This the last guy?
I love corrections.
I love being a part of what we like
to call the thin blue line.
Ever since I was a little kid, you know,
I'd always been fascinated with, you know,
the television show "Cops."
You know, I would watch it ritually.
It started to really, really capture my interest then,
and I just knew, you know--
I was like, wow, I need to--
I need to be a correctional officer.
This is what I really want to do.
I was recently attacked.
I sustained a partial tear to my left side of my chest.
Today is my first day back.
[buzzing]
Please.
Oh, you found a please?
What in my right mind made me think, oh, Ruben's coming back,
it'll be cool, put him in his cell, call it a day?
Let me talk to the lieutenant real quick.
Just calm down.
We'll get it squared away, OK?
So his main gripe was the Quran?
If there's nothing in there, go ahead and give it to him.
If he's got paper and envelopes in there, too,
go ahead and give him those.
We'll get you some paper and envelopes, so you can write.
I got my own paper.
I'm not a [bleep], OK?
I don't need you guys' special paper.
OK.
So here is your Quran book, OK?
And this is the one that he's allowing you to have, OK?
No, you're not.
Just take this stuff right here, and just relax.
OK.
What do I look like, your maid?
When an inmate starts threatening to harm themselves,
pretty much the only thing that comes to my mind
is please do it.
I would love to just gas you, and--
and stop the action.
I want my stuff.
All the stuff that I have should be permitted to me.
You can't have any more than that.
LOC, through here.
I have an inmate in W106 harming himself.
There's a laceration on his left arm.
MAN (ON RADIO): Stop that, action.
All right.
Let me have your arm.
What?
Surrender your arm.
OK, this my directive, OK?
Watch your head.
Watch your head. - Watch out.
Watch out for the [inaudible].
OK, go ahead.
Go to your stomach.
RUBEN DAVIS: I--
Just stand right here.
Just stand right there.
We got you.
Just right here.
Watch out for his arm.
Watch out for his cut.
OK.
OK, lots of blood.
These inmates are allowed to have one hour of rec every day.
No, you guys aren't.
OK?
OK.
You guys got caught fishing.
Yesterday.
Here's Joshua Urioste fishing.
Passing the contraband to another inmate.
Completely against the rules.
I take that as highly disrespectful.
That's insulting my intelligence.
That's insulting me in general.
Purto, you're just [bleep] acting up 'cause you're mad
because of yesterday.
I have the right to go to rec.
All right, turn around.
Turn around and back out.
They caught me with a shank.
They're doing 30 days in solitary.
The battle of wills between correctional officers
and inmates--
we're always going to win.
Myself and my other fellow officers
decided, hey, we should probably shake this pod down.
Oh, nice.
Got something else in here?
A razor.
Oh.
Pretty hefty write-ups.
Fishing line.
There it is.
They came out with a razor blade.
They came out with a stinger.
And they came out with fishing line.
So you're going to get the misconduct report,
and you're gonna face regression.
So you'll start [inaudible] all over again, on site detained.
Oh, all right.
Kick me some more.
So every time that this happens--
Quit pushing me, bro.
I'm not gonna do nothing, all right?
Quit pushing me.
I'm not talking to you.
Stop turning around.
All I get is one hour every day.
I take everybody to rec the same.
And he's trying to turn the focus onto me, when in reality
he was not in there due to anything
else other than the items that we found in his cell.
He just played the little turn the tables game,
and it's not going to work out.
So what we're going to have to you do now is check mail,
go through it.
What you're looking for is any gang activity.
Kites being sent out, coded--
coded kites, anything like that.
Yeah.
And as well as any narcotics or anything like that.
OK.
The main drug coming in right now is suboxone.
Suboxone is a strip.
It's very small.
It's just really hard to detect.
STIU is very fascinating.
I tap into the psychological part of your personality.
Once you open letters like this, you kind of focus
more on the pictures first.
And especially when there's heavy ink, or real dark ink.
See, I want to go over here.
It's just white.
Here we go.
Yeah.
See the little warning strips in there?
Looks like 10 strips in this one.
Did you find something?
Yeah, looks like we got a suboxone hit.
Now that you've found that, you
can further your investigation.
You have access to the phones and stuff like that.
This inmate's a member of the SNM.
See if you can actually hear him asking him who we can--
anybody that's on the streets who will send that in.
OK.
Cool?
All right, perfect.
It's a win.
It's a W.
Finding drugs in the cells of SNM
is important because the gang's power is fueled by drugs.
So you're not only collecting evidence on
how individuals have committed a crime,
but how they commit those crimes in furtherance
of a criminal enterprise.
But at this point, we're still trying to find something bigger
on the SNM, the next big piece of evidence that sharpens
that knife that's ultimately going
to cut that snake's head off.
So here's what we got today.
We're transporting the leaders of the SNM to the FBI office
in Albuquerque for indictment.
Finally gonna RICO these guys.
These SNM members are extremely dangerous.
There were quite a few threats made
to a lot of state officials within the department.
We're going to be working hand-in-hand with STIU.
We'll get down with our team leaders,
and we'll get this thing going. - Copy that.
Cooperation that we are executing this morning
is infiltrating a level six facility
where the SNM gang members are housed, members with pull.
Officer Purto, he is the type of officer we
look at to be part of the team.
When I see him, I see potential.
For me, realizing the magnitude of this operation
kind of hit home.
It is a big privilege to be part of taking down
the most important gang in the New Mexico prison system
that there is.
Our final stages of this takedown comes with risk.
As that noose begins to tighten, the reality is desperate people
begin to do desperate things.
This could be a very dangerous operation.
These guys are some of the most violent offenders that we have.
GREG MARCANTEL: We can't underestimate the influence
and threat that comes with SNM.
Why you guys still right here, man?
[inaudible]
Going down.
That's why the element of shock
is going to be critical in this takedown.
Open one.
Turn around and be restrained.
So should inmates know that we're coming for a takedown,
everything from hiding evidence to actually presenting
a greater threat to the staff they would be dealing
with would be more likely.
Let me get some bellies.
[shouting]
[bleep]
Are we taking [bleep] to the gym or to intake?
Copy that.
GREG MARCANTEL: We are in our final stages of this takedown,
so it's critical that we keep an eye on the leadership,
just like we do in an active combat theater.
It's important that we marginalize
the negative influence of the leaders on the foot soldiers
themselves.
What was the outcome?
What?
What it do?
We killed it.
This operation has been a huge success.
Aaron did well.
No matter what task he's put on, he gets it done.
I was very impressed with him.
After executing this operation today,
it reminded me why I do what I do.
Today was absolutely a success.
We came home with a win.
And we were able to do it the correct way.
Hell yeah, dude.
I love my brothers and my sisters.
We all went home safe, being a part of history.
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