On Our Watch: Conduct Unbecoming
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🗓️ 25 July 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, consider this listeners. It's Elsa Chang. For the next few weekends, we're featuring |
| 0:04.7 | a new podcast from NPR and KQED. It's called On Our Watch. The show looks inside the typically |
| 0:11.6 | hidden world of how police departments discipline their officers. This is episode two. It's |
| 0:17.7 | called Conduct Unbecoming. If you missed episode one, you can go listen to that right |
| 0:22.5 | now at mpr.org slash on our watch. Post Suke Lewis takes it from here. |
| 0:34.5 | Okay, Officer McGrew, how long have you been employed as a peace officer with the California |
| 0:39.0 | Highway Patrol over 13 years? Okay. |
| 0:42.3 | It's September 2016, an officer Morgan McGrew, a white guy in his 30s, is being questioned |
| 0:47.9 | by Sergeant Jimmy Ryland. And what is your current assignment at the West Valley area? |
| 0:53.3 | McGrews of Venn Officer. So he checks out of state or salvage cars to make sure they're |
| 0:57.9 | not stolen and have working safety features. McGrew or someone like him has to sign off |
| 1:03.6 | before you can get your car registered or legally drive it in the state. So we're looking |
| 1:08.2 | at appointment at 10 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:10.9 | Sergeant Ryland printed out a copy of McGrew's Outlook Calendar and he brings up an appointment |
| 1:15.3 | McGrew had about five months earlier back in May. |
| 1:19.4 | The driver's license that's copied on there at the bottom, that's presumably the person |
| 1:23.5 | who came in that brought the car in that day. |
| 1:25.5 | Correct. |
| 1:26.5 | Do you remember her as the person you dealt with that day? |
| 1:28.7 | No. |
| 1:29.7 | Does she look familiar to you? |
| 1:31.6 | Um, not really, no. I don't remember. I don't recognize her. |
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