＂Who's R. Kelly？＂ - Florida Sheriff DETAILS The Day He Arrested R. Kelly
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Polk County Sheriff Mike Grisham is a man of many talents. He s served as a police officer, a prosecutor, a state legislator, and a state senator, and now he s a sheriff. In this episode, he talks about his career, his approach to law enforcement, and what it takes to keep the community safe.
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Fifty-four years means if I'm 30, you know, when you were coming up,
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you could have met me at five years old, and I'm a cop working for you, right?
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And in Polk County, how many kids grow up because of you saying,
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I want to be a cop one day, I want to be a sheriff one day?
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So we are swearing in a group of deputies, and then we have their wife,
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their sister their mother their father pin on their badge right so a mother comes up and she's
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pinning on the badge of her her son who is now a brand new deputy and I look at him while she's
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pinning the badge on and I said you know I worked for the sheriff's office before you were born
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and he said sheriff you worked for the sheriff's office before my mama was born
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I thought that was a telling moment in life so I had worked for the sheriff's office much longer
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I started work at the sheriff's office when I was 18.
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My dream from the time I was, as far back in as I can remember,
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And I've been offered to run for governor, House of Representatives, Senate.
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You know, I've had political groups come really, really recruit me.
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Kids wanted to grow up to be cops, right, in the area.
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You sound like you're big on making examples of people that do dumb things, so they stop doing it.
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Have you ever had bad cops, and how do you treat bad cops?
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If we have a cop who violates the law, we investigate them.
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I do a press release, and then I do a press conference.
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oh, you can go online and see where I've held pictures of deputies that we've arrested
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We all go by the rules, and if you don't, then I'm going to use that public record.
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That public record is there so the community knows who is being arrested.
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Just an example of see how you make it, because this makes me as a voter in your county to say this guy's fair.
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He treats everybody the same with the same standards.
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Sure. You know, fortunately, I've got twelve hundred deputies and it's a rare, rare, rare event.
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But occasionally, well, here's one that they've brought up for us.
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Twenty one year old Jake Erick was booked in Polk County Jail and charged with forgery,
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uttering a false instrument, use of ID of another person without consent,
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Had he not resigned, his employment would have been terminated by PSA.
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Public servant must be held to a higher standard.
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and we are making sure he will be held responsible.
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Yes, I'd do a press release and put his picture out there.
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Is that a – do you think making examples of people publicly is effective?
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I believe in using the public record of the state of Florida.
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And I truly believe that we hold law enforcement officers to a higher standard
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because law enforcement officers are supposed to be the positive example for the community, and they are.
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When you go throughout my community and you see a deputy,
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then you can be sure that that deputy's honest, ethical, and moral
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because if he or she's not, they can't work for me.
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When a law enforcement officer, a deputy in my county,
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as many times as not when he goes to pay the bill,
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when he gets up to leave, somebody's picked it up and paid it.
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Our community wraps their arms around us and supports us.
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You know, when you see a guy in a uniform, it's like, hey, thank you for your service.
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When you see a guy that's keeping your community safe and you've got kids, hey, I want to make sure you're happy.
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But it's also important that your standards are equal whether somebody is working for you versus if it's somebody that's criminal as well.
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By the way, who is the most famous person you've dealt with, you pulled over?
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For example, just a few days ago, we all saw the mugshot of Tiger Woods.
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And Tiger Woods, you know, I'm a big fan of, I love the guy on how he is,
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And then while he's getting arrested, there's a clip that came viral
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that he's right, that this is the camera of him calling the president.
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If I'm not mistaken, Rob, is this the TMZ Sports?
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Have you guys, you know, had any incidents where somebody is there coming through?
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Yeah, I'm trying to think there was a rapper that was hiding out in Davenport several years ago.
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So he is now in prison in Illinois for sex crimes against children.
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And we arrested him and put him in the county jail.
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Interestingly enough, the story behind that is some of the detention deputies,
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because, as you know, R. Kelly's a pretty big deal,
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they wanted to pose with him and get pictures with him while he was in jail.
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But it cost them a suspension because that's not professional.
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No, this was before they knew that he was the deviant he was.
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He was just a high-profile rapper that was arrested.
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But my guys went out and arrested him, and they said, R. Kelly is downstairs in the jail.
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Did they play the song to say, listen, Sheriff Grady Judd, this is R. Kelly.
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Have you ever had guys that come up to you and say, do you know who I am?
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You know, back in the day when you were a deputy, they tried that kind of thing.
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And today they try it with my deputies because obviously, you know, I've got a presence.
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Well, I'm friends of Sheriff Grady Judd and my deputy smiled at him and said, well, I am too.
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Well, what do you do if you have a friend that gets arrested and tries to use your name and says, come on, Grady, you got to take care of me here.
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I tell him, you know, I'll give you two pillows and an extra mattress, but you're going to the county jail.
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has it ever happened like a very very good friend oh yes relatives and you know i tell them lock
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them up lock them up that's what we do we put bad guys in jail we put people who violate the law in
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jail so yes i've had i've had friends i've had acquaintances they look at you and say how could
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you do this grady i have how could you do this oh it's easy what do you tell them makes me smile
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Now, and I tell you, you know, if they get all sad, you know, I tell them, you know,
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I'll call your wife to bond you out if that'll help you out some, but you got to go.
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You know, this whole thing with Vagitamin and P-B-D podcast started with a phone, me and Mario.
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And it grew today to, you know, 15 million subscribers almost and 164 full-time employees.