b"Who did you send these reports to? Id send my report to my office, central office. The principal would be called out by the principals governing board. I would get called into the principals office and I would tell him Im not doing anything wrong. I brought the informationto him and I put it in my report. He didn't like the decision they gave him, so he was on my case. My supervisor called meand said: The principal has been complaining about you. We're going to get you a nice school. I was sent back to a highschool, Paul Robeson High School at Albany and Dean Street in Brooklyn. I was there for five years. How was that position?It was great. It was surrounded with projects. People said it was a tough school. You get to know the people and standyour ground. I introduced myself. Id talk to groups and talk to the leader and let them know how things are going to work.When the kids are coming out of school, they have to clear out. After, the block is theirs. There was an incident at the projectand the cops came and they thought they were my back up. They took off. I never had a problem after that. When the policedepartment decided to take over school safety because the violence was getting bad in these schools, my co-workers askedme: You going to join police department? I say: Of course, I'll be number one to sign up. They were scared because theywere used to dealing with a laid-back Board of Education. They came to work; they did what they wanted.When the opportunity came, I went over to the police department, transferred my money from the Board of Edboards. I knew Id get respect, protection. Id get everything that a police officer get.When was that?I think was about 1998, 1999. I was at Robeson then. When the police department came into the school, theybacked off because we were in charge of the schools. They were in charge of outside. They used to say: Oh man we don'tknow how all of you deal with these kids. Um, special techniques, special people.It's not regular policing?No, it's not regular policing. We only do what we have to do in house. If we have to arrest someone, we have to notify the police department. They come in and they take it over from there. You have to give these kids a chance. Now ifsomething happened between male or female, you have to separate them and tell them: You write down your story, youwrite down your story. I look at it, then I give it to the dean who gives it to the principal and they make a decision of whatthey want to do. A lot of times, I used a little technique where I notify the principal and the principal says: So what areyou going to do? I say: Well, let us try this. Two girls accusing the teacher of molesting them or touching them orfondling them or whatever and the principal says: So what do you think we should do? I said: Have the two girls comein, pull them in separately and ask: Tell me what happened. Don't ask them to write anything yet. Tell them they aregoing to have to write this down. The principal is going to have to notify the parents. They cannot come back to schooluntil the parents come in. The teacher has to write their story and bring his wife in. When the kids hear that they say: No, no, no, it wasn't like that. They don't want their parents to know that she is protecting her girlfriend, trying to trumpup charge on the teacher. The principal says: Oh you really know how to deal with these kids. I say: Oh yeah, it took awhile. A lot of parents believe whatever the kid says. Then they come down to the school in the morning, beat up theteacher. The mother rushes in: Who's the teacher I calm her down. Ill ask: By the way, who's your daughter? Oh yeah.144 "