Sergeant James Booker
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Sergeant James Booker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You cannot misspell words because these documents are going to court. These documents are going, people are going to read these. And I always just say, when you put your name on something, You want that document to reflect who you are. So when people see me, they say, man, Sergeant Booker, man, that guy's squared away. You know why? Because his reports reflect that.
He took the time to write it right. He took the time to make sure the words he used were spelled right. You know, that's important, especially from a legal standpoint. But you want people to identify with you saying, hey, he takes pride in his job. He goes beyond what needs to be done when most people cut it short. You go beyond that. Read your policies. Know your policies.
Know how to lead men and women because it's important. Most people, they don't know how to lead men and women. The first thing they want to say is, hey, it's my way or no way. No, that ain't how it go. I'm going to show you what's wrong. I'm going to tell you how to fix it. And together, we both learned from it, and we're going to be better for it.
But if I don't give you the right direction, guess what? We all lose. And then when you leave me and go to someone else, know what they're going to say? Hey, man, Sergeant Booker had this guy for a whole year. Man, this guy can't write. He don't know how to do reports. He don't know who to call. That's important. That's a reflection of who I am.
I can't let that be a reflection on me that's negative. I can't do that. Yes, sir. I can't do that.
Absolutely. Yes.
Well, the thing is, I don't really know what all led to Raymond's accusations. But I tell you this, because all that's in a whole separate department where they do the internal affairs investigations and then they bring charges or whatever they do. So, you really don't know what's going on until it happens.
So it's not like you hear anything because it's all in a separate building and it's all internal with inside of that organization. So when the situation happened with Raymond, like myself and many of us, totally shocked because I know his character. I know the man, I know the person. And Raymond became, he became a friend just as well as a co-worker and someone I supervised.
Because like I told you earlier, I saw a lot in Raymond. Because women is the type of person, and anybody who knows Raymond and will speak the truth on Raymond, if they know him personally, they know Raymond to get you the shirt off his back. That's the type of person Raymond is. Raymond has a big heart. Raymond is a God-fearing man.
A lot of people don't even know that, that the man is very spiritually bound. He is. And when he went through that situation, it was, like I say, alarm bells went off. Because I'm like, no, that ain't my guy. You know? And it was like, no, that's not him. That's not him. You know? And so it was quite shocking, you know, when it came down. But no, no one, like I said, I didn't hear any whispers.
Like I say, 99% of investigations like that, they're going, no one knows anything. You don't know anything.
I tell you, my wife and I, we, um, when Raymond had, when Raymond had came home, um, And got an opportunity to sit down with his wife and his kids and everything. And actually, the man was destitute. I mean, you know, there's two years that he was away. And I guess whatever legal expenses that he had, it's chewed up whatever finances that they may have had.
And obviously, with that being said, you know, that puts you in a financial bind with credit cards and everything else. And the man pretty much was destitute. So my wife and I, we said, listen, let's do what we can do to help them. So we were able financially to bless them and try to help them somewhat from where we could do to help them as a family.
Because I could only imagine, I know if I was going through something like that, someone who knows me as an employee first, someone who will supervise me secondly, and someone that I call a friend would be there for me. Because as we know, most times when it's time for someone to help you row that boat, they ain't there. You're riding in the boat as long as the motor running.
If you got to get out and row, I don't know if I can help you. Or I'm afraid to deal with you because I don't want something blowing back on me like you asked me earlier. Well, I know I'm an upstanding guy and I know I've always did everything to the best of my ability with the Sheriff's Department. And I don't see where it's a conflict for me having a friend. This is a friend. This is not me.
This is not someone that I don't know. And let's be clear. He went to court. He was exonerated. So why wouldn't I have a friend? Why wouldn't I help his family if I can? Why wouldn't all of his friends help him? Because he helped so many. See, that's the thing.
You know, if people would, like, totally be honest, and this is why, like, I always tell Raymond, I don't associate myself with only a few people. And I learned this in life. I learned this in life. And I always say if I took my jacket off and you could see my back, you'd see knives, lies, spoons, forks, bricks, shovels, trucks, you name it. It's all been in my back.
So I've learned, and like I share with Raymond, learn to separate yourself and only feel yourself with people who can feel you. You can't give yourself to the world because the world don't appreciate you. If you're a person that's always giving, a person know a giver, they'll use you up. Don't take advantage of that. So you got to protect yourself by saying, you know what?
I'm only going to be around people. I know if I pick up the phone and I call you and if I need $1,000, there's no question why I need it. I know the money coming. I know it's coming. And there's no question. And there's no question, hey, when you going to pay me back? No, you get it back to me when you need to.
So, I mean, that's the world that I try to let Raymond share in the fact that look at my life. You see why I don't deal with a lot of people. And I did that on purpose to get you in a place with your story that you're dealing with and what you're going through. Everybody don't need to be a part of your journey because everybody don't know what you're going through.
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