This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Quotes, Social Media Activity, and Puns
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 Peacock and FreeCast streaming services carry the Reelz Channel, which is the home of OPL.
The Saturday night installment marks OPL’s 100th episode and both shows features 10 agencies for the milestone weekend.
The NYC studio, bumper music, and logo get a refresh. but not everyone in #OPNation likes the new setup.
Some social media users also suggest that an ulterior motive may be in play.
Abrams: “As you can see, we have a bit of a new look here. Sean looks bigger, Curtis looks stronger, and I look brighter.”
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On Patrol: Live Summary for July 28, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-03 )
- Hazen, Ark. — Traffic stop by Chief Bradley Taylor and other officers on an alleged stolen 18-wheeler. After an investigation, it turns out that the alert in the database was apparently outdated, and the innocent truck driver is released and shakes hands with all the officers on the scene.
- Fullerton, Calif. — Traffic stop. A bystander filming the officers gets into an argument with Cpl. Brandon Ramek for getting too close to the investigation.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop on truck in the middle of the road for no tag in what Sgt. Mike Bryant describes as a high-drug, high-crime area. Two occupants detained. Open contained allegedly spotted. Crack pipes allegedly found.
- Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a domestic call supposedly involving a weapon. Car search. They take a male, who allegedly has warrants, into custody. Abrams: “I’m not the expert criminal mind, but I would think that if you’ve got warrants, calling 911 is probably not –” Larkin: “Not the smartest thing to do.” Wilson: “But criminals aren’t that smart.” Abrams: “Sometimes — Sean always makes that point.”
- Fullerton, Calif. — Traffic stop on truck in what looks like a storage facility. Three occupants detained. Cpl. Ramek subdues an “impatient” female exiting the front passenger seat. Vehicle search. Ofr. Josh Walker: “As of right now, the female will be in custody for resisting and obstructing an investigation. The male will be under arrest for possession of a nitric oxide tank. And we’ll figure out who the third passenger is and whether he’s involved.” Abrams: “No laughing matter there.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputies respond to two-vehicle accident. One of the drivers allegedly fled. Sgt. Nick Augustine and other cops search for the subject in a desert area in their vehicles and on foot. The alleged driver subsequently walks out of the desert.
Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong and other officers conduct traffic stop. Four occupants. Abrams: “It appears they’re talking about a stolen gun there.” Wilson: “Absolutely. And they’re talking about officer safety. Got to let us know you if have a weapon in that vehicle when we pull you over.” Abrams: “Stolen or not.”
Armstrong update: “Two passengers are getting released. Detective Brantley, he decided that he was gonna charge both of them because she’s saying it’s his — he’s saying it’s hers. They’re both kind of in reachable distance that it could be both their guns obviously. So both of them are getting charged with the same offense: possession of a stolen firearm. The gun was stolen out of a neighboring county. They’re both going to jail today. Nobody wants to take possession of it; nobody knows it was there. So at the end of the day, like we have to do what’s fair, and so Brantley decided he was gonna make an arrest on both of them. So we’re waiting on a tow truck to come and get the vehicle, and then after that, we’re pretty much done.”
- Crime of the Night — A montage of wild police chases from the previous year. Abrams also announces the OPL “Triple Play” segment starting next weekend in which viewers can submit and vote on the most exciting crime videos.
- Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams: “Deputies often find themselves having to put up with a lot of bull, and then there was this…” Sgt. Steve Zubkoff and Dep. Wilson Bishop assist in getting some “very aggressive” male cows off the road and back to their pen at a nearby farm. Zubkoff or Bishop: “Ultimately a happy ending. A little bit of damage to the tow truck. Definitely appreciate him helping out. Took a team effort to be able to locate the owner and get them home safely.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Bryson Fowler and other units respond to a report of a drive-by shooting . They canvas the area on foot and recover seven or eight shell casings. Fowler: “So it seems like they were shooting out of the passenger side towards the house…some property damage. Nobody was hit…”
- Toledo, Ohio — Traffic stop for failure to signal; it turns out that the driver, who apparently lacks a valid license, allegedly has eight warrants, most of which are apparently traffic related. Car search. Det. Steve Kucinski, who was trying to help the driver out, tells the him that “I was able to get you a summons on all of ours” but a warrant out of another Ohio county is apparently arrestable if it is confirmed.
- Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong makes contact with bicyclist whose bike has no lights. Released with a safety warning. Armstrong: “Well, he’s getting his exercise in.” Abrams: “If you look at his T-shirt, he may have a much brighter light to follow.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant spots a motorcyclist wearing a weird mascot-type costume. Bryant: “I’m probably gonna follow this guy before he does something crazy.”
- Hazen, Ark. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams: “Chief Bradley…encountered a driver [who] turned out to have a ‘little bit’ of excess baggage.” Traffic stop for failure to maintain lanes. K9 alert. Approximately 100 pounds of weed allegedly found in duffle bags. The driver charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Car towed.
- Nye County, Nev. — Dep. Cody Cunningham investigates a shots-fired call. Cunningham: “I looked through the desert, and I’m not seeing any signs of occupants in the lot, and I’m not seeing any signs of shell casings. So it may have been fireworks that gets confused a lot of the times. It is a little early for that, but we’re just gonna take a quick look around the block and just make sure nobody’s injured and nothing’s out of the ordinary. But at first glance, it doesn’t look like anything malicious happened.”
- Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams: “Capt. Danny Brown encountered a woman who said she was under federal investigation. But her story appeared to ‘crack’ under questioning.” Traffic stop on suspicious parked car outside liquor store. Brown: “Darling, you were behind the wheel of a vehicle smoking crack in a running vehicle. That’s not dangerous at all, right?” After Brown field-tests a substance, he says that “she’s gonna be under arrest for possession of crack cocaine.”
Abrams: “Curtis, this is your department. Talk to us about that test that he was doing there in the field.” Wilson: “Deputies, we have what’s called a NIK kit, which is a narcotics identification kit. And you take it, you put it on that tab there, and if it turns blue, it tells you if you’ve got a ‘baby.’ What you do is you’ll take it to our lab, which we have, and that will confirm the results as well.”
- Fullerton, Calif. — Cops investigate an incident involving a suspected vandal. Cpl. Jon Miller: “…I guess the subject came inside [a store]; he grabbed some socks and tried to leave. It sounds like the store manager kind of stopped him. Got the socks back. And on the way out, he kicked…the glass door, which caused damage. So it’s over the amount, so we’re looking at a felony vandalism…”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant, Ofr. Brandon Ramirez, and other units investigate a possible burglary in progress at self-storage facility. K9 deployed. Abrams: “Where did this guy go? They clearly have very definitive reports that he was there.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies detain an alleged homicide suspect in a car outside of residence. Car search. Cops make entry and clear the home pursuant to a search warrant. Detectives to take over the investigation.
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies investigate a purported domestic violence incident allegedly involving a car. Master Dep. Shannon Tolman: “We got a call, it was a third-party caller, saying there was a male versus a female. The female was outside trying to run the male over with a vehicle. Very unclear as to where the female went, where the male is right now. So we’re trying to make contact with the owner of the apartment that they live at. So they’re just looking at us through the window. So we’re trying to get them to come down to the door and make contact with us to hopefully we can get some type of situation figured out.”
Tolman update: “So we tried to make contact with the apartment that the original call came out for…they gave us a couple of apartments that it could be, but all those apartments are indeed vacant right now. So we’ll keep an eye on it; we’ll check throughout the night to see if they come back. But as of right now, it seems like both parties are gone and quieted down at least.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputies respond to a report of a burglary in progress called in by a neighbor.
- Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment). Abrams: “Cpl. Kenny Fitzsimmons attempted to settle a toxic situation between two estranged parents and their teenage son.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Linsay Zarick and colleagues respond to a report of a fight in progress outside of a residence apparently between two men. One of the male subjects tries to drive off, but officers stop the car and detain him down the block. The other male subject standing on the porch is vague about what prompted the dispute. Each of them claims the other made threats. The fiancee of one of the men claims the other man also was threatening. Abram suggests that Zarick is “clearly trying to de-escalate this situation.”
- Toledo, Ohio — Det. Dustin Mickles and Det. Kucinski pursue a vehicle that fled from a traffic stop that turns into a brief foot pursuit. Cops detain the driver; car search. Kucinski: “This gentleman here, he says he ran because he had warrants. He did have warrants. He had five felony warrants, all of them were for drugs. He also had some other warrants for running away from the police as well. He’s gonna be charged tonight with failure to comply, which is a felony in the fourth degree. The vehicle is gonna be towed, and he’s gonna be cited as well.”
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