Michael Franzese

My next surrounded claim is that law enforcement often measures success by arrests and not by safer streets.

So I'm from Houston, Texas.

I'm big on, you know, DWI, DRE.

So most of the time I don't answer calls at all.

My work is driven off of stats, arrest.

So for you to make that kind of claim is very misleading and dangerous because most of the time I'm putting my life at risk to stop impaired drivers, drunk drivers.

So which means if I see somebody driving, you know, wrong way,

I'm probably gonna put myself in harm's way to stop that driver so that somebody doesn't get hit or killed.

So I don't believe in your claim.

Do you have any experience in that at all?

Well, again, my experience comes from a different place.

Being in the world of organized crime, growing up in that, being a subject of several arrests and investigations and watching others also.

In that world, there's no question that people

you know not safer streets that they're concerned about they're concerned about the arrest and and what it brings to them personally so would you say would you say making arrests with your own organized crime is different from me making arrests from DWI yeah so so what makes that difference if we're still making arrests on bad guys it's just different crimes

Well, again, it goes back to the totality of the situation.

You're not manufacturing a crime.

You're not targeting.

Let me tell you the difference with organized crime.

You just pointed it out.

You go after the lawbreaker because you're watching them violate the law, drunken driver or whatever.