Albuquerque Police Department; APD Tape 42

I'll just bring this just in case. I don't think you should mess with me. Maybe you should get the sound going or something. We'll just shoot off the camera, Mike. OK. But I've got my father for the next scene. I'm going to need the wireless wire. Set up, like, for the wireless action. Listen, you go and start rolling. Right. Bring the hardware, the wireless, and all the wireless. Yeah, helping the hardware. You just bring the wireless action. One of the hard and with this right here. And just one of these. Bring the good one. Which one's good, right? I think the butt gets up. Yeah, look. Bring it through. There you go. OK, ready? There you go. Good. OK. OK, let her back. Come on. You ready? OK.

Here we go. Good. Good. Good. Keep going. Go to second, Pat. Go to second. There you go. Go get it, guys. Keep going, Pat. Keep running. Run the third. Here. OK, run home. Run home. Run home. Come on. Run home. There you go. OK, good. Here you go. Oops. Nice ball. Here. There we go. Come on. Come on. Come on. Oh, you want a bat one, what's up here, Sarah? Try. Give me a good throw. There you go. Good job. Good job, Mark. OK, ready? Try it again. Ready? OK. Whoops. Try it again.

OK, try it again. OK, try it again. OK, try it again. OK, try it again. OK, you ready? Here you go. Oops, ready too. Try it again. Try it out there. OK. Try it again. Try it again. OK, try it again. OK, try it again. OK, try it again. Come on. Let's go. Try it again. You ready? OK, you ready? OK, here we go. Oh! Let's try it again. Show me where you're going to hold the bat. OK, show me where you're going to hold the bat. OK, keep your bat right there. You ready? Oops. Whoa! Let's try it again. OK, do a swing. Give me a good swing. Are you ready? OK, here we go. Go. Oh, that's a good swing. Let's try it again. OK, you got to hit it, OK? Here, stand just like this. That's a heavy bat, isn't it? Here, put your hand right here.

OK, ready? Oh, is that it? Let's put your bat back just like that, OK? Put just like that so you can see it. OK, ready? OK, let's go. Go. Oh! Oh! That was close though. That was getting close. Yeah, we're getting close now. OK, put your bat out. Ready? Go! Run! Run! There you go! Oh, boy! We've got to run. Go to second bat. There you go, get her hook. Up goes bat, run. Go! Oh, she gets away. It's another home run. OK, there we go. Good job, that's me. Oops. Oops. Use your glove, Luke. Good, throw. Good. Good.

We'll stop it. OK, run throught to me. Get in there. Are you going to help me? Good. you doing, bat? Get in there. Huh? Good.

Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. so, Mark? Yeah. You're getting ready? How many days on the street have you had so far?

I'm just finishing my second phase. Each phase is four weeks. I've got three days to go in the second phase. So that's almost 40 days. It's about 37 days on the streets. And then the next step is that you'll be going solo. Well, actually, I've got another phase to go with another training officer. We shall start probably Saturday. We shall do another 20 days with him. And then it's back to the academy for a week. And then I go with what's called the shadow phase. And the shadow phase, it's two weeks with my original training officer. And then I'll go out on my own. OK. And like right now, you know, like you're, you know, transforming, you know, from, you know, the father and husband way way to end up. Just like that. Like I used to.

Yes, please, please, please. Well, woman, Manick, take off the wireless and put on the camera mic. No, excuse me. We got already one on. So let's put on the wires on. Perhaps get a wire on. OK. Here, let me mark here. Let me ask you if you could put this over here. And then run the mic up through to the top, you know, to the top of the t -shirt. OK. Yeah, I'm asking a lot today. Sorry. Now, of course, when we put the belt on. We'll work the demo to you. Oh, OK. Or you could put any different pocket or something made a little bit better. That would be OK. Yes, that way the belt won't interrupt. I'll just go just take this clip. OK. I like what I'm seeing. Is that uncomfortable in any way? No.

OK. OK. Let's open it in the pocket or do you want it? We're rolling. OK. Oh, OK. Thanks. Look at this one. What was that? That was good. OK. Let's see how hard it is today. I'll probably get down there and wish I had the long sleep tonight. OK. I'm going to see you mind when you get up there. But I was talking about before the data uniform. A beautiful father and now becoming a

police officer. Putting on the uniform. It's like play times over. You know, when I'm home with my kids, it's a lot of play time. We play with the kids. And the kids are here because we need homeschool. So you know, I help with the teaching. My wife teaches them. So you're going from a role of really working with the kids, at least for me, all morning, early afternoon. And then I put this on. It's like, OK, play time's over. Now it's time to get ready to go down and face whatever is going to come across the radio. And then the training mode too, part of the pressure is just working with the training officer. And the thoughts that go through my mind right now are like, well, I hope I can do all the calls right. Remember everything else, what's your remember. And handle everything correctly. So that's kind of what goes through my mind right now. Then you know, when you strap the gun on, then you have a whole other feeling that comes across, you know. Then you start to think, OK, I've got this weapon on my belt. And the potential is there of using that weapon. And so that really starts

you thinking about the what ifs. Part of our training in Academy 2 was to, as we started to get dressed, put our uniform on, was to make up scenarios in your mind. What if this happens? What if that happens? And so I start doing that about this time. In fact, my wife can tell you, there'll be times we'll be sitting at dinner. And I'll be staring off into space, and she'll know what's, you know, I'm thinking about a scenario. What if what if this happens? What am I going to do? So that's kind of what's starting to happen in my mind right now. So putting the bullet in the other cord, what goes through your mind when he puts on the uniform? Well, I see that he's off to another tour of duty, we call it. And just frame through it that he'll get home safely to us. OK, Mark, you know, we interviewed Assistant City Attorney John DeBoys. And when they turn on the uniform,

what do you think of that? Well, you know, I think it does. I think for me the blood starts to a couple hours before I do. Part of it though at this point in my training is just the pressure you're wanting to make sure I do the job right. And I remember everything I learned in the academy and I handled all the calls right. So there's I think a certain amount of pressure from that. As far as the pressure coming up from being concerned about what's going to happen or thinking about danger or something like that, I'm not sure. I don't know if I've sensed that at this point. If you've mentioned before when you put on your gun, there's a different feeling there. Right. Yeah, when I put the gun on, there's there's a feeling of this sense that I've got a tremendous amount of authority, a tremendous amount of power. And then I better use it right that there's a lot of responsibility. You know, I put the gun in the holster. There's a realization that why better know what I'm doing and I better be thinking and I better be alert.

Because whereas in a lot of other jobs, I could make a mistake and fix the mistake very easily. And in this job, if I make a mistake with deadly force, you can't fix that kind of mistake. So I think I'm more concerned with what I might do than with what someone might do to me at this point. That might be what my concern is. So... Wait, what about... Let's... Okay. Oh, come. There you go, yeah. Yeah. So this is the... This is the part of it. I think we... I chose one I have a question here. Okay. Before you put the... Wow, there's a lot of stuff on that. There is, yeah.

Can you run down what's there? Yeah. This is my tape recorder case, which we're to have on whenever we make a car stop or go into a domestic dispute. In time, we're really contacting the public where there's the possibility of any kind of problems. Really, which we'll have the tape recorder on. Of course, my holster, which is empty right now. Usually when I come home at night, I take the gun out and lock the gun away, separate the bullets and keep this empty. In my handcuff case, I found that... I started out with just one hand set of handcuffs and found that I needed to go to two. So I went and got another handcuff case, more handcuffs. Why is that? It's fine. Where I was stationed in the northeast, we were near the mall area. I did a lot of shoplifting arrests. And usually the arrests were in pairs. And you know, you just needed two sets for the pair. My flashlight holder, just a utility knife. My OC spray. This is my expandable

baton, also called an ass. And my two magazines for my lock, my handgun. And then my extra magazine right there. Now, the gun out. That's the last thing I put on. I think that's kind of a mental tool as well. You strap everything on and you put the gun on last. It kind of helps you realize, again, just the responsibility that comes with this job. So, usually it's so bulky. Yeah, my wife kind of helps me strap it on. You know, too, as far as thinking about the danger and things like that, the stress level there. I think my stress level stays pretty low in part because of just my religious beliefs and convictions. You know, I think we had taught before. I strongly believe that

God's in control. And I really feel, again, not fatalistic, but that my life's in his hands. And I kind of tend not to worry about things I can't worry about or can't change anyway. Just do what I'm responsible to and leave the rest in his hands. So, that takes a lot of stress for me. So, I grab my gun. Let me ask you, oh, we're going to have to grab the gun. I put my keepers on and ready to

go. And my wife and Nancy really got me through the academy and continues to do so through this, you know. Nancy, let me ask you a question. The academy was very rigorous. We saw a lot of people, you know, younger than Mark, you know, no slight intended. A lot of people, younger than Mark, didn't make it help. And like, we were there and we saw the blood sweat in tears. And let me ask you about the home front blood sweat in tears. Well, we had to sacrifice a lot of his time. We went into it, realizing that he was going to take a lot of time and helping him to get through it. He came home and most of his time was spent studying and doing notes. And

I helped him get his uniform ready. And the kids really missed seeing him, a real close family. And yet we had the goal in mind of him wanting to do this job and just helping him to get through it. And right now we're just very proud of him and glad that he's made it through this point. And a lot of family and friends have helped us along the way as well and just have prayed him through this. And just thank God for that. Mark, was there ever a point you thought you would not make it through the academy? There were a couple of days that stand out my mind where I really wondered if it was worth it. I don't think I ever felt like I couldn't make it. I felt like I could make it. The one day was the first day. I remember coming home very tired, just exhausted. And I had about 10 pages of notes I had to rewrite.

And as I sat in the back room listening to the family, we got home and had dinner. And immediately after dinner I started doing the notes. It was about 11 o 'clock at night. I could hear the family, I could hear everybody getting ready to go into bed. This was the summer, so the kids were up later. And I still was writing notes. I thought, man, I'm going to write notes to the one o 'clock in the morning. I still got uniform to get ready. And at that point I was sitting back there. I kind of wondered, is this really worth it? You know, I'm not going to see my family for the next 17 weeks. Now that concerned me. I was neat though I came out about midnight and there were my uniforms were all done. My wife had done my uniforms. So that was encouraging. And I thought, well, let's just give it a try and see if it gets better. And it did get better over time. There was one other day in the academy. There was a day in which it was particularly grueling physically. And... What day was that if you don't mind me? Let's go. We're going to run out of tape. Okay, I got the other tape on it over this time.

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