[police radio chatter]
- All right, so I'm pulling this car over.
They got no tag lights.
Got another guy coming in.
Hey, what's going on, man?
- Hey, all right.
- You got your license on you?
- Yeah.
- Can I have it?
- I can't get to it right now, because it's where my gun is.
- It's where your gun is?
- Yup.
- OK.
- Um.
- All right, just hang on real quick.
So your license is in there, right?
- It's right in there.
And my gun is right in there, too.
- OK.
- Is it your wallet?
- Yes, in my wallet. - OK.
If you want to reach it open, just grab your wallet.
Don't grab the gun. - I ain't going in there.
- Why?
- I'm not going to go in there.
[laughter]
- All right.
- Sorry, my gun is in there.
I'm not going in there
- All right, do have your registration, proof insurance?
They're right in the glove box. - OK.
You can grab that. There's no gun in there, right?
- Nope.
- OK.
Can you take that?
Um, yeah, so it was in the--
in the glove box.
He doesn't want to reach for it, reach for his license,
because his signal zero's right there.
I told him you can get it, but he doesn't want to grab it.
- Hm.
- So what are you thinking?
- Do you want--
I-- I got him for no tag light. - K.
- I'm thinking maybe we'll pull him out real quick.
And then I'll grab his--
I'll go a sniff on the car, see what we get--
- OK.
- --and then, uh, go from there.
Here, come on.
Check.
[dog barking]
- Good boy.
[dog barking]
- Yeah.
So he alerted to the vehicle over on the passenger side.
- He's unhappy.
He's saying we're illegally searching his car.
- We're not illegally searching your car.
- He didn't want to listen.
- The dog alerted to the illegal odor of narcotics.
That's why I'm searching your car.
- OK, so you're-- OK.
- So that could be anyone that was
in the car that had the residue on them, residual odor.
- You don't have anybody in the car?
- No, nobody.
It's just-- just me driving my car.
- Just you driving you car?
- Never-- never had any person ever?
- Look, my car clean every week.
- OK.
- You find anything in there?
- No, I didn't find anything.
- Do you have-- huh?
- You're going to do a good search.
- What--
- Let's see if you find anything.
I told you--
- Yeah, I always do a thorough search.
- You know what?
At the end of the day, he's got the tool that
is the narcotic trained canine.
Yogi has gone to school for how long to-- to do what he can do?
Long time, right?
- Yeah.
- Just last night you were doing training with him.
Why would-- why would we have a tool not use it?
- That's fine.
Look, some tools you don't need to carry.
- So you don't-- you think that-- that people should
just be allowed to have drugs?
- No, if somebody have drug, lock them up.
- How are we going to be able to find the drugs
if we don't have the tools?
- Yup.
- You're telling us you can't carry them?
- Dogs nose is stronger than ours.
- Right?
- No, but, you know--
- He's smirking.
[laughter]
Because you know I am a point.
So listen, man.
At the end of the day, Deputy Pini, I can tell,
you doesn't like to take money out of people's pockets.
- But we don't know you personally, do we?
- I can tell you this right now.
I think--
- Why not?
We got to pull people over to do our job.
But listen, man.
At the end of the day, at this point,
man, I don't want to waste your time anymore.
I want you to have a good safe night, all right?
- Take care.
- Thank you for being cooperative at the end.
- No problem. - Thank you.
Thank you for letting me know there's a firearm in there.
- Hey, no problem. - I appreciate it.
- It's actually really big for us, man.
We really appreciate that.
- All right.
- We call it verbal judo.
You want to show the person respect
and try to explain to them, so they kind of understand
what-- what's going on.
And that's what we did there, explain to him why
we pulled him over, explain to him
why we use the tools we use.
And I think he finally came to an understanding.
We were able to kind of calm him down and you just--
you got to keep your composure.
You can't get upset.
I mean, people are going to upset being pulled over.
No one likes getting pulled over.
So always got and try to use that verbal judo.