This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Quotes, Social Media Activity, and Puns

A recap of the August 19, 2023, OPL episode (OPL #02-10) appears below.

About 50 On Patrol: Live cameras go into the field with the law enforcement officers usually from eight or nine different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings. 

An On Patrol: Live recap, including studio host Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-host Curtis Wilson and guest analyst Will Armstrong (Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff, and Brookford, N.C., police chief, respectively), follows.

[Click here for the OPL #02-09 recap]

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On Patrol: Live Summary for August 19, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-10)

  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Rich Olshefski and other units investigate a car accident involving a possible drunk driver in a residential neighborhood who struck a parked car. Breathalyzer test administered.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers, including the Maher brothers (Det. Chris and Lt. Richie), pursue a fleeing stolen vehicles. The occupants bail from the wrecked-out vehicle and flee on foot. K9 deployed. Cops detain two juvenile suspects who surrendered after the pursuit. Heavy bleeping. Car search.

Cops detain two juvenile suspects who surrendered after the pursuit. Heavy bleeping. Ofr. Roger Lawson: “They made a wise decision giving up, but K9 Ali stays undefeated.”

One of the Mahers describes the suspects as “frequent flyers,” in that they’ve been previously arrested for alleged auto theft.

Abrams: “As you heard there, it’s got to be rewarding that they got them, and that K9 Ali was able to find them, but frustrating that you hear that these are frequent flyers.” Dep. Wilson: “Again, it’s the story that we continue to talk about over and over and over again. Individuals continue to commit these same types of crimes. The judicial system — again a little lenient on juveniles. But again, you see this happening. It’s got to end somehow. Got to stop this.” Armstrong: “That’s where the parents should come in. I mean, these kids obviously have no respect for the law or authority…”

  • Volusia County, Fla. — Dep. Royce James makes a traffic stop at gas station for nonfunctioning headlight. He spots an alleged blunt. When James asks the driver if his license is valid, the driver responds “should be,” which James describes as an unusual answer.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Hunter Rogers conduct traffic stop. The driver admits to a small amount of weed in the vehicle. Car search. Rogers issues a citation. Abrams quips that “I thought she didn’t want to be on camera. Suddenly, she’s using this as a marketing opportunity, getting pulled over.”
  • Brookford, N.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Traffic stop on a pick-up truck for running a red light. Abrams introduces the segment by explaining that Chief Armstrong “pulled over a driver who insisted he wasn’t driving.” The driver apparently was operating the vehicle on a revoked license and allegedly has a warrant in connection with same. The driver claims he wasn’t engaging in the legal definition of driving. Armstrong tells the driver “you’re not the first person that says you’re traveling…that’s sovereign-citizen-type talk” which doesn’t prevail in court. He also quips “somebody ‘travel’ this thing to the tow yard.” Citations also issued.

Abrams: “These sovereign citizens are so tiresome, and as you’re clearly pointing out there, you deal with them a lot, right?” Armstrong: “Oh yeah. Ignorance of the law is not a valid reason to break it. Most of these people, they come up with something that they’ve read or they got from their prior cellmate…” Abrams: “…I’ve made the comment before: These are people who are getting their degrees at ‘U of Tube.’ Wilson: “…Every state, you’ve got to have a valid driver’s license.”

  • Toledo, Oho — Officers investigate upon a report of a group allegedly brandishing firearms. They encounter a subject who attempts to flee; cops wrestle the latter to the ground. Heavy bleeping. Multiple cops respond to the scene. Paramedics summoned to the scene to check out the subject. The subject is apparently arrested on several charges.

Abrams: “That’s obviously an intense scene there — the officers nervous because they knew he had a gun.” Armstrong: “Oh yeah. That there is an extreme case of stupidity. He’s putting himself and the officers in a very bad situation there.” Wilson: “And not only that. When they’re tussling together, they may not know he has this gun. He could have easily just reached into his waist and got it.” Abrams: “They didn’t know where it was. That’s the problem. In the moment, we saw it actually on camera behind him. Bu the officers who were in that moment didn’t know where the gun was exactly.” Wilson: “To get him under control first and then, of course, get that weapon out of the way. And luckily though, it wasn’t just that one officer…” Abrams: “Again, we see this all the time, right? Officers patrolling scenes, doing traffic stops, and them boom, something suddenly like this happens, when the adrenalin gets going.”

Det. Todd Osting: “We got sent to this weapons call…He was just the closest individual that I saw…we see a magazine that kind of hanging out of his pocket…I told him to stop…he took off. So we gave chase and then had to use some force to put him in custody. But at this time, it looks like he’s precluded from possessing a firearm, so we’re still kind of investigating that…”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Dep. Braylyn Salmond conducts a traffic stop for a nonfunctioning tail light. The passenger was argumentative, or as Salmond describes it, “all the lip earlier.” It turns that the passenger has a warrant from Columbia PD (the county seat of Richland County). The warrant is confirmed, and he is arrested by a Columbia cop who arrives on the scene. The driver is presumably released with a warning as Salmond indicated originally.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief. Bradley Armstrong and Sgt. Clayton Dillion conduct a traffic stop. It turns out the driver allegedly has multiple felony warrants. The driver says that he already went to court, and Dillion acknowledges that the warrants could constitute a misunderstanding. After cops double check, however, they release him after apparently determining the law enforcement database was wrong. Abrams: “And this is one of those case. And the officers there admitting it, when they followed up, they made the call, et cetera.”

Abrams: “Back to back situations with warrants, and Curtis, we’re talking [about] Richland County, with Braylyn Salmond, your department, about how they go about confirming that situation of whether that guy has a warrant.” Wilson: “What they’ll do know is get in touch with the department that has the warrant on this individual and, of course, if they want him, they’re gonna come and get him.”

  • Fullerton, Calif. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers search for two teen suspects on the run after a man is shot in the foot. They also gather information from witnesses. Police helicopter deployed. One suspect detained. Cpl. Brandon Ramek: “The female who flagged us down was able to positively identify the male that we did apprehend. So he’s gonna be arrested right now for resisting a peace officer. We’re still gonna investigate further to see if he is possibly the shooter. The other male…gang type was able to get away during the foot pursuit, but we’re still doing an area search now for him. And we have one male victim. It appears that he got shot in the foot, and he’s gonna be transported to a local hospital. And seems like he is gonna make it.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong Q&A round 2.
  • Volusia County, Fla. — A woman requests a police escort to get her phone back from an ex-boyfriend who won’t come to the door. Dep. James and the female get into an argument about the situation. James appeared willing to knock on the ex’s door to see if he could retrieve the phone, but winds up leaving the scene after concluding it’s not a matter for law enforcement.

James: “So what we have going on here is boyfriend and girlfriend in an argument because she found out he is on probation, and on the text message thread that I was reading, he says ‘you left your phone in my car. You can come get it whenever you want.’ And there’s an exchange back and forth between them two that was kind of nasty, to be honest with you, and…[James and the woman start bickering again, which interrupts the update]. As I was saying, boyfriend and girlfriend are in an argument over something about a cell phone. She accidentally leaves her cellphone in her boyfriend’s car. He tells her she can come the pick the phone up, and she’s nasty with him in a text message exchange on the phone. They’re making nasty comments toward one another. So he says ‘I don’t want to be bothered with you. You can come here and get your phone. It’s on the hood of this truck.’ ‘She comes here. She doesn’t see the phone on the hood of his truck. He’s not answering the door or answering the phone. I’m trying to have an adult conversation with her, but her demeanor — this is not a law enforcement issue, so we’re just gonna leave today.”

  • OPL Triple Play #2 — Torrance, Calif.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers encounter a man laying on the ground outside a closed store with a posted no-trespassing sign The man, who says he only consumed Sprite, appears to be in physical distress with cramps. Some bleeping. Lt. Maher finds a bunch of cell phones in the subject’s bag. Medics arrive to transport the subject to a local hospital. Abrams: “No criminal charges for him.”
  • Hazen, Ark. (pre-recorded segment) — Chief Taylor and a task force of officers serve about 20 felony warrants at two locations in “Operation Back to School.” Taylor: “Right now, we’re wrapping it up. We arrested anywhere, I think, between 24 or 25 people right now. The search warrants went off without a hitch. Nobody got hurt. You come to Prairie County, you sell drugs, we will buy drugs from you, and then take you to jail.”
  • Hazen, Ark. — Traffic stop on a motorist who is towing used cars for resale. Chief Taylor: “I wouldn’t make it to the grocery store in one of these things. And they’re driving all across the United States.” Abrams; “I hope someone will get a discount on that car if they’re buying that one.”
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Dep. James respond to a dispute between a DoorDash driver and a 7-11 employee about milk-and-cookies order.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers pursue fleeing alleged stolen vehicle. The alleged driver is detained. K9 deployed. Cops continue to look for another a second suspect. Heavy bleeping.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Cops make traffic stop and attempt to administer a breathalzyer to the driver. Chief Taylor: “He’s putting his tongue over into the tube and sucking and puffing…”

After multiple attempts and instructions, the driver — who insists he is complying — finally completes the test, passes it, and is released.

Armstrong: “This is a common tactic that people that don’t want to blow do. They pretend that they are blowing, ‘I’m blowing with everything I got.’ He’s using a portable breath instrument and that’s detecting an insufficient flow.

OPL Triple Play #1 — East Texas.

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Brandon Williams investigates a domestic disturbance.