On Patrol: Live Season 4, All-New Episode, Tonight

On Patrol: Live new tonight: An On Patrol: Live recap of the televised police ride-alongs, plus commentary from studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams with with studio analysts Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), Tom Rizzo (a captain with Howell Township, N.J., PD) and Sean “Sticks” Larkin (a retired Tulsa, Okla., PD sergeant), follows. This recap also includes the often-provocative or playful social media reaction to the incidents in the field.

An interesting dynamic is in play at the On Patrol: Live anchor desk in the Jersey City, N.J., studio. After a long hiatus, Sean Larkin is increasing his appearances on the On Patrol: Live cast, while Curtis Wilson trends in the other direction.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

An inspiring interview with a Volusia County, Fla., deputy who miraculously survived a shooting in the line of duty was the highlight of tonight’s all-new On Patrol: Live episode. A Baton Rouge shooting response and a Knox County investigation were among the other noteworthy incidents. Separately, #OPNation continues to debate the merits of bologna sandwiches versus PB&J in jailhouse cuisine.

In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 22 law enforcement encounters across nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments on the current roster (Hazen, Ark., PD, is not on tonight’s roster but did appear in a pre-recorded segment; the Berkeley County, S.C., Sheriff’s Office did not appear). And check back for updates.

Programming note: Officer Christopher Coleman from Baton Rouge, La., PD., who is visiting the NYC area, joined the panel during First Shift as a special guest.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for March 6, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-59)

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  • Lee County, Fla. — In the video clip below, Deputy Mackenzie Green responds to a multi-car accident as the episode opens. “Everybody’s okay…that’s all that matters…” The fire department is also on scene.
  • Christian County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Possible DUI.” Deputy Trevor Guinn backs up another agency on scene. The driver appears to have difficulty completing the PBT process in the investigation. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “So the initial results there, not working out well for him. Not that surprising.” According Deputy Guinn, the PBT “gave a partial read of .15” and “I believe that with a full test, that he’s gonna be way double, maybe even, or triple, the legal limit, so he’s en route to the Christian County Jail…he might get a warm peanut butter and jelly sandwich. So he’s good to go, and we might have saved a life today…”

Listen below to Deputy Guinn’s incident recap after which Abrams mentions that “important context there on how that person ended up getting approached at all.”:

  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of domestic incident with bat.” Officers Kaleb Torbet and Jack Oberthaler respond to a residence on this call. After they make contact with the parties, they end up arresting an argumentative male on scene (“fighting words aren’t covered under the Constitution”). Bleeping.

Listen below as On Patrol: Live studio analyst Sean Larkin explains how police generally handle domestics when cops want one of the parties to at least leave for the night:

Officer Oberthaler recap: “Obviously, he didn’t want to listen, so it escalated to that. And then obviously, subsequent to that, they found some more drugs in his pocket. So now I got to call a detective and move forward with a potential possession charge. Abrams: “You can even tell that Officer Oberthaler there didn’t really want to do that, right?…it’s just, like, why? A situation that could have completely been avoided.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “Yeah, four different opportunities to just walk off and go, take your stuff, and even offer the temporary relief of gathering your personal belongings. We’ll never sit there and facilitate a full move out…but we’ll give you some time, gather your belongings. We oversee it. That’s the way it works — that no other further offenses or acts of violence happen..” Abrams: “But it also just shows that tensions were still high, right? So if they had left that scene, you’re risking the possibility of something else happening.

  • Hazen, Ark. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Colton Felts on a high-speed chase on the highway. Multiple parties end up detained with Chief Bradley Taylor as backup. Abrams previews the segment: “When we say that in Hazen…they don’t have much of a pursuit policy, meaning if you flee, they’re gonna pursue…let’s just say, it ends the way most of these Hazen…pursuits end…in Hazen, they don’t tend to give up, no matter how fast the driver’s going.” Chief Taylor: “That light is not a flashlight pointing at you. That’s a gun, you understand me?…” Later, the chief admits that “I was in my drawers in the bed…”

Abrams update: “The driver was charged with felony fleeing, aggravated assault times four, for all the passengers. They were identified, all of them, and released on the scene, except for the one who had warrants. The getaway driver was actually charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution. So that person, I guess, got a call or something, got his own charge.”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Caruntal Harrell conducts a traffic stop for alleged erratic driving. Driver: “I just had to sh*t.” Officer Harrell: “You ain’t even hardly holding your ass checks tight enough to say you got to shit.” Ticket issued for alleged “careless operation of the motor vehicle.” Abrams: “Don’t know that I’d want to be at the next rest stop with him.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Tyler Thoman chats with two women outside what appears to be a restaurant and informs them about On Patrol: Live on Reelz. Abrams: “Don’t pretend you don’t know what it is. C’mon!”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Devon Brown initiates an investigative traffic stop. As Deputy Brown explains below, it turns out that the driver, who just bought the car, is not the person that another agency is looking for who had fled from them yesterday. Abrams: “Maybe she got a discount on it because of the activities the vehicle had been involved in previous weeks.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Detectives Jeff Milum and Nate Insley initiate a traffic stop on a car that allegedly didn’t stop at the stop bar. The driver is very vocal. Officers ask him to stop talking and chill out. Abrams: “Not sure why he thinks he is entitled to call his girlfriend as some some sort of fundamental right.”

Knox County, Tenn. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of hit and run with fence.” In an incident that consumes significant airtime, Officers Thoman and Rachel Green respond to the home where a van crashed into a fence. The fire department is also on scene. Officer Thoman in reference to the van’s bumper sticker: “It’s a student and an elderly driver at the same time. And a nice brown bag of alcohol. My favorite, Red Bulls, to go with it.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating neighbor dispute.” Apparently there are ongoing issues between the neighbors, including alleged threats from a man in the other house. Officer Thoman: “We actually have — we — my shift specifically, has history with this house back here…” The officer also claims that in a previous call allegedly involving a shotgun or a rifle, “according to the family members we talked to that night, he’s not friendly to law enforcement…”Eventually, and after more officers arrive, and with the permission of the suspect’s mother, cops enter the nearby residence and detain the male suspect who allegedly drove the van and who is allegedly intoxicated. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” The van is towed. Officer Thoman: “Basically, suspect’s mom told us everything that we need to know to build probable cause to effect an arrest. So she’s gonna give us access to her house that he is in currently asleep. So we’re gonna go down there; we’re gonna essentially effect this arrest and resolve this problem tonight.” Abrams: “It’s gonna be a rude awakening for this guy.“

Abrams on the cautious cops: “They’re gonna wait for backup before they go and approach the possible suspect here…so obviously, this is a potential officer-safety issue, and just trying to make sure that they do this very carefully.”

Officer Thoman: “Basically, suspect’s mom told us everything that we need to know to build probable cause to effect an arrest. So she’s gonna give us access to her house that he is in currently asleep. So we’re gonna go down there; we’re gonna essentially effect this arrest and resolve this problem tonight.” Abrams: “It’s gonna be a rude awakening for this guy.”

Listen below as Sean Larkin explains that SWAT uses a threat matrix to presumably decide against deploying to the scene:

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Devon Johnson and many other cops respond to a report of shooting. Three males appear to have been wounded. The crowded crime scene is tumultuous. Abrams: “…from the law enforcement perspective, tricky situation, because emotions are running high. Looks like family members or friends may be there, and have witnessed it, and yet it’s important for the officers to be able to control the people who are there.” Police and paramedics on scene treat the victims who are then transported to the hospital. Investigation ongoing, which may include two crime scenes. Abrams: “Now the question is gonna be getting as much information as they can from as many people as they can on that scene, hoping that people share information and offer tips.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Curtis Wilson: “Whether these individuals were known to them or not, and what caused this, and, again, which way did they go?…”

Listen below to On Patrol: Live studio discuss the situation on scene:

Listen below to Officers Johnson and Harrell provide a preliminary assessment of the situation followed by some additional commentary from Tom Rizzo:

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Torbet and Oberthaler respond to a shots-fired call that may instead be a hit-and-run car accident. They make contact with the couple whose car was struck in an accident by a vehicle that left the scene. Male passenger: “Nobody shot at us.” Officer Torbet finds at least one shell casing on the road, however. Officers check the car itself for any shooting evidence. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating shots fired and accident.” Crash report to be filed.

Officer Torbet preliminary recap: “So we got this special ShotSpotter over in this area. We arrive on scene, and we see this vehicle has gotten some damage, and they said that a black car took off. So, may be related, may not be. Partner’s talking to them to figure out what’s going on with the car, and then we’re just looking for any evidence for the ShotSpotter. There’s a shell casing here; we’re gonna see if we can locate any more.”

  • Triple Play #1 — a Worcester, Mass., incident where an officer was trapped inside a fleeing car.
  • Christian County, Mo. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clip below, Deputy Trevor Guinn and other units make a traffic stop at gunpoint at a possible stolen car. It turns out that the owner was the driver, and he apparently had not informed police that he recovered his car. Deputy Guinn to driver: “The most important thing is you got to call law enforcement to let us know…ninety percent of the people who have stolen cars run from us, so that’s why we react the way we do…”

Deputy Guinn recap: “Sounds like — the moral of the story is — if you report a vehicle’s stolen, you need to pay attention and report it back to us that you’ve found it, or you’re gonna have 10-plus cops waving guns at you, screaming you. So at the end of the day, the vehicle is not stolen, and everybody’s safe…”

  • Volusia County, Fla. — In the video clip below, the On Patrol: Live studio panel interviews Deputy Jose Rivera whose life was possibly saved in a shooting by his own body cam. OPL previously featured the Volusia Sheriff’s Office as part of the rotation. Curtis Wilson: “There’s no such thing as a routine call…you just never know what you’re gonna deal with when you go on a call.”

Deputy Rivera: “…I was shocked to actually see what the camera was able to do in that moment. You would never think that a piece of plastic would be able to deflect a bullet like that.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Devon Brown makes a traffic stop on the highway on a vehicle that allegedly didn’t move over and thus almost hit him while he was conducting a previous traffic stop. “I gave you five tickets for everything that you did.”

Listen below to Deputy Brown’s provide his reasoning for the stop and the multiple citations:

  • Richland County, S.C. — K9 Specialist John O’Shaughnessy assists on a fleeing suspect call after the suspect’s car crashed out. The suspect is already in custody when O’Shaughnessy arrives on scene. Deputies field-test a substance that was allegedly thrown in a yard and recovered by K9 Bobi. Abrams: “…K9 Bobi who bit into a bag of drugs when he found it. It was not cocaine. It turns out it was a bag of marijuana, but apparently Bobi did eat some of it, so it’s a little bit of concern there. Bobi’s got the munchies…it was just marijuana, and K9 Specialist O’Shaughnessy did not seem that concerned, but he did want to get him some water, which he has gotten him there.”
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn makes a very friendly traffic stop for alleged erratic driving on an On Patrol: Live fan. The driver is quickly released. Deputy Guinn: “Like you saw, I stopped her for the couple of lane violations, and glad that [she] isn’t out drinking and driving. She was having a girl’s night, but think her girls’ night out consisted of something a little different, of sweet tea, and praise and worship. So getting in a little community contact there, and she’s almost home, and we’re on our way.” Abrams: “Having some good clean fun.”
  • Baton Rouge, La. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by quipping that “Sergeant Jordon Lear encountered a driver with some trunk problems and some drunk problems.” Sergeant Lear and another unit make a friendly traffic stop at a gas station. Suspended license. At the officers’ request, the driver’s mother comes to the scene to pick him up. Sgt. Lear: “…he’s intoxicated; the only thing that’s really saving him at the moment is the keys not being in the ignition.” Sgt. Lear also explains to the man what FUBAR means. Cops “valet-park” the car on scene.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — While patrolling Bike Week, Officer Keith Foreman meets Captain Danny Brown’s father. Officer Foreman: “You meet all kinds of people out here. You never know who you’re gonna run into out here, but, yeah, it’s pretty cool.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — At Bike Week, a male allegedly shoulder-checks Sergeant Christopher Maher. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Lieutenant Richie Maher, the sergeant’s brother, is also on scene. Abrams: “‘Johnny Depp’ making headlines again.” Lt. Maher: “You’re going to jail for battery on a police officer.” Abrams: “So bizarre…he sort of said he was sorry, right? You’d think he would be groveling at this point, right?” Larkin: “Well, you hear him say ‘I’ve never even had a ticket before. So this isn’t a guy who’s, like, been in trouble, it sounds like. And then you decide ‘I’m gonna shoulder-check a cop.’…” Abrams: “A really big cop, too. Look at the size differential.” Larkin: “It’s like Curtis and I sitting next to each other.”
  • BOLO segment — an alleged “hamburger joint hooligan” in Ewing, N.J. Abrams: “It’s sort of a Cinderella story now, right?…”
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Brian Schack backs up Deputy VIolet Mendez on a car stop for an alleged traffic infraction. Car search. Drugs allegedly found. A passenger is arrested.
  • Lee County, Fla. — As the episode concludes, Deputy Mike Knapp (with other unites on scene) makes a wellness check on a driver who was allegedly asleep behind the wheel in a parked car.
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