Paul Alex
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Dude, that in itself, just doing that job, especially in that city, I had so much experience just on things that I saw.
Like the average crime rate was just insane.
You know, any other city in America would experience probably like three to five robberies in a week.
Oakland was getting like about 20 to 30 a day.
Holy shit.
Yeah, dude.
It was just insane.
And then everything that I did in that actual department, if you guys don't know, Oakland in general, back when I started in 2014 all the way to 2021, dude,
it was labeled America's most dangerous city for homicide.
And the only reason why it didn't climb up the ranks, even double or triple, because they have one of the best actual trauma hospitals, dude.
Like I'm talking about, they're like the Navy SEALs of doctors and nurses at Highland Hospital in Oakland.
Like they would take somebody that has like eight gunshot wounds, and I've been there many times,
where they would go ahead and they know exactly what to do compared to any trauma hospital that you would go take the exact same victim with the gunshot wounds and they'd be freaking out or they wouldn't know what to do.
Yeah, they'd be dead, dude.
And you only got seconds, right?
So at the end of the day, they're just like, just the level of experience and reps that they have, it's insane.
That's nuts.
I was dude.
But like, you know, I tell a lot of my friends, it's just like, it comes down to the point where like you get so used to it.
And because when you get so used to it, you know, you're able to go ahead and actually like, I guess just got accustomed to it, which is not normal.