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

The docuseries On Patrol: Live — i.e., Live PD 2.0 — premiered on the Reelz channel on July 22, 2022, and generally follows the same basic format as its A&E network predecessor in which show producers and videographers accompany cops on night patrol in real time.

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. For legal and other reasons, the show broadcasts live incidents reportedly on an approximately five-to-20 minute tape delay.

Some real-time investigations are inconclusive. OPL, moreover, does not always update what happened after airing the initial contact/ investigation in each incident. Sometimes, however, it provides further information during the On Patrol: First Shift pre-show.

Pre-recorded segments are also typically included in show content.

An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff) , along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.

As the third man in, Lt. John Curley (ret.) from the Warwick, R.I., police department, an agency from the Live PD days that is or was supposedly returning to OPL, provides commentary alongside Abrams and Dep. Wilson.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for January 26, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-47)

  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Tony Le and other units take a man in custody who allegedly fled on foot from a traffic stop. The subject is animated; lots of bleeping. Cops say he has two warrants. Dep. Lee field tests a white substance that tests positive for meth amphetamine.

Dan Abrams: “It’s very rare that people run for absolutely no reason.” Lt. Curley: “Why run? Unless you have something to hide, why run, right? That doesn’t make any sense. So, case in point, something was obviously going on, and it was. Dep. Wilson: “And also, another point was the fact that, just as the officer said, ‘we don’t know who you are. We have no clue who you are, what you may have just done, and you’re running from us, so therefore we have to make sure…” Abrams: “And that can create additional dangers — just the fleeing in and of itself.”

  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies initiate a traffic stop on reckless driver going way below the speed with no lights. Paramedics also respond. Dep. Ryan Lineberger: “Upon detaining him, and making contact with our partners at Lee County EMS, they were able to determine that he was undergoing a diabetic episode. So he won’t be being charged with DUI or anything like that. He’s dispelled our concerns that it was a alcohol or narcotics. Since it was a medical event, he’s going to be turned over to family and friends once they arrive on scene.”

Abrams: “Of course, the good news is that he is okay there, but the number of times we’ve seen on this show, for example, they find needles in a vehicle and someone says, ‘oh yeah, yeah, I’m diabetic,’ and it’s almost never true except sometimes it is. Lt. Curley: “In this case, it’s tough too because low blood sugar, people tend to display the same symptoms or indicators that you would if you’re impaired. So from the officer’s perspective, it’s very difficult. That paired with the way that they were driving, it’s tough to differentiate the two sometimes.” Dep. Wilson: “Absolutely. Like you said, you talk about slurred speech disoriented, all of those type of things mimic DUI.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Dylan Lee responds to a shots-fired call and searches the suspect vehicle as well as searches on foot in a wooded area for any evidence. Lt. Curley: “It’s tough. It could be fireworks, it could be an actual shots fired, but sometimes people don’t know. So, it’s difficult. Sometimes you’re chasing your tail with that kind of thing.” Abrams: “And when people said they heard screaming, it could be some people just shooting in the backyard and screaming and laughing and whatever. Curley: “The screaming definitely adds a little bit more validity to it, but yeah, it could be a variety of things for sure.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Brandon Ramirez and other units track a fleeing Tesla. One subject is detained in a parking lot by himself. Two other males are are separately detained. The subjects are allegedly siblings. A gun is allegedly found. Ofr. Ramirez: “The driver’s definitely going to be charged with fleeing and eluding and resisting police without violence. And so, that’s what we got so far.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Josh Robinson assists other units on a foot pursuit near a local hotel parking lot adjacent to a wooded area; cops set up a perimeter. Abrams: “John Curley, you were talking about the perimeter. Curley: “Yeah, it was great hearing that because most times in a foot pursuit, and it happened to me several times, everyone floods one area, so you really want to set up a perimeter so that way you can really covering all angles so nobody — that suspect can’t get out, rather than flood in one area where they were last seen, so I think they’re doing a great job. Wilson: “And they’ll bring K-9 in and K-9 can get on a fresh track and locate the suspect.” Abrams: “But it sounds like this person fled from a K-9. Wilson: “Right, but they have a couple of K-9s, which is good, but when he jumped the highway [and] went across to the other side, now they have to set up on that other side.”
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Officers respond to a report of 10 females fighting in the parking lot of a roller-skating rink. Upon investigation, it seems that most or all of subjects already left the area. Dep. Tyler Lamb subsequently initiates a traffic stop on a white van, but the occupant aren’t involved in the incident.
  • Triple Play #1 — Weber County, Utah, high-speed chase.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Jacob Sahagian conducts a traffic stop. Suspended license; the driver is allegedly a habitual offender for the license violation. Consensual car search. Dep. Sahagian indicates that the criminal offense gives cops “the right to inventory the vehicle as well. So we got both ends at this point, but consent is always great to get as well.” Car towed.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Hannah Reed makes a bicycle stop for no lights and/or reflectors. Caption: “Open container found.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. –Cops make a bicycle stop on a man who is allegedly a missing person. The man says he’s heading to Daytona for a job. Dep. Le: “We ran a traffic stop on him. Turns out he’s listed as a missing person out of Miami. The [other] police department is going to confirm that he is missing and then see what they want to do with him. Looks like he just left the house, didn’t talk to any of his family members, and they were worried about him…but he looks pretty healthy and cognizant in his surroundings and what’s going on.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep Lee responds to a report of an assault at a trailer park. He initially uses a translate app to find out what happened from a man at the scene.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Dets. Noah Galbreath and Maycon MacDowel interact with an older man. MacDowel: “We’re doing a pedestrian stop for this male right there. As we’re getting out of the car, we can see him getting a dollar bill…on his lap…I retrieved the dollar bill, tested it, cocaine — tested positive for cocaine. He said that he didn’t do it. He got a lot of white substance on his pants, tested it. Guess what? Cocaine. So he’s gonna go to jail tonight for that…a lot of people do that. They’ll fold open a dollar bill, baggies, whatnot. They’re trying to get rid of it as soon as cops approach them.” Galbreath: “So we just did an extra patrol in a known narcotic area in our city. Immediately, once we got out with some of the members of the community, Detective McDowell observed a male drop a dollar bill onto the roadway….at that point, no one’s claiming the property. As Detective McDowell opened it, he observed some narcotic, trace amounts of a white powder inside. After testing it, it tests for, I believe, cocaine. And then he just found another baggie of a brown substance. It’s either going to be heroin, cocaine, or maybe fentanyl. He’s going to test that. We have the male detained who dropped it; they immediately saw him drop that. So he’s probably gonna be going to jail tonight for at least possession of cocaine and then some other drugs.”
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Dep. Lamb makes a traffic stop in a parking lot; the driver insists that there is no weed in the car. Consensual car search. Lamb insists that she sprayed a lot of perhaps some kind of air freshener in the car. No drugs are found in the search, and the drive is released with no charges.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by saying “a subject tried to take a bite out of crime, literally.” In the incident, cops detain a noncompliant individual who at one point allegedly threatened to bite off a deputy’s nose . Cpl. Anthony Morrow: “He will be facing breach of peace, high and aggravated nature due to the amount of people that were calling and him running around through a neighborhood with a stick, assault while resisting arrest, assault and battery on two of the deputies…and then he was also trying to threaten the life of the public official for all four deputies that were on scene.”

Abrams: “So not an easy situation for the officers involved there on a number of fronts.” Curley: “On a number of fronts, especially when they’re originally in that door jam, and he starts becoming uncompliant. There’s not a lot of room there, so it puts the officer in a very dangerous spot. And the officer really can’t dump that suspect to the ground. He can if he needs to, but he wants to try to avoid it because that suspect’s handcuffed, right? So face to the ground wouldn’t work out well. I thought they did a great job. He did the best he could with what he had.” Abrams: “And then they ended up using a taser here in a particular way.” Wilson: “Absolutely. You know, when you use the taser the regular way, you’re talking about having some distance to be able to spread. And, of course, it gives that full effect and locks the body up. But they were in close quarters, like John was just talking about, so they use what’s called a dry stun. They’ll take the probes off, and they’ll put it to your body. You’re going to still feel it, but not as much as if they were at some distance. But it gives you that jolt to say, okay, let me stop.” Abrams: “And it did seem that it led him to begin to comply a bit after the use of the taser there.”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to report of someone shot; they encounter a person on the sidewalk who allegedly may be drunk but not wounded by a firearm. The subject is not particularly forthcoming when Ofr. Mike Gee tries to get some basic info from her. Ofr. Gee: We got a call for a person down. Came in that she might be shot too, because we just had a shots fired over here. She wasn’t shot. She’s highly intoxicated. My partner [Ofr. Chris Mulinix] tried taking the knife off her for officer safety reasons. She got up like she was going to do something about it. Luckily, this guy, he says he knows her, so he’s going to allow her in the apartment for now. So we should resolve the issue for her, not have to go to the hospital or go to jail. So we’ll be on to the next one.” Abrams quip that “not shot, done a shot.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Brando McKenzie conducts a traffic stop for allegedly running a stop sign and erratic driving. Dep. McKenzie detects the odor of alcohol. The driver tells the officer she had two drinks earlier. After field sobriety testing, the driver is arrested on suspicion of DUI. The car is towed.
  • BOLO segment — Oklahoma City, Okla.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Mike Knapp and other units conduct a traffic stop for a headlights infraction. Multiple occupants including the driver, age 18. The car is allegedly a rental. Abrams: “‘Zulili’ [sp?] not to be confused with Avis or Hertz.” Knapp claims the vehicle smells of weed; consensual car search. Two baggies of white powder allegedly found in a passenger’s shorts. He is arrested; the driver and other occupants are released with no charges. Dep. Knapp: “So right now, what we have going on is we have a traffic stop leaving that high crime motel, or hotel, rather. In plain view, we can see some marijuana shake. When I had the backseat driver step out, he was extremely nervous. His breathing had changed. There was a bag of, looked like, either cocaine or Molly directly between him. And then when we were pulling him out, he said, he was going to be honest with us, that he had, shoved some cocaine and Molly into his pants. And he removed it from his crotch area, which dropped on the ground here. So right now, everybody’s detained, and we’re going to start doing our probable cause search and see what else we got.”

Dep. Knapp further explanation/update: “We stopped this car leaving the…parking lot. It’s a high crime hotel, motel, known for drug sales. We stopped it for no headlight. Upon leaving, when we approached the car, we saw that there was marijuana in plain view, odor of burnt marijuana was in the car as well. So a probable cause search was conducted. The driver also gave consent to search. When the backseat passenger stepped out, there was a bag of cocaine right between his legs as well as marijuana in the door pocket. Upon pulling him out and detaining him in cuffs, we found a bunch of more Molly. We have…14 bags of Molly along with extra packaging, all consistent with sales. It’s over trafficking weight in the state of Florida, 14 grams. And so we have one detained. There is more marijuana residue throughout the car, little bits of marijuana throughout it, and residue baggies. So we have three other people detained and one that’s gonna be placed into custody once all this stuff field tests positive.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Reed conducts a traffic stop. The driver, who is a singer, agrees to demonstrate her singing skills at the scene. Abrams: “OP’s Got Talent — that’s what we got out in the field there.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Lee responds to a hit-and-run incident in a bar parking lot. After Lee makes a preliminary assessment of the situation including determining that no one was hurt, the state highway patrol is dispatched to take over the investigation.
  • Triple Play #2 — Atlanta, Ga
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Ofr. Marcus Futch makes contact with a pedestrian: “You’re stumbling all over the place, bro…you’re hammered right now.” Caption: “Public intoxication.” Ofr. Futch summary: “so we got flagged down across the street…the guy across the street just said he had some weird behavior. He was in front of the store. As soon as we faced towards where he was at, he’s stumbling, almost falls off the curb. He’s walking a small curb, and then as we pull up on him, he’s back and forth walking through the road. Looks like he’s about to lose his balance and fall. Talking to him, he’s not clear on anything he’s saying. Super-slurred speech, red and watery eyes, a bunch of signs and symptoms that he is intoxicated. So, we’ll take him to the station. He can sleep off the alcohol, and then get released when it’s safe to be out by himself.”
  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by saying that “a guy learned the hard way that prescription pill, fast food, and firearms don’t necessarily mix.” Cops including Ofrs. Greg Long Jr. and Shade Keeney conduct a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle and allegedly spot a rifle inside. One of the two occupants throws up during the investigation.. Ofr. Shade Keeney mentions that they also allegedly found a digital scale and some prescription bottles in the vehicle and goes to say that “we ran the rifle. It doesn’t come back stolen. What they’re gonna do is they’re gonna take the driver down. They’ll try to identify what all those pills are. At the very least, he can be charge with misdemeanors for having the firearm in there, but it’ll depend on what the vice detective wants to do. So we’re gonna help them out, get everything bagged up, and then then we’ll move on to something else.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Heather Smith and Austin Bly search by foot at or near train tracks on a call about a suicidal man in the area and try to locate him. They make contact with a pedestrian but he’s fine and is not the guy. They are also trying to get back in contact with the original female caller. Ofr. Smith: “We’re gonna keep looking for the person that needs our help.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Taylor Carman and other units respond of a fight in progress outside a bar in a downtown area. One male who came to the area on a bicycle is trespassed from the location. The OPL camera spots an older man seemingly strutting in the background who is uninvolved in the incident.

Ofr. Carman summary: “So, the owners of the establishment said he was acting a fool inside. I guess he drank a little too much, partied a little too hard. They decided to kick him out. When he was out here, one of our ocean units from Volusia County saw him continuing to act like a fool. Hopefully, he calms down, collects his stuff. We’re just going to trespass him from the establishment. He’s no longer allowed to come back. And if he does, he’s subjected to be arrested. He says he’s going to leave peacefully and go from there. We’re going to make sure he leaves and then we’re going to head out…he’s leaving peacefully. Obviously, he’s funny, and he wants to talk a little smack before he leaves, but at least we kept a good rapport, and nothing escalated, and that’s always a good day. So hopefully, he doesn’t come back. He probably will. He’s says he’s gonna come out here and dance on the corner. I’m sure it’s not going to be the last time we see him tonight, but we shall see.”

  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Cops respond to a stabbing call and find a man down on the sidewalk outside a home with a wound to his chest. Ofr. Mike Gee: “It appears this incident happened over in Oregon, so if they want some type of report, they’re gonna have to follow up with Oregon. Unfortunately, because they don’t want our help, there’s nothing we can do at this time, so he’s just going to have to seek medical on his own if he wishes to do that.”

Abrams: “You heard references to Oregon there; that’s a neighboring town just outside of Toledo. The victim called EMS back a short time later and was taken to the hospital. But when you have an uncooperative victim, it can be frustrating for law enforcement. Curley: “Very frustrating. You want to get to the bottom of it, but at the same time, I think with this specific instance, there’s a little bit more going on. I have a feeling there might be some intimate knowledge of who that suspect is.” Abrams: “But he ended up going back to the hospital.” Curley: “Which is good, especially where that stab wound was. Smart move.”

  • Lee County, Fla. –Dep. Sahagian makes contact with a good Samaritan who notified police when she found $302 at an ATM. The sheriff’s office will hold the money for if or when the rightful owner steps forward. “She sounds very excited to give this back to us.” Abrams: “Come on! A woman just found 300 bucks at an ATM, and she’s calling the police to give it back? That’s kind of amazing and awesome and unheard of.” Dep. Sahagian: “So, right now, she just gave us the money, counted it out for us… I believe after so many days, she might actually become the finder’s keepers of it if no one claims it. So, we’ll put this in for as found property until someone can claim it. If not, she’ll probably be the lucky winner, and she’ll be her lottery night. Thank God there were cameras, though.”

Abrams jokes that “‘Oh, hi, is this the Lee County Sheriff’s Department? Hi, I lost 300 dollars, and I’d like to identify the denominations.’ Let’s hope she gets the money.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop for dark window tint. K9 sniff, but no alert. The driver is released with a warning.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop on some sort of boom-box-disco-ball equipped bicycle for no lights. The bicyclist is released with a friendly warning to turn on the lights for safety reasons. Ofr. Carman: “Well, he was delightful to pull over. I wish he would keep that light on. I understand that he’s trying to avoid the noise, but I don’t even think it’s that loud. If I could hear it from here, then I would pull him over for that, but honestly, if it means that he’s safe, and cars don’t hit him, I’m good to go with it. So, he’s got his light on. He’s not gonna get hit by a car. We’re gonna go find something else to do.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Cops respond to a residential burglary in progress by breaking through the front door. They make contact with the homeowner and check out the location, but it appears that it was a false alarm. The officer advise the homeowners to call them back in the event of any further issues.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Deputies respond to a couple arguing in a parking lot outside of Walmart. Dep. McKenzie claims he smells alcohol.

On Patrol: Live Summary for January 20, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-48)

CLICK HERE for the OPL 02-48 recap.

The A&E vs. OPL Lawsuit Is Moving Forward

The pending litigation linked below might explain the revised OPL set design and the changes to the logo, music, and names of the recurring segments. That also may be why the clever incident captions have or had tapered off.