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So actually you said it's okay if we record the whole thing.

So he's got all of our IDs and he's putting our information into his phone

while he's holding my passport, your ID and our driver's ID.

It's about 11 a.m. and what you just heard happens to us just minutes after Colombian American reporter,

Luis Gallo picks me up from my hotel in Medellín.

Getting ready to go out on our day of reporting and I don't think when we were here in 1989 that we ever got stopped by the police kind of for a regular check.

I think we would have had a heart attack if that had happened in 1989.

There's a thing in Colombia with these types of searches. Everything is done in the name of security.

That was really strange for me, Luis, because when I was down in Medellín 30 years ago there was a lot of violence.

But I don't remember this kind of high-intensity police presence. Am I right about that?

Yeah, so before there wasn't much police presence. I mean the security levels were not as great as we were.

I mean some places were kind of always.

So it's like they like seeing the police.

For a lot of Colombians the presence of police gives them a sense of security because there's that contrast of the attempts of Barbara Escobar.

And most people think they know about Medellín now because of Narcos, that Netflix series that portrays Barbara Escobar

as both a bloody psychopath as well as a very loving family man.

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