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 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 different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings. Pre-recorded segments are usually part of the show as well.

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

The Saturday night installment marks OPL’s 100th episode.

The Peacock and FreeCast streaming services carry the Reelz Channel, which is the home of OPL.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for July 29, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-04 )

  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deps. Shannon Tolman and Braylyn Salmond along with other units track a stolen vehicle which turns into a foot pursuit after the driver abandons the vehicle in question. Perimeter established and K9 and drone deployed. Car search. Dep. Salmond: “…GPS directions on one of the cell phones that was left in the stolen car that we’re in the pursuit with, and the directions had the address to this apartment…” Deputies also review security footage that recorded the suspect outside the apartment complex and the direction of travel.

Officers converge on two apartments where they believe the suspect may be located, but apparently no one was at either location.

Larkin: “There’s a few exigent circumstances that allow…the police to go in and search a residence without a warrant. I am making an assumption here that they knocked on the door and sounded like it opened up. They’re searching this residence obviously looking for a suspect, but they want to make sure that everybody else in the house is okay, like a suspect’s not holding somebody hostage or anything like that. So they would go through, just clear for a person, not look for evidence, and then leave.”

  • Abrams: “So it sounds like the phone that was found inside the vehicle has helped them go into this location, and now they’re piecing it together with other pieces of evidence…it appears that they have a drone up that is helping them assess exactly where this suspect may have moved…”

Wilson: “We have deputies who are trained to operate these drones, and they keep them with them, so they have quick access to get these drones up whenever they’re trying to search for an individual such as this case right here.” Abrams” “And they were led here initially based on cell phone data, then an eyewitness….”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and other units interact with woman who claims her ex is stalking her. Some blood spots on car port. She also claims possible animal poisoning. Abrams: “…the woman who believes her ex is ‘getting her goat’…this is just her allegations at this point.”

Chief Taylor: “I guess her ex is back in town or whatever and maybe having some issues….possibly poisoned the goats. I don’t really know much about goats, but they seem friendly and seem healthy right now. So if they get any worse, she can…take them to the vet’s office and anything like that…” Abrams: “It seems he’s not certain about exactly what happened there.”

  • Fullerton, Calif. — Cpl. Alexa Elkabarra responds to trespassing call. She makes contact with a male who leaves the immediate area. She also makes contact with a woman sitting in the nearby alley.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Dylan Lee conducts traffic stop possibly for no lights.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — A young teen allegedly leads deputies on a high-speed chase at over100 mph in his mother’s car. His teenage sister was the passenger. Cpl. Tyler Hazel admonishes the teen for his recklessness and his attitude after detaining he youngster, whose comments are heavily bleeped. The boy’s mother comes to the scene and also reprimands her son. Cpl. Hazel: “He’s 14 years old, so everything is gonna be under juvenile detention, and he’s gonna get through family court, and he’s gonna have charges pressed on him here. And we’re probably gonna suggest some behavioral therapy and some programs that we offer here in the state that I think he’d be a great candidate for.”

Wilson: “What happens here, he gets arrested, but he’s gonna be released to the custody of his parents. He’s gonna have a court date that he has to appear in family court, and that’s when the judge is gonna decide what happens. Now if it’s his first appearance, he may get the opportunity for what’s called youth arbitration, which means he gets an opportunity to complete a program. If completed successfully, those charges get dropped and he gets a fresh start. But if he doesn’t, those charges will be hooked on him, and he’ll have to deal with the consequences.” Abrams: “Or if he has previous charges, and that could play into it, right?” Wilson: “Yes.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Noah Galbreath, Sgt. Mike Bryant, and other units pursue a fleeing vehicle. Spike sticks deployed. They detain a possible subject, who allegedly initially resisted, after a foot search. The subject insists that he didn’t flee and doesn’t drive. Heavy bleeping. Bryant: “…He was within inches of being tazed…in a cursory search of his person, we were able to locate a Chevy key in his pocket…”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong conducts traffic stop. Armstrong: “If you don’t have a license, you shouldn’t be driving, and you really shouldn’t be speeding, especially in these weather conditions.” Armstrong: “They were doing about 15 miles per hour over the speed limit…so I stopped them to let him know that he did not have his tail lights activated and his speeds were too fast, and it was raining outside. So it’s not safe. He hands me a piece of paper of a driver’s license that…expired in 2007, so that’s always a problem. He said it’s just expired — expired by a lot.” Abrams: “And if you did the math, that police chief there was probably eight or nine years old at the time that this guy’s license was valid, roughly.” Apparently, a passenger with a valid license will take over driving the vehicle.
  • OPL live feed crash — OPL was off line from about 9:59 p.m. to 10:05 p.m. Eastern time because of technical difficulties. The show also extended by about five “bonus” minutes at the end.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies, including returning Master Dep. Addy Perez, pursue a reckless motorcycle driver.
  • Hazen, Ark. — After spike strips were deployed, cops make traffic stop at gunpoint after very-high-speed highway chase. Two occupants detained

Chief Tayler: “He said he was scared and he had two grams of weed…so what’s gonna happen, just like I just told him, he’s gonna go to jail, he’s gonna be put on a probable cause hearing. Fleeing from law enforcement in the state of Arkansas is a felony, okay. So you run from Arkansas police, we will chase you, and we we will get you.”

Abrams: “It does seem they have a bit more of an aggressive chase policy maybe than in some of the other departments that we follow.” Larkin: “It is. That’s a good motto the chiefs got there. I’m a big fan of catching the bad guys. But there are policies in place obviously. And I think it’s kind of ironic that the suspect here says he’s worried about the female passenger, but he put her life in danger at 140 miles hour — 157. It’s ridiculous.” Wilson: “But not just her life, but anybody else who’s out there on that road as well. And he’s the chief; so he makes that decision to keep chasing or stop. He says ‘hey, you come to Arkansas, we chase.'”

Chief Taylor update: “I think we got everything calmed down now finally. I had the bad guy’s phone…his mama called. She wanted to know if everybody is all right… everybody’s good. She’s gonna come to get the girlfriend, or whatever the relationship is. And I told her her her son is gonna have to stay in jail a day or two until he can bond out. So nobody was hurt. Everybody is going home…[K9] Boscoe is okay; he’s in air conditioning.” H e also noted that a radiator hose on one patrol came loose and will be towed back to town where it be reinstalled.

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a shots-fired call involving a drive-by and gather information from a witness.
  • Brookford, N.C. — Traffic stop on moped with broken tail light. Driver has no ID. Released with warning.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Jim Fisher and other units respond to a dispute at a motel involving alleged threats made to a teenage girl and try to mediate the situation. Abrams: “This is the sort of thing police officers have to do every day — de-escalation, right?” Wilson: “Mediators.” Larkin: “There’s times I’m happy I’m retired.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Lee responds to a disabled vehicle. He uses a translate app on his smart phone to communicate with the drive and vice versa. While the driver’s brother is on the way to help, Lee also changes her flat tire. Abrams: “Well, good for Deputy Dylan Lee [for] getting that translator. We’ve seen a number of episodes where he has somehow always seem to get the folks who don’t speak English. And now he’s got a solution.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Traffic stop for rolling through a stop sign. Abrams: “A passenger refused to say anything without his lawyer present, but then there was a ‘leak.'” It turns out that the passenger allegedly had a warrant from another state and is detained. Driver released with a warning.

Abrams: “As we were just talking about, very often it’s the officers themselves that have to end up cleaning that up.”

  • Brookford, N.C. — Traffic stop. Field sobriety testing. Driver says that she allegedly drank “about a fifth” over the course of the day. Driver, who becomes uncooperative, is arrested for DUI. Armstrong to driver: “You are being so unprofessional…stop being disrespectful…”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Traffic stop. Passenger bails but is detained after a very brief foot chase. Det. Steve Kucinski: “We’ve seen this vehicle driving — had dark window tint. As we were driving behind it, we can kind of see the inside. Driver, passenger, moving around a lot, which essentially means they’re trying to conceal something. So we thought it was a little suspicious. We tried to stop them. As soon as we stopped the vehicle, it kind of took a while to pull over. And as soon as they did stop, the passenger bailed out and ran, but we were…able to apprehend him. He said he took off running because he didn’t know the driver but he’s in the car with him…so we got a gun right here tucked in between the seat which I’m guessing why the passenger took off…he’s got a firearm. I’m sure he’s not supposed to have it, but we’ll look into that.” Abrams: “Well, they got him. And that is a bit of a far-fetched story — the idea that he was running out of a car because he didn’t know the driver. That’s sort of a new one…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Vehicle flees from traffic stop. Foot chase in woods ensues after car wrecks out. Passenger detained. Thorough foot search with K9 to find the driver. Dep. Bryson Fowler: “We thought we had a sighting, but it wasn’t him.” Fowler mentions that deputies have IDed the driver “through the girlfriend in the passenger seat.” A warrant will be issued for the driver on several charges. “He’s gonna be picked up on his warrants eventually,”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Sgt. Paul Yacobozzi makes traffic stop on van. The driver was allegedly watching YouTube music videos on his phone while “all over the road.” Dep. Lee assists Yacobozzi with the pocket translation app. Sgt. Yacobozzi: “I’m gonna run him. If everything’s good, we’re gonna cut him loose. Looking at his registration, he’s right down the street from his house. So the only thing to deal with probably is write him a warning, but he’s got to be a little more careful driving on the roads.”
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Fisher makes a well-being check on a pedestrian who says she has several ailments. She tells Fisher that she is okay.
  • BOLO segment (i.e., be on the lookout, formerly the Wanted segment) — Alleged child sex trafficker.
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Dep. Royce James provides backup on a traffic stop outside a liquor store/smoke shop. Vehicle allegedly struck a sign. James: “We stopped the car for that reason. He is, apparently, probably, been smoking marijuana because the car wreaks of it. His eyes are really bloodshot and glassy — indicative of that. So he does admit that there’s marijuana in the car, so we’re gonna take a look in here to see what we can find in here.” Abrams subsequently updates that “both he and the woman in that car were released with no charges.”
  • Missing update and new Missing segment.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop. Abrams: “A driver who seemed not pleased about being pulled over.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops pursue a fleeing car which wrecks out and apparently crashes into a parked vehicle. They detain two occupants after a foot bail. Abrams: “We’re just getting in information that Det. Galbreath was trying to pull over the car for speeding.” Abrams also mentions that the car is suspected of being stolen.

Sgt. Bryant: “So, again, this is why units like the [Violent Criminal Apprehension Team] are out here. We’re out here on the weekends and at night because people are doing things like this: They’re stealing cars, they’re committing other crimes, such as burglaries, and robberies, and things of that nature. All over the county they’re doing this, not just in our city. But then they come into our city, and they flee from us. And our main goal is to protect human life and property. So if they’re gonna take off, and do stuff like this, crash into an innocent person’s vehicle, narrowly miss crashing into a pedestrian walking on the sidewalk legally — could have killed him easily — and then bail from the car after a major crash, it’s only the grace of God that officers and detectives were in the area were able to apprehend them just half a block away. So we’re gonna get this guy some medical treatment. We’re gonna get this stolen vehicle…towed. Get this other guy’s vehicle that was totaled towed as well. And pray that nothing else dangerous like this happens tonight…”