Okay. It's a very fine line, especially if you're policing your home community. As I said, over the course of my career, I've had to deal with family members, uncles, aunts and cousins, and for the most part they've been very respectful. Of course, there's going to be that period where they're angry with you. It's going to last two or three weeks, but you meet them at some family function, and they'll apologize and you move on from it.
One of the toughest things, and I have to say this right off the bat because it just happened recently.... We had an event here a couple of days ago. The acting sergeant had to become the incident commander for the situation, which involved a death. It was a close family member. You have situations like that. I personally have gone to a sudden death where it's been a close cousin who I grew up with. You have to investigate it because putting all that aside, you're still a police officer and you still have your duties to perform.
On the flip side, you go into a call somewhere and you have somebody who's agitated. They're angry and under the influence of drugs or alcohol, particularly alcohol in this instance. You walk in and they recognize you. They know it's you. They know you're from the same community. They're more apt to talk to you. You're familiar with these people. You know what they're like, so you give them that extra two or three minutes to get angry or whatever, but five minutes later, you're walking out of the house with them in handcuffs, and they're laughing and joking.
I've also gone to complaints with other non-nation members. When they walk in, the person doesn't recognize them, doesn't know who they are, so automatically, that level of engagement does not recede. It does not decrease. It stays up there.