Down The Rabbit Hole

So I turn the report to me, Lieutenant at the time, and he sort of grabs the paper and tears it up. And I'm like, did I do something wrong? And he's looked at me dead face and said, this never happened. And what happened the next day when you got back and came to work the next day? How does that? When I came back to work, it was just normal. And what I mean by normal, it's not normal like every day that goes to work.

Normal police work is they give you updates about people who they're looking for and so on and so forth. And I think it's important for me to explain that. During my career as a police officer, my arrests were, I would arrest 100 people, 100 felony arrests a month and about 120 misdemeanor arrests. So combined like 220 people I would arrest on a given month. And during that given month, there's a percentage that made you go, how do I explain that?

John Angler at the time he was a governor, he gives us notice that he's closing all the mental institutions in the state of Michigan. Then in 97, former Michigan governor, John Angler closed more than a dozen psychiatric hospitals in his view to shift treatment back to the community. The burden has fallen to hospital emergency rooms, hospital medical wards, psychiatric units and general hospitals that have been shrinking over the last several years.

Filled with inadequate funding, experts say many of the mentally ill are likely to encounter law enforcement. Basically what he did is just set him free on the street and he's also put him on great home buses and try to send him to different states. And at the time I'm been known to me there is something sinister happening.

There is nothing but burnt down houses and vacant abandoned houses and we were finding a lot of artifacts and like the black candles and the Ouija boards and the stars in the center of this abandoned building. And when you would enter those houses, you knew something bad happened. One day I come to the precinct and Sergeant calls me in and says, Indio, I got to talk to you real quick.

So I go in there and I'm thinking, okay, what I do wrong because anytime Sergeant calls you in, it's not normally a good thing. And he has a letter envelope and he has it in front of his desk and he sits me down and goes, you're no longer with the third precinct, you're being reassigned. I'm like, okay, where am I going? He says, you're going down to the basement because the third precinct had a basement and that's where 30 series sort of started to gather their information.

And what I mean by that is our stopping post. The Sergeant that was there at the time that gave me the letter, he had been through the mallison, butts in trial and he was, he went through that whole mess during that time when the booster unit got in trouble with the mallis green trial. And he just kind of said, I can't tell you what to do, but just know that once you open that envelope, you're going down to rabbit hole that you can't come back from. And I was like, oh, cool.

My mind at the time, and let's put an age to it, I was 20 going 21 barely. And I'm sort of excited about it because I'm like, oh, I get to wear plain clothes and I'm like, right around police car and not answer runs anymore, that's going to be cool. And it was totally different. And so when I open that letter up, he's like, open it outside. I want nothing to do with that. He knew what you were getting into. He knew what I was getting into. Absolutely. And he wanted no more part of it.

He didn't want no part of it. He was like, you could open that letter out there. That's how I was inducted into 30 series. So Ness being the base, the operations. It's the base. And so what I would do is call the chapel. And what I mean by the chapel was because we would literally have priests blessing it, blessing the grounds. I'm picturing, I guess, as an outsider, I'm picturing this, like you said, you walk into this dirty abandoned building, but then it's like a facade on the outside.

As you walk in, you're taken through this secret room or tunnel, elevator, whatever it was. And then all of a sudden you're in this giant warehouse with high tech gadgets, like clean white rooms, et cetera, very high tech. I thought Detroit was a poor city at the time. I imagine the police force didn't have money for equipment and stuff like that. How was this all funded? Where was this, how come this special unit got all these cool gadgets? That answer didn't come till later.

And I ended up finding out that Vatican actually supplied a lot of the money for our equipment because the equipment that we had at the nest, no one else had. That's when you start realizing, I literally went down the fucking rabbit hole. This shit's real. This shit is real. This shit's real. Wow. So maybe the next call? Our next one was we had heard a run that there was a police chase nearby. And so we're like, hey, let's just go check it out and see what's happening.

And what I mean by that is that after dealing with supernatural stuff, there's certain key things that happen. And what I mean by that is that you get radio interference. You start hearing sometimes voices come through on the radio and we would hear that. And in this particular chase that happened on Grashit, we were hearing that. And it was enough for all of us to kind of look at each other and go, yeah, we need to go look at that.

And the thing with 30 series is that you're not stationed to any precinct, we're on many were in the city, so we took off down West Ford to Grashit, Jefferson Grashit. And we're getting there and we could hear the speed chase. It was going on for about 10 minutes. Enough time for us to catch up to it. And when ends up happening is the person that the chase and it's the stolen car. He runs into a light pole. And the police cars, of course, they take their appropriate action and do a felony stop.

But the driver jumped out of the car. And I remember seeing this vividly because we're about three cars back, slowly making our way because as a plane officer, you got to sort of let the uniform officers that, hey, we're on your team, so we would reach down and pull out our badge that's tucked in the shirt to let them know because if you just come and play and close with the gun, it's going to be bad. So we always had to renounce ourselves. We can always be the leads at the time.

But this guy came out of the car and it happened really fast. I remember vividly because Tupac was playing and he came out of the car, all dashed up and he starts doing this weird dance and we're kind of like a hell, almost like a puppet just being controlled. And then all of a sudden he does a spin move and from his waistband in the back, pulls out a gun, shoots an officer in the head and that officer goes down.

And then we all open fire and this guy took round after round and you can see his body jerking, you can see the impact of the rounds making and he takes off running. And we knew that we were right about the call.