Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer
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How do you cope? So we just got in a, you know, Mexican standoff with them. And I was covered in blood. My clothing was covered in blood. Why do you think there were no shots fired? We were being hunted. Well, the older guy said, the body's a gift. Kind of being recruited by the cartel. That's when I realized that there's no winning here. Not like this. I resigned that day. She said, there's no such thing as going back home, man. Either you change on your way back to home, or the home you left changes when you're gone, and you don't recognize it when you come back.
How long into your career, into your law enforcement career in Tijuana did it take for it to become real? Where you're like, this isn't a fucking game.
As soon as I got out, probably the second day on the job, we were kind of spread out in Baja State. And I got to see... It was immediately the no fucks given by the cartels. So I remember me and probably eight other guys moving through downtown Tijuana in full kit, driving around in some marked vehicles, and getting the order to stop from the lead car that was in front of us. And we parked aside, and everybody... ran out of the cars and adopted defensive positions. And a convoy of probably, I'd say probably somewhere around 15 vehicles just passed right next to us. All of them, a few of them armored. All of them with AK-47s. Some of them had federal police uniforms. Some of them had army uniforms. We didn't know who they were.
We were getting calls from the 911 service they have down there from the municipal police that they were municipal cops, but they clearly weren't municipal cops. So we just got in a Mexican standoff with them. Nobody shot around, but they just passed by us. We called for support from the local police and nobody showed up. How many of you guys were there? Probably nine. Nine? What's that, two cars? That's two cars, yeah.
And they had 15 fucking vehicles.
Yeah, so that's when I realized that there's no winning here. Not like this. Fuck, man. There's no winning, not like this.
Why do you think there were no shots fired?
They didn't feel threatened by us. They didn't have any fear. So they just passed by and they actually went to a local little restaurant there and adapted positions around it, had dinner, and then went back to their cars and left. No support came on our end. So it's one of those, that's when you realize how fucked you are and how no support and how there's just no backing there. This was before the Felipe Calderon administration. slowly but surely things change. We started getting more support, started getting more vehicles, more people coming in. We started working directly with the military and directly with some federal operational police forces. Eventually getting fear put into the opponent, the enemy, the cartel guys. It took some time.
At the start of it, it was just hopeless. Just hopeless.
Yeah.
Going through the motions, I think it took about... Year into it that a few of my friends were killed they used to they used to rent out hotels for us to stay in and We had this buddy system going on So if you wanted to go outside you have to have one of your one of the buddy system, right? But you would have to inform that you were going out They didn't inform they went to the store thought it was easy. So they cross the street went to this convenience store and they got picked up by Some cartel guys dressed as federal agents. They had the blue uniforms and everything with the patches, everything, like down to every detail. And they were, you know, they were taken.
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