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

On Patrol: Live Season 4 premiere: An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and witty 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

This Season Four opener was far less intense than recent episodes. The episode’s cornerstones included the Daytona Beach search that began the show along with a warrant-related arrest and an extensive pursuit, both occurring in Clayton County. For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all the law enforcement incidents across eight On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments, including the return of fan-favorite Hazen, Ark., PD. And check back for updates.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for July 11, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-01)

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  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Richie Maher and other units search for a suspect who allegedly tried to kidnap a child. Lt. Maher: “So at this point, we responded to one of our local grocery stores in reference to an attempted abduction of a five-year-old child after a person exposed their sexual organs. We’re doing everything we can to track back as much information, photographs, tag numbers, getting as much information, and we will hunt this guy until we catch him…we don’t tolerate this in Daytona.” The suspect is apparently still at large. Lt. Maher describes the public as “our additional assistant investigators. Society doesn’t put up with this sh*t.”

Listen to Lt. Maher further discuss this investigation:

“We don’t tolerate this in Daytona.”

Lt. Maher subsequently adds about the ongoing search that “…at this point, we’re throwing everything we have at it. We’ve got location location, we tracked back where this individual has been. We’ve got multiple pictures of him, multiple parts of evidence on him. We also have some information out on the Daytona Beach Police Department Facebook, with some photos of him. That way, society can (a) keep in mind to be safe with your kids, but (b) gives us a hand if they know who this guy is so we can get him into custody. At this point, we have Detective Bureau, VCAT, Patrol, we have every resource we have, hunting this man actively, so we can get him into custody tonight, because I want him in handcuffs tonight. I’m sure all of society wants him in handcuffs tonight. So hopefully, we get to that point.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Gabriel Marquez responds to a disturbance at a residence where someone was banging on the door and windows. On Patrol: Live kidnapping: “Report of domestic incident.” Officer Marquez update: “Initially, we were called for a suspicious incident here at this residence. Some type of child custody dispute, and the other subject, the other party, left the scene. No law’s broken right now, so right now, we’re just gonna keep investigating, see if there’s any other thing or any other threats ever made. See if we gonna get some charges, but I don’t believe so.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputies Devon Brown and Malik Clark, Lieutenant Joseph Toombs, and other units conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint on a driver or registered owner allegedly wanted on an aggravated assault warrant. The driver appears non-compliant: “You’re making it more difficult than what it needs to be. Put your hands up. Open the door, and exit the vehicle…why is it so hard for you to follow directions?…” The driver eventually gets out of the car. “What did I do?” Cops take him to the ground and detain him. Bleeping. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” The cooperative female passenger is released.

Listen to Deputy Clark provide a wrap–up of the incident followed by Captain Rizzo clarifying when a Miranda warning is or isn’t required: “It’s a nice little equation we have. C plus I, custody plus interrogation. They’re not asking hm anything. The show is over; you’re under arrest…”

  • Christian County, Mo. — Corporal Ryan Bradshaw and K9 Kurt assist another agency on a traffic stop for an alleged equipment and registration violation. Two female occupants who are allegedly on probation “for various charges to include narcotics.” K9 sniff after a consensual search is apparently declined. K9 alert; car search. One of the occupants allegedly admits where some drugs are located in the car. After determining that no one is inside, police on scene seem reluctant to thoroughly search the attached RV/camper trailer due to the odor. Cpl. Bradshaw: “It smells’ lovely,’ so we’re just gonna let it be.”

Dan Abrams update: “The woman who confessed to having meth in her truck was charged with driving under suspension and possession of meth, but the other woman who was there, in the black shirt, was released with no charges.”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sergeant Clayton Dillion check on a disabled vehicle on the highway with a flat tire. Abrams: “One of those situations where people on the side of the road are happy to see the police.”
  • Triple Play #1 — A Concord, Calif., pursuit of alleged bank robbers.

Listen to the studio panel discuss this dangerous incident (Abrams: “It was like watching crime after crime after crime”):

  • Clayton County, Ga. — After an extensive search by car and on foot at different locations, including a storage unit facility, police take a 15-year-old suspect into custody after dragging him out of the woods and following a taser deployment. Deputy Brown previously seemed to indicate that policy ruled out deploying a K9 for a juvenile. Cops had already taken three other suspects into custody. The original incident allegedly involved either attempted robbery or felony damage to property. Deputy Brown later indicates that the call came in for property damage in throwing rocks at cars.

Deputy Brown: “Definitely one way to keep your cardio up.”

In the context of a storage unit search, On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo comments that “it’s like being in an amusement park. Everywhere you turn, you think…’did I just go down this aisle before?’ You think you’re seeing things. Very difficult.” On Patrol: Live co-host Curtis Wilson: “Time consuming.” About the taser deployment, in which the individual seems in distress, Abrams asserts that “He was tased. They’re trying to get the prongs out. And this is, again, where the police shift from catching him to now providing care.” Wilson: “And that’s what they have to do. You tase the individual — now you got to go ahead and get those prongs out. Then, of course, get EMS to get at look at it.” Abrams: “That’s gonna important to get EMS, particularly when you have a juvenile, as in this case.”

Listen to Deputy Clark recap the incident after which Abrams quips “mom not happy at all about this situation as you can imagine”):

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • BOLO — a Richland County alleged gunman at large.
  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) — Cops conduct a traffic stop on a car operated by a 22-year-old driver with no front tire. Consensual car search. Officer Kirsten Yule-Zaagman: “I never understand why people keep their cars in such a mess. Have some pride of ownership.” The driver, who an officer on scene describes as “severely impaired,” ends up being arrested for an alleged DUI. She gave consent for a blood draw, which according to Abrams, is still pending at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations. The car was towed.

Listen to an on-scene wrap-up and then a studio discussion of this incident:

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Yule-Zaagman assists another officer at a traffic top in a strip mall parking lot possibly for a suspended tag. Two occupants. The driver apparently declines a consensual car search. K9 Diego alert. It seems that there may be just a small amount of weed, perhaps just roaches, in the car. Guns also allegedly found. Abrams: “We know that Officer Dudley is saying that if they just find marijuana in that vehicle, they’re gonna basically let them go.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Yule-Zaagman leaves the above scene to assist other officers pursuing a fleeing vehicle. Cops detain the female driver; Officer Yule-Zaagman searches her. Officer Yule-Zaagman sarcastically to a colleague on scene: “Oh, she wanted to resist? Oh great. Yay!”

Listen to Officer Stone Collier recap the fleeing incident that started as a “simple traffic violation” and that “she told us that she was just scared of us, so I guess she was scared enough to catch a felony…):

  • Triple Play #2 — a Fenton, Mich., pursuit (OPL appears to have deleted the embeddable version of this \ video from X).

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Kenny Fitzsimmons and other units respond to a report of a disturbance and clear two adjacent apartments that appear to be abandoned. Sgt. Fitzsimmons: “So local, I guess, clientele like to try to find vacant apartments.”
  • Moore, Okla. — Officer Ethan Holmes makes a friendly traffic stop with a loquacious driver apparently for a headlight issue. Officer Holmes: “You might keep getting pulled over at night until you get it fixed.” Abrams: “I got a feeling we could be there for a while, hearing a lot about her life story.” To Rizzo, Abrams quips that “you made a band-camp joke.” Rizzo: “‘And this one time’…”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Violet Mendez and other first responders on scene for a call about a male allegedly passed out in a white truck. After asking the man to count to four and giving him an opportunity to exit the vehicle on his own and seemingly getting no response, cops remove him from the truck and strap him into a gurney for transport to the hospital. The vehicle is towed. Deputy Mendez: “So, passed out behind the wheel. Not sure what’s going on with him, but he’s gonna be going to the hospital…try to figure out if he’s having some sort of medical episode. He might be on some sort of narcotic.” Abrams: “It seems like a likely analysis.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher searches for a fleeing e-bike. Abrams: “So the search is on, and an e-bike can only go so fast. This isn’t like some motorcycle where the person’s gonna be gone and dusted. So Richie Maher’s not giving up here…” Lt. Maher: “I heard this place here has delicious crab cakes.”
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputies detain an older male who allegedly has warrants. Corporal Bradshaw asks the cooperative subject to sit down while they wait for the transport vehicle: “Can you cross your ankles?…crisscross apple sauce.” Consensual car search.

Listen to some of the interaction:

  • Moore, Okla. — Sergeant Maria Delgado and Officer Holmes initiate a traffic stop. On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of erratic driving.” Sgt. Delgado speaks with a purported witness on the phone. Consensual car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Marijuana found.” The occupants are allegedly “super nervous.”

Listen to Officer Holmes’ initial incident summary:

Abrams update: “…the reckless driver call. They found marijuana. Turns out the driver had a medical marijuana card. So both the driver and passenger were released with no charges, no citation.”

  • Richland County, S. C. (pre-recorded segment) — Master Deputy Deon Mathis and other units on a well-being check on a “suspicious individual.” Abrams: “A report of a shirtless, pantless, and shoeless guy…gave a new meaning to the phrase ‘beating around the bush.'” Deputy Mathis detains the man; paramedics summoned to the scene. Deputy Mathis: “Not sure what he’s under the influence of, but EMS showed up to take him. Hopefully, everything’s okay.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher and other units respond to an alleged domestic incident. Cops detain a suspect after a search of an apartment complex area. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating domestic incident.” Lt. Maher to suspect: “All that silliness, and then you want to chose what shirt you wear to jail.”

Lt. Maher adds that “the neighbors were super grateful. They all said thank you a lot, so he’s obviously been a bit of a menace to the south side…he tried to hide from them underneath some clothes in the closet. It was less-than fortuitous for him. He’s gonna go to jail. He’s got a bunch of demands about what shirt he gets, what color slides he gets, and all that, but we’re not sit here and play games. He’s wanted on domestic violence. That’s what he’s gonna go to jail for…”

  • Christian County, Mo. — As the episode concludes, Sergeant Blake Davis conducts a traffic stop on a motorcycle with no plates. According to the driver, the motorcycle is a haunted-house bike named Dirty Sanchez (listen below).
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On Patrol: Live Streaming Channels

On Patrol: Live streaming: Reelz, the home of On Patrol: Live, has implemented a standalone streaming app, Reelz+, for subscribers to access all the channel’s content, including On Patrol Live episodes.

On Patrol: Live new tonight: On Patrol: Live airs new, three-hour episodes on Friday and Saturday evening starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time (except for an occasional hiatus when the show is in reruns). So the answer to the question(s) “is On Patrol: Live new tonight” or “is On Patrol: Live on tonight” is almost always yes.

Where can I watch On Patrol: Live apart from Reelz+, what channel is On Patrol Live on? For background information about the police documentary ride-along series On Patrol: Live (i.e., Live PD 2.0), that airs on the Reelz channel (which is also available, e.g., on the Peacock, FreeCast, Philo, Sling,and Frndly TV streaming services, and on some satellite and cable systems such as DirectTV, DISH Network, AT&T U-verse, and Verizon FIOS TV), click on this link.

Reelz+ is also now available as an add-on subscription on Amazon Prime Video.

On Patrol: Live episodes: Just about every incident covered on On Patrol: Live in each of its first-run shows is really live. Footnote: The real-time content is subject, however, to a delay ranging from about five to 20 minutes primarily for legal reasons, and obviously apart from any pre-recorded packages. Also, a given episode may leave behind some loose ends, i.e., incidents where On Patrol: Live does not provide an update or a definitive resolution.

For more information about On Patrol: Live on Reelz, see the Reelz FAQ.