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I'm trying to be a street cop.

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But I had to jump back on here and stop it and fix the connection on the tablet device I'm doing these videos

you guys on. I just want to say welcome to all the new members of Streetcop Training, our group here.

You can check out our website at Streetcop Training.com. Or you can email me anytime

Streetcop Training at Gmail or message me right here on Facebook. I just want to reach out to

I want to let everybody know that if you're following this group, I would suggest that you also follow PJ Collins group, which is trapfine LLC. You can search it out and just friend request him. What he'll do is to try to verify who you are a little more thoroughly than I do. So just join his group. He's got a lot of good stuff that comes out on there that he does traps and hidden departments, a lot of stuff. But today, I'm going to talk about two subjects. One was going to be a request from somebody. The other one is going to be something that I chose. So the first one is I had a guy reach out to me and ask me a question. He talked about picking the right locations to observe traffic. Is it better to be dropping? With traffic, against traffic, what do you think? What really depends where you are, one thing you want to pick if you're going to be doing interdiction work and looking for a

high volume of vehicles, you're going to find an area where really you're going to have a high

volume of vehicles coming into you and passing before you. Now, I always tell people to

make sure they set their cars so you can kind of like look at them as they're driving by you. You can see into the cars. You're looking for seatbelt violations. But you're also looking to see the reactions that are going inside the vehicle. All right. You have to know what people are doing. Remember, look at the car first, passengers, and then the plates always last. Don't worry about the license plate number. Don't worry about that. The only time that's going to come into place if it's like a Florida dealer tag or maybe it's some side

of sort of that totality of the circumstances with it. So I will tell you this, that where I used to sit was Route 1 southbound in Woodbridge, New Jersey, and I'd get out there sometimes at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and between 4 and 6, we have a high volume of traffic. So sometimes cars would pass me. There'd be so many cars and coming at such a high rate of speed,

be like 56, 60 miles an hour. Sometimes I would try to get out on the car, and by the time I called up to them and trying to get through traffic, they were gone that had dipped off. So just know your strategy, pick your places, and sit, you know, with your car, if you don't have a well-lit area at night, you can use your takedowns or your spotlight, throw your high beams on, and you're checking for seatbelts. You know, don't let your supervisors bully you into, well, what are you doing out here with these lights on? Yeah, I'm doing police work. So put your lights on, say, I'm checking for seatbelts. That's it. You could tell people when you pull them over, hey, I'm doing seatbelt enforcement tonight and throw them totally off when you're actually looking out for drugs and guns. So, again, sit. You don't want to be blinding people as they're coming down the highway if you're going to use a little light, but you want to sit like a vertical to them or maybe like a little bit like this way. So as they're coming along, you can see into the car that way. all right that's that's that's that first question. Hopefully that's some good advice for you guys. You want to get away from running random plates and your radar unit. I mean, if you want to use your radar unit for an additional PC or RAS to stop the car, you know, maybe they're doing four miles an hour with the speed limit. That's a violation. Good to go. I would use it for that. Some people are like, well, drug dealers are using radar detectors. I have never found a drug dealer that is using radar detectors. The only people who use radar detectors are people with fast cars that drive like assholes. And honestly, as an interdiction officer, I don't give a shit how fast you're going. I can't tell how people want to pass me at a hundred miles an hour and I could care less. And they were probably thinking like, oh my God, why did that cop not stop us? Because I know you're not engaged in criminal activity because I'm focused on criminals, not on minutia bullshit of speeding cars. Who cares? You're not going to slow them down. And usually it's a cop anyway. Well, you're going to waste your time.

You can waste 15 minutes pulling over a cop. So you can waste two minutes walking up and two minutes walk back to the car and, you know, and talk about these, you know, who he is and you have friends in common. So with that being said, great. Now, we're going to talk about drivers. I'm sorry, passenger side approaches on motor vehicles. Now, I happen to see a cop doing that today in the town that I live in and makes my skin crawl every time I see a cop doing a driver-side approach. And I was even a guy who was guilty of it. When somebody came back to me and said, hey, we should really start doing passage-side approaches, I was the asshole who said, no, I wouldn't do that. And then when I got educated on it, I realized that I was wrong.

And every cop, and every person out there today who was doing driver-side approaches and not

passenger-side approaches, you're wrong. You should not be doing these. Tactical, high-tactive

situation, maybe something, on a normal, ordinary course of business, you should be doing driver-side approaches. Two main units, stack up on the same side of the car. If you're going to get in a shoot-out, I would rather have the person I'm shooting with, like this with me, side-by-side, not one over here, one over there, because if he retreats that way and I retreat this way, they're going to have crossfire. Okay, so

all we stack up, we wrote two-man units in the 12 that I worked at, hand on the shoulder, we'd stack up on the car, would stay close to each other. Number one unit, it's okay. It's all right. You can do it. You can live outside your comfort zone. I'm going to play a video for you guys

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