he had been in the navy as a coreman, got out, and worked for motorolla on software chips and only moved back to new york because his mother got sick. she was very sick. she said to him -- there was an ad for police department for police recruiting ad after 9/11 said try to be a police officer. he said, oh, i don't want to do that. she finally convinced him, and he took the test, did very well, they called him immediately, and he found himself standing there in the police academy, and for the first couple years, he went along with the program. the first thing you do as a police officer is go to impact where you are sent to a high crime precinct as a rookie, and for eight months, told to write tickets. you're not given a lot of supervision, and because you're a rookie officer, they fire you for everything so there's rookies obligated to do what they are told or else they are fired. after that, he went to the precinct in bedsty, the precinct where frank started. his career, if anyone remembers who frank is. he was the central figure in a major corruption uncovering corruption in the early