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it tells you the last 30 days, last 90 daresctiontion last year, or all-time tagers. tell tells you how many times they hit, who they hit, who they are. if you have that documented. one thing we stopped doing is putting in people we have identified into this program because we have had officers that -- this is accessible to all of our phoenix police officers. they get on it and they said, oh, ricardo sanchez is sewer and sewer is written right there. so, he did it. we cant do it that w...

things like that. theyve helped me a lot. they actually chased this kid down, got him arrested for the criminal damage on the firehouse, but for some unknown reason we didnt get a call out on it. when i get something like that, i know who he is. i put a file stop on him. for some reason they didnt call me so i didnt get to interview him that day. i had to find them again. once he was released from jail he he was back out tagging again. his tags started moving north and west of our vall...

its, like i said, the hotline program is similar to silent witness program i was telling you about. you remain anonymous. thats big for the kids, too. a lot of places that we use this hotline reward is in the schools because thats where youre going to get a lot of intel. once they see a little bit of this and they see a little bit of money going out, they become more and more -- people are ratting on everybody. we get them to rat on each other. weve even had taggers tell on other tagge...

>> i got that. >> you guys can see. his city is 45 minutes from phoenix and its out in like -- almost like a little area by itself. i used to live in maricopa. its a little town by itself way away from phoenix, 45 minutes outside the border of phoenix. >> [speaker not understood]. >> yeah. its out there. and youre like, this kid is traveling. so, you can see it tells you what cameras they take pictures with. this is the mic camera, what it was removed, what type of surface it was. it c...

member, smily. theres always going to be a smily, right? the great thing is when you do do it, it pulls up. if i pull up like merc, i see that merc tags with five different other people. so, how can i get hold of merc? start finding out what the other guys are doing. its a big, big thing for you to use. and this is how we put our big cases together. this is our hotline program and its, like i said, the hotline program is similar to silent witness program i was telling you about. you re...

hes facing up to 8 years right now for the burglary charges. so, its not just graffiti. b feet im telling you, please dont believe that. * what else did i want to tell you guys? theres something. just be careful with some of these guys, especially when you deal with them out on the street. theres a couple incidences where we caught people in the act, arrest them, get their hands behind them, sure as crap they have a gun right there. so, either they have guns or they have pellet guns th...

him, okay. after we arrested mod, broad him in, same thing. sat down and interviewed him for hours. and, man, they cry. you see that? once you start getting into their -- thing that helped me with mine and like i said, im not an expert, but if i can use -- if you can use something for me to help make your investigation successful, i dont start off with why did you do this, what did you do -- i start off nice and slow. tell me a little bit about yourself. its like an interview, okay. an...

you combat graffiti, by all means, lets do it. if you guys find something thats more successful than what ive shown you or you have something you want to share with me, i love it. knowledge is power, man, anything to take them down. well, i need the microphone. i feel like oprah. now you dont have to use it any more. >> i was just wondering if you had done your own [speaker not understood] the commission. but then youve been [speaker not understood]. >> no, i cant even do half the stuf...

pete aloe? well, i used to do drugs and i wanted to stop doing drug. my mom put me in rehab. the day he got out of rehab is the day he started tagging. thats how i found out how he got started. he said it was more and better than a drug. so, when i hear its an addiction, im 100% behind that because everybody ive ever interviewed has told me theyre addicted to it and they cant stop. >> [speaker not understood]. >> whats that? >> [speaker not understood]. >> yeah, the whole graffiti dive...

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