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"I'm down wit 'cha bein' da gangsta cause you was right wit da G." Decipher that one, why don't you.

On 11-22-05, I observed an inmate in an unauthorized area. He had not been in the block long, but I had spoken to him several times about policy violations already. He had never done anything really bad, but he was pushing the limits and becoming a problem child. I hadn't written him up for anything, I just had to speak to him too often about his minor violations. He wasn't even being sneaky about it.

When I spoke to him this day about being in an unauthorized area that is when he said, "I'm down wit cha bein' da gangsta, cause you was right wit da G."

Huh? What's that you say? I didn't want to let on that I didn't understand him. His manner was that he was accepting my directive. I wrote down what he said, so I could figure it out later.

When I had time, I broke his statement down. G was a nickname of Boomers. Fixing up the broken English helped.

The statement now was, "I am down with you being the gangster, because you were right with Boomer."

"Down with" meant that he was alright with, could accept or handle me being the gangster.

"The gangster" was how he perceived me. I enforced policies consistently when others were too intimidated or lazy to enforce them.

"Right with G" was that I had helped Boomer out. I treated him decent. I helped him as I would've anyone, but never crossed the line. While other officers were trying to find a way to write him up and put a notch on their belt, I was trying to assist him in functioning without being harassed; encouraging him to play it straight.

So, what I came up with from this guy's statement was that I wasn't going to have any problems with him because he respected what I had done for Boomer.

He was a player and a nuisance, but he knew when not to push the limits. If he was going to do anything major, it would be when I wasn't around. This was one guy that I never had to write up; due to my friendship with Boomer.