"I love [night patrol]…because usually at night the only people outside are…bad guys and police officers and it makes my job easier."

"There’s a lot of art in the city just looking down the street, a lot of architecture up there, a lot of scenes, a lot of emotion out there you could pick up on film, or canvas if you have the eye for it. A lot of people look at it and [say] ‘that’s just a transient or a homeless person,’ but if you look at him sitting by his fire cleaning his toenails or sitting right next to an empty can of booze or food…you get that on a black and white [photo], it would show some kind of emotion, some kind of the times that we’re in or the times that person’s going through. Some portion of his life."

About the art:

"To me it’s depicting an era. When I came on 5 years ago and even before…I always looked up to the police department as someone to solve problems, and make my life enjoyable and safe to where I can go out in the streets and enjoy life and not worry about the nastier side of people. But as time goes on…and I’ve been on the job long enough, to see that the badge melting says to me little by little the Department as a whole or any other police entity is just losing it’s firm grip it had on people at one time and…the baton broke in half, not that we’re the type to go out and beat people and that’s what we use it for, but the ability to go out and do what we have to do to get the job done is no longer there. It’s been taken away from us."

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