay. Jack's Globe 11 Embarcadero. Shooting robbery is in progress. I locked myself in the room. Armed robbers downstairs. Okay, now what? What are the numbers there? The address. A address is a dresses 12. 11 Embarcadero. Okay, Now, do you have a description? No, they're

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in the building. Hurry up. I've been shot. God damn it! Okay, fine. You're inside. And how many are there with guns? I do them right? Yes. Okay. We'll be there 41st, and I was sitting in a parked car and we have a riot. Miller