Dope (2017) s01e04 Episode Script
Is It Dangerous? Absolutely It's Dangerous
Y'all niggas ain't no shit! MKT, bitch! - Stay with us! - Come on! Come on, please! The shooter is still at large.
My motherfuckin' brother is shot in the face.
This shit killing and robbing motherfuckers is an addiction.
These are each individual kilograms of cocaine.
This would run you 20 to $25,000 on the street.
But drug dealers can almost quadruple the value to upwards of $100,000, when they make it crack cocaine.
So you're upwards of a million dollars in that cardboard box.
That is what is driving the violence.
Memorial Day would be an increase in sales.
That presents an opportunity for rival drug dealers to target their competitors.
There's probably close to 600 handguns in this room here.
For every gun we get off the street, there's 100 more that we're still looking for.
This represents the violence that we're confronting on a daily basis.
And it represents the drug game because firearms and narcotics are one in the same.
It does scare me that the bad guys can get their hands on this, but to work the street and to move around the area with this in the back your mind, is counterproductive.
Somebody has to be in the middle.
We're tasked with that.
We took that oath.
We understand what we're getting ourselves into every day.
Is it dangerous? Absolutely.
I leave the house every day knowing I may not come home.
But the drug game doesn't take a holiday and we're doing everything we can to stay ahead of it.
There's one area of Chicago that's notorious for poverty, drugs and violence.
Where even the cops fear to tread.
It's known as the Westside.
The dealers here are already preparing for the Memorial Day rush.
That's good cocaine.
You see how itâs shiny, like fish scales.
When I see that, that makes me happy.
Slim runs a local drug gang.
I'm a boss.
My team is full of CEOs.
I answer to no one.
I'm not kicking it with the middle man or the low man, Iâm kicking it with niggas thatâs doing this shit.
I'm mixing it with baking soda, because it creates a chemical reaction and that's why it turns into crack.
I got this little pot right here, I'm not doing it no big Pyrex.
Put in a little water.
Then I'm gonna get it hot.
And we're gonna melt it down.
I want all the cocaine rocks to buzz down and it slowly mixes in with the baking soda.
The coldness of this popsicle is going to make this easy for me to whip, and we just going to stir until it cools down.
See how it's changing? They call that "lock up".
I'm gonna put this out.
It's going to be the best crack in Chicago.
That'll be $10 right there.
No doubt about it.
You're gonna get high off that.
Okay? When they hit that shit, man, it's euphoria.
The cleaner it is, the better it is, they come right back.
By the end of the night, depending on how much money they got and how thirsty they are, this can give me $1,000.
Weâre damn near more expensive than gold right now.
This is better than US currency! Once the crack is cooked up, the street dealers take over.
This is like 9 grams right here.
Costs like 500.
We're going to try to make 8 to 900 off of it.
JD and Low have just picked up more product.
I wouldnât say I was born into this, it just happened from the environment you live in.
We ain't grew up in Beverly Hills.
That's what we do.
You adapt to what's around you every day.
That's my nephew right here.
Heâs putting together a little 50 right here.
Everybody trying to get money and opportunity, Iâm sure you know.
I gotta bring food to the table somewhere, man.
You feel me? Thatâs the way I gotta get it out here.
Iâm trying to double up for Memorial Day, so Iâll get the money to get out the neighborhood and create better jobs, you know, legitimate jobs.
Both want to make enough money over Memorial weekend to get out of the game.
So we definitely need to make like 8 to 9 G.
You know what I mean? Then after that, we gonna be gone.
My homie just got killed a few days ago, we gotta bury him Saturday.
Itâs a death 2, 3 times a month now, you know what I mean? Itâs painful, that you're not even over the first death and another one happens, and itâs consistent.
I feel horrible when I go to the funerals, man.
People up I see in the caskets, some people Iâve been with all my life.
Itâll take a toll on you, man.
But we gotta let it go, but man, itâs hard to let that hurt go sometimes.
Itâs terrible outside, everybodyâs hurting everybody.
We live in it, every morning, itâs just a swamp, itâs a zoo.
Every day you come outside and you worry about, is this your last day coming home? But for the time being, Iâm hustling.
I appreciate you man.
We got 14 grams, man.
That shit's hitting hard.
CI yesterday gave us information, supposedly they deal in this alley here.
The main thing is, he did say the one guy did have a gun.
Joe and his team are preparing to bust two crack dealers.
When we decide to move, it's going to be all timing.
They do run, whatâs huge is for containment.
Itâs a box operation, you know how this goes.
We donât want a friendly fire scenario, okay? So if it is a flush, call it on the air.
Theyâre running west, or south.
Be deliberate with your directions, where theyâre running.
Call out those descriptions.
If you see a firearm like a couple of weeks ago, weapon displayed, box in the property.
- You guys good? - Yeah.
Let's saddle up.
This is the Westside of Chicago, Austin Harrison District.
Heavy gang activity, heavy drug activity.
A lot of open air drug markets, every walk of life.
Our informant has made several buys at this location.
The individual selling narcotics may be gang-related.
If we apprehend the subject, we talk to them and see who the next big fish is.
Whoâs a little bit higher than him.
And whoâs a little bit higher than them.
Try to get to where the true problem is, where they're getting their drugs.
We got people here, who donât have good jobs, donât have jobs at all, don't work.
And they could come out here and make 500, $1,000 a day or more.
So they choose the easy route.
Thereâs about one, two, three⦠Three gentlemen.
They are selling narcotics.
Yeah, we'll move in.
He's going westbound.
Westbound, westbound! Go, go, go! One went this way, one, that way, which one? Okay.
Weâll do Stand by, stand by.
Oh no, go.
Wait.
Where they go? - See them? - No.
Here! They're down there! They ran that way.
They're inside.
Here, scoot down.
You got it? Right there.
Going in.
Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back! Let's see.
I smell a little marijuana on you, so if youâve got it, - I suggest you give it to me.
- I ain't doin' no hustling.
I promise to God.
I rumble by, bro⦠I ainât doing no hustling, bro.
Guys, guys.
Enough.
Be quiet right now.
Youâre on video tape, be quiet, stop talking.
Not gonna tell you again.
Oneâs gonna go to jail for an active warrant.
He has an arrest warrant in another county for obstructing a peace officer.
Ainât the first time he ran from the police.
Relax, dude.
Right now weâre just doing a canvas looking for if they threw a firearm, we donât want no kids picking up the gun.
Today, we made 250.
If I could just make $500 today, Iâd be happy.
You just gotta be careful.
We take a risk coming outside every day.
Being out on these streets is very dangerous, man.
Every day you gotta watch out for the rival gangs trying to shoot.
They catch your ass out that late, they gonna fire your ass up.
When you got crack, weâre the ones that you need to be worried about.
GDs, thatâs us, man.
Know what Iâm saying? Gangster Disciples.
Most hated.
Every jail, every block, everybody scared of us.
The Gangster Disciples are the biggest street gang in Chicago.
With their original leaders dead or in prison, the gang is fragmented into small violent cliques.
Weâre a stick up crew, we donât give a fuck about selling drugs, weâre gonna let a nigga sell his drugs and rob him when he done.
And if we gotta kill to get it, thatâs whatâs gonna happen.
This is not a movie.
You canât shoot a gun like this.
Just like when you aim, it line up all the way to your shoulder, you canât miss, you got you a clean shot.
When I shoot, Iâm in a pure action mode.
Iâm in pure kill mode.
I ainât got no feelings, no remorse for none who get hit, none of that shit.
Theyâve been gathering intel on local dealers.
You gotta know how to stalk your prey.
You canât just run up on somebody in broad daylight and kill âem unless you want 100 years.
You gotta find out how he move, how much shit he got, where he be at.
You got one of these, you can do whatever you want.
Get whatever you want.
Whatever you desire.
Attracted by the lure of the streets, gangbangers on the Westside start young.
Iâve been in the streets since I was about 11.
 I was in Juvenile when I was in sixth grade.
Armed robbery.
I was brought up with good parents, I ainât gonna never lie and say I wasnât.
But when I got to these streets and I got that fast money, the love of that fast money, it draws you to this.
People wanna have fancy cars and a lot of bitches and drugs and money and flash guns.
Itâs adrenaline.
This street shit killing motherfuckers and robbing motherfuckers is an addiction.
I'm going to get over there.
Yeah, we're available.
Heading over there.
Going on the outside.
- Get over there.
- Ten-four.
Shootings, crashes, fires.
I cover everything.
Pauley Lapointe is cruising the Westside hoping to catch a story he can sell to local news.
I've got these different radios going providing different information, potential leads on a story.
I just have to wrangle it all in and make it work.
Like orchestrating a symphony.
Iâve been born and raised in the Chicago area my whole life.
I love the city.
 From a news perspective, as a news person, since Iâve been a child, Iâve always wanted to be a part of news, to tell the story of my community.
Whatever the story is.
I believe that thereâs a story to every shooting.
Some people will try to say, itâs no big deal, itâs just a gang banger.
And itâs not true.
Itâs a real human being, itâs a real life.
This part of the Westside, drugs are a multi-billion dollar business.
You better a car over there.
Any available in the area.
Another person shot.
A person shot.
He intercepts his first call.
This is going to be a gang-related.
And it's right in the heart of the Westside.
You have to be hyper aware when youâre at the scene, thereâs still bad guys running around with guns, who wanna shoot people.
They donât care about shooting you, me and the cops and everybody in-between.
And for your Saturday night, you have crime scene tape right next to a school.
That's how Chicago sets itself apart.
Doesnât matter where it is, or who it is, it just happens.
They emptied the entire gun out right over here.
So you can see all the markers.
See all those? Those are all markers.
Those are all markers for shell casings, spread from 30 feet, going on 30, 40 feet.
So itâs not just one little spot, these bullets went across this whole area, so the gunman came here and started to pop, pop, pop.
Four houses that potentially people could have been shot inside the home with a bullet flying into the house or hitting someone.
Two people were shot.
They were over here on the front lawn.
You can see how quickly this situation could change for the people that are just trying to live their life here.
They pulled over 8,000 weapons off the streets of Chicago last year.
They've already confiscated thousands of guns again this year.
But the bad guys seem to find a way to always get a gun in the city of Chicago.
A lot of fucking murders on the street.
Thatâs why dealers is buying guns.
I really donât deal with too many type of cheap guns, 'cause you know, people really donât want âem.
Some people talking about how they need something to protect their self.
They might get a little nine or something.
This is a little 13Â shot nine.
This could take a 30 round clip, and they sell for probably like 150.
And this one, this is a beautiful gun.
This is a Colt .
45.
This going for $1,000 easy.
Real easy.
This is one of the best three guns, this is a Glock 19.
This a custom top on it right here, itâs a sharp metal.
It's nice.
This going for probably like $1,000.
This is a Mac 90, fully auto.
Itâs like a new version of a Uzi gun.
This the unexpected.
You come in a house and take everybody out, nobody ainât gonna hear shit.
This one⦠I pay 1700 for this one.
Itâs like a pet.
You fall in love with your pet.
Thereâs a young boy from Indiana, man, he keep me right, all the latest and hottest shit.
G Money sources his guns from Indiana because the gun laws there are less strict.
He smuggles them across state lines into Illinois, eventually to Chicago where he can double or even triple his investment.
People want real guns that do real damage.
This the AK right here.
This an AK-47 right here.
This go for about 1500.
They really donât jam.
It keep going.
I got some more shit for you.
I just thought about it.
I got something that you like.
This right here, This This right here, this is the Tommy gun.
These have been around Chicago for years.
Thatâs the gun they used to hang off the side of old ass cars with.
Itâs beautiful.
This one right here going for probably about like 2500 on the street.
You ainât gonna find too many of these.
G Money's stash of guns could net him over $10,000 on the black market.
This going for about like 2500.
This the best fucking handgun you can get on the streets right now.
Fucking F&N.
This is the gun of all guns.
Outshoot all them fuckers with this.
Look at shells in there, these hollow tips, wood tips.
Fucking cop killers.
Given the nature and the environment that we're working in, we carry guns to protect ourselves, the gang members carry guns to protect themselves, themselves and their product.
Joe Scofield and his unit are patrolling Cicero Avenue on the cityâs Westside.
With Memorial Day approaching, theyâre on high alert for cars carrying firearms.
Weâre trying to put as many bad guys away as possible and get as many guns off the street as we can.
We kind of have a running saying in the unit: "Each gun recovered is a life saved.
" All right, so heâs got a cracked windshield.
He crossed two lanes, heâs seen us, we call that the guilty right, they wanna get out of our view as soon as possible.
Weâre gonna stop this car.
He might run.
Whatâs up, buddy, how you doing? Everything good tonight? You have a driverâs license and insurance? Joe smells marijuana.
All right, step out, Iâll explain in just a minute, okay? Weâll talk.
Cannabis.
You either just got done smoking or youâre still holding it.
Ain't nobody got hurt, no reason to make this worse than itâs gotta be.
You guys smoking earlier today? - I don't smoke.
- How about your buddy? I don't know, man.
So he got a bag of weed on him? All right.
Thatâs why youâre out the car.
Now weâre on the same page, right? Routine traffic stops allow the police to check for more serious offenses.
We approach every vehicle as if thereâs a firearm insidethe vehicle.
Weâll find firearms in the speaker compartment here.
This is loose.
Thereâs no other reason for that to be loose.
Marissa runs the passenger's ID and finds a warrant for his arrest.
Joe's unit is working over a wide area.
- How many people in this car? - Four.
Can you come talk to me out here? Keep your hands up.
Hey, cuff this guy.
Turn around.
They find an illegal firearm.
Turn around, Iâm gonna cuff you real fast.
Iâm gonna put two cuffs on you.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have a right to have an attorney present while youâre being questioned.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you before any questioning is conducted.
Do you understand these rights? You've been Mirandized.
Yes, sir.
That's one gun that won't be around for the holiday weekend.
We gotta do something about the guns coming in.
I have no clue how theyâre getting these guns in that easy.
Big Will is on his way to another shooting on the Westside.
They call it "Chiraq" because weâve had more people murdered than people killed in Iraq war.
Thatâs why they call it "Chiraq".
And thatâs not a label we should be proud of.
I mean Iâm not⦠I donât know⦠Iâm not proud of it, you know.
Being the murder capital of the world, I mean thatâs crazy.
But we gotta stop glorifying that stuff, you know, the lifestyle.
Gang banging, selling drugs, thatâs not a great lifestyle.
And a lot of these kids, they donât care.
Thatâs all they know.
They donât know nothing else.
18 year old got shot and killed today in the backyard.
Itâs sad, man.
I see something like this, it's happening too much.
Fighting over the drugs, over the money or theyâre so high on the drugs, they become violent.
- It's my nephew.
- He's dead.
And I talked to him a week ago.
I told him, I called him a bum, thatâs a nickname between him and us and I said: âBaby, you need to call me.
I need to hear from you.
" You want to make sure theyâre okay.
- I promise you, I get it, Iâm a mom.
- Are you? I am a mom.
And I have a 19 year old.
So I feel your pain.
I would never expect to say, Iâm gonna lose one of my babies.
Us standing right here now, itâs very dangerous.
The other gang could come in, shoot the block up.
They don't care whoâs on the block, kids, women, they donât care no more.
Unfortunately, in the area that weâre in, with the Memorial season coming, this is an every day occurrence.
JD and Low have taken delivery of another 8 ball of crack ready for the Memorial Day rush.
We donât wanna get in the middle of the wars, but you canât let that stop you on doing what youâre doing to get your money.
You gotta keep striving and pushing for what you need and what you gotta do out here to feed yourself and your family, man.
Thatâs what it is, but weâve gotta keep watching all the time, 24/7 'cause people break in the house and home invade it.
So we gotta be ready.
Youâll never know when theyâre gonna come.
Across the Westside, a hush falls in anticipation of the holiday weekend.
Crack around here, where weâre from, thatâs for suremoney.
I know itâs gonna sell every day.
I had a job before and I felt like I was getting cheated.
I started selling crack 'cause I made that paycheck they were giving me on one phone call sometimes.
This is about $400Â worth and I spent about 120Â on it.
So thatâs like a 300 something dollar profit.
Connor and AJ are pitching a new product to partygoers.
Molly.
On Memorial Day weekend, when the family time over with, itâs time to shake that ass, go to the clubs, people gonna need them pills.
My Molly over the weekend, it sells out.
I get it in quantity and then I break it down and put it into capsules.
It give you a good high.
You ready to turn up, to party, you know, ready to have fun.
My left this would be $10.
And this one on my right will be 15 bucks.
I get it for 200 and I can make about 650, 680 off of it, something like that.
The profits are high, but so are the risks.
Yeah, we Gangster Disciples, you know what I'm saying? But as far as unity with the gangs, it donât exist like that.
Other gangs want to fuck me up, jump on me, pop me, shoot me, whatever.
But, if you from here, youâre not scared because youâd have been through it so much itâs like This shitâs not scary, you know whatâs going on, so No, it ainât scary, but as far as the police breaking in here, as far as niggas running in here, thatâs what we got guns for.
You know what Iâm saying, niggas? How we got this shit set up, weâll be able to know if a motherfucker coming in this bitch anyway, you know? With rival gangs targeting them, the Disciples are not taking any chances.
The feeling of having a gun is like power.
Nobody can fuck with you, nobody can say shit to you.
Nobody can disrespect you, you know? You have control.
This is actually a 12Â gauge rifle.
This for close range shit.
Buck shots come out this bitch so⦠So if I shoot you and thereâs a couple of people around you, might hit two, three people with one bullet.
Know what I'm saying? It got a hard kick in.
You gotta be prepared when you shoot it.
Got to be real prepared 'cause itâs gonna blow real hard.
Another thing about the gun is, you donât wanna touch the shells.
When you enter the clip, the shell cases are gonna be left at the crime scene, so when the police do come and pick âem up, you donât want your fingerprints on the shells.
At night time is harder to make out the cars thatâs coming.
Youâve gotta have your eyes open and they can come out a dark alley shooting.
They move with the shadows.
You gotta be on point or else you could get got or you could be dead.
To me making it to 25 is a blessing.
A lot of my friends ainât get to see 25.
a few blocks away, thereâs been another shooting.
Do not come in the crime scene.
Do you understand me? They emptied the entire gun out, right over here.
Inside or in the house.
What's the fucking problem? Youâre all fucking bullshit, I promise you.
Theyâre all bullshit, man! I promise you, theyâre all fucking bullshit.
They donât give no fuck! We were standing out here having a conversation, I was talking with some friends and family, some person came through shooting.
Iâm tired of this shit, man.
Three people got shot.
My fucking cousin, man.
Itâs Memorial Day weekend.
75 degrees, the weather is perfect.
Weâre on the Westside of Chicago.
Thereâll be a lot of barbecues, a lot of dealers, gang members, lots of street activity.
This year, in a bid to keep order, 1300 extra police have been deployed in a show of force.
Your behaviorâs gonna dictate whether you go to jail or not, so Iâd be cool.
You donât smoke cannabis but the car smells like cannabis.
Help me understand.
Drug crimes on the Westside are already on the rise.
Heâs selling Xanax.
They call these bars, Z-bars, Xanies.
They go anywhere from 5 to $15 a pill, depends on where you get it from.
Those are used much like heroin, itâs a downer, puts âem in kind of a dopey state, give you the similar high to heroin, not as euphoric, but gives them that real relaxed state, without the sickness and without the heavy addiction.
Although these are addicting.
You should probably go to hospital.
Call an ambulance.
Take it easy, all right? Take it easy.
Before we were able to get him out of the car, he swallowed the narcotics that he was selling.
Gregory, what did you swallow? Didnât swallow nothing.
When caught, dealers often swallow their drugs to get rid of the evidence.
The fact heâs getting sick.
Weâre calling an ambulance right now.
We stopped âem and saw what appeared to be a hand-to-hand.
Then he started All this shit coming out of his mouth.
- What did he take? - I don't know.
He said he didnât swallow anything, heâs having anxiety, but it looks like he swallowed whatever he had.
- But heâs not telling us.
- Where is he? Right there.
Heâs got all this crap coming out of his mouth.
I want to see your eyes, okay? It's very important to talk to me and give me information.
It was noted that you possibly took some medicine and put it in your mouth.
I don't want you to get hurt.
You could get really sick or hurt.
- I'm okay.
- Let me check your pulse.
He could overdose and die.
It could burn up your stomach lining.
Weâll take him to hospital and give him Itâs basically a potion, a syrup thatâll dissolve everything in his system and hopefully Hopefully heâll have a decent recovery here.
Do you wanna go to the hospital, get checked out? Iâm straight.
I didn't take nothing.
You donât think you need to be checked out? - I'm perfectly fine.
- Okay.
With no evidence, the man was released without charge.
Thatâs what we do, all day, all night.
Just keep knocking âem down, making those investigative stops.
With police all over the hood, JD and Low stay off the streets and deal direct from their stash house.
Itâs a dog eat dog world, so we staying out of harmâs way.
We donât have to be out in the jungle standing on the curb, we can sit here and answer the door.
The rest of their crack is hidden in the basement.
You donât wanna carry everything that you got on you at once.
Thatâs just stupid, you know.
So you just wanna keep a little bit at a time on you, and if they need some more, you gonna get some more.
- Hello? - Hello? Hey J, itâs Teresa.
Can I get a dub out of you? All right, come to the back.
- All right, Iâm there now.
- All right.
Get the door G.
What's up? - Can I get a dud? Itâs all I got.
- Yeah, come on.
- Is it okay if I take a hit here? - Yeah, it's fine.
Teresa is a transgender prostitute.
And a crack addict.
I'm 50 years old and I've been doing crack cocaine since I was 25.
My first time someone introduced me to it, it knocked me off my feet.
Working the streets is scary.
And Iâve been robbed, Iâve been raped.
And crack cocaine makes me feel good.
Itâs killing you on the inside.
Thatâs what itâs truly doing to you.
And itâs worth every penny you pay.
What? Having taken Teresaâs money, the dealers want her out.
Iâm letting you out the house.
I am too high right now to do all of it.
- This ain't no lounge.
- I get that.
Police come and see that paraphernalia on the counter, Iâm off, Iâm going to jail.
Hell, itâs dark out here.
I can't even see.
I appreciate it, babe.
- All right, peeps, come back.
- Bye-bye.
If something ever happen to her and I heard that she died Some people choose their own fate.
I seeing what it do to other people, you know what I mean? I get aunties and people thatâs out there thatâs on drugs bad, you know? They deteriorate âem, inside out, you know.
They rotting from the inside out.
They lose the weight, they not eating consistently, thatâs what they chose to do.
People grown.
You canât tell them not to do drugs.
Simple as that.
Just cannot tell them not to do drugs, you know.
And if they do it, I wanna make sure they come to me instead of somebody else.
It's catch 22.
To get out of the game, JD and Low need to capitalize on the Memorial Day rush.
But the more customers, the higher the risk theyâll get caught.
Or killed.
We have three people shot here.
Two were transported to an area hospital.
Another person is dead.
I live right there, bro.
15-22, bro.
Would you please let me go? I live right there, 15-22, bro.
That was my little brother who just got shot, man.
Were you with him? What do you mean, was I with him? No! I just got here, I left the hospital.
I just came from a Memorial Day barbecue, and now my fucking little brother gets shot in the face! Can I go to my home, Sarge? - For real, Sarge.
 You know that's my home? - Relax.
I will let you go home, just relax.
What do you mean? Ainât no relaxing right now, Sarge.
That shit crazy as hell, I ainât gonna relax.
I ain't gonna relax! I go to work.
I work, Sarge.
Thatâs my little brother, Sarge.
Shooting after shooting after shooting.
12.
36am, person shot.
1.
10 am, just a half an hour later, we had another person shot.
With another half hour going by, we had another shooting that left a man in his 20's shot.
The list continues on and on.
But the drug trade never sleeps, and neither can the police.
- Oh, heâs scared.
- Yes.
Somethingâs freaking him out.
Weâre pretty well hidden, though.
Joe's unit are meeting an informant who's just left the crack house.
Go on the other side.
Other side.
He's freaked.
To calm his nerves, the police drive him to another location.
Thereâs a guy, heâs selling drugs.
Heâs got a pistol in his hand.
I seen the pistol, I was like, whoa! I just ran the fuck away.
Remember, I told you, whenever I see a pistol, I will call you.
I just seen that motherfucker with my own eyes.
- Itâs a house or apartment? - It's a house.
- On the corner? - Yeah.
- Whatâs he wearing? - Got a black hoodie on.
- Black hoodie? - Yeah.
- Young kid or old kid? - No, young kid.
- Fat or - Slim.
Itâs this house right here, the first house right there.
Joe's unit head back to the crack house.
This informantâs credible, heâs been positive with just about every bit of information heâs ever given us.
My gut tells me that thereâs narcotics and quite possibly firearms.
JD and Low have sold nearly all their crack.
Time keeps ticking.
Things don't stop.
Probably made more than I ever made out there.
Joe's unit have arrived at the address the informant gave them.
And they send the CI back in to buy some crack as evidence.
Weâre set up southbound Latrobe.
Got one walking northbound, but he looks like a buyer.
All right, CIâs on the approach.
So heâs made it to the house.
[Joseph[ Thereâs activity at the house.
You got the same three or four walking around.
Heâs a lookout.
Heâs got his phone.
When they walk the block like that in circles with their phone, itâs basically their communication with the spot.
If the spotters catch on to the cops, they'll realize the informant's a snitch.
Blood will be spilled.
CIâs coming back down, might have been just a quick hand off, heâs gonna be southbound Latrobe heading towards you.
It's good.
The car on the south end has the eyeball, so the informant was served two $10 bags.
All right, Iâm gonna get out of here.
Based on everything we just did, we will execute a search warrant at that house, that target location.
By state law, we have 96 hours to execute a search warrant, once itâs signed by the judge.
The target is a convicted felon selling crack cocaine.
The target is gonna be in Latrobe, city of Chicago, Westside.
We are gonna make a front entry.
How many people are gonna be in the house is unknown.
All right, weâre moving in.
10-4, weâre on the move.
All right, nice and easy, slice, nice and easy.
Sheriff's police! Search warrant! Sheriff's police! Search warrant! Get down on the ground! Go, go, go! Everybody back! Search warrant! Turn around! Get back! Police! Hey! Letâs see your hands! Coming up! Itâs all right.
Sit down, relax for a minute.
This is the window where he serves out of.
That's why the grass is all worn there.
They walk up the gangway, knock on the window, get served and walk back.
Can you see anything? .]
This money was rolled up like this behind here.
- Bag of heroin.
- Yeah.
Money.
- Money.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
This dealer is selling about three different products.
Heroin, Xanax pills, prescription pills, and marijuana.
The drugs seized at the stash house were added to the Memorial Day haul.
Every unit within every department within every municipality, city and county-wide, has experienced exactly what you see on this table.
This represents a lot of death, a lot of tragedy, a lot of A lot of work to do.
As long as they're out there doing what they're doing, we're going to be out there doing what we're doing.
A lot of people got shot and killed Memorial Day weekend.
But weâre still here, weâre standing.
He ainât got no bullet wounds.
I donât either.
We straight, so we gonna keep it like that.
I love where Iâm from because it made me who I am today, of course, but thereâs too much killing here, I wanna show my nephew something different.
Now we got the money so we can get out the neighborhood, open other doors, take that opportunities.
Hopefully I can get out of the drug game forever.
My motherfuckin' brother is shot in the face.
This shit killing and robbing motherfuckers is an addiction.
These are each individual kilograms of cocaine.
This would run you 20 to $25,000 on the street.
But drug dealers can almost quadruple the value to upwards of $100,000, when they make it crack cocaine.
So you're upwards of a million dollars in that cardboard box.
That is what is driving the violence.
Memorial Day would be an increase in sales.
That presents an opportunity for rival drug dealers to target their competitors.
There's probably close to 600 handguns in this room here.
For every gun we get off the street, there's 100 more that we're still looking for.
This represents the violence that we're confronting on a daily basis.
And it represents the drug game because firearms and narcotics are one in the same.
It does scare me that the bad guys can get their hands on this, but to work the street and to move around the area with this in the back your mind, is counterproductive.
Somebody has to be in the middle.
We're tasked with that.
We took that oath.
We understand what we're getting ourselves into every day.
Is it dangerous? Absolutely.
I leave the house every day knowing I may not come home.
But the drug game doesn't take a holiday and we're doing everything we can to stay ahead of it.
There's one area of Chicago that's notorious for poverty, drugs and violence.
Where even the cops fear to tread.
It's known as the Westside.
The dealers here are already preparing for the Memorial Day rush.
That's good cocaine.
You see how itâs shiny, like fish scales.
When I see that, that makes me happy.
Slim runs a local drug gang.
I'm a boss.
My team is full of CEOs.
I answer to no one.
I'm not kicking it with the middle man or the low man, Iâm kicking it with niggas thatâs doing this shit.
I'm mixing it with baking soda, because it creates a chemical reaction and that's why it turns into crack.
I got this little pot right here, I'm not doing it no big Pyrex.
Put in a little water.
Then I'm gonna get it hot.
And we're gonna melt it down.
I want all the cocaine rocks to buzz down and it slowly mixes in with the baking soda.
The coldness of this popsicle is going to make this easy for me to whip, and we just going to stir until it cools down.
See how it's changing? They call that "lock up".
I'm gonna put this out.
It's going to be the best crack in Chicago.
That'll be $10 right there.
No doubt about it.
You're gonna get high off that.
Okay? When they hit that shit, man, it's euphoria.
The cleaner it is, the better it is, they come right back.
By the end of the night, depending on how much money they got and how thirsty they are, this can give me $1,000.
Weâre damn near more expensive than gold right now.
This is better than US currency! Once the crack is cooked up, the street dealers take over.
This is like 9 grams right here.
Costs like 500.
We're going to try to make 8 to 900 off of it.
JD and Low have just picked up more product.
I wouldnât say I was born into this, it just happened from the environment you live in.
We ain't grew up in Beverly Hills.
That's what we do.
You adapt to what's around you every day.
That's my nephew right here.
Heâs putting together a little 50 right here.
Everybody trying to get money and opportunity, Iâm sure you know.
I gotta bring food to the table somewhere, man.
You feel me? Thatâs the way I gotta get it out here.
Iâm trying to double up for Memorial Day, so Iâll get the money to get out the neighborhood and create better jobs, you know, legitimate jobs.
Both want to make enough money over Memorial weekend to get out of the game.
So we definitely need to make like 8 to 9 G.
You know what I mean? Then after that, we gonna be gone.
My homie just got killed a few days ago, we gotta bury him Saturday.
Itâs a death 2, 3 times a month now, you know what I mean? Itâs painful, that you're not even over the first death and another one happens, and itâs consistent.
I feel horrible when I go to the funerals, man.
People up I see in the caskets, some people Iâve been with all my life.
Itâll take a toll on you, man.
But we gotta let it go, but man, itâs hard to let that hurt go sometimes.
Itâs terrible outside, everybodyâs hurting everybody.
We live in it, every morning, itâs just a swamp, itâs a zoo.
Every day you come outside and you worry about, is this your last day coming home? But for the time being, Iâm hustling.
I appreciate you man.
We got 14 grams, man.
That shit's hitting hard.
CI yesterday gave us information, supposedly they deal in this alley here.
The main thing is, he did say the one guy did have a gun.
Joe and his team are preparing to bust two crack dealers.
When we decide to move, it's going to be all timing.
They do run, whatâs huge is for containment.
Itâs a box operation, you know how this goes.
We donât want a friendly fire scenario, okay? So if it is a flush, call it on the air.
Theyâre running west, or south.
Be deliberate with your directions, where theyâre running.
Call out those descriptions.
If you see a firearm like a couple of weeks ago, weapon displayed, box in the property.
- You guys good? - Yeah.
Let's saddle up.
This is the Westside of Chicago, Austin Harrison District.
Heavy gang activity, heavy drug activity.
A lot of open air drug markets, every walk of life.
Our informant has made several buys at this location.
The individual selling narcotics may be gang-related.
If we apprehend the subject, we talk to them and see who the next big fish is.
Whoâs a little bit higher than him.
And whoâs a little bit higher than them.
Try to get to where the true problem is, where they're getting their drugs.
We got people here, who donât have good jobs, donât have jobs at all, don't work.
And they could come out here and make 500, $1,000 a day or more.
So they choose the easy route.
Thereâs about one, two, three⦠Three gentlemen.
They are selling narcotics.
Yeah, we'll move in.
He's going westbound.
Westbound, westbound! Go, go, go! One went this way, one, that way, which one? Okay.
Weâll do Stand by, stand by.
Oh no, go.
Wait.
Where they go? - See them? - No.
Here! They're down there! They ran that way.
They're inside.
Here, scoot down.
You got it? Right there.
Going in.
Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back! Let's see.
I smell a little marijuana on you, so if youâve got it, - I suggest you give it to me.
- I ain't doin' no hustling.
I promise to God.
I rumble by, bro⦠I ainât doing no hustling, bro.
Guys, guys.
Enough.
Be quiet right now.
Youâre on video tape, be quiet, stop talking.
Not gonna tell you again.
Oneâs gonna go to jail for an active warrant.
He has an arrest warrant in another county for obstructing a peace officer.
Ainât the first time he ran from the police.
Relax, dude.
Right now weâre just doing a canvas looking for if they threw a firearm, we donât want no kids picking up the gun.
Today, we made 250.
If I could just make $500 today, Iâd be happy.
You just gotta be careful.
We take a risk coming outside every day.
Being out on these streets is very dangerous, man.
Every day you gotta watch out for the rival gangs trying to shoot.
They catch your ass out that late, they gonna fire your ass up.
When you got crack, weâre the ones that you need to be worried about.
GDs, thatâs us, man.
Know what Iâm saying? Gangster Disciples.
Most hated.
Every jail, every block, everybody scared of us.
The Gangster Disciples are the biggest street gang in Chicago.
With their original leaders dead or in prison, the gang is fragmented into small violent cliques.
Weâre a stick up crew, we donât give a fuck about selling drugs, weâre gonna let a nigga sell his drugs and rob him when he done.
And if we gotta kill to get it, thatâs whatâs gonna happen.
This is not a movie.
You canât shoot a gun like this.
Just like when you aim, it line up all the way to your shoulder, you canât miss, you got you a clean shot.
When I shoot, Iâm in a pure action mode.
Iâm in pure kill mode.
I ainât got no feelings, no remorse for none who get hit, none of that shit.
Theyâve been gathering intel on local dealers.
You gotta know how to stalk your prey.
You canât just run up on somebody in broad daylight and kill âem unless you want 100 years.
You gotta find out how he move, how much shit he got, where he be at.
You got one of these, you can do whatever you want.
Get whatever you want.
Whatever you desire.
Attracted by the lure of the streets, gangbangers on the Westside start young.
Iâve been in the streets since I was about 11.
 I was in Juvenile when I was in sixth grade.
Armed robbery.
I was brought up with good parents, I ainât gonna never lie and say I wasnât.
But when I got to these streets and I got that fast money, the love of that fast money, it draws you to this.
People wanna have fancy cars and a lot of bitches and drugs and money and flash guns.
Itâs adrenaline.
This street shit killing motherfuckers and robbing motherfuckers is an addiction.
I'm going to get over there.
Yeah, we're available.
Heading over there.
Going on the outside.
- Get over there.
- Ten-four.
Shootings, crashes, fires.
I cover everything.
Pauley Lapointe is cruising the Westside hoping to catch a story he can sell to local news.
I've got these different radios going providing different information, potential leads on a story.
I just have to wrangle it all in and make it work.
Like orchestrating a symphony.
Iâve been born and raised in the Chicago area my whole life.
I love the city.
 From a news perspective, as a news person, since Iâve been a child, Iâve always wanted to be a part of news, to tell the story of my community.
Whatever the story is.
I believe that thereâs a story to every shooting.
Some people will try to say, itâs no big deal, itâs just a gang banger.
And itâs not true.
Itâs a real human being, itâs a real life.
This part of the Westside, drugs are a multi-billion dollar business.
You better a car over there.
Any available in the area.
Another person shot.
A person shot.
He intercepts his first call.
This is going to be a gang-related.
And it's right in the heart of the Westside.
You have to be hyper aware when youâre at the scene, thereâs still bad guys running around with guns, who wanna shoot people.
They donât care about shooting you, me and the cops and everybody in-between.
And for your Saturday night, you have crime scene tape right next to a school.
That's how Chicago sets itself apart.
Doesnât matter where it is, or who it is, it just happens.
They emptied the entire gun out right over here.
So you can see all the markers.
See all those? Those are all markers.
Those are all markers for shell casings, spread from 30 feet, going on 30, 40 feet.
So itâs not just one little spot, these bullets went across this whole area, so the gunman came here and started to pop, pop, pop.
Four houses that potentially people could have been shot inside the home with a bullet flying into the house or hitting someone.
Two people were shot.
They were over here on the front lawn.
You can see how quickly this situation could change for the people that are just trying to live their life here.
They pulled over 8,000 weapons off the streets of Chicago last year.
They've already confiscated thousands of guns again this year.
But the bad guys seem to find a way to always get a gun in the city of Chicago.
A lot of fucking murders on the street.
Thatâs why dealers is buying guns.
I really donât deal with too many type of cheap guns, 'cause you know, people really donât want âem.
Some people talking about how they need something to protect their self.
They might get a little nine or something.
This is a little 13Â shot nine.
This could take a 30 round clip, and they sell for probably like 150.
And this one, this is a beautiful gun.
This is a Colt .
45.
This going for $1,000 easy.
Real easy.
This is one of the best three guns, this is a Glock 19.
This a custom top on it right here, itâs a sharp metal.
It's nice.
This going for probably like $1,000.
This is a Mac 90, fully auto.
Itâs like a new version of a Uzi gun.
This the unexpected.
You come in a house and take everybody out, nobody ainât gonna hear shit.
This one⦠I pay 1700 for this one.
Itâs like a pet.
You fall in love with your pet.
Thereâs a young boy from Indiana, man, he keep me right, all the latest and hottest shit.
G Money sources his guns from Indiana because the gun laws there are less strict.
He smuggles them across state lines into Illinois, eventually to Chicago where he can double or even triple his investment.
People want real guns that do real damage.
This the AK right here.
This an AK-47 right here.
This go for about 1500.
They really donât jam.
It keep going.
I got some more shit for you.
I just thought about it.
I got something that you like.
This right here, This This right here, this is the Tommy gun.
These have been around Chicago for years.
Thatâs the gun they used to hang off the side of old ass cars with.
Itâs beautiful.
This one right here going for probably about like 2500 on the street.
You ainât gonna find too many of these.
G Money's stash of guns could net him over $10,000 on the black market.
This going for about like 2500.
This the best fucking handgun you can get on the streets right now.
Fucking F&N.
This is the gun of all guns.
Outshoot all them fuckers with this.
Look at shells in there, these hollow tips, wood tips.
Fucking cop killers.
Given the nature and the environment that we're working in, we carry guns to protect ourselves, the gang members carry guns to protect themselves, themselves and their product.
Joe Scofield and his unit are patrolling Cicero Avenue on the cityâs Westside.
With Memorial Day approaching, theyâre on high alert for cars carrying firearms.
Weâre trying to put as many bad guys away as possible and get as many guns off the street as we can.
We kind of have a running saying in the unit: "Each gun recovered is a life saved.
" All right, so heâs got a cracked windshield.
He crossed two lanes, heâs seen us, we call that the guilty right, they wanna get out of our view as soon as possible.
Weâre gonna stop this car.
He might run.
Whatâs up, buddy, how you doing? Everything good tonight? You have a driverâs license and insurance? Joe smells marijuana.
All right, step out, Iâll explain in just a minute, okay? Weâll talk.
Cannabis.
You either just got done smoking or youâre still holding it.
Ain't nobody got hurt, no reason to make this worse than itâs gotta be.
You guys smoking earlier today? - I don't smoke.
- How about your buddy? I don't know, man.
So he got a bag of weed on him? All right.
Thatâs why youâre out the car.
Now weâre on the same page, right? Routine traffic stops allow the police to check for more serious offenses.
We approach every vehicle as if thereâs a firearm insidethe vehicle.
Weâll find firearms in the speaker compartment here.
This is loose.
Thereâs no other reason for that to be loose.
Marissa runs the passenger's ID and finds a warrant for his arrest.
Joe's unit is working over a wide area.
- How many people in this car? - Four.
Can you come talk to me out here? Keep your hands up.
Hey, cuff this guy.
Turn around.
They find an illegal firearm.
Turn around, Iâm gonna cuff you real fast.
Iâm gonna put two cuffs on you.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have a right to have an attorney present while youâre being questioned.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you before any questioning is conducted.
Do you understand these rights? You've been Mirandized.
Yes, sir.
That's one gun that won't be around for the holiday weekend.
We gotta do something about the guns coming in.
I have no clue how theyâre getting these guns in that easy.
Big Will is on his way to another shooting on the Westside.
They call it "Chiraq" because weâve had more people murdered than people killed in Iraq war.
Thatâs why they call it "Chiraq".
And thatâs not a label we should be proud of.
I mean Iâm not⦠I donât know⦠Iâm not proud of it, you know.
Being the murder capital of the world, I mean thatâs crazy.
But we gotta stop glorifying that stuff, you know, the lifestyle.
Gang banging, selling drugs, thatâs not a great lifestyle.
And a lot of these kids, they donât care.
Thatâs all they know.
They donât know nothing else.
18 year old got shot and killed today in the backyard.
Itâs sad, man.
I see something like this, it's happening too much.
Fighting over the drugs, over the money or theyâre so high on the drugs, they become violent.
- It's my nephew.
- He's dead.
And I talked to him a week ago.
I told him, I called him a bum, thatâs a nickname between him and us and I said: âBaby, you need to call me.
I need to hear from you.
" You want to make sure theyâre okay.
- I promise you, I get it, Iâm a mom.
- Are you? I am a mom.
And I have a 19 year old.
So I feel your pain.
I would never expect to say, Iâm gonna lose one of my babies.
Us standing right here now, itâs very dangerous.
The other gang could come in, shoot the block up.
They don't care whoâs on the block, kids, women, they donât care no more.
Unfortunately, in the area that weâre in, with the Memorial season coming, this is an every day occurrence.
JD and Low have taken delivery of another 8 ball of crack ready for the Memorial Day rush.
We donât wanna get in the middle of the wars, but you canât let that stop you on doing what youâre doing to get your money.
You gotta keep striving and pushing for what you need and what you gotta do out here to feed yourself and your family, man.
Thatâs what it is, but weâve gotta keep watching all the time, 24/7 'cause people break in the house and home invade it.
So we gotta be ready.
Youâll never know when theyâre gonna come.
Across the Westside, a hush falls in anticipation of the holiday weekend.
Crack around here, where weâre from, thatâs for suremoney.
I know itâs gonna sell every day.
I had a job before and I felt like I was getting cheated.
I started selling crack 'cause I made that paycheck they were giving me on one phone call sometimes.
This is about $400Â worth and I spent about 120Â on it.
So thatâs like a 300 something dollar profit.
Connor and AJ are pitching a new product to partygoers.
Molly.
On Memorial Day weekend, when the family time over with, itâs time to shake that ass, go to the clubs, people gonna need them pills.
My Molly over the weekend, it sells out.
I get it in quantity and then I break it down and put it into capsules.
It give you a good high.
You ready to turn up, to party, you know, ready to have fun.
My left this would be $10.
And this one on my right will be 15 bucks.
I get it for 200 and I can make about 650, 680 off of it, something like that.
The profits are high, but so are the risks.
Yeah, we Gangster Disciples, you know what I'm saying? But as far as unity with the gangs, it donât exist like that.
Other gangs want to fuck me up, jump on me, pop me, shoot me, whatever.
But, if you from here, youâre not scared because youâd have been through it so much itâs like This shitâs not scary, you know whatâs going on, so No, it ainât scary, but as far as the police breaking in here, as far as niggas running in here, thatâs what we got guns for.
You know what Iâm saying, niggas? How we got this shit set up, weâll be able to know if a motherfucker coming in this bitch anyway, you know? With rival gangs targeting them, the Disciples are not taking any chances.
The feeling of having a gun is like power.
Nobody can fuck with you, nobody can say shit to you.
Nobody can disrespect you, you know? You have control.
This is actually a 12Â gauge rifle.
This for close range shit.
Buck shots come out this bitch so⦠So if I shoot you and thereâs a couple of people around you, might hit two, three people with one bullet.
Know what I'm saying? It got a hard kick in.
You gotta be prepared when you shoot it.
Got to be real prepared 'cause itâs gonna blow real hard.
Another thing about the gun is, you donât wanna touch the shells.
When you enter the clip, the shell cases are gonna be left at the crime scene, so when the police do come and pick âem up, you donât want your fingerprints on the shells.
At night time is harder to make out the cars thatâs coming.
Youâve gotta have your eyes open and they can come out a dark alley shooting.
They move with the shadows.
You gotta be on point or else you could get got or you could be dead.
To me making it to 25 is a blessing.
A lot of my friends ainât get to see 25.
a few blocks away, thereâs been another shooting.
Do not come in the crime scene.
Do you understand me? They emptied the entire gun out, right over here.
Inside or in the house.
What's the fucking problem? Youâre all fucking bullshit, I promise you.
Theyâre all bullshit, man! I promise you, theyâre all fucking bullshit.
They donât give no fuck! We were standing out here having a conversation, I was talking with some friends and family, some person came through shooting.
Iâm tired of this shit, man.
Three people got shot.
My fucking cousin, man.
Itâs Memorial Day weekend.
75 degrees, the weather is perfect.
Weâre on the Westside of Chicago.
Thereâll be a lot of barbecues, a lot of dealers, gang members, lots of street activity.
This year, in a bid to keep order, 1300 extra police have been deployed in a show of force.
Your behaviorâs gonna dictate whether you go to jail or not, so Iâd be cool.
You donât smoke cannabis but the car smells like cannabis.
Help me understand.
Drug crimes on the Westside are already on the rise.
Heâs selling Xanax.
They call these bars, Z-bars, Xanies.
They go anywhere from 5 to $15 a pill, depends on where you get it from.
Those are used much like heroin, itâs a downer, puts âem in kind of a dopey state, give you the similar high to heroin, not as euphoric, but gives them that real relaxed state, without the sickness and without the heavy addiction.
Although these are addicting.
You should probably go to hospital.
Call an ambulance.
Take it easy, all right? Take it easy.
Before we were able to get him out of the car, he swallowed the narcotics that he was selling.
Gregory, what did you swallow? Didnât swallow nothing.
When caught, dealers often swallow their drugs to get rid of the evidence.
The fact heâs getting sick.
Weâre calling an ambulance right now.
We stopped âem and saw what appeared to be a hand-to-hand.
Then he started All this shit coming out of his mouth.
- What did he take? - I don't know.
He said he didnât swallow anything, heâs having anxiety, but it looks like he swallowed whatever he had.
- But heâs not telling us.
- Where is he? Right there.
Heâs got all this crap coming out of his mouth.
I want to see your eyes, okay? It's very important to talk to me and give me information.
It was noted that you possibly took some medicine and put it in your mouth.
I don't want you to get hurt.
You could get really sick or hurt.
- I'm okay.
- Let me check your pulse.
He could overdose and die.
It could burn up your stomach lining.
Weâll take him to hospital and give him Itâs basically a potion, a syrup thatâll dissolve everything in his system and hopefully Hopefully heâll have a decent recovery here.
Do you wanna go to the hospital, get checked out? Iâm straight.
I didn't take nothing.
You donât think you need to be checked out? - I'm perfectly fine.
- Okay.
With no evidence, the man was released without charge.
Thatâs what we do, all day, all night.
Just keep knocking âem down, making those investigative stops.
With police all over the hood, JD and Low stay off the streets and deal direct from their stash house.
Itâs a dog eat dog world, so we staying out of harmâs way.
We donât have to be out in the jungle standing on the curb, we can sit here and answer the door.
The rest of their crack is hidden in the basement.
You donât wanna carry everything that you got on you at once.
Thatâs just stupid, you know.
So you just wanna keep a little bit at a time on you, and if they need some more, you gonna get some more.
- Hello? - Hello? Hey J, itâs Teresa.
Can I get a dub out of you? All right, come to the back.
- All right, Iâm there now.
- All right.
Get the door G.
What's up? - Can I get a dud? Itâs all I got.
- Yeah, come on.
- Is it okay if I take a hit here? - Yeah, it's fine.
Teresa is a transgender prostitute.
And a crack addict.
I'm 50 years old and I've been doing crack cocaine since I was 25.
My first time someone introduced me to it, it knocked me off my feet.
Working the streets is scary.
And Iâve been robbed, Iâve been raped.
And crack cocaine makes me feel good.
Itâs killing you on the inside.
Thatâs what itâs truly doing to you.
And itâs worth every penny you pay.
What? Having taken Teresaâs money, the dealers want her out.
Iâm letting you out the house.
I am too high right now to do all of it.
- This ain't no lounge.
- I get that.
Police come and see that paraphernalia on the counter, Iâm off, Iâm going to jail.
Hell, itâs dark out here.
I can't even see.
I appreciate it, babe.
- All right, peeps, come back.
- Bye-bye.
If something ever happen to her and I heard that she died Some people choose their own fate.
I seeing what it do to other people, you know what I mean? I get aunties and people thatâs out there thatâs on drugs bad, you know? They deteriorate âem, inside out, you know.
They rotting from the inside out.
They lose the weight, they not eating consistently, thatâs what they chose to do.
People grown.
You canât tell them not to do drugs.
Simple as that.
Just cannot tell them not to do drugs, you know.
And if they do it, I wanna make sure they come to me instead of somebody else.
It's catch 22.
To get out of the game, JD and Low need to capitalize on the Memorial Day rush.
But the more customers, the higher the risk theyâll get caught.
Or killed.
We have three people shot here.
Two were transported to an area hospital.
Another person is dead.
I live right there, bro.
15-22, bro.
Would you please let me go? I live right there, 15-22, bro.
That was my little brother who just got shot, man.
Were you with him? What do you mean, was I with him? No! I just got here, I left the hospital.
I just came from a Memorial Day barbecue, and now my fucking little brother gets shot in the face! Can I go to my home, Sarge? - For real, Sarge.
 You know that's my home? - Relax.
I will let you go home, just relax.
What do you mean? Ainât no relaxing right now, Sarge.
That shit crazy as hell, I ainât gonna relax.
I ain't gonna relax! I go to work.
I work, Sarge.
Thatâs my little brother, Sarge.
Shooting after shooting after shooting.
12.
36am, person shot.
1.
10 am, just a half an hour later, we had another person shot.
With another half hour going by, we had another shooting that left a man in his 20's shot.
The list continues on and on.
But the drug trade never sleeps, and neither can the police.
- Oh, heâs scared.
- Yes.
Somethingâs freaking him out.
Weâre pretty well hidden, though.
Joe's unit are meeting an informant who's just left the crack house.
Go on the other side.
Other side.
He's freaked.
To calm his nerves, the police drive him to another location.
Thereâs a guy, heâs selling drugs.
Heâs got a pistol in his hand.
I seen the pistol, I was like, whoa! I just ran the fuck away.
Remember, I told you, whenever I see a pistol, I will call you.
I just seen that motherfucker with my own eyes.
- Itâs a house or apartment? - It's a house.
- On the corner? - Yeah.
- Whatâs he wearing? - Got a black hoodie on.
- Black hoodie? - Yeah.
- Young kid or old kid? - No, young kid.
- Fat or - Slim.
Itâs this house right here, the first house right there.
Joe's unit head back to the crack house.
This informantâs credible, heâs been positive with just about every bit of information heâs ever given us.
My gut tells me that thereâs narcotics and quite possibly firearms.
JD and Low have sold nearly all their crack.
Time keeps ticking.
Things don't stop.
Probably made more than I ever made out there.
Joe's unit have arrived at the address the informant gave them.
And they send the CI back in to buy some crack as evidence.
Weâre set up southbound Latrobe.
Got one walking northbound, but he looks like a buyer.
All right, CIâs on the approach.
So heâs made it to the house.
[Joseph[ Thereâs activity at the house.
You got the same three or four walking around.
Heâs a lookout.
Heâs got his phone.
When they walk the block like that in circles with their phone, itâs basically their communication with the spot.
If the spotters catch on to the cops, they'll realize the informant's a snitch.
Blood will be spilled.
CIâs coming back down, might have been just a quick hand off, heâs gonna be southbound Latrobe heading towards you.
It's good.
The car on the south end has the eyeball, so the informant was served two $10 bags.
All right, Iâm gonna get out of here.
Based on everything we just did, we will execute a search warrant at that house, that target location.
By state law, we have 96 hours to execute a search warrant, once itâs signed by the judge.
The target is a convicted felon selling crack cocaine.
The target is gonna be in Latrobe, city of Chicago, Westside.
We are gonna make a front entry.
How many people are gonna be in the house is unknown.
All right, weâre moving in.
10-4, weâre on the move.
All right, nice and easy, slice, nice and easy.
Sheriff's police! Search warrant! Sheriff's police! Search warrant! Get down on the ground! Go, go, go! Everybody back! Search warrant! Turn around! Get back! Police! Hey! Letâs see your hands! Coming up! Itâs all right.
Sit down, relax for a minute.
This is the window where he serves out of.
That's why the grass is all worn there.
They walk up the gangway, knock on the window, get served and walk back.
Can you see anything? .]
This money was rolled up like this behind here.
- Bag of heroin.
- Yeah.
Money.
- Money.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
This dealer is selling about three different products.
Heroin, Xanax pills, prescription pills, and marijuana.
The drugs seized at the stash house were added to the Memorial Day haul.
Every unit within every department within every municipality, city and county-wide, has experienced exactly what you see on this table.
This represents a lot of death, a lot of tragedy, a lot of A lot of work to do.
As long as they're out there doing what they're doing, we're going to be out there doing what we're doing.
A lot of people got shot and killed Memorial Day weekend.
But weâre still here, weâre standing.
He ainât got no bullet wounds.
I donât either.
We straight, so we gonna keep it like that.
I love where Iâm from because it made me who I am today, of course, but thereâs too much killing here, I wanna show my nephew something different.
Now we got the money so we can get out the neighborhood, open other doors, take that opportunities.
Hopefully I can get out of the drug game forever.