When I slept on the street for a few nights in Chicago, I'll never forget this: I was starving and I wasnt able to busk up any money that day and this old addict with a bum leg and a cataract over one eye asked me how my day went. After I told him it didnt go well and I was real hungry he said, "hol up, wait here a sec" and he came back about 5 minutes later with a backpack full of day old sandwiches and soup from a local shop. He gave me half of his food, despite my protest. He told me "We aint got no one else out here. We have to look out for each other" That changed my entire world that day.
Yep, for each annoying, agressive or ungrateful bum there's one with a golden heart and iron personality. They're just like everybody else. There's shitbags and beautiful people - it's just that these guys usually don't have their appearence speaking in their favor if they've been on the streets for too long.
Democrats are cunts Your logic makes no sense. Vehicular accidents would go up how? People who use illegal drugs can still get high and drive. Also people who take prescribed drugs can get affected to a point where they cause an accident. Drunk driving and texting while driving is statistically the higher cause of car accidents and/or vehicular homicide. You should stop getting your information and logic from social media.
? Who are the witnesses? What bonding are you talking about? Are you saying vice talking to these cops is cruel? Or that the cop manipulating the civies is cruel?
When I was in highschool I knew 2 idiots that got busted and wore wires on eachother at the same time . From what I recall someone telling me is the police laughed at them.
“I just made the lives of the vulnerable more unbearable.” Well people that are vulnerable are more likely to do drugs and various substance abuse issues to cope with their vulnerable life problems. Prison for some is more bearable than their current life problems so that isn't entirely true that he made the lives of the vulnerable more unbearable. Drugs are a cycle spiral. A temporary high that doesn't fix internal pain or traumas. When you get to the root causes of the pain and trauma are when a drug user can heal. The big issue is with the individual that needs to want to heal and want to have a life that is not only bearable, but enjoyable and able to pursue happiness. Taking personal responsibility is something that few drug users/dealers tend to do, but the ones that do come out of it have a marvelous understanding of the deepest darkest depths of our soul.
Even though he's a cop that most of the world hates, i gotta give it to him. The fact that he said he changed peoples lives and not for the better, i give him a lotta credit for that. Thats an honest answer
Vulnerable people do not act on morals, they act on instinct. They are in fight of flight mode, trying to survive. The reality is most crime could be solved if people simply had a secure source of food and shelter.
The irony is strong with this one. He acknowledges the war on drugs doesn't work. But still manipulated vulnerable people so he could betray them for personal gain. He even admitted to enjoying manipulating these kind of people. This man is a psychopath.
@Jason Prendergast imagine having *this* level of conviction based entirely on stereotype profiling of what *you* believe to be the *look* of a crack head. But yeah, I bet he had to hit it occasionally to legitimize himself
@Jason Prendergast but you just literally confirmed what I said? You’re projecting your experience of what you stereotype the “look” of a crackhead is. Ty for confirming
@Jason Prendergast I’m just going to leave this here. “Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing” Do better.
“he viewed me as his only friend in the world and then i broke that trust” bro that’s some heavy shit i wouldn’t be able to live wit myself no more after that
Commenting on the "enjoy the cruelty" comment....he mentioned that he enjoyed the work and was interested by the manipulation and lying as an intellectual exercise. I would say, addiction is a full time job where lying and manipulation take center stage. What I find interesting is that he enjoyed those aspects without the potential reward of getting high being the end result of those actions. The lying and manipulation will eventually begin to wane on the addict. If not while using, definitely after getting clean. In the throws of addiction the chaos is part of the high and the whole experience. The getting away with something aspect of it. This guy is not so unlike an addict in some regard. Similar actions for a different reward. Shooting dope without a needle. Sounds like it did begin to wane on him, however. It's people with backgrounds like this guy's who should be making drug policy...not politicians.
@@kodirome3859 If you have been selling heroin to someone that claims to be a user for months and they refuse to do heroin, then they obviously aren't a user. Offer a junkie 5 quid worth of heroin for free if they take it in front of you and the will ALL say "yes". That is how addiction works, lol.
I'm 8+ years Sober & Sane, it took 19x in jail before I was put into a drug program! They treated my addiction & MENTAL ILLNESS. It was brutal and took 2yrs to finally be stable enough to start living again, BUT everyone deserves treatment. Addicts are human, they're mothers, fathers, children, friends ect... I'm still in therapy today. My life matters. Addicts need psychological treatment also, we have to retrain our brains to think clearly before we can live sober! Jail does NOT help.
Yes unfortunately I've been in and out 19 times. Only 8 arrests with new charges. but I'd get bail and miss my court date, so I'd get picked up and sent back to jail, just to get bailed out again! So I've have tons of bench warrants that would keep sending me back. I'd be in jail for 24hours to 7months at a time. So not 19 long sentences, but 19x back and forth SMH
I have no idea how you came to that conclusion. The guy clearly has a huge conscience, and he said that his greatest strength was his empathy. He lied and manipulated people as part of his job, not for personal gain. A sociopath would lie instinctively and only to benefit themselves. Sociopaths are often described as hot-headed, this guy is the exact opposite of that. He wasn't impulsive, he didn't break rules, and he was very good at getting on with others. He made long term plans, something sociopaths struggle to do. He had a strong sense of self-preservation, again, not something that a sociopath would have. I literally cannot think of a worse job for a sociopath than an undercover police officer.
@@1815matt well, he did mention enjoying manipulating people and the intellectual exercise of maintaining a lie. this would at least be some machiavellian tendencies in place.
@@catalyzerr he basically used those people as rungs on his career ladder. I think this tells us all we need to know about law enforcement's view of vulnerable people. They see them as fair game, disposable currency, once they use drugs.
Technically, he preyed on the weak, to get access to the people hidden in the back, that were preying on a lot more weak people in a lot worse ways. Trying to get the people who are behind it, is not really "preying on the weak". He used them to do what he thought was for the better of everyone. They did it because it was better for themselves. There's enough to dislike about cops, but calling them more selfish than the drug-dealers that prey on people each day is a bit far away from reality.
@@liquidminds I've seen the devastation left behind after undercover police ops. Low level no bodies literally getting their lives ruined because they "helped out" an undercover pig. Listen to the latter half of this video - the cop even admits that all his work was fruitless. The war on drugs as it stands is not fit for purpose and it continually punishes the weak and vulnerable. The changes he proposes at the end are the same echoed by drug treatment services across the globe. Don't kid yourself about the current war on drugs" model. Top dogs remain untouched.
you can tell he regrets a lot and is very sorry for his actions, he was nearly crying talking about how he befriended a loner then betrayed him and made him go crazy
Absolutely agree with everything he has to say. Decriminalize, regulate, and focus on harm reduction rather than criminalization. People who's drug use controls their lives should be put into treatment rather than jail - it costs less to the tax payers, and it's more effective at reducing drug use. Portugal already has this model, and it reduced their nationwide addiction rates significantly And without an illegal market anymore, The drug cartels would crumble. It would reduce crime, reduce drug use, save lives, give back bodily autonomy to the people, and cost less taxes. There are no down sides.
Switzerland was the first country to try this approach. There was an incredible drug problem in the 90'. Nowadays you really have to go searching to find human relics of that time. Switzerland and Portugal have shown that it can be done. There is an effective and better way to handle this problem once and for all.
Democrats are cunts: Unless you're putting everyone of them in jail for life, continuing to jail them & not treat them makes absolutely no sense @ all. However, they know the majority of people feel the way you do. So they keep jailing them & releasing them because they know they will go right back to using. As long as they're using, the cycle will continue. They want the cycle to continue because the Gov. really don't want or can't afford for crime to go down much. They want to control it so they can play with people's minds when they reduce crime by the very small % they feel will make a difference in individual's minds like yours, but not enough to affect America's economy.. If you really take the time & do your research, you will come to understand how crime is America's cash cow.!! There are very few careers where crime hasn't had a hand in making sure that career continues to grow. If you cut crime too much, it will affect America's economy. Crime creates jobs, jobs generate taxes, taxes is revenue, revenue is distributed to elected officials. .!!
That’s movie stuff, read the DOJ guidelines on undercover work. Doing drugs or committing or allowing crime in your presence is a termination or could result in charges yourself.
UK police at least cannot use that tactic of entrapment. I always found it pretty crazy how US cops can go out and pose as dealers selling single deals to random strangers or pose as prostitutes and the evidence be admissible. Entrapment laws are a good thing in a society so the cops can't do things like that.
@@Stigstigster In the US, cases have been thrown out due to entrapment since the early 1900s. Undercover cops are used to go after suppliers, not buyers.
God how could he bear doing that to people. Absolutely destroying their lives like that person who was in suicide watch because he had lost his only friend. Imagine trying to build any sort of relationship after that
What I really liked.. is how he was so brutally honest about enjoying lying and manipulating people. It'd be easy to fake empathy there and say you did feel bad to show you have a heart. But he clearly did not. Honestly the dude might be a sociopath, seeing how he did so well with lying and manipulation and all. Found a career he could excel at. Just my take on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kevin Mathewson take it from me, it comes from a lack of shame and a sense of self righteousness. He doesn’t care if you judge. He didn’t even fully answer the question about remorse or feeling bad.
I agree that he is not ashamed. I don't think he is self-righteous. If he were, he would describe the people he put away in harsher terms. He portrays them in a sympathetic light.
Disá Rabberi Not fucking true at all. Did you not hear him talking about the guy who ended up on suicide watch, he understands it was because of his actions and is showing empathy. And you can’t conclusively judge this guys character on this short video that’s probably edited down to the most interesting things he had to say. It’s also noteworthy that most people get some enjoyment from lying and manipulating, most of the time it’s relatively harmless but this guy had to find a way to enjoy his difficult work and I’m not at all surprised that’s an area of his work he enjoyed, it’s both dangerous and exciting.
@@janelle009 Well, here's to hoping he is in fact a paid actor because I believe the implication he's implying is a possible revenge killing(even though the odds of it are low) should they see this, and they won't care if he's retired or not.
@@janelle009 Retired or not. A pissed off person, specially an ex con can literally find anyone if they are mad enough & try hard enough. Dude has balls to do this.
Same. Imagine befriending someone and trusting them with all your heart, only to find out later that they betrayed you (especially because they’re a cop and all that was fake) 😭
I can’t even say how much I appreciate a finally honest and open video, even if it’s a truth people are uncomfortable hearing. No one wants to say they enjoy manipulating people and breaking someone’s complete trust for fear of how others will react immediately in this cancel culture world, but it’s comforting to know that honesty and speaking the truth without being immediately criticized might not be dead after all.
I'm with you on that. He explained probably the thoughts and actions of a great number of policemen, and showed how poorly managed their relationship with drug crime really is just because he let go of trying to make it seem like he was right and truly just laid it out bare. There was no excuse for his actions, simply just him explaining his feelings and where he came to be and what he thinks now that it's all over. Although It's sad to hear about this and know so many others do exactly what he's done with little to no remorse.
This really seems like a guy who deserves an hour or more to tell his story and make his points. I saw that the video was over and thought "well shit . . . "
I've seen the generosity among vulnerable drug addicts, it's startling when you first see it if you've never been in those situations. I couldn't have done what he has, it's hideous, but I agree with him about legalising drugs and the racism.
He is so right about helping addicts reduce. Most addicts I've met would love to quit but can't see how they're going to get there especially if they've spent all their money, no longer have a place to live, have abused the trust of their family and friends, cant get help from anyone, only have other drug users as friends. People don't realize how physically hard it is to quit opiates. Withdrawal symptoms really change the way you think.
He knew he was manipulating criminals. Imagine you were undercover and had to manipulate people who had murdered a relative to find out about who did it, one step at a time. Little victories for justice.
Man, drugs have a hand and influence everywhere in our society. No borders or boundaries. It’s a temptation that you can either choose to avoid or not, but they’re always gonna be there.
I also did this for a couple years of my Police Career. Going back in uniform was absolutely painful, and little else interested me as much as playing the game of buying dope.
Easily to know who is a under cover cop. Watch there eye contact. Move around when your dealing and watch for someone following you or again eye contact. If you notice it. Stare right at that cop don't keep your eyes off of them. Non cop would walk away, undercover still stand there. Important to see body movement and eye contact. That why FBI agents aways wear sunglasses
Harm reduction is cheaper, more effective and doesn't ruin the lives of the people/families affected by crime and drugs. Lots of countries are now stepping in the right direction and legalizing marijuna.
I think most people dont know how easy it is to get all kinds of drugs. And control is everyrhing For example; I took 2 tabs of LSD ~200μg Problem was that the LSD wasnt evenly distributed I tripped harder than i wish i had; Could have been deadly with smth other like GHB, Heroin etc.
cant believe the total lack of remorse he showed for the guy who said he was his only friend.... I understand what that man was doing was illegal but it seems like he got there because of addiction and constant emotional manipulation. I hope he gets the help he needs in prison and can get out one day
I remember when a policeman visited our primary school and he said the same about selling controlled substances in say boots, and take the market from organised crime
This guy is a scumbag he took joy in ruining peoples lives and acknowledged the fact he made no difference at all, all his effort were in vain they were completely futile and in the process of his crusades he broke people so casually he took what little trust these vulnerable people Had left and Stomped it out just like a cigarette 🚬 or the one guy cammys (my bf’s name) spark for life, he completely and utterly crushed that guys spirit so badly he didn’t even wanna exist anymore he rather die then go on knowing his only friend in this world betrayed him
Only wish he could convince the us government to start implementing these ideas slowly. Like he said there will be no need to steal for or buy drugs. I’ve seen other countries implement these ideas and those addicts that used to live on the street and know functioning adults of society
I have so much respect for him, the part at the end where he admitted that his work had absolutely no impact on the drugs whatsoever, and in fact ruined so many lives, i wish cops in the States would have this ideoligy, and they wonder why people hate the fucking cops, we love firefighters but we despise the cops, why do you think that is?
I applaud this attitude, it's the truth. However it has no impact when it's said outside of a uniform. The ones still in uniform need to stand up to this and refuse to carry out immoral orders.
Dazanar Yep.. Those are the exact type of people who end up running for higher offices such as VP or president of the U.S. I read an article that said the people who have the same characteristics as a serial killers are the same people who run for office & typically succeed.
To pass the psych test to be a cop you basically have to be a criminal who hasn't been caught yet. They want them to have criminal minds to catch criminals. It's why police are so corrupt.
