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), and Captain Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J., PD) along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.

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Agency updates: (1) The Berkeley County, S.C., Sheriff’s Office returned to OPL last weekend. (2) Toledo PD has extended its contract with OPL through September 15, 2025. Toledo Police Chief Mike Troendle told ABC affiliate WTVG that “There’s a lot of misconceptions about what we do or how we act or how we enforce the law, so I think it gives the viewers an opportunity to see law enforcement as it is on the street. It helps our department in recruiting and just kind of showing the kinds of things we go through on a daily basis and you know that we’re human, we’re officers, but we’re trying to do good for our community.”

Note: Owing to scheduling commitments, there was no recap for the October 25-26 episodes published on this blog.

For background information about On Patrol: Live (i.e., Live PD 2.0), that airs on the Reelz channel (which is available on the Peacock and FreeCast streaming services), click here.

On Patrol: Live Summary for November 1, 2024 (#OPL Episode 03-29)

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  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Devonte Carr responds to an alleged attempted burglary or home invasion. The complainant has video of a suspect allegedly trying to kick in the front door and ran away. Cpl. Carr will search the area for the suspect, although he mentions that “I don’t think he had any kind of intentions of actually making entry to the residence.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Cherokee Tabb searches a vacant/abandoned residence possibly for trespassers or squatters but no one is there. Ofr. Tabb: “We’re just gonna end up calling the city, have them board up the front and the rear of this location just to try and keep anyone from coming in just because it’s not safe as the building starts to kind of degrade. We don’t want anyone getting hurt, falling through the floor or anything.” OPL studio host Dan Abrams: “Safe to say that it’s not particularly habitable.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. – Cpl. Carli Carr (formerly Carli Drayton) conducts a moped stop.
  • Everett, Wash. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Charles Pallettte initiates a traffic stop for expired tags and tail light issue. Fentanyl pills alleged spotted in the vehicle. The officer has to physically remove a uncooperative female passenger(“I didn’t do anything”). from the vehicle. Under state law, cops need to apply for a search warrant for a non-consensual car search.

Ofr. Pallette recap: “Right now, she’s gonna go to jail for obstruction because she tried to close the door and told her partner to leave…In some,,,states…probable cause, they can search the vehicle because it’s within arm’s reach of her. It’s considered her person. However, Washington State case law, we’re not permitted to do that search, and we’re required to get a search warrant…she denied wanting me to search the vehicle.” Abrams: “That’s got to make it a lot more difficult for law enforcement.” OPL studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “It’s being responsible for knowing these things and make these on-the-spot decisions. There’s the federal standards, and then states can always make the standards more restrictive on police and law enforcement. So here it is: He sees what he believes it to be contraband, but he has to, number one, ask for permission, and number two, that’s almost write a search warrant, an affidavit for a search warrant, saying, ‘I see it in there.’ \” Abrams: “And he recognized that it was different there, so he almost felt like he had to explain why he wasn’t able to do anything with it.” OPL co-host Curtis Wilson: “This is a different jurisdiction. Depending on where you are, it determines how you react to what goes on. In this case, they can’t do it.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Devote Carr (back up by his spouse Cpl. Carli Carr) conducts a bicycle stop allegedly for no lights. The interaction with the bicyclist, who is detained, and the latter’s girlfriend, and Carr is initially contentious, but both subjects are ultimately released with no charges.

Cpl. Carr: “I identified him. He has no warrants or anything like that…and I think he understands the situation now. But just as easily, as I could have just contacted him and got him on his way, it’s easy to go in handcuffs and go to jail. That’s not always what we want to do, but a lot of this police work that we do is determined off people’s behavior..”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Tabb, along with Ofrs. Heather Smith and Tyler Picking, attempt to serve a felony burglary warrant at a residence, but the subject is either not home or unwilling to come to the door. Rizzo: “It’s a felony arrest warrant, but if the person listed on that arrest warrant, that’s their place of residence, you believe them to be there, we give them the authorization to actually make entry to then go apprehend that person. So right now, they’re gonna use every tactic that they have to find out first if they can just get them to come to the door, so surround, even…call him out, because then that reduces the risk of any type of interaction going bad.”

Ofr. Tabb recap: “The person we’re looking for is not coming to the door. It’s pretty positive that he’s inside the house because his dog is in the back, I think. And there’s lights on inside…so there’s movement in there. But we’ll probably just gonna have to come back another time or catch him while walking around. So he’ll be able to stay out of jail for tonight, but he’ll get picked up some other time.”

  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Jon Lozada, with Det. Brandon McKay, assist on a traffic stop for alleged reckless driving or speeding. Car search. Dep. Mike Ruiz conducts preliminary field sobriety testing which the driver passes. He is thus released with a warning.

Listen to Dep. Lozada’s explanation for the stop:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Marcus Booth and Ofr. Jonathan Muniz make a well-being check on a sunglasses-wearing man who was riding an electric bike and possibly dumpster diving. Ofr. Muniz: The trash is “open to the public at that point. You can do what you want to do.” The cops and the panelists banter about Corey Hart’s song “Sunglasses at Night.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Dep. Jerry Cullen and other units respond to a disturbance at a residence. Abrams: “Sort of unclear what is going on there.”
  • Triple Play #1 — Columbus, Ohio, pursuit of an 18-wheeler.
  • Monroe, La. — Ofr. Nathanael Chapman and other cops make contact with a woman pushing a shopping cart who is subsequently released. During the conversation, she makes reference to a friend of hers named poo-poo, which prompts some mischievous banter from the studio panel.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Carli Carr initiates a traffic stop on a truck during which she checks the serial number of the driver’s handgun.
  • Monroe, La. — Sgt. Scotty Sadler and other officers investigate alleged illegal gambling at an apartment complex and detain one male. “What you’re doing is illegal — doesn’t mean you’re going to jail.” Cops issue a citation to the subject and release him. Dice confiscated. Wilson: “You get maybe a concerned citizen who is tired of noise…” Abrams: “That could be. Someone call it in, right?, and said ‘guys, this happens every night. They make so much noise, et cetera,’ who knows.” Rizzo: “They call these quality-of-life things…are they…low-level offenses? Sure. But again, if it affects the quality of life…”

Sgt. Sadler explains to the young man that sometimes dice games devolve into violence that cops want to prevent, “so it’s not necessarily about gambling…” Abrams: “Just saying it’s a ‘crappy’ result for everybody, but Tom Rizzo, you were actually saying the exact same thing that the officer said before he said it about why they end up doing this kind of thing.” Rizzo: “Yeah, because let’s call it what it is. People would see that and say, ‘oh, come on, just throwing dice…’ But again, these officers, they work these areas, they work these quality-of-lifestyle units, and if they can prevent something bad from happening and almost predict these are the things that cause the bad things to happen.” Abrams: “I’m not sure it’s such a good thing to just say to them, ‘hey, here’s the money back. You guys work it out…'” Rizzo similarly jokes that rock-paper-scissors might be an option.

  • Indian River County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Josue Martinez and Sgt. John Finnegan respond to the scene of a submerged vehicle after a crash. The driver, who was able to crawl out of the sunroof, is arrested after field sobriety testing. The car is towed out of the pond.

Listen to Sgt. Finnegan’s recap followed by a studio panel discussion (Abrams: “Sometimes [the sunroof ] is worth a little bit of the extra money”):

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Carli Carr conducts a traffic stop for an expired registration and a tail light issue. The car allegedly smells of weed.
  • Triple Play #2 — Mt. Pleasant, Mich., rollover crash.
  • Everett, Wash. — While on routine patrol, Ofr. Chris Hawley witnesses and responds to an accident in which a car struck a parked truck.
  • Butts County, Ga. — Sgt. Hunter Hemphill provides backup on a traffic stop. Car search. The driver is subsequently released.
  • Arkansas County, Ark. — Sheriff Johnny Cheek provides backup on a traffic stop. The driver, who allegedly has a suspended license and a warrant from another agency and is likely to be transported to that agency, is detained.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Tim Riley and many other units respond to a call about shots fired from adjoining apartment complexes. One man on the scene has blood on his neck and shoulder and is transported to the hospital. According to Abrams, “he was clearly shot in this situation, and they still want to figure out as much as they can about what was happening, who was shooting, and I don’t know how much information they’re gonna get from him.” Wilson: “And that’s the question right there which is why they’re asking so many questions. They’re trying to figure out exactly this story, the beginning, the middle, and the end, and what took place, what happened, and his involvement.” Abrams adds that “there may be another gunshot victim there. And this does back up what the call was, right? — was idea that there were sort of two entities shooting at one another, maybe two different places.. That’s all we know.” Rizzo: “Like a makeshift shootout. So now you’re talking about victims are offenders, offenders are potentially victims. Now we’re gonna have to really almost contradict our efforts almost.”

Cpl. Riley seems to allude to the initial victim being placed in investigative detention. Abrams: “Just because you’ve been hit doesn’t mean you’re not also a potential suspect.” Rizzo: “So now it’s going to the next level where he’s gonna be placed in handcuffs. And what you’ll often see is a deputy or a police officer ride in the back of that ambulance and accompany somebody who is a suspect or who would be in custody and accompanying that ambulance or that rig to the hospital.” Dep. Toddson Catoe adds that “we found an additional four casings, two of which are on the vehicle, two of which are on the ground. There’s a large group out there; nobody’s claiming to know anything, but we’ve got some positive IDs that we will send up to investigations to see if we end up tied to the shooter.” Abrams: “So the guy in Richland County who was grazed with the two bullets is in what is called investigative custody. What does that mean?” Wilson: “Basically, they’re gonna hold him while they continue to gather information and find out exactly what took place to see what his part in all this is.”

  • Arkansas County, Ark. — Sheriff Cheek assists in a search for a fleeing vehicle.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Eddie Lee and other units pursue a fleeing vehicle which turns into a foot bail after a traffic stop at an apartment complex. Drugs allegedly found in the abandoned vehicle. A male, age 20, is subsequently arrested.

Ofr. Lee recap: “They got one guy in custody and one, maybe two, outstanding. The gentleman that we have in custody fled from Officer Hurst a couple of weeks ago. He was able to identify him, did a photo lineup, all that fun stuff, and got a warrant for grand theft auto and fleeing and eluding, I believe. So he’s going to jail on resisting arrest charges for tonight’s incident as well as the outstanding warrants. We’re gonna have the detectives come out, interview him, see if he’s willing to talk about anything. He also had two keys that were in his pockets when he was taken into custody. I’m sure those are gonna come back to stolen cars as well. Seems like he’s going to be a stolen vehicle guy.” Abrams: “It turns out the SUV he was driving was not reported stolen. They’re still trying to find out whose car keys those were.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Christopher Maher initiates a traffic stop for alleged erratic driving. Suspended license. The driver is arrested; car towed.

Sgt. Maher recap: “So he’s gonna to go to jail tonight for driving while suspended. I try to give everyone as much leniency as possible. I’m not trying to burden anyone, but at a certain point. there has to be consequences. He’s been arrested at least ten times, I saw, for the same thing. He’s been arrested for higher severities of it. He’s suspended multiple times over. And he knew he was suspended. He’s still driving. He’s still driving erratically. So at a certain point, leniency only goes so far. I will…give a guy a warning and make him stop violating the law, but at a certain point, if you’re not gonna continue to listen to those warnings, we’re gonna have to take action. And that’s what’s gonna happen tonight.”

  • BOLO segment — Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Sgt. Dwayne Hoilett responds to a weapons call. A vehicle is located in a parking lot with a weapon allegedly inside. A subject is detained and declines field sobriety exercises. He is arrested. “I’m upset; I’ve been arguing with my girlfriend.”
  • Monroe, La. — Ofr. Chapman conducts a traffic stop. An unrelated discussion about a paternity situation ensues.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Catoe conducts a traffic stop for failure to maintain lane (“I ain’t doing sh*t.”) which “led to a, let’s call it, window of opportunity,” according to Abrams. The driver climbs out of the window because the door doesn’t work. The driver and a passenger are allegedly both on suspended licenses. The duo are released; someone is apparently coming to the scene to pick up the car.

Listen to a Dep. Catoe recap followed by a discussion of the incident by the studio panel (Abrams: “Sort of like a Batmobile…except Batmobile’s got a few more perks…”):

  • Monroe, La. — Sgt. Sadler and other units conduct a traffic stop. The driver asks if the weed can be returned to him. Sadler: “Any amount of marijuana is illegal.” Cops issue the driver a citation for alleged possession of weed.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Booth, Ofr. Muniz, and other units conduct a traffic stop; three occupants. The driver insists that nothing is in the car. Sgt. Booth: “Everybody looking quite spooky in that car.” Pat down. Car search. Drugs allegedly found. Sgt. Booth to one of the occupants: “You can’t try to be honest; you’re either honest or you’re not.” Arrests made.

Listen to Sgt. Booth’s incident summary:

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Tabb backs up the gang unit on a robbery call. An older female on scene who flagged down cops says she was robed at gunpoint and the suspects fled on foot. Cops will canvas the area for the suspects.
CLICK HERE for the #OPL 03-30, November 2, 2024, episode recap.