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

A recap of the November 11, 2023, OPL episode (OPL #02-30) appears below.

About 50 On Patrol: Live cameras go into the field with the law enforcement officers usually from eight or nine different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings as aired on the Reelz channel. 

An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host Dan Abrams’ one liners, analysis, and banter with co-host Curtis Wilson, the Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff, and the original member of the trio, retired Tulsa, Okla., cop. Sean Larkin, follows.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for November 11, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-30)

  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. –Officers respond to a domestic disturbance in a residential neighborhood and detain a female at the scene. She was the one that called 911, but it turns out that she has a warrant. The woman is very rude to the officers, with a lot of bleeping, but they keep their cool. Abrams: “On one hand, you can understand why someone who calls in a domestic violence call is upset about getting arrested. But, when you have an outstanding warrant…” Larkin: “I’ve said it before; it’s one of the easiest ways for the police to solve a problem. It takes somebody out of the equation. The warrant is that method — we can do it. You can get that person from that scene to jail. The domestic’s over. The officers can move on to the next deal.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to an alleged domestic incident at a gas station and detain a male at the scene who apparently was the driver. They interview a female in the vehicle. Abrams; “You never know what people are gonna get in fights about.” Larkin: “It’s unbelievable.” Dep. Wilson: “Over a song.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Matt Grosse and other units search a park area after a report of a possible shooting. Ofr. Grosse: “So right now, the [reporting party] that supposedly called in — we’re trying to locate him. We’re trying to ask people that were in the area if they heard anything. As of right now, nobody’s heard anything, nobody’s seen anything. And we can’t get in contact with the RP. Sounding a little suspicious, but we’re gonna continue to do our investigations to see if maybe we can try to get more info.”
  • Fullerton, Cal. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers detain one of three men who were described as “gang types” after a foot pursuit. The suspect allegedly had a handgun in his pocket. Abrams; “Turns out that suspect was 13 years old. Already has a prior for possession of a firearm. Really so sad and frustrating.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Tyrese Jackson, along with other officers and paramedics respond to the scene where a man apparently shot himself at a residence. The subject is on the ground in front of the house. A firearm is also spotted on the lawn. Larkin: “It looks like it’s an AK-47 type platform that’s on it. But if it’s a self-inflicted gunshot wound or accident — I mean, there’s a way to handle firearms. And obviously, down in Florida, you’re allowed to carry firearms providing you don’t have a felony, criminal history, or anything like that. Just got to be safe when you’re manipulating them.” Dep. Jackson: “This gentleman accidently shot himself with this AK7 here…he’s gonna be transported to the hospital. We’ll just leave everything here until further notice to make sure nothing else took place here before and we don’t mess up any evidence or anything.” Either Jackson or another officer further explains that “so from how I gathered is that he was trying to clear it, and he stepped outside to clear it, and when he attempted clear it, is it when it went off, and it went off into his stomach.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong conducts a traffic stop on a “not roadworthy” vehicle for lights infractions. The chief explains that “rear-facing white lights, they’re are a big deal, because what happens is when drivers get behind you, they see rear-facing lights, they think it’s headlights, and it blinds them…it causes confusion…[the headlight] can be worked with a little bit, but the rear-facing white lights, that becomes a problem…”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Bryce Hughes and a colleague detain a subject for allegedly trespassing at a fast-food restaurant.
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong attempts to pull over two motorcycles on a the highway. The operators run a red light during the pursuit. The motorcyclists split up, and Armstrong loses sight of the one that he decided to pursue. Armstrong: “Here we go again…we continue to have the same traffic problems over and over again…so at least we hope that the message gets out like, hey, you need to stop running from police, and a lot of times these motorcyclists get in collisions and stuff like that.” Abrams: “And in collisions, and sometimes they do get caught, as we’ve seen, in fact, in Brookford recently.”

Larkin: “We’ve talked about this before how difficult it is chasing motorcycles. You have so few things that you can do. You can’t PIT; you can’t use stop sticks or any type of tire-deflation device. And if someone knows how to ride a bike, the likelihood of them getting away is probably pretty high.”

  • Fullerton, Calif. — Ofr. Matthew Levin spots a truck that was allegedly suspected to be involved in a hit and run and conducts a traffic stop at gunpoint on the slow-rolling vehicle at gunpoint. Other cops arrive at the scene as backup. Car search. Ofr. Levin: “So we got a call about a hit and run that occurred in the north end of the city with a white Chevy Silverado being the suspect vehicle. It was traveling southbound…approaching my location. So as I was traveling northbound…I saw the vehicle passing me, with another vehicle following, which was a possible reporting party’s scenario. As I turned around, the vehicle following pointed at this vehicle… and turned on their hazard lights. Then I noticed major collision damage on the passenger side of this vehicle. So pulled the vehicle over; it was failing to yield for quit a bit. So ultimately, it stopped in this Toyota dealership parking lot, and conducted a high-risk felony stop for our safety, and was able to take the driver into custody. Right now, we have an officer that’s contacting the victim, and we’re going from there. We’re kind of taking it one step at a time to see what we have. Right now, we have a 140a, which is resisting, obstructing, delaying an officer since he was failing to yield. And obviously the hit and run.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Cameron Blackmon and other units respond to a incident win which a car ran into a house. Caption: “Car vs. house.” A male subject tells Blackmon that he was a passenger in the vehicle and that the female driver fled on foot. Paramedics summoned to the scene. Witnesses appear to tell Cpl. Blackmon, however, that they didn’t see anyone else in the car. The case is turned over to the state highway patrol for further investigation to determine what happened.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Hunter Rogers and other units investigate another alleged hit and run and make contact with a female driver who allegedly has no license. Neighbors are taking care of her two kids who were in the car. Dep. Rogers reassures her that the children are safe and also tells her that he has reason to believe that’s she’s under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Investigation ongoing. Dep. Rogers: “As you can see, this paint transfer on the front of the vehicle where she struck the vehicles around the corner there…” {See update below]
  • Weld County, Colo. — Deps. Aaron Bacon and Luke Weaver make a routine check on a parked pick-up truck with the door open to make sure everything is okay. The driver is initially reluctant to roll down his window and talk to the officers but subsequently asks for their business cards Abrams: “It’s unclear exactly what this driver is doing here.” Wilson: “Not at all. You got to figure exactly what’s happening. Of course, there was somebody who called because he was a concerned citizen, he’s sitting at this stop sign, just sitting there, had the door open. And now he won’t really communicate with law enforcement, and now he’s about to take off. So something is definitely afoot.” In an Abrams update, the OPL host says that the driver apparently phoned in a complaint to a sergeant that the deputies “had interrupted him as he was defecating in that area right there, and that is what got him so upset about the officers approaching him at that time.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers investigate a neighbor dispute between a female and a male. Some bleeping. “We do not have sex, we do not kiss, I don’t even like him,” the female tells cops, insisting that she did not allow “my neighbor who came over and never left” to move in, and he won’t leave. She adds that she’s called the police on him five times. She also admits to Long that she’s been drinking “cheap vodka from the carryout.” The male allegedly has been staying at the location since July. Ofr. Greg Long Jr. explains to the female that under the circumstances she has to go to court and initiate formal eviction proceedings to get him to leave. Abrams: “The amazing fundamental dispute: Are they boyfriend and girlfriend or not. He thinks they are. She says they’re not.”

Ofr. Shade Keeney: “Sounds like this young lady called us out because she wants us to kick her boyfriend out of the house that he’s been living in. She’s extremely intoxicated. She’s not happy that we’re not gonna kick him out of the house, so now she’s gotten kind of nasty with us. So we’ll let her know that she needs to go through the eviction process which she already knows, and that if she needs us for an emergency, she can call us back out.” Abrams: “Oh my; life sometimes is just bizarre.”

  • Triple Play #3 — Texas.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Capt. Danny Brown and colleagues conduct a traffic stop for speeding on the highway. Capt. Brown: “You’re doing like almost 100 miles per hour on a road after you’ve been drinking alcohol.” Open container allegedly in the vehicle. Car search. Both occupants allegedly only have beginner’s driving permits. Capt. Brown explains that by law, a beginner must have a licensed driver age 21 or older in the front seat.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers and paramedics respond to a report of a possible overdose at a residence. The residents tell cops that the subject left the scene on foot. Cops spot the man in a search of the area. The subject keeps walking away from them and denies taking drugs. Ofr. Long: “I’m not gonna chase you; if you refuse the medical, then that’s on you, okay?”
  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Officers investigate an alleged brawl between a mom and a woman helping to take care of the mom’s kids. Cops get both sides of the story. A cop tells the helper that she’s unlikely to be charged over the incident, but it turns out that she has warrants. Ofr. Long: “It seems like the caller allowed this lady here to stay at her house to be like a live-in babysitter of some sort. But she’s going to jail because she’s got a couple of outstanding warrants…she’ll be going to jail for the rest of the night…the caller can press charges at a later date.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Hughes and Master Dep. Addy Perez admonish a driver who allegedly almost ran over Dep. Perez who was directing traffic.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — On a traffic stop, Cpl. Blackmon gives a motorist a warning for speeding. Chucky doll in the back seat of the vehicle . Cpl. Blackmon: “Scared me so bad…Chucky’s face sitting right there. Oh my God.”
  • BOLO update and new BOLO segment (Oakland, Calif.)
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers are called back to the domestic situation involving the same couple or non-couple from the earlier segment. Caption: “Will Kevin be kicked to the curb?” Ofr. Long: “So it seems like both parties are intoxicated. The female keeps calling back saying she wants him to leave. You can’t force him to leave. So he said he’ll leave for the rest of the night, and we’ll be documenting what happened tonight…hopefully she don’t call back in or she might go to jail for misuse of 911.” Ofr. Keeney: “I’ve never been in love enough to have another woman send me to jail.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Blackmon and paramedics responds to a location where a man is passed out outside of a bar.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Taylor Carman responds to a report of shots fired at a party but it apparently turns out to be some teens setting off fireworks.
  • Missing segment — Reedsburg, Wisc.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Multiple officers respond to a report of shots fired at an apartment complex. The suspect already left when officers arrived. Ofr Grosse: “Word is that during the fight that broke out, the security guard that is on scene here ended up popping off a shot into the air to scatter the crowd. We have multiple witnesses stating that, and we got one single casing here. So we’ll do an investigation to see if that’s actually what happened and determine what kind of charges we have off of that.” Abrams: “That changes the direction of the investigation a little bit…”
  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Heather Smith and other units respond to a report of a man laying on the ground outside a residence. It turns out he’s just cutting grass with a scissors, and he’s fine. Ofr. Smith: “So it turns out that our person down was just somebody that was doing yard work, kind of a closer cut edge to the yard. So someone thought that they were down and hurt, but they’re just doing yard work.” Abram: “I think yard work is maybe like a broader term than I would have used to describe what that guy was doing.” Larkin: “That’s next level.” Wilson: “It’s meticulous…” Abrams: “…If you really care about your lawn, that’s the way you do it. Hand crafted.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop by Cpl. Blackmon and Dep. Rogers; car search.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputies shut down a large house party amidst heavy bleeping. Dep. Jackson: “Obviously, got a lot of juveniles, a house party…a lot of suspicious things going on here….” While at the scene, an officer notices bullet holes in a parked car. No suspects; investigation ongoing.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a report of a burglary in progress allegedly involving someone banging on the front door. The subject is allegedly the next- door neighbor who is the landlord. Cops advise him against making unannounced or visits to the tenant’s house without notice. Ofr. Bly: “There’s no crime here.”

Abrams: “We got a lot of these situations where there is some sort of conflict between a landlord and a tenant. We don’t know exactly what happened here, but just constantly these questions which are really more civil questions, right?” Wilson: “That’s what it is. And it’s not uncommon for these issues to go on, but we come there as peacemakers, and have peace here, but then we’re gonna tell you what you need to do. Got to go to civil court. File it against the landlord; file it against the tenant, and get this thing resolved.”