Behind the Scenes: The Grit of NYPD's DOA Duty #shorts #NYPDReality #DOADuty #BehindTheBadge

It's just the way it is. And nobody likes getting stuck with the doas. And in New York, like you were talking about Manhattan earlier, say, God forbid someone dies in their apartment. Not a suspicious death, just someone passes, the police show up, they do their investigation. The detectives come. Once it's deemed it's probably not a crime scene, you got to wait for the medical examiner to come to officially, even though the person's dead and EMS says they're dead, you have to wait for the medical examiner. There's only a couple of medical examiners. They're overworked. They're responding. Around the city, at any given day, you got multiple people dead in New York for a lot of different reasons. Natural, unnatural. It's called sitting on a doa. So the cop that gets assigned that, it's often the young guys or girls. You're going to be there with this DOA in this apartment or this house for hours. And it smells. It's nasty. So you got this young cop, this old man dies in his apartment in a housing project.