South Bureau Homicide Page #2

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three respective divisions,

is down about 19% in

murders, so that's real good.

Last year was a good year,

this year it looks like

they might even be better.

You don't even

have a clue who I am.

You don't know my child.

But you're willing

to take a chance

to find out who killed him.

Doug.

Hey, I just want to think

about yesterday to meet with

that family in southwest,

that was really nice.

That lady drove all

the way down to Vegas,

that murder occurred

17 years ago,

and we met with her yesterday,

she just wanted to thank them,

even though the case

isn't even solved,

just for the diligence since

they've worked on the case.

That says a lot.

The attributes that are

best to have as a homicide

investigator is the

passion for the job,

and the passion for the people.

The knowledge will come

about crime scene management,

about crime scene investigation,

interrogation law,

writing search warrants,

all those things can be taught.

What can't be taught is

the passion for the job,

and the love of the people

and the love of the job

and why you're doing it.

How you doin'?

- What you doin' Bull?

Actually you said you

was on my son's case.

- How you all doin' today?

Hey,

how you doin'?

- Come here.

- Hey sister, how are you?

He worked on, when my

son, my son was killed.

Murder, ya'll

helped me, 'member?

Yes, of course.

- Today his birthday.

Yeah, I saw that.

Yeah.

How ya doin'?

So when I look at selecting

people for homicide,

I'm looking at

what's at their core,

what's motivating them.

They're just passin' through

here tryin' to check a box,

say, "Hey I worked homicide for

a couple years" and move on,

although that may work,

that's not the ideal

homicide investigator.

The ideal homicide investigator

is someone who looks at it

and knows it's a calling.

It's something

that they wanna do,

they're not doing it for any

reason or short period of time.

This is what is in their DNA.

Ya'll work so hard,

people don't know,

ya'll go home and ya'll

take this with ya'll.

Ya'll make it personal.

And I love ya'll for that.

Well thank you.

Ya'll work so hard, people

never tell ya'll thank you.

Oh, thank you.

- The victims, we the victims.

You're right.

- You know, the family.

I love ya'll.

Thank you.

Ya'll keep up

the good work here.

Okay sister,

we'll talk to ya.

In some aspects, being

a homicide detective here

is the same as it is

anywhere else in the country.

They interview witnesses,

they process evidence,

and they chase leads.

But,

the great success that

we've had in south LA,

in south bureau, has been

the fact that we're workin'

extraordinarily hard to

build relationships in this

community that are

influenced by gang violence.

All these gangs'll have a

hood day every once in awhile.

Which is like the day they,

lands on a certain day of

the month that coincides with

the number of the street

they're on, or whatever

the case may be.

And 40s had a hood day recently

and had a little party,

and drink and whatever.

And one guy ran through

a gun, they got that guy.

And then they had about

30 other guys jammed up

along this driveway over here,

this blue apartment,

blue home here.

Right down that driveway.

So everybody's compliant,

we had 'em lined up

all the way down the right

side of this driveway,

and they had three racks a ribs,

three or four big racks

a ribs on the grill.

So like I said, I

ain't sittin' around

their ribs are gonna burn,

so I ended up cookin',

I cooked their ribs for awhile.

Everybody running their

hands through warrants.

I took 'em off the grill.

They were bein' cooperative,

I couldn't see lettin'

their ribs burn for nothin'.

They offered me some.

I said, "Oh come on,

all you big guys,

"polish all these ribs

off in a half a second."

What's up guys, what're

you eatin' there?

Hot cheetos.

Where's the soda?

You don't need it, not

with those hot cheetos?

All right.

- All right man.

- All right, be good.

For awhile we were deployed

down here for quite a bit.

Then they moved us to 77th.

So usually we bounce between

southeast area and 77th.

Every once in awhile

they'll send us

to the harbor or southwest.

Shooting

just occurred Broadway

and 112th Street, Broadway

and 112th Street,

3525...

Let's go to that.

Hey Mo, you

want her gone, is it okay?

By the time we as homicide

detectives are called out

to a homicide scene,

we're already chasing.

We're at least an hour

to two hours behind

whoever perpetrated this crime.

The horrific part I

think comes and goes.

As a homicide detective, that's

not what I'm focusing on.

I'm not focusing on how

bloody or how horrible

this person was murdered.

It's who murdered this person.

Who did it, and when and

what information do I have.

I wanna start that chase now.

The horrific part or the

emotional part has more

I think to do with

connections with people.

Usually it's somebody

in that victim's family,

or who's close to the victim,

where there's some, there's

that empathy connection

that's made between a

detective and the case.

And that empathy connection,

as I would describe it,

is what drives that

detective to try to solve it.

Do we solve 'em all, no.

But that's what pushes

us, and our goal is to

solve them all so we can

give some kind of answers

to that family of what

occurred to their loved one.

The family members of

our victim, rightfully so

are staying at their relatives,

so that way they

could feel safe.

The one particular person

who may be able to convince

the witnesses and other

people to come forward,

not that they weren't

telling us the truth,

but if they were holding

back certain information

because of, they were fearful

over retaliation.

I can provide the

protection, the safety,

all right, I could

provide the closure.

Myra and I could

provide all that stuff.

Yeah.

But I can't and Myra can't,

we cannot help your family

unless you guys are

willing to help yourself.

I agree, and that's what

I've been tryin' to

implement in their mom,

she said she'll

talk to you guys,

it's just, I just wanna...

Wait, once this case breaks

open, we have to protect you.

Yeah, I agree.

Right now, we can't do much

because there's really no,

imminent, they call

it imminent threat.

In other words, he doesn't

know that we're talking,

they're not gonna know

that we're talking

until we start solving the case.

And then, once we solve,

but that's when I have to.

Hoovers,

we all know about Hoovers,

I lived with them all my life,

and I know they ain't no joke.

And that's one

gang I'm afraid of.

But at the same time, it's

like let's be realistic here,

are we doing this

for Oznay, or we not?

I will tell you right

now, I know the fear is

the retaliation of his friends.

What he did was, not for

the benefit of the gang...

No it wasn't.

- It was personal.

It was personal, so you think

the gang is gonna stick up

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