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‘On Patrol: Live’ Recap: July 26-27, 2024

July 27, 2024 /

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

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

Captain Tom Rizzo ( Howell Township, N.J, P.D.), the all-but-permanent replacement for original trio member Sean Larkin, is again in the studio as this weekend’s “guest” analyst. It’s not unclear why OPL is delaying naming Rizzo as Larkin’s official replacement, although Larkin’s contract status may be an issue.

The centerpiece of the episode, at least from a social media perspective, is arguably the Daytona Beach standoff (see update below).

On Patrol: Live Summary for July 26, 2024 (#OPL Episode 03-05)

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  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (just prior to air) — Det. Dan Matero assists other officers, including Sgt. Marcus Booth, on a search for a fleeing vehicle. The empty car is spotted outside a motel in front of rooms that apparently are dormant for renovation. Det. Roger Lawson and his K9 deployed in the search. OPL host Dan Abrams: “They have the car. Now they’ve got to find the person who was in it.” Matero: “We’re getting some people saying they saw him this way, that way. We can only have some many witnesses tell us where the guys are, but we’re trying…think he’s in the strip club?” Sgt. Booth subsequently detains a male pedestrian, but he is quickly released upon a determination that he is uninvolved. Abrams: “Obviously, they’re getting some conflicting information there, which is making this a little bit tricky.”
  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Joe Richard responds to a report of alleged shoplifting at Target. Four persons are detained in the investigation.

Listen to Ofr. Richard’s summary:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Multiple officers pursue a fleeing car in which a man allegedly may have been holding a woman against her will. Stop sticks successfully deployed (“stick hit!”). Traffic stop at gunpoint; the driver is taken into custody. Car search. Cops interview the victim who is treated at the scene by paramedics.

Det. Matero recap: “So this car fled from Detective Galbreath. He went around town a little bit. We had eyes on him by surveilling officers in the area. He threw a female out of the car just down this street over here — determined that it was on purpose, and she wasn’t just trying to jump out; he tossed her out. So we disabled all the tires. He eventually hit some stuff over here in the yard, maybe a car and a fence, and then he ultimately stopped over here, and we apprehended him.” Det. Matero subsequently adds that “right over here is where I threw the sticks out the window, followed by the couple of police cars. The second he hit my sticks, he went around this pole and hit this fence, and then came through this yard and beamed this Buick right here. So, luckily, tire deflation devices work really well, and we love throwing them at bad guys. So, you can see it’s not even 500 feet, and he was done, given up. So…he’s going to jail on a slew of charges, and he’s gonna have a high bond, probably.”

‘luckily, tire deflation devices work really well, and we love throwing them at bad guys.”

Listen to OPL guest analyst Cpt. Rizzo commenting about fleeing suspects often finding “an opening.”

  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Tony Le, Sgt. John Finnegan, and other units respond to an alleged domestic incident and interview the male who has cuts on his stomach (“she’s intoxicated — there’s definitely some sh*t going on…I didn’t do nothing…”) and female party plus at least one neighbor.

Sgt. Finnegan recap: “So currently we have conflicting statements obviously being said. We searched the residence and the yard where he was last seen to see if there was a knife that he discarded, because according to her, when she left — when he left, he still had a steak knife in his hand. And he told her, she was, he was gonna tell us that she stabbed him.. In the back, in the back in the pool area, there’s a broken vase that’s actually inside the pool that he’s claiming she cut him with. But it doesn’t make any sense how the vase can be in the pool and still cut him. And those injuries are not consistent with porcelain. We’re gonna let deputy finish his investigation and determine what we do from here.” Abrams: “So it sounds like they’re starting to accept the woman’s version more than the guy’s, but we shall see.” The male is apparently arrested.

Listen to Sgt. Finnegan’s update followed by an Abrams clarification:

  • Everett, Wash. — Ofr. Brandon Hoelzel and the fire department respond to a serious T-bone accident in which a car is on fire. Cops gather information from witnesses. Abrams: “So a little confusing on who was driving which car, right? But it does seem clear that the witnesses believe one car T-boned another, and the person who got T-boned was the victim. And the person who’d been driving the other car had been swerving. So that’s where we are. We’ll see what happens.”
  • Triple Play #1 — Cleveland, Ohio, airport disturbance.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Dep. Braylyn Salmond, K9 John O’Shaughnessy, and other units make a traffic stop apparently for “super, super dark tint,” which is illegal in South Carolina. Dep. Salmon: “You got shake on your pants, buddy.” Probable cause car search. Deputies find two baggies of white powder that one of the occupants say is creatine (a popular pre- or post-workout nutritional supplement). Dep. Salmond whimsically declines to taste it but conducts a field test of the substance, which tests negative for drugs. “It looks like they were telling the truth…because it’s not turning blue. It’s a weird way to transport creatine and pre-workout, though.”

“…muscle man, tell us about some of the stuff that they just tested.”

Abrams: “We were all betting that that was not cocaine. It just wouldn’t be packaged that way.” To Cpt. Rizzo, Abrams quips, “but muscle man, tell us about some of the stuff that they just tested.” Rizzo: “They were there on their way to the gym. A good pre-workout supplement to get you home, a good pump.” Abrams: “The pre-workout supplement being different from the creatine?” Rizzo: Sure, absolutely.” Abrams: “One is one before and one after?” Rizzo: “Yea; creatine is more for throughout the day. Pre-workout naturally, as titled, pre-workout.”

  • Everett, Wash. (pre-recorded segment) — Using StarChase, Ofr. Brian Setzer tracks an alleged stolen car. The driver is detained by multiple officers after a brief foot chase and a taser deployment. “You jerked in my ass.”

Ofr. Hoelzel recap: “He had some kinds of drugs on him, some fentanyl and meth it looks like, and so as of right now, he’s going to jail for possession of a stolen vehicle, and for obstructing, and a small amount of drugs he had on him, just drug possession.”

Abrams: “This StarChase is just such a cool thing for law enforcement to be able to use because it does reduce so many issues and risks.” Rizzo: “I think it represents the epitome of the evolution of law enforcement, right?, and it’s being educated about what we do. It’s what we call in the industry, ‘does the risk outweigh the need?’ So for a property crime, so it’s just a stolen vehicle, nothing else that’s an aggravating circumstance, why not use it? It’s brilliant. Obviously, in the other case, like we saw the chase with a potential kidnap, you’re not going to let that happen.” Abrams: “And not everyone’s got the device, right?, which you shoot to the back of the car, and then you can just sit back, let the car go and…” Rizzo: “First I’ve ever seen it. I think it’s awesome.”

Abrams: “Speaking of sitting back, Curtis, this guy had a little issue when he sat back from the taser.” OPL co-host Dep. Curtis Wilson: “Sat back on that prong. It’s like a fishhook. You have two of them that [are] strategically placed on the body that, of course, causes that electric shock for you to go ahead and comply. When you comply, you don’t get tased, but when you do, it definitely makes you say, ‘okay, I’m gonna do what you need me to do.’ You can pull them out now. We can, most departments are able to, pull those prongs out, unless it’s in a sensitive area; then you get EMS in.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Dep. Salmond conducts other traffic stop. Another deputy there says he smells weed. The passenger is reluctant to get out of the car and is escorted out and detained. A female (apparently the driver) is also detained. Probable cause car search. Dep. Salmond agrees to put an open container in the car’s trunk rather than pouring out the contents. The occupants appear to be released.
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong and Det. Jake Brantley conduct a DUI investigation. Det. Brantley attempts to conduct field sobriety exercises, but the driver appears to be uncooperative. The latter is arrested on alleged suspicion of DUI. Car search. Open containers and a bag of weed allegedly spotted. Abrams jokes about the man checking his Apple watch for steps.
  • Everett, Wash. — Ofr. Hoelzel conducts a traffic in a parking lot in connection with a driver who allegedly has a felony warrant.

Fontana, Calif. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Jose Morales conducts a traffic stop on a slow-rolling pick-up truck upon a report of a driver allegedly asleep behind the wheel. “I was having some Twisted Tea earlier.” Field sobriety testing. Ofr. Morales summary: “Individual was placed under arrest for DUI. Right now, we’re working on getting a nurse out here to draw his blood, and then hopefully, he can get his dad, girlfriend, or whoever wants to come out and pick him up, and then take him home.” Abrams: “We hear them talking there about the possibility of drawing blood, and we see this happen all the time where there’s a portable breath test, right?, that’s the type of test we often see here, very different from a blood test.” Wilson: “Absolutely. The PBT, that is not admissible in court, but if you do a blood draw, you can use that in court. and that’s gonna be more accurate to say exactly what the level of the toxicity was.” Abrams: “By the way, the driver submitted to the blood draw, and the results are now pending, so we’ll see what happens there.”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor conducts an affable traffic stop for speeding, allegedly at 92 mph, on the highway. The driver, age 24, initially seems to decline a voluntary search of the car trunk, but then gives consent. The driver says he doesn’t smoke weed and there is nothing illegal in the trunk.” If there’s nothing illegal, then you shouldn’t have a problem, right?” Cops find some roaches in the truck. The chief seems skeptical about why the driver on a long trip has no luggage or even some extra underwear. “You didn’t take a change of clothes or nothing?” The driver is released after the conversation concludes, although apparently he is cited for speeding.

“You didn’t take a change of clothes or nothing?”

Listen to some of the interaction plus a brief panel discussion:

Abrams: “The guy seems kind of believable, right? He does. But we were talking that the reason he’s asking so many questions is because there are some factors here which would lead you to want to follow up, right?” Rizzo: “Well, again, what would a normal person do? And I don’t mean that in terms of judgment, but I’m saying behavior, right? Routine. You have no luggage…your route where you’re going from point A to point B…it’s peculiar. So that’s naturally gonna raise suspicions.”

  • Triple Play #2 — Crittenden County, Ark, pursuit.
  • Frederick, Md. — Multiple units including Ofrs. Hannah Clinton, Nick Aylward, and Paul Malatesta pursue and then conduct a traffic stop on an alleged stolen vehicle and detain two occupants.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Responding to a call, Sgt. Booth and other units make contact with a man walking on the side of the road allegedly waving a knife (or possibly a screwdriver). The interaction results in a long standoff because the man seems unwilling to follow Sgt. Booth’s commands (“…Show us your hands…”). Sgt. Booth wonders if the subject is the same man that he briefly detained earlier in the prior investigation. Abrams: “It doesn’t seem it is…we actually have a better view through the camera lens, and a closer view of the guy they’re trying to talk to now, and it’s not this guy…but again, from Marcus Booth’s perspective, he can’t see as close as we can with the camera angle.” The impasse is ongoing as the show goes off the air.

Cpt. Rizzo responds to Abrams’ question about the challenges posed by this situation from a law enforcement perspective: “…They don’t want to create a force situation. It’s the last thing that they want to do. But they have to draw that proverbial line in the sand. They can’t retreat because there’s a duty to obviously take him into now even a protective custody if they have to. It seems to be some type of episode the guy’s having. But they’re gonna have to now come up with a plan that’s eventually going to incorporate, alright, now what’s next?” You know” Dep. Wilson: “Something you mentioned earlier about time is on their side, which it is. They can take their time, but this is the safety factor, which is why this is taking so long. They have to try to figure out exactly how to get this guy to comprehend what they’re trying to ask him to do. And then also determine what is the issue with him.”

Abrams: “As Curtis said, time is on their side, so there’s not gonna be a rush here to deal with this. But, as Tom Rizzo said, they have to deal with this. There’s no leaving the scene.” Wilson: “They don’t want to hurt him, and they don’t want to get hurt as well. That’s a big issue.” Abrams: “And look, this could be a mental episode, right?” Rizzo: “No doubt. They’re gonna start to plan an approach. That’s what you’re gonna see probably unfold here. Whether it’s gonna be by cover of the vehicle or cover of a shield. That’s why they deployed the drone. They have to get closer in proximity with whatever the regard is.” Abrams: “Because he’s just not doing what they’re asking him to do again and again and again and again…this just shows you how far away he is because they can’t probably hear exactly what he’s saying.”

‘They can take their time, but this is the safety factor, which is why this is taking so long.”

Abrams subsequently adds that “This is progress, though…the fact that there’s actually some communication going on.” Rizzo: “So the communication barrier being broken, now we’ll reset the clock, because now you’re gonna give that another go that, ‘okay, if we can potentially communicate at least what we expect, what we’re looking to do, so that nobody gets hurt.’ That’s been the ultimate goal since jump, and that’s what they’re trying to accomplish. If that’s been broken now, where we give and we get in terms of messaging, then we’re gonna restart the clock.” Abrams: “And they just want to try and get sort of closer and closer to him, and they’re hoping they can do it in a way which is as safe as possible, and the more they can communicate. with him, the less of a risk it is.” Rizzo: “But people need to understand, too…they’re gonna still have their options there. Less lethal, you’re still gonna have that. Those don’t go away, so most people don’t understand that, and then they think that we’re bringing a violent component there. It’s not. That’s for precautionary measures.” Wilson: “Definitely want to talk him down, which is what they’re doing, and as you talked about this communication, that line of communication is so important, the fact that he’s talking to them.”

  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong conducts a traffic stop for speeding. The motorist, age 17, was allegedly going 94 mph in a 55-mph zone in the rain. “I hope there’s a really, really good reason.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Sgt. Finnegan and another deputy detain a man after brief foot chase.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — As the episode concludes, Dep. Le respond to the scene where a car appears have smashed into a house. “Looks like an old police car.”
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2 Comments

  1. Suzanne Clark

    What happened to the black guy on the road with 🔪 knife in Dayton Beach?

    • Robert (Post author)

      Please scroll to near the bottom of the post for an update on that incident.

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