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

In this premiere weekend of Season 3, a recap of the July 13, 2024, On Patrol: Live episode (OPL #03-02), anchored in the NYC studio by host Dan Abrams, along with and this weekend’s guest analysts, Captain Tom Rizzo, and Officer Ryan Tillman, appears below.

The episode included two references to Cops and a shout-out to OPL.

Note: Click here for the OPL #03-01, July 12, 2024, recap.

On Patrol: Live Summary for July 13, 2024 (#OPL Episode 03-02)

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  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofrs. Jon Gearhart and Michael Bernath respond to a report of a fight in progress at a convenience store and detain a male pedestrian who denies any involvement in the incident. Officer to subject: “You’re dressed like a fool for 100-degree weather, my man.” Subject: “What about you?” Officer: Well, I have to wear this. The big boss says so, man. I can’t be out here in my Speedo.”

Ofr. Gearhart summary: “So my partner went over and spoke to the victim at the local 7-Eleven; he alleged that the gentleman we’d stopped here assaulted him in some way. So he’s gonna go to jail for misdemeanor battery, and then he was also found to have a warrant for his arrest out of our county for drug possession. So he’s gonna go to jail for his warrant as well.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Richie Maher and other units respond to a report of someone hit by a car. Lt. Maher hears over the radio that it actually a medical incident. He is re-dispatched elsewhere.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and colleagues conduct a highway traffic stop on a truck with three male occupants. K9 Bosco appears to alert on luggage. The driver denies having anything illegal. Probable cause search on the luggage. No drugs found other than allegedly a THC vape, according to the chief. OPL host Dan Abrams then alludes to a cost-benefit analysis in the context of cops having better thing to do.

Listen:

OPL guest analyst Cpt. Tom Rizzo discusses the K9 process before the chief and his colleagues had completed the search.: “It was also difficult to narrow down. The dog is sitting there indicating on the tailgate. It’s an open air search almost, with the open — so which container has it…” Abrams: “…Maybe they don’t find anything. We’ve seen times when the canines get it wrong.” Rizzo: “…It’s not so much the canines get it wrong. The dogs are indicating on the odor of a narcotic as far as being left behind or present or anything. Odors tend to transfer and also remain depending on the fabric. So if it stays in the fabric per se, like especially inside of a vehicle, if it’s a fabric material, headliner, stuff like that. So it’s more frequent than not so much that the dog gets it wrong. The dog’s indicating on the odor, not necessarily the presence.” OPL guest analyst Ofr. Ryan Tillman: “It was there at some point, presumably.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher responds to a repot of a disturbance in a parking lot, but he determines it’s likely just a baby crying rather than someone screaming for help.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Cops purse a vehicle fleeing from a traffic stop that lost a tire in the chase. Two males detained. The driver is charged; the cooperative passenger is released.

Listen to Ofr. Timothy Jackson’s recap:

Abrams: “As we were watching that happen, Officer Ryan Tillman, you were talking about the decision that an officer has to make in a split second about who to go after between the driver and. the passenger.” Tillman: “It happens so fast. You have the driver, then you have passengers, and you’re like, okay, who do I go with? I’ve been guilty of going for the driver before…” Abrams: “But he’s using the right word, guilty, right? In the sense that it’s probably better to go for the person who stays?” Cpt. Rizzo: “Stick with what you know. You have that person with you that’s there. I’m a big fan of conservation of energy, but no, in sincerity, so that person now is in custody. Nobody’s ever gonna be as prone as they would to talk when they’re in custody facing a criminal charge, for sure.” Tillman: “I just had to show off my football skills…I could still catch up.” Abrams: “But you didn’t say you caught him. You said you went after him…I’m just saying.”

  • Frederick, Md. — In a wellness check, Ofrs. Kevin Long and Irvin Solano respond to report of someone in a Captain America “costume” — which is actually just a Captain America T- shirt — laying on a short concrete wall. Abrams: “I don’t know exactly what Captain America did wrong.” Tillman: “Is it a onesie, though?” Ofr. Long to subject: “Are you in some kind of medical distress?” Paramedics summoned to the scene. Ofr. Long: “Captain America is down right now; he had a little too much to drink. And we’re just gonna make sure he gets checked out, and that he’s okay, and then he’ll be on his way.” EMT to the subject: “How much did you have to drink? Not much?” Abrams: “So the captain going down with the ship.” Ofr. Solano subsequently indicates that the subject is being transported to the hospital, and “guess he’s too drunk to stand.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Marcus Booth initiates a traffic stop for alleged erratic driving. “Why you driving so crazy?…60 in a 30 back there…you guys are driving like complete idiots, dude.” The driver, who apparently does not have his license on his person, wonders if he is on Cops. Four female passengers.
  • Triple Play #3 — Livingston County, Mich., pursuit after the driver allegedly fled from a traffic stop. Abrams: “Golden Brown tonight, Pancake yesterday.”
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  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher makes friendly contact with a couple in an industrial district and then realizes they are fishing. “I went by and I saw the bikes, and I didn’t see people….but I think the answer is sitting on the back of your bike and in your hand..my suspicions have been satiated. I was concerned until I saw the bikes and the people. You guys have fun…” The male tells the lieutenant that is a longtime OPL viewer. Abrams: “A guy who watches the show and has nothing to be ashamed of for being on the show — doing some tarpon fishing.” Rizzo: “Well, he’s fishing; he’s not catching, right?” Abrams: “Very often that can be fishing.”

“A guy who watches the show and has nothing to be ashamed of for being on the show…”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Tim Riley and a colleague conduct a traffic stop for alleged erratic driving. It turns out that the motorist was apparently watching YouTube for the latest news on the attempted assassination of President Trump.

Cpl. Riley summary: “Turns out he’s not impaired or anything like that. I think he was a little invested in the news. He’s got a laptop set up in his car. Obviously, he cannot drive distracted, so we’re gonna have a little conversation about that. In the future, I understand being invested in what’s going on around you, but we’re gonna have to talk about that here in a second.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofrs. Robert Mowery and Matt Grosse investigate some sort of road-rage type incident between a guy on a bike and a guy in pick-up truck and makes contact with both male parties to get their sides of the story. “I’m from New York — what do you expect?” The guy on bike apparently doesn’t want to press charges.

Listen to Ofr. Grosse’s summary of the incident:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher and Sgt. Booth investigate a report of a robbery, i.e., retail theft, at a dollar store. The employee seems to say that suspect made a knife threat but she didn’t actually see a knife. While searching the area for the suspect who left the premises on a bicycle, Lt. Maher encounters a little kitty in the road that is bleeding from the nose and mouth. Caption: “Smitten for kitten.” The tiny “cat’s in the bag” and will be treated by an emergency vet. Abrams quips that Maher “took my line…cat’s in the bag.”
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  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor conducts a traffic stop on a vehicle for a lights infraction (brake lights apparently stay activated while the car is moving, and one tail light apparently is out).
  • BOLO segment –– King County, Wash., arsonist.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Wolf Shaw makes a traffic stop on a pick-up truck for allegedly running stop signs.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor initiates a traffic stop for no tail lights. The interaction is contentious, particularly over who raised their voice first, before it becomes amicable. “I’m not a mechanic; I’m a cop.” The chief advises the motorist to activate his hazard lights. Abrams: “Sounds like this guy is gonna be going on his way, and going on his way with his hazards on for a while.” Rizzo: “But at least it’s something, though, right? I’ve used that tactic myself. At least it gives other warnings to other drivers that at least not to come up on you.” Caption: “Hazard in Hazen.”
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Listen to the more harmonious interaction between the two men (“we’re all good now”) followed by panelist commentary:

“I’m not a mechanic; I’m a cop.”

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  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Ofrs. Mike Gee and Chris Mulinix respond to a burglary in progress and detain a woman on the premises. “I don’t even know where I’m at.” Ofr. Gee: “We’ll go down and see what the detectives’ gonna charge her, and get her paperwork finished, and then head on to the next one.”
  • Frederick, Md. — Ofrs. Solano and Long make contact with a victim of a robbery who says a suspect or suspects allegedly stole money from his wallet about 20 minutes ago and threatened to shoot him, although no gun was seen. After obtaining details about the incident from the victim, cops search the area and detain a suspect (“for what?”) who denies the allegation and allegedly has weed in a backpack.
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  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Dominique Ansetti and other units respond to report from a neighbor of someone allegedly on a ladder allegedly trying to break into a house next door. It is determined that the subject lives there but doesn’t have a key. “Maybe you should get a key?” Ofr. Ansetti: “My partner talked to the homeowner who said that he does live in there and they don’t want prosecution for the window and that he’s allowed there. They just don’t want his friends there. So friends are supposed to be leaving right now. He’s allowed to stay inside.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Lindsey Erhart and Brooke Janowiecki and other units respond to a burglary in progress at a residence where a caller said she heard somebody break her window and get into her house. A man is initially detained on the porch but is quickly uncuffed once cops determine that he lives there. Abrams: “And now they’ are continuing their search for someone who doesn’t belong there.” Cops clear the home. Ofr. Erhart mentions that all the windows “seem to be intact” before providing this summary: “So the call came in as a burglary. Apparently, there was a call here earlier today, too, and it was the same thing. So we’ll get a report done for her peace of mind, but we saw no evidence of someone actually breaking into the house.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong and other units respond to a disturbance apparently involving a shirtless man wandering around the area. “We can’t have you in the roadway…no, we’re not on Cops.” Paramedics called to the scene to evaluate the subject’s well-being.

Chief Armstrong synopsis: “I’m having EMS come and check this guy out, because this is more than alcohol. Obviously, we’ve got some drugs, we’ve got some alcohol…this here is not normal, even with alcohol. It may be meth, something of that nature, but this obviously is not just normal behavior from alcohol, which we smell on him. So, we’re having him checked out because there’s no reason he should be out here. Now he’s in 1946. So, obviously, there’s no way that he’s in 1946, so this is an easy equation that we’re gonna have to have him checked out for further, because this is just — you can’t make it up…you really can’t.”

“…there’s no way that he’s in 1946,..”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — While responding to a report of someone alleged trying to break in to cars in a parking garage, Lt. Maher spots a man falling and hitting his head on a concrete pole and briefly passing out. “Dude, you scared the sh*t out of me, man.” The man says he’s okay and was apparently dehydrated from being out on a boat all day, but a very concerned Maher radios for paramedics who arrive on scene.
  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Bernath and other units, plus the Fire Department, respond to a huge, raging fire, and associated small explosions, in a area apparently known for crime and drugs.
  • Missing segment — Tacoma, Wash.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Riley makes friendly contact with some men who allegedly may have eluded police before, but seems to admit that he lacks evidence to detain them. “We don’t take people to jail for a suspended license.” Abrams: “It seems like those guys will be going on their way.”
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by quipping that “a woman was trying real hard to get a guy out of the house, though apparently there was something already out.” Master. Dep. Avery Arrington responds to a domestic incident between an arguing couple at a residence. The male appears to be naked. Dep. Arrington concludes it’s best for the couple to separate but the man allegedly doesn’t want to leave the premises: “You want to stay in this environment? You are mad. You’re crazy, bro.”

Listen to Dep. Arrington’s summary of the call:

  • Brookford, N.C. — As the episode ends, Chief Armstrong and other units conduct a traffic stop. Armstrong claims that he smells alcohol. The female driver makes it known that she is not happy being detained.