Hi, it's Audie Cornish and we've been bringing you a new series over the past few weeks.

It's called On Our Watch and it's a collaboration between NPR and KQED.

This is a show that gives you a look into a process that's often invisible to the public.

How police departments do or don't discipline their own.

This is episode 5.

It's called The Collect of Duty.

Now, if you want to start from the beginning, you can search for On Our Watch in your podcast

app.

Here's host Suki Lewis.

I'm not going to give an excuse.

There's no good reason for it.

No, no, I'm not trying to jam you up and trying to understand.

It's 2014 and Internal Affairs has taken an interest in this guy.

This officer William Yetter.

He's July 14th.

I'm an interview officer William Yetter regarding I have a lot of work to do.

Yetter is a white guy who's been working for the Salinas Police Department for about

two years at this point.

Having patrol a city of about 150,000 people, many of whom are immigrants from Mexico and

Central America.

And he's been having trouble turning in his police reports on time.

Basically, it's some reports that were either missing late, not turned in, founded later

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