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I'm sorry.
:40:06
Eldon Perry.
Here's a cop when you need one.
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This is to certify--
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Forget the formalities.
This is what I came for.
:40:15
Thanks a lot.
:40:24
Jack Van Meter asked me
to say a few words today...
:40:29
so I guess I'll say a few words.
:40:34
Law enforcement has taken
a lot of dings lately...
:40:37
and I'd like to congratulate...
:40:38
our four fellow officers
on their acquittal today.
:40:45
It's a hell of a job we got.
:40:46
A cop's the last person
a civilian wants to see...
:40:49
until some shitbag
shoves a gun in his face...
:40:51
and then we can't get there
fast enough, right?
:40:55
You know, law enforcement...
:40:57
it's been
my family's business...
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since Los Angeles
was a frontier township.
:41:03
I actually remember sitting
on my granddaddy's lap...
:41:06
Iistening to stories
about chasing horse thieves...
:41:09
and rustlers into
the Santa Monica mountains...
:41:11
and coming back with a bad guy
tied to his Appaloosa.
:41:14
And when my dad
got into the business...
:41:17
there was black and whites,
traffic signals.
:41:21
But the job hadn't changed.
:41:22
My dad preyed on the predators
that preyed on this city.
:41:27
There was never any doubt
what I was going to be.
:41:30
I was a Police Explorer
by the age of nine.
:41:33
I was a teenager when
the Watts Riots came around.
:41:39
Anyway, I can remember...
:41:40
going out with my dad
on the second night.
:41:43
There was this Woolworth's
that was burning.
:41:46
And I remember these looters
running in and out.
:41:50
Every time they'd run out...
:41:51
my dad would take
a potshot at them...
:41:53
with this deer rifle
he'd brought from home.
:41:56
Anyway, he gave it to me
and this looter ran out.
:41:58
I winged him in the arm
and he ran back inside.