We were tasked to go out to the Pier in Saint Petersburg to ask the following questions: “What is their overall view of law enforcement with the community?” “What interactions have you had with law enforcement?” And then, “What could we do better?” It's important to speak to the people that you're policing over and just sort of trying to find that relation so that we have a rapport where they can feel comfortable coming and speaking to us and asking us for help. They should definitely always feel safe when they're dealing with us. So I think it's important to get out there and just deal with the people. The last segment we were on, we went over interviewing and report writing. We did a couple scenarios. We do have a mock apartment that we get to utilize, which is a lot of fun. Better than being in the classroom trying to pretend you're, you know, at a bar or in an apartment. There's a couple bedrooms, a sofa, a kitchen. I mean, we even had props and wigs. So it was definitely a way to bring what we were learning in the textbook to life and actually just, you know, practice it, make it applicable. After the scene was over, our instructor came back and kind of told us, next time, you know, make sure officer safety is in mind. Can you see your partner? Can you see both of your partners at all time? I take notes, but keeping track of exactly what time that everything happened was good when we went back and wrote the report. So I can say, okay, chronologically, I arrived at this time. I talked to these three people for this like block of time. And then at 10:35, I took this guy into custody. This is something when you're reacting to a scene that was really important. You never know how long a case might last. So if they call you in 2, 3 years while this is still in court, you're not going to remember every call you have because you're dealing with hundreds every month. It's important to write everything that you might see or observe. And when you're called into a courtroom, because we most likely all will be, it's important to have detailed notes that you can read later and sort of remind yourself every little detail of what occurred. house? And that bottle down there. And he just comes in. I'm in my house. Like, did you call the cops? I I've seen her in the past. Do it. Yes I Get your one interview. Stick together please. And when you guys are done as. don't get tucked away and of be mindful of like everyone around you where their hands are. It's a really good learning experience. we can do only do so much from our desks and our seats. But once you get into live role you see like okay, how do how do the concepts apply to real world? How can we implement all of the things that we're learning? was really helpful. while we were going through this scenario, our coach would sometimes kind of pause the scenario in a way and just ask for clarification or asked us like, hey, you need to make sure that when you're in the middle of this and you've got five different people all talking to you at once, you guys split up in Concord because the, the, the recruits that were also the ones arriving to the scenario, had partners. So, you know, it was kind of a divide and conquer. So being able to, you know, pull different victims and witnesses aside and ask certain, you know, information. Find out their names, how they're related to, you know, everybody their what the relation is, what what they saw happen and keep tabs of all their personal information, the facts that they gave you, the key points and also kind of the time log alongside with that as best as we could. And then also kind of along with keeping them separated and trying to de-escalate the situation. We also would touch base and try to speak with the other, you know, officer that was interviewing a different party and kind of share notes and kind of try to put the whole story together so we can best decipher who needed to be arrested. Was there any action to be taken, or is it just that you guys just need, you know, say your biased part ways and get out of here? very friendly touristy place. So I figured it was going to be very good. You know, they're probably going to meet a lot of, you know, people from all walks of life down there. So overall, I thought it was going to be great. And obviously it had been, you know, good to interact with the locals there that, you know, you know, convenient throughout that area. We talked about what kind of responses you got, what all did you gather from this experience? What did you learn from going out there and talking to you? I would say I learned from going out there, talking And law enforcement. We have to speak to people of all different Somebody I wanted to talk to was basically somebody would be a little harder to approach. I want to try and get, you know, each side of the story. Obviously, you know, people who are doing well that are, you know, not really struggling too much. But I also like to understand the other side of the story and see how you know, other people in the community are feeling. And, kind of helps learn, each side of the spectrum