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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

California Highway Patrol

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My good friend the great Gill Reyes tells his tales from the California Highway Patrol! 

Contact Steve - steve@thingspolicesee.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Before I share this episode, I want to share with you a time when I almost killed myself on duty.

0:09.0

So motor vehicle crashes and incidences having to do with motor vehicles are the top reason cops die on duty.

0:18.9

So I'm a young copper. I'm running radar. It's like 5 a.m.

0:24.5

So it's pretty quiet. Not a lot of traffic. I'm on a four lane undivided highway.

0:31.3

Just cruising. I get a car coming towards me. so I'm running, moving radar.

0:38.3

So I'm going the opposite direction of this car coming at me.

0:43.0

And they're going like 68 in a 40 mile an hour zone.

0:47.4

And that's enough to get me excited.

0:50.4

I want to get this speeder.

0:53.3

So they fly by me.

0:55.5

I do the turn.

0:56.8

I do the spin.

0:58.3

And I believe they saw me do the spin and they accelerated even further just to try to get away, obviously.

1:09.1

So I spin.

1:10.3

When you spin, you slow down and then I nail it.

1:13.3

And I'm going, I don't know, probably just shy of 80 miles an hour trying to catch this person,

1:20.2

which we can do legally.

1:22.3

The police can speed, can break motor vehicle law to while they're in the performance of their duties.

1:31.3

So I'm speeding, trying to catch up.

1:34.2

I have my lights going.

1:36.4

Usually this time in the morning there's not a lot of traffic.

1:40.4

I don't have the siren on constantly.

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