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

An On Patrol: Live recap including NYC studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), and analyst Captain Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J., PD), along with the often-provocative or playful social media reaction, follows.

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On Patrol: Live tonight: In its early stages, the episode featured two pursuits, after which the content became somewhat more mundane. The incident featuring a motorist with a unique license plate generated the most attention from @OPNation (see below). Host Dan Abrams separately announced that starting Sunday, Reelz will air a marathon week of selected fan-favorite On Patrol: Live reruns.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for February 21, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-57)

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  • Richland County, S.C. (just prior to air) — Corporal TJ Norton initiates a traffic stop for speeding. The driver pulls the vehicle into a yard and foot bails. Deputies search the area for the suspect. Cell phone spotted on the ground. Abandoned car search.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Richie Maher searches the area on a report of a woman in a truck screaming for help.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Tylar Jauch conducts a traffic stop on car with a “temporary operating permit plate” that is supposedly on a test drive. The motorist does not have his wallet on him and indicates that he is unsure if his license is valid. “I’ve got child support issues.” Abrams: “That plate is asking for trouble.” Officer Jauch: “This guy is not making any sense.” The driver takes off in his car, prompting a pursuit. Officer Jauch and another colleague tackle the man who becomes very apologetic: “I’m sorry…I never ran before in my life.” Officer Jauch: “Dude, you don’t have to apologize to me. I agree you made a really dumb decision.” The motorist also admits that “I knew I had warrants.” Abrams: “I don’t even know who makes those plates, right?, as if they’re like some sort of valid temporary operating permit…” Rizzo: “…you put that tag on the car, with warrants; it’ll never cease to amaze me.” Wilson: “Here’s the thing: He didn’t want to go to jail, but now he’s gonna get an extended stay.” Rizzo: “It went from test drive to test run.” Abrams: “And it seemed like it was a split-second decision…”

Officer Jauch: “This guy is not making any sense.”

Captain Tom Rizzo: “It went from test drive to test run.”

Officer Jauch recap: “Seems like he was just having a night full of bad decisions. So he ended up having a warrant for failure to pay child support which isn’t the end of the world. Yeah, people went to jail for it, but now since he ran, he’s looking at a whole other laundry list of charges to go with it. Now we just got to figure out if we can get this car back to its actual owner or if we’re gonna have to tow it.”

Officer Jauch: “Seems like he was just having a night full of bad decisions.

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Devante Smith makes a traffic stop on a pickup truck that seems to operating on at least one rim. He tells the driver to park the vehicle in an adjacent strip mall rather than continuing. “There’s no way you can drive that like that.” Abrams: “Well, that was definitely a flat tire.” Wilson: “What was the clue?”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Jacob Sahagian and other units respond to a trailer park community where a man was allegedly creating a disturbance outside, i.e., “screaming explicits and trying to start a fight amongst the partygoers.” They determine the subject already went home, and no further law enforcement action is necessary. After an investigation, Deputy Sahagian explains that “it sounds like he was not in a physical altercation…but he’s intoxicated and sounds a little upset that he didn’t have a big audience for his singing…nothing physical — so the drunk looked like he went home, and he’s going to sleep…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Smith backs up Corporal Devonte Carr on a traffic stop for several infractions where the driver initially refused to step out of the vehicle. Probable cause car search pursuant to weed odor. Some weed found. The driver is apparently arrested. Corporal Carr: “It could have been a different outcome, but he chose the path.” Abrams: “If it ends up just being marijuana, it’s a perfect example of someone who would have just gotten a warning, maybe a ticket, and instead, now is going to jail.” Rizzo: “But we were talking…we almost wish that [it’s] part of driver’s ed, right? It’s Supreme Court caselaw. No reason whatsoever, the police can tell the driver of a vehicle, lawfully stopped vehicle, to exit the vehicle. It’s okay; doesn’t need a rationale.” Wilson: “Just compounds the situation.” Abrams: “And makes it so much worse himself.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Sergeant James Maher, Detective Noah Galbreath, and other Violent Crime Apprehension Team (VCAT) members on a slow-speed pursuit/traffic stop on a vehicle that also backed into a patrol car when allegedly trying to flee. Stop sticks deployed. Subject detained. Subject: “It was a mistake, bro…my mama lives right down the street…I’m scared. Y’all scared me…”

Sergeant Maher recap: “So this is the price of doing business. Unfortunately, this was my best stick and now this is — it’s still usable on this side. We’ll get some more — we’ll get some more vehicles out of this. Both subjects on this side of the vehicle are gonna go to jail. On top of the fleeing and eluding and the vandalism hitting a police vehicle, attempt to elude, the driver just got out of prison. He’s on supervised release for aggravated battery of a deadly weapon. And the passenger had an open warrant. He was wanted out of Volusia County for failure to appear for another battery. So two violent individuals fleeing, successfully apprehended by VCAT. Good job, guys.”

  • Monroe, La.— Officer Khadeem Dumas-Brown and other members of the High Enforcement Apprehension Team (HEAT) squad conduct a traffic stop for running a red light. The motorist, however, insists that the light was yellow. “That thing was red, bro…the camera saw it.” The driver, who seems to be a big fan of Monroe PD, is released with a warning. According to Officer Dumas-Brown, police will investigate an alleged insurance issue at another time. Abrams: “My guess is, if he’d gotten a ticket, they might not be the ‘best cops in the city.'” Rizzo: “Zero to hero or hero to zero.”
  • Triple Play #1 — a Monroe County, Fla., pursuit of a stolen police vehicle.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal Norton and Deputy Toddson Catoe conduct a friendly traffic stop. Two male occupants. The passenger indicates he allegedly consumed two or three Mad Dogs, and on a 0-10 scale of inebriation, he estimates that he is a five. “I’m being honest with you.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher pushes a disabled vehicle temporarily into a turn lane that is not in use adjacent to a high school. “This car is actually super light; I take that back — I’m mad strong.” The motorist is a DoorDash driver who is delivering (or trying to deliver) chicken wings. Abrams: “Poultry in motion.”

On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “Poultry in motion.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Jonathan Carey makes a traffic stop for speeding at approximately 100 mph. The driver allegedly initially gives a fake name. Rifle spotted in car. “I found his real name. He finally told me his real name. He thinks that his license is suspended, and it’s not. It’s actually valid.” Abrams: “But apparently this guy was going over 100 miles an hour, so we’ll see how long his license remains valid.” Tickets issued; the driver is released. “I’m not gonna take him to jail for…him being stupid and giving a fake name.”
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor provides backup on a highway traffic stop. Some weed residue allegedly spotted in the center console. The driver is quickly released. Chief Taylor summary: “Looks like the guy rented the car, and the car dealership probably didn’t clean it out. Somebody had been smoking marijuana before he rented the car, and it smelled like a little bit of marijuana. A little shake in the console, but it’s not his. He’s got nothing to do with it, so cutting him loose, and we’ll go find somebody else to stop.” Abrams: “This is a first, where they actually believe the guy saying ‘it’s not my weed…I don’t know what to put in there.’…” Rizzo: “It does happen, though, with rental cars…”
  • Monroe, La. — Officer Dumas-Brown and colleagues investigate a shots-fired report. The conduct a foot search in a wooded area for a man who ran who may or may not be involved in the incident.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Corporal Hunter Rogers responds to a disturbance at a residence, and in the course of the investigation with the people at the location, he takes an irate male to the ground. The male as well as a female are arrested. Corporal Brandon Williams at least one other deputy are also on scene. Corporal Rogers explains that “so he’s grossly intoxicated. Kept telling him to back up. Got up in my face. At that point, he was trying to get up to intervene in Corporal Preston’s situation over there. Grabbed him; got all up in my face when we go hands with him. Grabbed me, so we went to the ground and scuffled him. He’s in custody.” Subject: “I didn’t do sh*t.”

Listen to Corporal Rogers’ further recap as well as studio panel commentary about these sensitive domestic issues especially when children are involved:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher provides backup on a friendly traffic stop apparently for a license plate cover issue. The vocal motorist, age 29, is released with a warning. Lieutenant Maher: “Nice kid. Kind of an old soul. Super young. But give him a warning which is probably the appropriate thing to do. Seems happy; we’re happy. So we’re gonna get out of here.”
  • Monroe, La. — Sergeant Scotty Sadler and other members of the HEAT squad converge on a residence to execute a narcotics-related search warrant. After cops try to smash through the door, two men exit the house and are detained. Cops clear the residence and search for evidence there.

Listen to Officer Jonathon Daniel describe the kinds of contraband allegedly found in the house.

  • Triple Play #2 — A Layton, Utah, car-vs.-train accident.
  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Jorge Moreno responds to a report of a fight at a gym. Upon investigating, he detains one man on scene. Bleeping. No one wants to press charges, and he is released. Officer Moreno tells the subject that he can’t go back in to the gym. Abrams: “You’re membership is expired.”

Listen to Officer Moreno’s brief summary as well as some of his interaction with the subject:

  • BOLO segment — a Franklin Township, Ind., porch pirate.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher and Officer Thomas Goble patrol an abandoned building that has repeatedly been burglarized. The premises seems secure this time. Transients apparently live in the nearby bushes.
  • Monroe, La. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Daniel narrowly avoids getting T-boned by another car. Motorist: “My brakes failed on me.” Paramedics called to the scene to check the driver’s vitals. Other members of the HEAT squad come to the scene as well. According to Officer Daniel, the driver is “very intoxicated…I think those beers may have had something to do with his brakes…” Listen to the incident summary below in which Officer Daniel alludes to a potential DUI arrest. Car towed.

Officer Daniel: “I think those beers may have had something to do with his brakes…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Sahagian and at least one other unit investigate a disturbance at a bar district in a shopping mall. There were no further calls about the subject “so hopefully he went home.” Abrams: “Just because there may be some drunk people there doesn’t certainly mean that all of them are. There are very nice people there as well.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Smith detains a man at a bar who allegedly may have a warrant. Bleeping.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher and Office Goble race to the scene upon a report of a shooting. The incident turns out to be far less serious than originally thought and only involving “very minor injuries.” Investigation ongoing. “Everybody’s okay, and that’s the most important thing.” Listen to Lieutenant Maher’s incident recap below:
  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal Norton conducts a friendly traffic stop for an unspecified reason as least for the On Patrol: Live audience.
  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Moreno makes a traffic stop for alleged erratic driving and speeding.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Sahagian initiates a traffic stop on a pickup truck for no tag light. Bald tires seem also to be an issue: “How do you drive like this, first off?”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Carey tries to catch up to a vehicle on the highway that is allegedly clocked at 102 mph in a 65-mph zone. On Patrol: Live caption: “Tracking speeding vehicle. Abrams: “…Captain Rizzo, this is not easy driving for someone who’s not practiced it.” Rizzo: “Sure. And contrary to popular belief, these vehicles are not equipped with any type of enhanced suspension or specialized breaking mechanisms, so it’s not a specialized car. We get trained in pursuit driving and emergency vehicle operations…but it definitely takes a skill, but there is an inherent danger. No doubt about it.” As the episode concludes, Lieutenant Carey pulls over the subject car.
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