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The first step is a delightful sit around the kitchen table kind of conversation about all the ways Hollywood pretends law enforcement works.

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In my business, which is entertainment, we have a way of doing things in television, particularly sometimes in film that I know you guys take umbridge with in real life in terms of law enforcement.

Like you can't get a DNA test back in nine hours. That is true. There is no shoe print database. Hey, can you run the shoe print? Yeah, that's a size 990 that was bought by John Doe at in 1986.

At Dick sporting goods. Yeah, it doesn't work that way.

Tell us what are some of the other pet peeves you have with the way we do things in my biz. For me, it's when we watch like a if you watch a cop show, it's how their uniform is when I see like how their duty belt is organized and where they put stuff on their duty belt or where they have their badge pinned on their shirt and their name tag and their other stuff.

It's just always off or if they have keepers because you wear two belts. You've got a belt that goes through your pants like an actual belt and then you have your duty belt that goes on over and keepers are these straps that basically bind those two belts together.

So your your duty belt isn't spinning around and you know everything's tight and close together. So you see people and they don't have keepers on things like that.

You think they have supervisors though, a lot of horsemen supervisors saying for this jurisdiction, you wear your badge here and your name tag here and you need a keeper.

Well, it's clear on some shows Southland. They were squared away. Really enjoyed that show. You could tell that they had somebody who was a law enforcement person advising on that show because their officers look squared away.

There's other shows, particularly detective shows where you will see how a detective is dressed in playing clothes but the way they have everything set up like a cross draw holster where you have to reach across your body.

Does nobody do that anymore? I've never seen somebody do that ever. Yeah, it drives me nuts. Yeah.

So if you're a playing close detective where to keep your gun in your sock?

No, I keep my gun right on my left hip. I'm left handed. I've got my holster, my dress belt slides right through the holster. I put my badge on the same side as my gun because people see guns and like that guy's armed.

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