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[English]

Due to the graphic nature of this

program, viewer discretion is

advised. Cops is filmed on location with

the men and women of law enforcement.

All suspects are innocent until proven

guilty in a court of law. It was a

lifelong dream of mine to be a police

officer. I at one time was involved in a

construction company. I worked

construction for probably 8 to 10 years

with my own company. and uh the

opportunity came up to be a police

officer. So, I jumped at the chance and

took it. I knew I'd never get another

chance to be one. So, I took the

opportunity, took the tests, and here I

am

today. Just got a call

for a stolen bike. There are apparently

two adults arguing over ownership of a

of a bike.

What's happening? I live here. You live

here? Yeah. I found this bike around the

corner today. The last four digits, my

social security number been engraved

into it. Okay. And I just showed it to

him. He agrees that it's my bike. He

says he had it and sold it for a year.

So your book. Do you have a receipt for

this bike or anything like that or did

you just engrave it yourself? No. No.

No, it's an older bike. I got it used,

but it was I got it used from a friend,

but I have my numbers on it. I showed

them here. 3646. That's the last four

digits of my social security number. If

I if I had known it was stolen, I

wouldn't, you know. How did you come to

get possession of this bicycle?

It was in the frame was in all I got was

the frame. How did you come to get

possession of this bicycle? The people

moved out from downstairs and was one of

the that was under all together. It was

just a frame and we rebuilt them or he

rebuilds them and that's why it's got

tires and everything else on it. Just

going to talk to him for a second. Hold

on here.

What do you want to do about this? Oh,

they're just going to leave the bike.

I don't really care about pressing

charges. Wouldn't do any good anyway.

But some they claim they claim that they

found it in the garage or in their

cellar, but it was stolen out of my

garage. I mean, I understand what he's

going through. All right. If it was me,

I'd How about the light? That was Oh,

yeah. The light. There was a light

headlight on it. Now, look at you. I

will press charges. You want to do it

that way? No, it's just It's a stolen

bike. You put stuff on it. You're going

to have to chalk it up to experience or

he's going to pursue it. Press charges.

Do you understand? Yeah, I do. Should

have never should have never done that.

You should have never invested any kind

of money into it. It's not yours to

begin with. It wasn't It wasn't

originally on that bike, but I

understand what he's saying.

Well, she's home.

The two gentlemen wanted to argue the

fact that it was theirs and that they

hadn't stolen it, but in fact, it was

receiving a stolen bicycle, which is a

misdemeanor in Massachusetts, but uh it

all worked out. Can I get

number received a call that there's an

overturned uh truck on the boulevard

going off there right now?

to the wall right

maybe to the system down on first street

until our guys get here they can close

it

right

awaybody Mikey

Let me up. Be careful.

I can't see yet, boy.

I can't see.

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left. There's blood up in here. I can't

see anyone yet.

I think he left. Hang on to this door,

Mike. It's going to shut on me.

Maybe on street until our guys get here.

They can close it. I don't see anybody.

Did they witness this?

taxi. He came

across by Hey Dave, he definitely took

off out of here. There's footprints

heading out the door. So, and they're

bloody. So, someone's going to be cut

pretty good.

Get down in front of the condos, guys.

I guess the the victims walked down to

the condos down here uh and called for

the help down there. Who is driving the

car?

Who's driving?

Who's driving? I don't know. Were you in

it?

You weren't in the van. No,

you weren't. Me? Yeah. No.

What? What happened to your head? Me?

Yeah. Nothing. Nothing happened. You

have blood all over your head and glass

in your forehead. I can see it from

here. No. You don't? No.

really.

Who's driving?

You. Who was driving? You?

You don't know? Was it you? No, I speak

English. Did you drive?

No. And it wasn't you? Yeah. Anyway, no.

You? Well, for those that speak English

and don't want to, I got an interpreter

coming. Okay. And if you don't

cooperate, guess what? Everyone's going

to jail. You have to know who was

driving the vehicle. Yes, sir. But I I

not drive, sir. Well, then you tell me

who. Sir, you you the police, Brian?

Yes, sir. I know drive, sir. I know

drive. Then who was? I don't know, sir.

You drive the van.

I with you. You were in the front seat.

Then tell me who. I don't know, sir. You

don't know who it was? I I said you

police, Brian. I don't know who the the

the I don't know. You don't know who was

driving the van? I don't know, sir. Then

why were you in a van with a guy that

you don't know? What guy? The guy that

was driving. I don't know, sir.

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You You come over here. No more talking

to him. No more

silence. Go over here. Stand over here.

We just want to find out who was driving

the truck.

jump right in the car. What's going to

happen now is everybody is going to go

down the police station. We still

looking to figure out who is the driver

of that motor vehicle. Everyone's got

their story pretty well together,

though. No one seems to want to to budge

off the story. No one seems to know what

the guy looked like except for the guy

we believe is driving it. So, uh we have

a little bit of work ahead of us.

I've been a uh police

officer 11 years. It's uh going on 12.

95% of that time has been here in East

Boston.

[Music]

Vic, how about a How about a cutlet sub

the way I like it, Vic? No mustard.

There you go. What do you mean no

mustard? Where's the mustard?

Is that punishment?

[Laughter]

You look at that. Look at that.

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talking7.

Um,

it's kind of weird. We just got a call

for a shoplifter. Um, the guy's

following him or chasing him down the

street. So, I think they spotted him up

here. All right. There he is over there.

All right.

21 sir and I I came in there and I

brought some and then I just came and I

brought that and you said you'd be on

the level with me and I said okay you

from Are you from Liberty? Yeah. Okay. I

just follow them all the way down there.

And you said I'll be on the level 21.

We're with them now. We're bordering uh

Decada right now. I won't come back in

there, man. But I did buy I did buy half

of this bag. All right. Do you have a

receipt? Do you have a receipt? No. No.

Okay. I told you I wouldn't come back. I

can determine what's mine by my tag on.

No, I did come in there and buy

something. No.

Tell me what's uh where I am.

Listen. Listen. Keep your dog. Just go

over there and put tie your dog to the

fence right now. Seriously, just do as

you're told right now and put the dog to

the fence.

This gentleman works down at Liberty

Plaza. It's a shopping area. He's

stating that this gentleman right here

ran out of his store with several items

as we on sighted at the call just came

over. Okay. No, it wasn't empty. I came

in I went in I bought So all that stuff

went in there on its own, right? No, I

paid I paid for some of this. So I don't

I don't have the receipt just there. I

got this egg.

Well, first it was the ribs. Now you're

telling me this. Your story changes

every 3 seconds here.

Without a receipt, my friend. You got

problems.

What did you just say to me? Right when

you said you was beating up on me,

right? You said you just give me what I

took. Okay. I gave it to you. What you

I don't think you realize how much stuff

you took.

Clark, put your hands on top of your

head in Tanka, please.

Figus pretty good money if one of you

guys lost. Yo, so what' you say you was

going to do? Listen, leave your hands on

your head, okay? One thing at a time

here. You know, I I you took cover.

What? What? Uh what looks like yours?

It's all mine. It's all yours. Every

single thing. Is there any cash

registers that can verify he came

walking in or paid for? I What happened

is I was going to break. I was walking.

I seen him enter the store the wrong

way. This bag, you know how bad? Yep. I

just got it here last night. The bag was

empty. Bag was empty. He had a slung on

his shoulder just like this. Okay. I I

suspected it. Well, come over here and

talk to me for now. All right. I'll talk

to you as always, man. You know, I I

told the guy, "Put your hands down." Did

he Did he go through with cash or this

is what I'm trying to say? He walked

right out. He walked right out.

Because if uh Will you speak to that

officer, please? I got a guy last night.

17 cans of formula. You got any planks

that walk around there? Okay. No.

Listen. Do you understand? Don't speak

to anybody. Get over there. Okay. No,

you can't. All right. Until I'm done

with it, you ain't going to get it back.

If you continue to go over there, you're

going to get locked up and thrown in the

back seat. Okay. Thank you. Stay right

there. Don't move. Don't talk to him.

All right. We're worried about this

right now. Well, maybe you should feel

like an idiot if you're shoplifting.

Okay. That's on you. That's not on us or

on him or on them. If I told him if I if

I would come in, you know, I won't come

in. So then you'd hit another store. No,

I know you. I'm not I'm not a um you

know what I mean? If I told if I told

you that, would that make any any

telling me you got a shoplift of us?

That I won't even, you know, come in

here and deal with a store no more. I

won't, you know, won't you know? Well,

let's see if you show up any paperwork.

Have you ever been arrested before? I

don't have any warrants on me. I just

came from court to pay a fine. Okay. The

last time, I mean, I won't come in no

more. I give you my word on that. You

know what I mean? I've been doing all I

want and it's not working. No, but I

words out in the street that I'm that

I'm easy. I'm No, not tell you man, man

for man. I won't, you know, I won't even

come in there anymore. You know,

right now we're in Paris Street where

the alleged shoplifter lives. We're

going to see if he can come up with some

type of form of identification so that

we know who he is and we'll go from

there. We're going to be going to the

third floor apartment. Third? Who do you

live with? Me and her. You and her.

Go ahead. Grab the dog, man. Grab the

dog.

I have uh like I said, I don't have any

um ID. ID. ID. ID. License. Drinking ID.

Liquor ID. I don't have any picture. I

don't have any pictures ID. All I have

is my license. All right. Clock. Do me a

favor. Right. Put some food down for the

dog cuz you're going to come with us.

Third,

he'll be down at District 7 422.

Well, I mean, we gave you a chance, man.

I told you he told who I was, man. You

know who I am now. I don't know who you

are. I still don't know who you are. You

guys are manager of the building, man.

You don't even know your last name. You

don't even know your last name.

75 years old. You seen Okay. Well, that

still doesn't help us. You just give me

back. You have to bring my dog back. act

like, "Well, if you show me some ID,

everything's cool." Did you show us an

ID? Well, he told me I didn't need no

picture ID. No, no, no. Told you

license, ID, anything. Yeah.

Unfortunately, he had no form of

identification. License, liquor ID,

nothing like that. So, we let the dog

run around the house and we're going to

take him to the station just for

shoplifting. Liberty Market's been

getting hit a lot down there and they

want to press some charges. So, that's

where we stand right now. Uh, Officer

Norton here is going to transport our

gentleman to District 7 where we'll go

through the book and procedures.

It figures though, Mikey, you know, the

guy's been arrested 63 times, five

aliases, but he's

innocent. I think most police officers

enjoy helping people a lot more than

they do arresting them. Helping people

get through situations, I should say, or

maybe finding solutions for small

problems. You just play, you wear many

hats. You play many roles in this job.

Vietnam. I I enjoy personally I enjoy

helping people.

You have a missing 5-year-old child. Not

really sure the details. We'll have to

go see the mother. See what she has to

say.

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Housing's off 374.

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school. She goes right there to a school

that is right here in Bethy's building.

The daughter does medication medication.

Maybe she she doesn't know where she

fall asleep inside the bathroom in the

gym room. She had What was the school

open

today? 3:00. It was open until

3:00 in the morning at 3:00. What is it?

A daycare school or what type of school?

Summer school. summer school housing.

Ma'am, I don't think she would have

fallen asleep in the school. Does she

have any friends around here

or somebody would have seen her? Has she

ever fallen asleep in school before?

You don't have any extra kids with you,

do you?

Yeah. Over here.

Where?

Right on the street. She's lit. up. She

She's right over here on Salem Street.

If you would you go stop up there and

I'll shoot right up. Housing to

housing. Come on. We think we know where

she is. Watch yourself. Okay. Just step

in. She might be at the swimming pool.

Did you check the swimming pool? Yes,

sir. Oh, let's go back and check again.

One of the boys said she might be over

there at the swimming pool. So, we'll go

over there and check. There's so many

kids that swim here in the city, you

know. Hundreds hundreds of kids over

here swimming every day. You might have

missed her.

Yeah. Let's go take a look. See if she's

here. Come on, Mom.

What happened? A boy pushed me in a

choke. A boy pushed you in the pool

and it's okay. It's all right.

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Okay, why don't we get your clothes? We

want to take you home. We have to get

some more information. You cannot do

this. You cannot just leave and go

swimming without telling your mommy.

Okay, listen. Look at that. Look at me,

please. I don't want you to get lost and

something bad happened to you. All

right, your mommy's coming to see you

and she gets nervous when you're not

around. She's afraid. And then everybody

everybody goes looking for you. And

guess what? You changed your clothes. We

don't even know what we're looking for.

Look at me, honey. I'm not mad at you.

You had on a pretty dress. Your mommy

dresses you real pretty. And then you

have on someone else's clothes to go

swimming. And we wouldn't even know what

to look for. Luckily, one of the boys

one of the boys knew you and knew knew

where you were. You don't do this again?

You sure? It was a real relief to to

find the child. Me, myself, as a police

officer, you kind of get emotionally uh

involved. It's just um 5 years old that

that's close to home if you have

children of your own. And um as you can

see, everything worked out pretty well.

Okay, we have a domestic

um victim's outside the house. I don't

know whether whether she's been

assaulted or

not. Trying to find her,

actually. Oh yeah.

I don't mark any of the doors down here.

This is beautiful.

Hey. Okay. Where did he hit you?

In the eye.

Okay. Why don't you grab this? You got

the car. So, she got grabbed.

My dad. Your dad. Where is he? He's in

the house. Why don't you put that

cigarette out, please? Put that

cigarette out. Okay. What happened with

your daughter? Huh? What happened with

your daughter? You slap your daughter in

the face. How come? He go around. He no

home.

No. Okay. So, you want to take this

home?

Okay. We We have to take your husband

with us. Can we have Can we have some

shirt and pants?

Your daughter's been assaulted. She has

a big swollen face. Did you see that?

Yes. What happened? He He slap her face.

Can't do that. I have to go to court

tomorrow. He can no hit. No hit. It

can't hit. Can't hit you. Can't hit her.

Can't hit him. Can't do that no more.

Michael. So, you need to put your hand

behind your back. Okay.

I'm being arrested

for domestic assault and battery. Okay.

I'll take it one more time. Michael,

stay right there. Just lean up here.

That's good right there.

You know you can't hit your daughter,

right? You can't hit her ever. Can't hit

nobody. Hit your daughter. I said no. Go

to school. No school every Well, it's

summer time. No school. Before school.

Before she wouldn't go to school. Then

you call the police at the door.

beyond the realm of correcting your

child. Uh when somebody's been slapped

hard enough to leave a mark, that's an

assault and battery. That's domestic

abuse. Um that takes the guesswork right

out of it.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
officer /ˈɒfɪsər/ B2	noun - a member of a police force; a person who holds a position of authority in an organization
suspect /səˈspɛkt/ B2	noun - a person believed to have committed a crime verb - to have doubts about someone’s honesty or motives
arrest /əˈrɛst/ B2	verb - to seize someone by legal authority and take them into custody noun - the act of detaining a person suspected of a crime
charge /tʃɑːrdʒ/ B2	noun - a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime verb - to formally accuse someone of a crime
evidence /ˈɛvɪdəns/ C1	noun - information or objects that help to prove something is true or false
identification /aɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ C1	noun - the act of proving who a person is, often by showing a document or card
license /ˈlaɪsns/ B1	noun - an official document permitting someone to do something, e.g., drive a car
court /kɔːrt/ B1	noun - a place where legal cases are heard and decided
victim /ˈvɪktɪm/ B2	noun - a person harmed by a crime, accident, or other event
stolen /ˈstoʊlən/ B1	adjective - taken without permission; having been taken illegally
bike /baɪk/ A1	noun - a two‑wheeled vehicle that is powered by pedalling
law /lɔː/ B1	noun - the system of rules that a country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members
domestic /dəˈmɛstɪk/ B2	adjective - relating to the home or family; also used for crimes occurring within a household
assault /əˈsɔːlt/ C1	noun - the act of physically attacking another person verb - to attack someone physically
battery /ˈbæt(ə)ri/ C1	noun - the crime of unlawfully striking another person; also a legal term for a physical assault
investigation /ɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən/ C1	noun - the systematic examination or inquiry into a matter, especially to uncover facts
testimony /ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni/ C1	noun - a formal written or spoken statement given as evidence in a court of law

Key Grammar Structures

• I was involved in a construction company.

  ➔ Passive voice – past simple

  ➔ The verb **"was involved"** shows a passive construction in the past.

• I took the tests, and here I am today.

  ➔ Simple past + present simple (existential "here I am")

  ➔ The verb **"took"** is simple past; **"am"** is present simple in the existential phrase "here I am".

• There are apparently two adults arguing over ownership of a bike.

  ➔ Present continuous (progressive) with adverb "apparently"

  ➔ The verb **"are arguing"** is in the present continuous, showing an ongoing action.

• If it was me, I'd press charges.

  ➔ Second conditional (past simple in if‑clause, would + base verb)

  ➔ The clause **"If it was me"** uses past simple to express an unreal present condition; **"I'd"** contracts **"I would"**.

• You should have never invested any kind of money into it.

  ➔ Modal verb + perfect infinitive (should have + past participle)

  ➔ The modal **"should have"** + past participle **"invested"** expresses a past regret or criticism.

• We don't know who was driving the van.

  ➔ Embedded question with past progressive (was driving)

  ➔ The phrase **"who was driving"** is an embedded question; the verb **"was driving"** is past progressive.

• If you don't cooperate, guess what? Everyone's going to jail.

  ➔ First conditional (present simple + will + infinitive)

  ➔ The clause **"If you don't cooperate"** uses present simple; the result clause **"Everyone's going to jail"** uses the future construction **"going to"**.

• He has been arrested 63 times.

  ➔ Present perfect passive

  ➔ The verb phrase **"has been arrested"** combines the present perfect auxiliary **"has"** with the passive form **"been arrested"**.

• I can't see anyone yet.

  ➔ Modal verb + negative form (can't) + present simple

  ➔ The modal **"can't"** (cannot) expresses inability, followed by the base verb **"see"** in present simple.