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i it this jackpot! >> this is a great guy. she it this jackpot, too. this man -- >> i hope you're not married. >> -- wants the prostitutes in his neighborhood gone. >> if i catch you, you get a life sentence. >> he -- >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself! >> wants government officials to play by the same rules as everybody else. >> they're afraid that of me. >> you're not allowed to do that. >> and she -- >> i probably cried more than i had in my lifetime. >> summons the strength to protect her father. what all three of these people capture on camera is shocking. >> something hit me like a ton
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of bricks. >> in plain sight. >> going to jail, bud. >> i and in their homes. >> get out of my face, man. >> using video cameras. >> get off my camera. >> to fight for justice. for safer streets. >> you want to go to jail? >> and for their loved ones. >> the cameras saved my dad's life. sds are have you ever seen something that made you so angry you wanted to do something about it but you weren't sure what? most of us can't handout a ticket or arrest people. the folks you're about to meet have found a clever way to take action. to get their own brand of justice. and they're fighting for what they feel is right. >> you made an illegal u-turn in
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a business district. >> don't do that. >> he's patrolling mean streets of new york city. >> you broke the law! >> get out of my face, man! >> but he's not handing out tickets or catching criminals. >> you broke the law! >> instead, he's catching them on camera. police officers, meter maids and any other government official he sees violating the very laws they're supposed to enforce. and they are not happy to see him. >> are you going to run me over now? >> i've been roughed up. i've been threatened. i've been confronted? >> i'm jimmy justice. >> but the man who calls himself "jimmy justice" won't back down. >> they're afraid of me. >> you're not allowed to do that. >> they're afraid of my video camera. >> what are you doing? move away from the vehicle. >> i'm filming you breaking the law. >> his goal? to bring justice, vigilante justice, to the streets of new york. streets on which he says he sees a double standard. >> everybody else gets summons the second they break the law.
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>> you're in a no standing zone, it's a bus stop. you would give a ticket to somebody else who did that. but the people writing those summons drive around the city like cowboys and do whatever they want with impunity and i wanted to bring justice. i wanted to level the playing field. >> it all begins in 2005. a fuse is lit when jimmy justice sees a traffic agent make a u-turn over a double yellow line. in his mind, an obvious violation of the law. he starts reporting the violations he stees law enforcement by taking still photos but he says his complaints go nowhere. so he comes up with a plan to become a video vigilante. >> wherever i am in the city i bring my video camera with me. video camera is the great equalizer. the video camera does not lie and it's just a matter of a few moments before i see something that i feel i need to videotape. >> jimmy by day a 37-year-old sound engineer and part-time musician, by night video
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vigilante. he doesn't make any money at it but he says moments like these are priceless. >> why are you taking a picture of me? >> the sign is clear, no parking any time. >> i'm taking a picture of you because you're a police officer who's supposed to enforce the law. >> -- no parking? >> and you parked your police car in a place where the sign says no parking any time. >> you're harassing me. >> you're not doing your job. >> she confirmed there is a no parking any time sign. >> the new york police department declined our request for an interview but they tell us marked police vehicles are allowed to park in no parking zones during emergencies. jimmy justice says the agent in this video comes up with the most creative emergency he's ever heard. >> you're not doing your job. you went into the rite aid. >> i can go into the rite aid because you don't know if i have a feminine problem. you don't know if i have any type of problem. you don't know if i have my asthma, if i need my medicine you don't know my business. so if i went in there and i have my period, going in there, all
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right? >> you don't have to park properly. >> i am parked properly. >> the sign says no parking any time. >> a handicapped person can park in no parking. >> are you handicapped? >> how do you know that? >> when he gets videos jimmy justice posts them on youtube to expose what he sees as a double standard. >> the public loves. it. everybody's wondering about the opportunity. not everybody has the guts to do it. living vicariously. >> and jimmy is kicking it up a notch to keep those online viewers coming back for more. >> waah. i'm calling for backup, waah. he has a camera, he's dangerous! >> jimmy knows he sound like a cry baby but he says this is a serious issue that needs attention and he thinks these
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antics help. >> you broke the law! >> what has him so upset in this video? these new york city sanitation enforcement agents are blocking a bus stop. >> look, the buses can't get through can they, tom snas can the buses get through? no, they can't get through because of you. because you parked your official vehicle blocking a bus stop, a designated no-standing zone skippy-o. >> they parked not at the edge of the bus stop, they're right in the middle. it's disgusting. >> jimmy isn't only furious because of what he sees at the bus stop. minutes earlier and a few blocks away he caught these same sanitation enforcement agents blocking a fire thigh hydrant. >> you're parking your official city vehicle blocking a fire pump? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. you're supposed to enforce the law not violate the law. are you allowed to park within 15 feet of a fire hydrant in new york city? you are? so you don't even know the laws. >> get out of my face, please.
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>> jimmy's not surprised he catches these agents with his camera twice, first at a fire hydrant then a bus stop. but when they pull their official vehicle up to another hydrant. >> oh, it's a fire hydrant! oh, my! >> a third violation, he's seen enough. she's writing a summons to someone else. when she commits a violation with her own official city vehicle. what a shame. shame on you. it just shows the systematic abuse of authority. that's why i do what i do. that's why i make these videos because i'm trying to change the system. >> coming up -- >> get out of my face, man! >> danger ahead. a department of education employee tries to teach jimmy justice a lesson. and playing with fire. >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself! while you here in the store you don't hear the sirens? what's the matter with you? >> when "caught on camera, video vigilantes" returns. curl up with their favorite man. but here's the thing: about half of men over 40
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video vid ladgilante jimmy justice is out on the streets of new york. he's keeping track of law enforcement and government officials catching him on camera. >> what is your problem? >> here's a traffic agent parking in front of a fire hydrant. she goes into the store to get some food and while she's ordering, sirens, flashing light, fire trucks pull up and jimmy justice is hot under the collar. >> you're a traffic enforcement agent and you parked your official vehicle blocking a fire pump? and there's a fire outside with firemen out there! and they have no access to the pump! you ought to be ashamed of yourself. while you're in the store you don't hear the sirens? what's the matter we you? fire engines were coming from every direction and the nerve of this woman to just stay there online and order her food and not move her vehicle. that was a little too over the top for me.
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i lost my cool. >> have a good day. >> what's the matter with you? >> jimmy often gets aggressive in his videos. in his mind he's doing a public service but critics say he goes to too far to embarrass people in uniform. >> move so i can use my vehicle. >> you've been parked in a bus stop for 20 minutes, you broke the law. >> james huntley is the union president for traffic enforcement. he wants him to let up. >> traffic enforcement is doing a hardworking job. i'm disappointed that a new yorker should understand what a traffic agent goes through everyday. >> jimmy won't deny he treats law enforcement with contempt and won't make apologies. >> you broke the law! i'm treating them in the same way that they treat the public. they treat civilians with such disdain, i have to go at them in the exact same way. >> take, for example, this guy who threatens to hold jimmy for videotaping. >> turn other way, please, other
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way, i have to call somebody. i'm not letting you go. >> call whoever you want he's trying to intimidate me and tell me i'm not allowed to videotape him. >> can i see your i.d., please? >> who are you? >> sir, i'm authorized. you're making a movie, stock? >> oh, show me badge, i want to see. >> it sir, i want to see your camera first. >> and he's asking me to hand over my camera and my footage to him. i'm not responsible to provide this footage to him. the footage belongs to me, it's my camera and i can do whatever i want. >> jimmy isn't intimidated and turns the tables. >> you're parked in a bus stop. that's a no-standing zone, sir. that's a no-standing zone. >> put your camera down. >> that's a no standing zone, are you allowed to park in a no-standing zone. >> yes, i do. >> why? >> because i have the emergency. >> where's the emergency. >> the truck is over there. i have to find someone for this truck. so that's an snrj. >> yes, sir. zit an emergency. >> when we asked, the nypd wouldn't define an emergency for us. based on the video, this agent is writing a summons, appears to
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be doing his job. but what he says next crosses the line for jimmy justice. >> it's an emergency to write a $115 summons to generate revenue for the city? is that the snrj? is that the zblrj yes, it is an emergency, sir. >> i thought an emergency is when somebody's life is in danger. >> maybe your life is in danger. >> it is completely inappropriate for traffic enforcement agents to threaten a civilian and tell them that their life is in danger. why is my life in danger? you call yourself a police officer? shame on you! shame on you! >> jimmy says he knows he gets under the skin of law enforcement and government officials, but on this day he finds out the hard way it's risky business. >> i'm going the board of ed, the city. >> as he strolls down a new york city sidewalk on a nice spring afternoon, he sees several city vehicles parked illegally and decides to film them. but the man he's filming becomes
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increasingly agitated. >> this van, this one and all the other vans belong to the city, the board of education. so all of us were told to park here. >> who told you to park here? because it's no standing any time zone. >> the board of education employee isn't standing for any more of jimmy's back talk. >> man, get out of my face. >> you're parked on the sidewalk. >> come on, man. >> get off my camera. >> who you work for? get out of my face, man! stop! >> add when the dust settles, jimmy's camera is broken. how can a video vigilante work without a camera? so when the board of education asks him what they can do to fix the situation, his request is simple -- >> all i wanted was my video camera paid for and replaced so that i could continue on my crusade to right the wrongs within the government here in new york city. >> wish granted. new camera compliments of the board of education. >> i think it's so ironic that
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the board of education and essentially the city bought me a new camera and a better one than the one this man destroy sod that i can use that camera to police them. >> back in business, jimmy says bring it on. he's on the streets searching for justice no matter the danger. proving an ordinary citizen armed with a video camera can make a lot of noise and he hopes a little difference. >> this is the business district. i'm jimmy justice and your days of running around this city like a cowboy are over they still don't know exactly who i am. they just know there's this guy who calls himself jimmy justice and he keeps publishing these embarrassing videos of our officers and our agents violating the same laws that they're supposed to enforce. i can do something that in a lot of cases an entire police force and millions of tax dollars can't do. >> a man on a mission catching prostitutes and their johns on camera. >> you're going to jail, buddy.
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hunts point avenue in new york city. sunset boulevard in los angeles. las vegas boulevard in sin city. in any major metropolis there's a place that's notorious pour prostitution. but in oklahoma city, one ma is trying to force the world's oldest profession out of his neighborhood. he's got a video camera, an internet connection and a lot of guts and he's putting the hookers and their johns on notice. >> it was in my neighborhood, it was in my front yard, at my neighborhood grocery snore the church parking lot. >> brian bates says street prostitution infests his oklahoma city zblabd don't be bringing hookers down here,
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buddy. brian is a husband and father with a teenage son living at home. if brian can see it, kids can, too. and what kind of parent would want their children to see this? >> no child should have to grow up where their memories of childhood involve prostitutes, drug dealers and pimps. >> in the mid-'90s, brian bates first notices lewd behavior in his neighborhood and files reports with the police but he feels his complaints fall on deaf ears so he decides to do something about it. he picks up his video camera and takes to the streets. >> i hope you're not married. >> and before long, the media notices. >> he calls himself the video vigilante. >> and bates realizes he's on to something. >> for some reason when an eyewitness tries to relate it to the police it doesn't have the punch that the video has.
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the video says it all. and it's really all i am. i'm just the security camera that moves around. >> it starts out as just a man and a video camera, but quickly grows into something much bigger when this regular guy turned video vigilante sees how powerful the camera can be, exposing hookers and the men who pay for them drawing them out of the shadows. >> you want to go to jail? i can do something that in a lot of cases an entire police force and millions of tax dollars can't do. and that's scare the bejesus out of the prostitute and the johns. >> police are on their way. >> the camera proves not only what they were up to is criminal but it also serves to shame them public. >> i very publicly. bates says he gives the footage to the police and then posts the video on youtube and his own web site johntv.com. >> if i catch you, you get a life sentence and i don't catch
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people more than once pour twice because they don't come back. >> the johns may not come back but brian's fans do. to his web site again and again. his clips on youtube are wildly popular. 500,000 hit, 600,000 hits. this one more than a million hits. >> one of the things my camera helps to dispel the myth is that that that these allahu akbarive the ties are kept behind closed doors. they're not. they're full of parks but the parks are not full of children. >> like this park. this is no place for kids because this guy and prostitute are brazenly engaging in a lewd act in plain sight on the hood of a truck. >> what are y'all doing? >> nothing. >> what are you doing? >> nothing. >> you're going jail, butd di those are the ones who make me angry. someone who would pick up a prostitute in front of kids playing and then take them a park where there's even more kids playing, get out of the vehicle and have sex out in the
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open on the hood of the car and then when you approach them, we're not doing nothing, just me and my girlfriend. >> bates makes his living off youtube and john tv. he know this is type of work is not for everyone. >> what i do is insanely dangerous. critic or fan alike. >> i need an officer i have a vehicle trying to run me off the road. >> the only thing they agree on is they can't believe i'm not dead and that i've never been hurt doing it. >> sergeant paco balderama is a ten-year veteran of the oklahoma city police department and also wants to get the hookers off the street bus he says knob should put themselves in danger to fight crime on their own. >> we want citizens to get involved. we want them to call the police. the public a r our eyes and ears but at the same time a citizen is not trained like a police officer. basely to effect an arrest an officer receives up to two years
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of training before they're out there are there by themselves. >> bates agrees he warn ace spiring video vigilantes. he says he's very careful and takes precautions. when he approaches a video and a john he has 911, he keeps his camera rolling and tries not to get into a situation without an escape route. yet often he walks right up to people in very compromising positions. >> i really wasn't thinking. >> bates catch this is man on camera with a working girl only seconds earlier and vents his frustration. >> our kids can't play outside, our wives can't walk to the gross restore. why? because the hookers out here. why? because guys like you keep picking them up. what's going through your head, buddy? >> nothing, i just don't think. >> can you understand why i'm out here doing this? >> yes. >> this video is one of his more popular ones on youtube. more than 300,000 hits and counting. maybe because of how shocking it
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is. only moments before this confrontation, bates is out on his normal rounds shooting video when a big delivery truck catches his eye. >> i didn't pay any attention to it. it's a huge truck. except i noticed he kept circumstance willing prostitute in this park so i decided to start rolling on him. well, sure enough, he pulls up to her, she gets up to the cab, starts talking to him. minute later boom, she's around, she's in the cab, they're driving away. >> so he follows the truck to a popular local restaurant where it parks. >> i'm thinking this is it, they're going to do in the the cab of the truck. no, they get out of the truck, go around to the back of the truck, open up the back of the truck and go inside, shut the door and i'm assuming proceed to engage in a lewd act. i called the police, i called lowe's, lowe's didn't have any way to contact the driver. >> bates says he hears violent noises coming from the back of the truck. it sounds like someone is getting hurt so he decides to take action. >> i open up the door, sure enough, there's the lowe's
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driver having sex with this girl on somebody's appliance that was supposed to be deliver and the rest is sort of history. >> amazingly, that have brazen act, the john sticks around to talk to bates. >> are you amerireed man? >> yes. >> what would your wife say? and why don't you drch. >> probably kick my ass. >> and why don't you have a wedding ring on? >> i lost my wedding ring in iraq. >> why don't you buy another one. >> i don't have the money. >> you just paid for a hooker! these johns go out and think what a great deal, you can buy just about any sex act for $20. i'm here to tell you, $20 can cost you your job, it can get your a disease, it can cost you your marriage, it can cost you your reputation in the community. and if i post the video online, it's a life sentence. so i guess it's quite a deal for 20 bucks. >> well, this is your ride. i was just stalling until the cops got here. >> i'm going to jail?
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>> we called lowe's and they tell us the incident concerns them, they have this to say. "the behavior we observed on the video is clearly a violation of low lowe's policy and we have taken corrective measures to address this matter." as for the john, police arrest him, tow away the truck. just another day in the life of a video vigilante. >> if i was just some psychologist out there talking about how bad prostitution is, nobody would pay attention. but if i've got these over-the-top videos of people caught in the act literally with their pants down it becomes a water cooler talk the next day and people said have you been to that nut job's web site that catches those people? and that's fine. if i've got to be known as the crazy guy with the video camera, that's great. you can't help but go to my web site and watch a handful of these videos and realize virtually everything you know about prostitution is a myth. coming up, a bust that gets brian bates national attention. >> by the time it was over there
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were probably no less than 15 or 20 squad cars in that parking lot. >> and the man behind the lens dives into the action into a vicious fight. when "caught on camera, video vigilantes" continues. ♪ the bold nissan rogue, with intuitive all-wheel drive. because winter needs a hero. now save up to $1,000 when you finance the 2015 nissan rogue. ♪ [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.® i have the flu with a runny nose. campbell's healthy request. [coughs] better take something.
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. >> i'm richard lui with your hour's top stories. two planes are being inspect at hartsfield atlanta airport after threats made against them. norad fighter jets escorted those flielgtds to the airport and everyone on board was evacuated. in a news conference earlier this afternoon, new england patriots coach bill belichick said the team did not deinflate balls.
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>> brian bates is no lawman, he isn't a police officer. he can't arrest people and he doesn't carry a gun. but over the years, he's captured hundreds of prostitutes and their johns on camera. he's made a name for himself locally with his eye-popping video. but then, what he catches on tape here vaults him into the national spotlight. >> tell me what you were shooting and how it unravelled? >> at that time i was actually just driving through the neighborhood. >> the date is monday, july 8, 2002 and brian bates is out videotaping as usual. he sees a truck pick up a woman he knows to be a prostitute so he starts rolling. >> no big deal, like every other case, i'll follow it, see where they go. well, first thing that caught me odd was they went to a church parking lot. i get out of my car, first thing i do is record the car's tag number and called 911 because they've moved to the back of the truck. >> police arrive on the scene quickly. within a couple minutes and
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order those two out of the truck. >> the john is getting out, very large black male, getting out and something odd happened at that point. the police officer did something i've never seen an officer do. he had his gun drawn but he approached the man literally putting it inches from his head and said "i'm going to effing shoot you right in the head." >> brian stands just feet away keeping his camera trained on the action and watches as that officer gets more and more physical with the john. >> the police officer is trying to handcuff the john but then the officer thought he noticeding? the guy's mouth and started accusing him of having something in his mouth. he wasn't fighting. i think he easily could have taken on this officer and he didn't but he wasn't going to allow himself to be handcuff and the officer decides to start wailing on this guy and hits him several times. by the time he's over, there's
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no less than 15 or 20 squad cars in the parking lot before they finally got the guy handcuffed and in the back of the truck and hauled him away. >> the oklahoma city district attorney won't press charges but the video grabs headlines nationwide and bates says that was a real turning point in his friendly relationship with the oklahoma city p.d. >> after that point -- up to that point i think the police looked at me as being on their side and when i released this tape and was critical of the tape things changed and changed dramatically in my relationship with police. >> despite his rift with law enforcement, nothing will stop brian bates. he's out filming on a spring afternoon and sees another scuffle and this time he breaks his own rule and gets dangerously close to the action. >> one afternoon i'm out taping, it was a large group, five or six known prostitutes, fairly attractive prostitutes, they were really causing quite the crowd to form. and i'm just taping them assuming one of them is going to get picked up soon and then
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literally you can tell it's almost like, you know, a bunch of birds scattering. these girls start to take off in different directions. >> a rival pimp and prostitute arrive on the scene and they are angry as they chase one girl, bates realizes she's in serious trouble. >> take this. >> he asks someone to hold his camera and he jumps in. >> literally you have this girl who's down on the ground with another prostitute holding her hair beating her in the face. the pimp is beating her, too. and cars aren't even stopping. they're just slowing down. i'm trying to pull the prostitute off but i'm trying not to aggravate the situation into a bigger brawl. i can't throw any punches, i don't want to do anything that will now focus all their energy on me. >> bates breaks up the fight. watch as he tears the attacker off of this woman. >> let's go. let's go. >> the girl had broken bones to her face. it would have really been bad if somebody hadn't intervened. it just so happened it was me. >> the hooker got hurt but brian was fine and no regrets about getting involved.
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the experience reminds him how violent prostitution can be. and he doesn't think most folks realize that. >> i get people all the time say "brian, why prostitutes? why don't you go after the murderers, the drug dealers, the child rapists? why don't you go after those people?" i'm here to tell you, those people are our prostitutes and our pimps and our johns. these aren't pta moms making a few extra bucks, these are hardened criminals. >> out on his beat, bates has seen it all, armed robberies, drug deals and violent crimes. on this day, driving his normal route he witnesses another scary scene. >> i notice there's this group of black males surrounding this black female prostitute and they're trying to force her into a car. >> a kidnapping and, unbelievably, it's happening right in front of him. >> so i'm literally driving 911 in one hand, cram in the other and i'm steering with my knees
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trying to get the evidence and all that i can remember is them pushing the girl in, shutting the door and then another guy diving in the back window to try to keep her down inside the car. >> bates knows he needs to doing? so he tries to get their attention. >> so i bump their vehicle with mine. bumped it rather forcefully with my vehicle and they opened up the door and threw the girl out and took off. >> battered, bruised, and bleeding, the woman staggers to brian's car with a message. >> "thank you, thank you, thank you. i'm sorry i maced you the other day." sure enough, i realized this was a woman who probably three weeks before that had maced me at a pay phone and here i am trying to save her life. coming up, ride along with the video vigilante. >> why are you taking pictures of me? >> because i can. >> a rare trip inside the secret world of prostitution. >> this is the most notorious area right in here. >> plus, a personal story. >> i probably cried more than i
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this is robinson avenue, south robinson avenue in oklahoma city. it's notorious not only here in oklahoma city but all over the globe, especially through the internet, for the available of street prostitutes. >> there's an area right in here for prostitution and all kinds of criminal activity. a lot of them live there flop houses around here, rooms for rent. >> this time he's taking us along for a rare view into his seedy underground world. and it doesn't take more than 15 minutes before bates and our cameras spot a prostitute
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working a street corner in broad daylight. >> she may know this car so i'm going to pull further away down here and act like we're not interested in her. >> she doesn't want to get too close and scare her off so we pull off to a side street about a quarter mile away. now it's a waiting game. >> she's behind the green suv. >> a car approaches, even swerves for a closer look, but no pickup this time. and then suddenly that same car reverses and the video vigilante goes for his camera. >> in a situation like this, we've got a girl, i know her to be a convicted prostitute, she's out here working, she's actually out here working right next to what is one of our school bus stops and i'll simply tape her activity and wait and see if somebody picks her up. and i'll see where she takes them. >> as he sits and waits with his camera trained on the subject,
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the suspicious car pulls away and the prostitute deserts her post and bates goes fishing for his next catch. >> two hookers working that street and that's in front of the elementary school. you get to know these people. people go how do you know that's a hooker? she's not dressed like julia roberts in pretty woman. it's the same sad story. another woman bates tell us is a prostitute is pounding the pavement so he settles in away and points his camera. this one up close. [ laughter ] just pointed us out. >> bates never knows what to expect while filming but he knows danger is never far away. his cameras rah is recording that has woman gets a little too close to his car window. >> why are you taking pictures of me? >> becauseic. >> why? >> because i can. >> so what do you think i'm doing out here? >> i didn't make any allegation what is you're doing. >> are you the police. >> no. >> okay, well you have a nice
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day and god bless you. >> you, too. >> the woman walks away but bates isn't sure whether she'll be back so he decides it would be a good idea to change locations. ch. >> this is the hot sbrot the girls take the johns. a good number of them. this is the spot they use for each john all day long. >> the coast is clear when we visit the abandoned building today. >> well, we don't to look very hard today. we've got two very fresh condoms. >> but only a few days earlier in n this same location this house isn't nearly as abandoned. it's a sunday afternoon and bates is out running ere wrands his wife. >> i'm pretty sure he went up this year. >> when he spots a car pulling up into the abandoned property, he gives his wife instructions and goes in for a closer look. >> let me out here and you're
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going to keep pulling up there and just wait. >> he takes an alternate route so he doesn't get spotted. >> this is a felony, you're over here by a church. >> and this guy is in a pretty big rush to vacate the hide away. for an abandoned lot, this property sure seems to get a lot of traffic. it's only a few weeks later when bates sees another car parked outside. he hears noidsses, this time coming from inside the house so he goes in for a closer look and sure enough these people are getting pretty comfortable in a home that isn't theirs. >> you do realize this is private property, don't you? >> so brian chases another couple off. >> cops are on the way, already got the tag number. now some people would say, well, this is kind of out of the way, not the public, nobody seeing it. we're in the middle of a neighborhood. we're within a thousand feet of an elementary school. it's just disgusting but these pockets of places they'll show up, this one they'll stop using
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this one here in a month or two and then have to figure out where the next one is. >> next stop an apartment building. a truck pulls up, a woman gets out. bates initially doesn't think this woman is a working girl but he has a bad feeling about whether what these people are doing. >> no good whatever it is. >> sensing danger, he takes off and parks in another area. >> okay, here we go. >> here we see the same woman, same green pants who bates didn't think was a prostitute when she got out of one car only moments earlier getting into another car as our cameras record the action. >> he comes towards us, put the cameras down. >> the car drives right by us so we have to put our cameras down out of view. >> that's a pretty good example of what i see out here everyday. >> as bates keeps his camera rolling, the chase is on. he thinks we're trailing a prostitute and her john and he's making sure to keep his distance
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so we don't get spotted? >> trying not to stay in their rear-view mirror if i can. >> the red car turns right and we follow on a parallel street. he catches them at the next traffic light and as we get close enough bates has safety on his mind. >> the very first thing i want to record either visually or audio is the tag and that way if something was to happen, if i was to get hurt, they would hurt somebody else, whatever, my i have the tag number so the driver can be identified later. >> as we trail this possible prostitute and her john bates explains what he's feeling. >> there's certainly a russia's involved in this. some people make the mistake and think, oh, this -- catching people out having public sex, there must be a sexual rush or perversion to it. you don't have to spend 20, 30 minutes out here to know that the rush is they're catching the bad guy. the guy who caught he could prey on this community. and you can actually make a
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difference. >> but as we follow, the red car gets too far ahead, they make a left turn into a neighborhood. >> they don't normally go in this direction so he may have a house down here. >> the two are gone. no gotcha moment to post on the web. this time. >> you figure the hookers aren't going anywhere. they'll be back. we'll have another shot. >> as we pass through town, he spots a prostitute he knows so he takes out his camera. >> the last time he got arrested she had a set of brass knuckles with knives coming out of each hand onner. >> as bates tells our crew about this woman's violent past, she spots us across the street and reaches for something hidden in her coat. a tense moment, will she pull out a web. >> she's going to take a picture of me. >> but she whips out a camera and turns the tables on brian. she's obviously making a joke, but she's got a violent past so
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bates plays it safe and calls 911. >> i was wondering if you had an officer available, prostitute and her pimp at southwest 33rd and south robinson. >> she walks right up to the window, inches away. >> how does it feel to be filmed? >> finally, a money shot for the truth is, bates doesn't necessarily mind having his picture taken. in fact, he's actually glad this woman is recording. he thinks everyone, himself included, is fair game when it comes to being caught on camera. >> i think when i first picked up my camera 12 years ago, what i was doing was extreme. and now, when we're becoming a society where people, everyone has a cell phone, everyone has a video camera, everyone has access to the internet, what i do is no longer an oddity like it was 12 years ago. and i think it's a good thing. up next, shocking abuse, caught on camera. a woman summons all of her strength to protect her father. >> my insides were churning. daddy, are you okay?
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welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. brian bates and jimmy justice use their video cameras out in plain sight, looking for that big "gotcha" moment. but the savvy woman you're about to meet never wanted to catch anything like that. and hers is a very personal story. jackie taylor installed a security system, so-called granny cams, in her house, when her elderly father became bedridden. the cameras were meant to give her peace of mind. but what they recorded did anything but that. 90-year-old john taylor, a stroke victim, lies defenseless, as his nurse repeatedly beats him over and over again. >> she just was angry right from the beginning, shaking her finger at him, pounding him in the chest and his stomach. >> john's daughter, jackie,
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catches it all on a security camera, she installed on her home to be her eyes and her ears while she's away. >> of course, anger and shock immediately. >> the vicious beating sickens jackie not only because of the cruelty bought this is a woman she trusted, a woman she considered a friend. >> she would say, jackie, you're like a daughter to me. you know, mother's day, i bought her flowers, things of that nature because even in the short period of time she was here, i thought we bonded pretty well. >> it all begins two months earlier. jackie's a single woman, working seven days a week, to pay for her dad's soaring medical expenses. so she hires anna to care for her father. he suffered two strokes. jackie wants the best possible care for the man who's doted on her all her life. >> daddy's little girl. always gave me anything i wanted. >> she especially wants loving treatment for her dad after a recent horrifying experience at a rehab facility where jackie learns her father had been
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abused. >> i probably cried more than i had in my lifetime. just the frustration. not knowing where to turn, who to turn to, what do i do kind of thing. but i can't be falling apart. i can't help my dad falling apart. you know, i have to show that same strength, that same tenacity, the same motivation as i have seen my dad show through his whole ordeal. >> jackie, a woman with her instincts, decides to bring him home, to the house she grew up in as a little girl. but experience tells her to be cautious. so she installs video cameras in her home. >> at this point, i didn't trust anybody. so i wanted to make sure that he was really being taken care of. >> on first impression, jackie really likes the new nurse. >> she was someone that sat in the dining room and read the bible every day. so i think, hey, i have this really nice christian woman, you know, in my home taking care of my dad.
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she seemed very nice, really down to earth. >> despite her good feeling, jackie checks her security cameras regularly for the first couple of weeks. she says she sees a nurse doing her job -- changing her father. feeding him. bathing him. everything she's supposed to do. weeks go by. jackie's working hard. her father seems very happy and well taken care of. so she stops checking the footage. but then, suddenly, that nagging instinct kicks in. it's saturday afternoon. and jackie's coming up from doing some laundry in her basement. >> and something just hit me like a ton of bricks that said, you really need to look at the cameras now. it just stopped me dead in my tracks. and i went back down the stairs. and to my surprise and shock, i saw her just beating my dad with her fist. and my dad wasn't doing anything but lying there. she was trying to change him. >> horrified, jackie knows she needs to go back upstairs. she runs through her options.
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should she confront the nurse? should she call the police? she wants to see what her father remembers. >> i said to my dad, i said, daddy, are you okay? and he says, yes. and i say, are you sure? and he goes, yeah, i'm okay. >> the man has had two strokes. his short-term memory is gone. he can't remember what happened to him. and he can't tell his daughter about the beatings. so she turns to anastasia. >> my insides are churning. i looked at anastasia and i said, anastasia, do you like working here? and she says, yes, of course, jackie, i love working here. you know i like my job. why? >> jackie had already called the police. minutes later, they arrive. look at jackie's footage. they arrest the nurse. the ordeal makes jackie very angry. but she's thankful about one thing. >> the cameras saved my dad's life. the cameras were able to see what i couldn't see since i'm not at home, so they were one of the best investments i've ever made. >> jackie taylor wants her story
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to be heard. she's written congress. spoken to her senator. and wants the penalties for elder abuse to be harsher. but most of all, she wants everyone to protect themselves and their loved ones with a video camera. >> i mean if i can help one individual, you know, sitting in a nursing home today, keep them from being beaten, if i have gotten through to one caregiver that maybe thought about hitting a person today and said, you know what, i don't know if they installed cameras while i was off this weekend. maybe i shouldn't do it. maybe i shouldn't push them down. maybe i shouldn't be verbally abusive. then i think i've done a lot. >> these days, video cameras are everywhere. in stores. mounted to traffic lights. even on cell phones. and you can bet, if you're doing something wrong, something outrageous, or something illegal, someone somewhere is recording it all.
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that's it for this edition of "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. terrifying accidents. >> oh, that is horrible. good lord. >> up in the thin air. and on the high seas. when danger calls -- >> emergency? >> a structure fire, fully engulfed. >> they are the ones to answer. >> we had him out in seconds. >> seeing this incredible act of instinctive heroism was just amazing. >> amazing acts of courage. >> i asked the man upstairs to help me. >> it was the obvious thing to do. it was the human thing to do. >> lives hanging in the balance. >> i thought he was just knocked unconscious. i tried.
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