This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Commentary, and Social Media Activity
On Patrol: Live Season 4: An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and witty banter usually 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. For those new to the show, On Patrol Live is more or less a reboot or rebrand ofLive PD.
Retired Tulsa, Okla., cop and former co-host Sean “Sticks” Larkin returns to the studio desk to substitute for Curtis Wilson this weekend.
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On Patrol: Live Tonight
Aside from two feisty Knox County traffic stops, the various taped segments were probably more compelling that the live incidents. For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 25 law enforcement incidents across the nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police department. And check back for updates.
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On Patrol: Live Recap for July 25, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-05)
Knox County, Tenn. — K9 Officer Joseph Stainback initiates a traffic stop for an alleged moving violation at an apartment complex. Officer Stainback: “…you smell like a brewery….whether it’s old, I don’t know. I can’t really tell. That is why you prove to me, ‘hey bro, I’m good to go’…” On Patrol: Live caption: “Possible DUI.” See Officer Stainback’s initial explanation below. The driver apparently declines field sobriety testing. Officer Stainback to the driver: “You’re being placed under arrest for DUI. That’s why I was explaining to you…you’re forcing me to make a decision just from the totality of what I have…” The driver becomes irate. Bleeping. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “Seems that that guy was confusing an immigration violation with a possible driving under the influence violation.” As the officer subsequently explains to a female on scene, the car, which is insured, is not towed “since you’re here, and you live here, he kind of lives here…”
Officer Stainback initial summary: “We stopped this vehicle for failure to signal his lane change. I walked up to the car, and he smells like an alcoholic beverage coming. He doesn’t want to consent to a field sobriety test. He’s got an open container in the back… currently, he’s just being detained. Most likely he’s gonna be placed under arrest for DUI. He has three prior DUIs. So we’re gonna go through the process, see if he’s gonna give blood. Most likely, we’re gonna have to get a search warrant for his blood just because he’s a repeat offender. So we’ll inventory the vehicle, and we’ll go from there.
Abrams: “Ah yes — the ‘this is a career-decision’ defense. They don’t seem too concerned as he whoops and hollers about how he’s gonna take them down, sue them.”
In the audio clip embedded below, On Patrol: Live guest studio analyst Sean Larkin points out that complaints against police, which are sometimes valid, tend to be filed in court (if litigation does occur) pursuant to 42 U.S. Code Section 1983. “If you’re doing your job, you’ve got nothing to worry about.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo mentions that in the context of the ‘you work for me’ mantra, “police officers pay taxes, too.”
Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sergeant Clayton Dillion provide traffic control for the fire department on the highway during a brush fire. Chief Taylor: “What this’ll do is keep the traffic. It’ll slow all the traffic down for a little bit, and let the fire guys plenty of time to get their motors running and their hoses full of water. It shouldn’t take very long at all to get that out, but this is about the safest thing we can do for them and us…it hadn’t rained here in three weeks, and it’s 95 degrees. So it’s hot.” Abrams: “And a reminder again that police do just a little bit of everything.”
Moore, Okla. — Officer Ryan Hebrink, Sergeant Justin Sternberg, and other units try to serve a warrant at an apartment complex. On Patrol: Live caption “Serving warrant for domestic violence.” No one answers the door, however.
Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Toddson Catoe responds to a car accident and removes some debris from the road. Abrams: “So he comes upon an accident, and now he’s just gonna try to make sure everyone is okay there.”
Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Ryan Lineberger and other units respond to some sort of disturbance at a hotel, which in the intro, Abrams describes as “a potentially ‘explosive’ situation.” Cops make contact, subdue, and detain a s subject in the hallway who allegedly claimed that “he was going to blow people up,” according to the deputy. “Happy time toys” allegedly found in a backpack. Deputy Lineberger: “I don’t know if it’s a sex toy or a suspicious device.” The subject indicates that it’s hygiene related. Deputy Lineberger: “He’s very high on something right now. We don’t know exactly what, so we’re gonna place him in protective custody just for his own will.”
Knox County, Tenn. — Officer John Longendorf provides back up on a traffic stop. Three occupants. The driver’s license is allegedly revoked. Cops ID the passengers to see if any of them have a valid license. Voluntary car search. The driver is released with a warning but someone apparently needs to come to the scene to drive the car home. “He’s been kind of cooperative; he’s pro law enforcement. So we’re gonna let him find a way to get home, get a licensed driver out here. It’s raining. They got a…pup in the car, so I think the warning is pretty good to go right now for his situation.”
Richland County, S.C. — K9 Specialist Datron Washington conducts a traffic stop on a pickup truck for alleged no tail lights or brake lights. Master Deputy Collins questions the man about whether or when he was drinking and administers field sobriety testing. The driver receives a citation and is released. Abrams: “So he’s gonna be on his way with the citations, but not in that car.”
Moore, Okla. — Officer Hebrink and Sergeant Sternberg initiate a traffic stop. Two occupants. K9 sniff. The passenger ends up getting arrested on a warrant for jaywalking; the driver is released with no charges.
Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Damian Lehmann and other units conduct a traffic stop outside a convenience store in connection with a suspected carjacking. Abrams: “I’ll admit this is a little confusing because there’s a lot of people pointing fingers at a lot of different people here. So it looks like no one’s been arrested yet. Let’s be clear. It looks like people are being detained as they still try and figure out who did what to whom, and who was the victim, and all of that.” After an investigation, it turns out that no carjacking occurred, and cops release the vehicle occupants that were detained. Deputy Lehmann: “So it sounds like we got a whole lot of nothing basically.”
Listen to Deputy Lehmann’s interim update on the investigation:
Listen to Deputy Lehmann’s subsequent recap:
Abrams update: “In Lee County, where they were investigating that attempted carjacking, the three people we saw who were questioned were all released with no charges.”
Triple Play #1 — Los Angeles alleged donut shop robbery.
An armed suspect tries to rob a donut shop in #LA…clad in a safari hat and hot pink #mankini. Yes, you read that correctly.
Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Malik Clark initiates a traffic stop on the highway. The subject vehicle was allegedly traveling 129 mph in a 65-mph zone. “Please don’t take me to jail tonight.” Deputy Clark issues several citations to the driver, including for speeding. Abrams: “…you heard another office on that scene saying he might have taken him to jail. Sounds like that’s not gonna happen. But in Clayton County…they like to give you those long receipts, and in this case, 129 miles per hour, not particularly surprising.”
Richland County, S.C. — K9 Specialist Washington and Deputy Harper pull over some hot rods for displaying blue lights. Abrams: “Blue lights are different than red lights as a legal matter.” Larkin: “In the state of South Carolina, blue lights are all the emergency vehicles have…their law enforcement to stop cars…” Rizzo: “We see that all the time…at the difficulty genuine police officers have pulling people over, having to yield the right of way…”
Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Longendorf and another unit conduct a traffic stop on an alleged wrong-way vehicle, i.e., passing several cars in the opposite lane of travel. On Patrol: Live airs police dashcam video of the alleged violation. Two occupants. Officer Longendorf as he orders the driver to exit the car: “You have a real hard time listening to simple instructions.” The driver claims that he had nothing to drink. Officer Longendorf administers field sobriety tests. The driver is subsequently arrested on alleged suspicion of DUI. The female passenger is released, and police will make arrangements to get her home safely.
Officer Longendorf provides an explanation for the field sobriety testing: “I believe that he is under the influence of some sort of intoxicant. I smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating off his breath when he talks. He’s got extremely slurred speech and like thick tongue. So I’m gonna continue with my test here and see if he is sober enough to operate this motor vehicle. Given his driving behavior so far, I don’t believe that he is, and I believe that he’s gonna be a danger to other motorists on the roadway.” Abrams: “So it turns out it wasn’t a report of him going into the other lane. The officer actually saw it…that’s right in front of an officer. That was part of the reason that this guy just got pulled over, and part of the reason that Officer Longendorf wants to continue with those field sobriety tests.”
Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers Thomas Goble and Roger Carlin, along with Lieutenant Richie Maher serve a felony warrant at a residence with the assistance of a phantom dog.
Officer Goble recap: “So after a few minutes of knocking and announcing, we were able to make verbal contact with the male inside the residence. Several of the windows are open, so we were able to look through the windows and get a positive ID on him, give him a couple options that we were bringing a dog. We were gonna potentially send a dog in the house. Sometimes a bluff tactic, sometimes legitimate. He’s got felony charges, so eventually we would have brought a dog, but he was able to be at least compliant enough to come to the front door, and we were able to take him into custody. So confirmed his affidavit already. He’s gonna be going to jail tonight for felony domestic charges.”
“Didn’t have to ‘bark’ too much. Just one quick woof, and he decided the door was the best answer.
Lt. Maher: “He eventually complied. Didn’t have to ‘bark’ too much. Just one quick woof, and he decided the door was the best answer. Dog wasn’t here yet, but sometimes a bluff works, too…so he’s saying he went to the police station to say his side. It’s factually inaccurate that our front desk is closed. I have an officer currently assigned to that desk who is the one who confirmed the affidavit for us…sometimes you just got to get creative, that’s all. So he’s in custody; nobody’s hurt. And we’re gonna get out of here, and I’m gonna go find some air conditioning for myself because it’s hot.”
On Patrol: Live Hour 3
Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams intro: “A couple discovered that sometimes love isn’t all it’s ‘cracked’ up to be.” Sergeant James Maher, Detective Maycon MacDowel, and other units make an arrest on scene after making contact with an alleged “suspicious person.” A dispute seems to occur over the ownership of a crack pipe.
Sgt. Maher: “Tried to blame his girlfriend at first, but they’re in love, and by the end of it, it’s no more ‘m’y crack pipe, your crack pipe.’ It’s ‘I’ll bond you out.’ It’s a Daytona love story. It’s gonna end up with a bond out.” Abrams quips, “classic love story.”
Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Greg Dressel and other units investigate an alleged altercation between brothers at an apartment complex. Abrams: “We’ve got a call here which I guess could be considered a Cain-and-Abel call.” The older brother seems not pleased that the police knocked on his door. “I’m trying to go to sleep.”
Listen to part of the discussion between police and irate the older brother:
Him and his younger sibling had an altercation if you didn’t gather that from the conversation in Lee County. Fancy talk there dude. #OPLive#OPNation
Deputy Dressel recaps the investigation thus far: “So, two brothers in a fight, which changes it to domestic violence which changes the game big time. On arrival, the brother here who called us, who’s the complainant, he has marks on his neck. He has a rip on his shirt. He’s got a big wound or a big bubble on his wrist from defending himself. He threw up after the altercation. Made contact with the brother who stated nothing happened. Very uncooperative. I’m gonna check with the brother real quick, but most likely he’s gonna be put in handcuffs…” Abrams: “Looks like the older brother here is gonna get arrested…the ‘I was just standing outside my house’ is not much of defense.” Larkin: “No; it’s no bearing on what took place inside the house.” Abrams: “Exactly.”
That guy seems to think he can't be arrested in front of his own house. People get arrested in and near their houses all the time! #OPLive
Abrams: Pokemon cards constitute a “serious business. The names are crazy. It’s a serious, serious business.” Rizzo: “I got some of them tattooed on me.” Abrams: “That’s a different level.” Larkin: “…just showed them, too.”
Christian County, Mo. — Corporal Ryan Bradshaw conducts a friendly traffic stop for alleged erratic driving: “You’ve hit the shoulder about three different times…no worries…it’s not the end of the world. I just want to check and make sure you weren’t impaired or anything crazy like that.” The driver is likely to be released with a warning after a routine ID check.
Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Longendorf and other units converge on a residence. On Patrol: Live caption: “Search for motorcycle that fled.” The motorcycle that allegedly fled is not spotted, however, in the garage.
Officer Longendorf recap: “So, the motorcycle’s not back here, which means he’s still out and about on that motorcycle. We might stay in the area for a little bit just to see if he’s dumb enough to come back tonight. So if not, warrants are on file. So he’s catching additional charges when he ran…from our units a little bit earlier ago. So he’s just stacking charges at this point for no reason. He can come in, be a man, and take the rap for what he did, and at least have some sort of defense. But now him running from us is not looking good for him. So we’ll keep an eye out for this motorcycle, not too many out tonight. So hopefully we can catch him and get him in custody.”
Baton Rouge, La. — Corporal Scott Hinson backs up Corporal Wendy George on a friendly traffic stop for an alleged fake or expired temporary tag. The tag may be valid after all, however. The documentation checks out although the driver has an expired license. Cpl. George: “You may want to get that up to date, okay? I’m not gonna write you a ticket just for that.” They end up releasing the driver with a warning.
Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers Goble and Ashlyn Cooper, and Sergeant James Maher make a traffic stop. They release the driver with a warning. Officer Goble: “So, a traffic stop for a tint violation. The driver of the vehicle is not the owner. The owner is actually in the back seat. He does not have a license, so he’s not driving, which is good. On top of it, he actually just recently got out of the hospital. He was in a work accident and actually lost one of his legs. So he’s actually in a really good mood, considering that. Very nice guy. So they got him out of here with a warning because the driver’s not the registered owner of the vehicle, so they’re not gonna fault them for the tint violation.”
— On Patrol Live Musings (@OnPatrolMusings) July 26, 2025
Christian County, Mo. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams intro: “It wasn’t a full moon, but there was some moonshine.” Deputy Trevor Guinn makes a traffic stop apparently for alleged speeding. The vehicle is uninsured. The driver declines a consensual vehicle search. The driver mentions that there might be a little bit of weed in the car. Also some lamb chops. Deputy Guinn explains the dog is not trained to detect weed. K9 sniff; K9 alert on the passenger side which prompts a probable cause car search. Corn whiskey and two guns allegedly found. Car towed.
Deputy Guinn recap: “After doing a criminal history check, he is a felon and is not supposed to be in any…possession of firearms, so Corporal Bradshaw is gonna transport him to the jail. He’ll get booked on felon in possession of a firearm times two. The lamb probably will go bad if I would have to say…”
Listen to the studio panel discuss how the K9 hit on something although cops did not find any drugs:
Knox County, Fla. — Officer Stainback and other units shift gears from a warrant service to responding to an alleged domestic dispute at a motel. On scene, they make contact with a couple.
Daytona Beach, Fla. — As the episode concludes, brothers Lt. Maher and Sergeant Chris Maher potentially trespass a man (“You have to understand I’m drunk”) from a strip mall location. Sgt. Maher: “You can call for your Uber off property.” The man ends up getting detained. Subject: “Is this all on video?” Sgt. Maher: “Live TV.” Subject: “Live TV. Cool.” Lt. Maher: “It appears this gentleman just had a little bit too much to drink. I’m not gonna…play games with him. He’s barely been able to stand up on his own.” Abrams: “…he is fully admitting he is drunk…”
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