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[Music] when i was in vice as an undercover i spent approximately 18 months walking the streets of queens
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doing prostitution the only difference was that i was working undercover and this was their
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actual life but we had a lot of similar stories to hear their stories and not able to
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talk to them about my story and how i survived it was heartbreaking a lot of times
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my name is katrina cook brownlee and when i was 22 years old i lived with my ex-fiance in a house of horror
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i don't remember not having a black eye whether it been the right one the left one
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it was a busted lip it was always something that's why shades became a signature for
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me [Music] i called the police on him several times he was a new york city corrections
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officer and every time he would flash that badge and every time he flashed that badge
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they would walk away that badge was much more important than my life she got to the point where she feared
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for her safety and the safety of her kids and that's when she decided no more but when the decision was made to leave
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the risk factor for katrina went through the roof my name is carrie herzog in january of 1993 i was an assistant
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district attorney i don't think she in any way could have foreseen what was going to
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happen to her when she came through that door [Music] [Laughter] he opened the door and he just had like
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a weird look on his face it was strange and he pointed a gun to me and said this
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is the day you die [ __ ] and he shot me in my stomach and then he shot me again
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and he emptied the gun after the first five reloaded and proceeded to shoot her again five
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more times each time he would say to katrina are you ready to die katrina bang is this the day you're going to die
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katrina bang you know you deserve this katrina bang this was a man on a mission and he was armed and deadly
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this could have easily been a homicide but because of katrina's will to live and will to survive
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it wasn't god had a whole different plan for me my story starts from a very dark place
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and it becomes a story of grace a story of love and a story of hope why did you want to become a cop
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i wanted to become a good cop there's a difference yeah a good cop has empathy a good cop cares about people that they
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have to protect and have to serve i was a great cop [Music] you