Mike Bauer

This pissed off old cop is Mike Bauer.

Okay, my name is Mike Bauer, retired captain, L.A.

Sheriff.

I retired in 2002.

My last assignment was Major Crimes Bureau, Detective Division, L.A.

Sheriff.

Bauer spent 33 years climbing the ranks of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

And he looks the part of a retired captain.

His white hair and mustache are neatly groomed, and his eyes are permanently fixed in a look that says, do not fuck up on my watch.

And he's pissed off because of something that happened to one of his guys on his squad back in the summer of 1998.

June 11th started off like a normal day in Los Angeles.

June gloom and bad traffic.

I got up early out of Long Beach and headed up the 605 and into East L.A., our office in East L.A.

Bauer was doing paperwork when a call came in to the front desk.

The receptionist answered.

Then she hung up and she comes down to get a cup of coffee across the hall.

And I said, hey, who was that?

It was John Adjaye.

John Ajay was a 38-year-old canine cop, and he was calling to inquire about an upcoming job assignment.

I said, well, I've been trying to get a hold of him.