Sheriff Mark Lamb

I ended up spending like seven plus years there.

So you were at a PD?

Yep, I was at a PD.

And if you know about the reservations, it can be a little wild.

Gang activity was pretty prevalent on those.

And we did some really big stuff to shut it down.

I mean, when I got into the gang unit, they said, hey, your job is drive-by shootings.

And I was like, okay, well, let me put into perspective how bad of a problem we were having.

Mesa, Tempe, and Scottsdale combined for about a million people.

They had in from 2007 to 2010, they had 58 drive-by shootings in those three cities.

Our reservation has 5,000 people that live on it.

Million versus 5,000.

5,000 people, we had 200 drive-by shootings in the same time period.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

It was every night we were out cleaning up casings on the roadway, drive-by shootings.

And so they said, this is your responsibility.

So I started looking into all the cases, started looking at ballistics on the casings that we were finding.

And I started realizing, hey, man, like,

This is one gang that's the aggressor, and the other gang seemed to be responding.