Brother, your sister, your uncle, your cousin, your friend. Police say enforcement like this is used to discourage more serious crime. By shutting down petty crime, they will not comment on this particular case. Dont touch me. Things like this happen to us too often. Whenever i see the lights and sirens, i get worried. The officers are only supposed to arrest someone if they have evidence of a crime. A cell phone captures policing spinning out of cool. Garner is on the sidewalk struggling against an apparent chokehold. By the end of this video, hell be dead. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. This is the most horrible feeling that a mother feeling. I cant breathe i cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe these bright, bright lights. Its a part of the high visibility patrol. Like that expression, you dont want to meet somebody in a dark alley, you get rid of the dark allies, you get rid of meeting someone in the black allies. Thepolice p
policing continues. when you look at where the calls are coming from, 911 calls, emergencies, 311 calls for disorder, those calls come significantly out of the poorest, most distressed areas. and unfortunately those who have the least are impacted the most. i think that prevention is much better than letting something happen and then trying to find out what happened or why it happened. when people see that you re not afraid to walk up to them when something looks odd, they re more apprehensive about carrying weapons and things like that. our job is to stop people from doing the wrong thing. reporter: officer calhoun has been on both sides of policing. i was walking down the street and they said, sir, we need to talk to you for a second. they asked me some questions and they asked if i wouldn t mind being searched.
want us here. officer darrel calhoun was assigned here fresh from the academy. have you ever been afraid on the job? yes. there s times when you re alone. and you don t know what to do sometimes. you re out on the street in the middle of the night when all of the bad things can happen, when all of the bad things tend to happen. it s just natural to have some type of fear for you. a rookie cop was shot here just a month ago. so most dangerous hours, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods. why would you possibly want that job? it s about giving to the community. i want people to know that they re safe. af been talking to a handful of these young guys who feel like they get stopped over and over again and they re going back and forth to the gym or to
accused of racial profiling, nearly half the department is comprised of minorities. that s a special post. it s going to be in retaliation for a shooting. looking for a dark nissan sedan. we ll get you further information on that. reporter: officer calhoun and other new police officers are put on alert for suspects in a shooting. understand your assignment, all right? yes, sir. fall out. a typical night in bed-sty. if you fit a description, you fit a description. there s no way around that. we have to stop the bad guys. that s just how it is. me and my peers, we re out here all day, all night just trying to make sure everyone s safe. reporter: why did you want to become a cop? my father was a police officer, so i seen how it made him a stronger person. he was always trying to help people any way that he could. and i always wanted to be like that.