man quit lying you son of a [ __ ] hey
michael is there somewhere i can leave
your stuff like you have a family member
yes i don't i ain't got no goddamn
family do you have a friend you want me
to leave your stuff with crackhead
friend i'm just asking no i'm gonna have
to take it to the property room okay
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today we're going to talk about michael
if you watch the video i released the
other day
you should already be familiar with
michael
michael was a long time homeless person
and unfortunately he was addicted to
crack cocaine
after struggling for years michael found
a way to get himself into multiple
programs
and was actually clean for a period of
22 months
but now
he's been how long have you been clean
it's 22 months it was it's june 6th of
2020. been here two years
completed all these programs
out east and now they've got a one for
some boxing out here so yeah
does it look good
fantastic
unfortunately due to limitations of
these programs and some of the ways
they're designed
once he completed the programs and was
sober for a long period of time
he found himself once again homeless and
once he was homeless
unfortunately he fell back into his old
ways
man i was talking to the other band and
this dude started talking [ __ ] to me
and you can let it go you would have if
you were sober
i am sober man they're not i smoke
crafting eight hours man what's up man
michael is an individual but his story
is not necessarily unique
michael's story is repeated hundreds of
times a day possibly even thousands
across our country
i'm showing these videos
to give the viewer
a little bit of insight
to see what these people go through
what they look like when they're sober
and
what effect these drugs have on them
with that being said
i hope you enjoy this video
i hope you learned something
and i'll talk to you soon
why are they still here i don't need
them well because they're going to have
their coordinator come out and document
that they had to run on you again
just like last year
you know how long i've been back here
six weeks
ready to go
your [ __ ] always [ __ ] me up
they have a history with you they don't
like you
because you're when you're acting like
this
it does matter we we respond to people
based on our history with them
right based on what we know
i deal with you the way you are i deal
with you the way you deserve it
did you get your life threatened by a
mexican almost get ran over every day
just now
you're [ __ ] lying where's he at
hxs they're long gone man
from the plate hxms 7837 comes back to a
cleaning company
comes back to a cleaning company well
it's a it's a great [ __ ] man or a
white man straight away right
okay you already brought it yeah
yeah radio did
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this [ __ ] live he said i threw
it
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bunch of runs on you too and you said
you're just gonna go right back over to
wedgwood smoke some more crack
that's what you've been doing that's why
you're acting crazy i didn't tell you
that
i know but i know these things
you didn't know that you didn't know it
down to bp that day
you weren't acting like this idea
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i'm talking to you you're throwing rocks
you're jumping on the street saying
people are threatening you trying to
break them dudes they did threaten me
yeah but what did you do to them they
were driving drunk dude i was talking to
their business that's not your business
i was talking to the other not your job
it's not your job to stop people from
driving around man i was talking to the
other band and this dude started talking
[ __ ] to me
and you can let it go you would have if
you were sober i am sober man
i smoke cracked in eight hours man
what's up man we gonna get him off the
street
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about this bus stop
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[ __ ] you joe you're not with franklin
what's your name don't worry about it
they all know
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my [ __ ] shirt is off because of
goddamn somebody
[ __ ] left antifreeze or something hey
i didn't tell you i think they'll flung
all over me
gotta put a different shirt
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yeah absolutely
man how could that have been i told them
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i know i'll tell you about a
conversation with social worker about
another one the other day it'll blow
your mind another one um not me
100.
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i'm having chest pains let's go back to
them
but i think what he's going to ask is
that you don't go back to the problem
that's fine
so all these guys he's a manager he's
going to say that all these guys have to
right over here at the manor
over here at the manor this [ __ ]
comes out threatening me all the time
[ __ ] man putting his hands on me two
weeks ago
so he just wants to make it
he's talking about a 27. he's a [ __ ]
he was threatening yeah
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you son of a [ __ ] hey michael is there
somewhere i can leave your stuff like
you have a family member
yes i don't i ain't got no goddamn
family do you have a friend you want me
to leave your stuff with crackhead
friend i'm just asking no i'm gonna have
to take it to the property room okay
tell me why i act supervision because
your [ __ ] are dumb as hell
no that's not what it is yeah it is
you're a [ __ ] crackhead man we used
to have good times michael we even took
you for donuts the one night oh you're
the one who was with his ass
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he was in a vacant house the other day
when a maintenance guy went to do work
he wouldn't come out we ended up having
to kick the door and go and get him
he's like uh
such a bee that he can't even speak
like he can barely get his name out and
stuff he gave me his social workers
phone number i called him the guy's like
yep that's aaron i can hear him in the
background go where is he supposed to be
he goes oh he doesn't do very well with
housing
i mean
he's got a warrant out of grove city
he's gonna keep getting out
and there's we don't have any control
over that
this is we just have to i guess maybe
amongst ourselves figure out a way to
yeah i don't know
i mean
even if our medic goes and takes the
third answer yeah have that getting out
of the neighborhood for a day no he
finds his way right back but
uh
i don't know i mean
if maybe if we keep arresting i mean
clearly he's
done damage to this but yeah this is
property damage they won't take him at
the jail on it
between five
no i understand you guys have very
different use of force yeah stuff than
we do yeah we're not trained so we know
how this stuff works you know um
but it sucks because i've even i had him
probated in the past too i'm the one
that got him off the street the first
time
and
even with the probate he was still out
like two weeks later doing the same [ __ ]
again like they put him in a group home
down abroad
he got kicked out of the group home then
he got put back out here
then he got himself clean he was clean
for like a year and a half
i talked to him two weeks ago and he was
so stoned sober
i even i was like offering him some food
because he was he's so reasonable he's
like dude you wanna go get a meal or
something he's like no i'm good he's
like i'm waiting on the bus and i mean
he was
couldn't have been nicer
and but then he just started hitting it
again and here he is
so
um
he may be bipolar according to what they
were saying yeah he's the jekyll high
type it's it's the crack is that it yeah
um
last time we had it we were
coordinating between you guys and our
mcr teams that i don't think mcr existed
back then but it was lieutenant if you
don't remember that name so he runs the
mcrs for us
and he's the one that coordinates with
the mental health side i'm sure he was
at the cit training
yeah
um
if you want to try to
have your leadership coordinate with him
yeah i know i know our guys are talking
amongst probably with your guys already
yeah i mean they they've already seen
that within the last month we've run on
him whatever yeah 10 times 15 times yep
no i know it
it's just that that next step is the one
that's
nearly impossible yeah it's like you
know we've taken away his rights
there needs to be a place
for these people yeah
there does so i don't know it sucks
because most of the people like him they
just go to sleep in a tent and
get high and they might take off their
clothes or something on the side of the
road they don't act out like him
i don't know if
i don't even know how to take that next
step um i'll shoot an email over
if you guys want to do the same
to try to document that kind of hey
we've had this many runs on him some so
far well i just looked at an email where
the other unit guys
okay are discussing what we can do maybe
it's in the works well i would just say
make sure it gets forwarded that's why
i'm saying let's make sure we get him
detained in here
we can figure something out maybe
they've already talked
to someone i don't know
i would be really surprised i'm going to
call my supervisor when i get back
and say hey
who's got him uh 9192. it's midwatch
yeah this is shift change for us so okay
they've got him um
but
all the information gets he's the guy
okay um and if there's something that
can be done
he'll because he's the one that works
directly with it used to be neck here
but now it's city public health they
left
what spark is that what i
multiple runs whether and it's got
usually to do with if they need social
workers yeah um
but ours is a lot of ems aspect of it
too like if they're medications
yeah just
home healthy that yeah this is
ours is more mental health they're
trying to restart the program in a
better way than it was um
but he's the coordinator of that he's
the supervisor so and he's i think he's
the only on the department if you want
to email him
i'm sure i'm sure i'll shoot him an
email probably tomorrow when i get in um
he doesn't i think he works monday
through friday anyway
but yeah he's really responsive
if he can come up with something he will
and i don't know if they can get the
court involved
but these things it's just they go away
for
two weeks they he'll get straight and
medicated and then they'll they just
release him or they'll put him in a
halfway house and he gets kicked a
halfway house yeah which isn't the
answer
that's the frustrating thing for me yeah
you got someone who's in a house a group
home for mental health
and he had an outburst where he
threatened to kill one of the roommates
instead of putting him in a higher tier
facility they just throw them out on the
street right which
is not what that's for right you know
it's like you literally have somebody
that can't be out here
so
i don't know we know how frustrating it
is
it's amply frustrating to us right and
it would be nice if like
when when we're screaming about patients
like this that
that people would actually listen
and it doesn't seem like because it
doesn't bother them that much yeah
they're behind the desk or whatever just
a number yes just another number yeah um
i know but if
we'll see what we can do yeah she's the
guy okay all right i will thank you yeah
thank you
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