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Ed Calderon

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The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

If you're not useful or if somebody finds out you're working for somebody that they're not a part of, you'll either get arrested or get killed by the rival group that you're working against or your career ends. So I got a lot of offers, a lot of them. I never took any of them. A lot of my friends and a lot of the people that I used to work with did.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

If you're not useful or if somebody finds out you're working for somebody that they're not a part of, you'll either get arrested or get killed by the rival group that you're working against or your career ends. So I got a lot of offers, a lot of them. I never took any of them. A lot of my friends and a lot of the people that I used to work with did.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

If you're not useful or if somebody finds out you're working for somebody that they're not a part of, you'll either get arrested or get killed by the rival group that you're working against or your career ends. So I got a lot of offers, a lot of them. I never took any of them. A lot of my friends and a lot of the people that I used to work with did.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

Or eventually we'll put it into a position where there was no choice. Plata or plomo, silver or lead. Colombian term, but it's popular in Mexico. Another code for it was one finger up and one finger down. What do you want? You want plata or plomo? You want to be on the ground or you want to stay up here in the world of the living? I wasn't greedy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

Or eventually we'll put it into a position where there was no choice. Plata or plomo, silver or lead. Colombian term, but it's popular in Mexico. Another code for it was one finger up and one finger down. What do you want? You want plata or plomo? You want to be on the ground or you want to stay up here in the world of the living? I wasn't greedy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

Or eventually we'll put it into a position where there was no choice. Plata or plomo, silver or lead. Colombian term, but it's popular in Mexico. Another code for it was one finger up and one finger down. What do you want? You want plata or plomo? You want to be on the ground or you want to stay up here in the world of the living? I wasn't greedy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

There's a lot of people that went into policing in Mexico that wanted to find a million dollars and bury it in a wall or something or just be on the payroll of somebody. I remember going to some of the meetings at the office and seeing some new Hummers outside and some of the guys owned. It was kind of scratching my head at it. A lot of us went through a certification process called CALEA.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

There's a lot of people that went into policing in Mexico that wanted to find a million dollars and bury it in a wall or something or just be on the payroll of somebody. I remember going to some of the meetings at the office and seeing some new Hummers outside and some of the guys owned. It was kind of scratching my head at it. A lot of us went through a certification process called CALEA.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

There's a lot of people that went into policing in Mexico that wanted to find a million dollars and bury it in a wall or something or just be on the payroll of somebody. I remember going to some of the meetings at the office and seeing some new Hummers outside and some of the guys owned. It was kind of scratching my head at it. A lot of us went through a certification process called CALEA.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

It's an American certification process. And with that, you know, a lot of confidence exams, polygraph testing, all this type of stuff, all of us went through it. A lot of people got kicked out or fired after they went through that process, which to us, to me, you know, I passed, so I stayed on. So I figured that all the people that had passed stayed on. They were on the up and up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

It's an American certification process. And with that, you know, a lot of confidence exams, polygraph testing, all this type of stuff, all of us went through it. A lot of people got kicked out or fired after they went through that process, which to us, to me, you know, I passed, so I stayed on. So I figured that all the people that had passed stayed on. They were on the up and up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

It's an American certification process. And with that, you know, a lot of confidence exams, polygraph testing, all this type of stuff, all of us went through it. A lot of people got kicked out or fired after they went through that process, which to us, to me, you know, I passed, so I stayed on. So I figured that all the people that had passed stayed on. They were on the up and up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

But people can be corrupted, like, from one day to another, right? So we were careful about everything, but I felt a bit better that everybody was going through it. Administration ends, another administration comes in, and a landmark case declares everybody that was fired based on the polygraph exam or the confidence exams as unconstitutional.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

But people can be corrupted, like, from one day to another, right? So we were careful about everything, but I felt a bit better that everybody was going through it. Administration ends, another administration comes in, and a landmark case declares everybody that was fired based on the polygraph exam or the confidence exams as unconstitutional.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

But people can be corrupted, like, from one day to another, right? So we were careful about everything, but I felt a bit better that everybody was going through it. Administration ends, another administration comes in, and a landmark case declares everybody that was fired based on the polygraph exam or the confidence exams as unconstitutional.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

And all of a sudden you have six years' worth of people that were kicked out of the job coming back into the job, their wages being paid forward, and you had people that were suspected of seeing a lower cartel participation in the office now back at the office. So it got really bad. And, you know, basically brought into the office all the work that I was doing ended.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

And all of a sudden you have six years' worth of people that were kicked out of the job coming back into the job, their wages being paid forward, and you had people that were suspected of seeing a lower cartel participation in the office now back at the office. So it got really bad. And, you know, basically brought into the office all the work that I was doing ended.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

And all of a sudden you have six years' worth of people that were kicked out of the job coming back into the job, their wages being paid forward, and you had people that were suspected of seeing a lower cartel participation in the office now back at the office. So it got really bad. And, you know, basically brought into the office all the work that I was doing ended.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

I got an offer to work for a single side of it, basically. They told us, hey, remember you're working here? Yeah. Well, we're going to work against these guys over here only. And we want you to come in. Okay, let me think about it. Basically, we want us to work against one side, which means you want us to work for this side.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

I got an offer to work for a single side of it, basically. They told us, hey, remember you're working here? Yeah. Well, we're going to work against these guys over here only. And we want you to come in. Okay, let me think about it. Basically, we want us to work against one side, which means you want us to work for this side.