What does "I came up a million years ago when you handled your business" mean? The speaker saw a bruise of the other junior police officer.[Audio]

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It sounds as though the speaker is a police officer. What he said means that, during the period when he was getting started in his career in the police, which was a long time ago (he uses hyperbole here), the police could use more aggressive tactics to deal with criminals, whereas nowadays they need to follow proper procedure.

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