Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Even in places like Texas and Florida, where they'll be the last to get on board, they still don't really enforce a lot of stuff because they just don't play, unless you're walking around with weight, obviously, but somebody like that. And interestingly, the way you describe the college kid is a lot of how these people
Whether they be gangbangers or just drug dealers in this poor neighborhood fall into the same situation because they'll say, hey, man, you know, I'm 19 years old. I'm just trying to make it. I need to get through this. But they can't afford a college. They're just trying to save up to do this. But what's readily available is crack and they can make even more. And it makes you wonder, well.
If crack were available in some of the ritzy more places, you could do weed and make a little bit. But if you decided you wanted to crack, also, like, there's 200 people around here that would totally buy it from you. Would you do that for, you know, risk the felony, knowing that there were plenty of people on your neighborhood blocks that would feed you that money? Yeah.
It makes it an interesting thing for an immature kid who just... It's a thought experiment, man.
That's so whack, though, too. He's really putting his entire future.
Even if you get out, you're still screwed. You can't go back and try it again. I mean, you're done. It's probably really hard to get a job as a tenured professor if you have a cocaine felony on your record. Even if it was 30 years ago. I mean, it's pretty amazing how punishing those felonies can be.
For me, I honestly just, what I've learned from the people who are really successful in real long-term undercover work, which is different than going to buy something and then make it a buy bust, are that you keep a personality type that is really close to your own.
And I think it was just proven of the fact that when I was trying to get in the narcotics unit and I was figuring out how to make these buys and figuring out how to convince people to do what it was, it was just all about leveraging my own personalities.
Instead of trying to memorize 50 different things and then when they start asking you these 20 questions, you're messing them up because you're trying to remember who you're supposed to be and all this kind of stuff. It makes it... worse.
In an exigent circumstance, I don't want to have to think of A through Z. Yeah, you want to be congruent under stress, right?
So I want to know that these things are high and tight and I just can worry about A through C and make some strategic choices at that point. And then, so I just give myself less to think about it because it's stressful, even in a successful deal or a successful day hangout, it's still stress.
And that's when it would even come into play, because what I found, before I got into it, I had everything set up. My backstory's kind of set, I've got these IDs, and I just kept thinking... I don't know when I'm going to use an ID. Anyway, these people ask to see my ID. I'm going to be like, are you freaking kidding me? You want to see my ID?
It's interesting because obviously all that stuff gets handled. And there's been scenarios where people have been shaken down and they're in a place where they can't leave and they've got to recite stuff, and it's just kind of the way you're stuck.
So it's necessary, but in general, if you're playing that game, a lot of these guys amongst themselves, I don't really know what this dude's full name is. I know he's this, and I've known him since first grade, but I really don't know his whole name. His name is Jackbox, but I don't know if his real name is John?
Yeah, it's amazing. So for them to start asking, that's another way that I got in a lot easier is when they start giving me the 20 questions, I would immediately just resort to, man, I don't mind answering a little bit, but we're not going here. I'm a professional and you obviously haven't done this enough to understand how this works. And it doesn't work by me giving you a bunch of information.
You don't ask me anything. If you want to do business, cool. If you don't want a business, also cool, because I got other places that I can go do business.
Yeah. It sounds like a really creative kind of way to just do something subtly to just bolster your own.
I know. I compare it to like jumping out of a plane with a parachute and you're not sure how to work it, but you just figure it out. Once you're out of the plane, you got to figure it out. Once I got into the case, a lot of those things that I ran into, I couldn't anticipate. But I knew that a lot of the typical things might happen. Somebody's going to brandish a gun.
Somebody's going to pull a gun on me or whatever, try to search me. They're going to ask to do dope.
All those things, I would run through as much of it as I could and try to figure out how can I manage to maneuver through those situations ahead of time so that, again, I don't get caught flat-footed and stutter over myself trying to think of what I'm supposed to say because I've thought through a lot of those scenarios.
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