And the drugs, everything goes in the envelope, right? We cuff them up. We call for the P-van, the prisoner

van. A van pulls up. We take those three pieces, put them in a van, move to the next set, the next set.

And once that van is filled, 10-15 bodies, then you go to the precinct and then you mass-produced.

Then your field team is doing the strip search and going through their pockets.

You're upstairs with what you recovered.

The undercovers typing is buyer.

It was mass arrest processing and I said,

this is a recipe for disaster.

This just too many moving parts with too many people that I don't really know all that well.

Did I ever see anything go wrong?

I didn't.

But I just didn't want to put myself in that predicament.

It's redundant. It's the same thing over and over.

The only experience I ever had with NYPD up there was working on the drug task force.

And those guys were, were you know they were permanently

assigned over to work with DEA and Bureau was in there and IRS guys and ATF but good

you know good people but nothing like the street level stuff you were doing there

do you ever have any experience working with the feds especially with the

drug enforcement administration DEA I have and I we did a lot of joint cases with different federal units, but I had a question for you.

And I was a bit player on this case.

It just, guy sat next to me in my office had a case.

This is right after 9-11, so probably less than a year after 9-11 and he

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