Rookie Blues: Tales of DOA Duty in the Big Apple #shorts #RookieBlues #NYPDStories #CityOfContrasts

So when you're a rookie cop you get stuck with all the shitty assignments. It's just the way it is and nobody likes getting stuck with the DOAs in a new York like you were we 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.