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 show producers and 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 or nine different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings. For legal and other reasons, the show airs live incidents reportedly on an approximately five-to-20 minute tape delay.

Pre-recorded segments are typically included the show content.

An On Patrol: Live recap, including studio host Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), and an analyst in the third studio chair that changes from week to week, along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.

This weekend, Chief Bradley Taylor (Hazen, Ark., PD) provides commentary in the guest chair.

[Retired Tulsa, Okla., cop Sean “Sticks” Larkin, the former member of the trio, has phased out of the OPL studio analyst role.]

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On Patrol: Live Summary for November 3, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-27)

  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Matt Derenick and other units respond to report of a fight with a gun involved in a residential neighborhood. Apparently the dispute was over a parking space. They make contact with an irate man at his home; heavy bleeping. The suspect, however, had already fled the scene in a car, but cops will keep an eye out for the vehicle. Abrams: “They’re doing some de-escalation there.” Chief Taylor: “They are, right there. And that guy right there, that’s one of the guys, old-school guys. He mentioned Vietnam. You might want to get out of his parking spot. Those are the guys, old school guys, that are ready to take care of business. But they de-escalated him and got him calm, I think…calmer.” Abrams: “Which is progress.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers spot an alleged stolen vehicle that was supposedly involved in a burglary and conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint in a parking lot. They detain the occupant. Cpl. Brandon Ramek: “We’re gonna try and get more information. We’re gonna contact the agency where this vehicle was stolen out of, see if they need to process it for any evidence since it was used as a possible burglary suspect vehicle…And if you notice, we are changing our strategy to moving all of the officers behind the vehicles now instead up on the door panels. It’s just gives us more coverage; gives us more room to work. A better view — and also we’re protected more by the engine block from the rear of the vehicle versus when we’re standing in the front. So that’s why we’re doing that.” Abrams update: “It turns out that that car that they felt was stolen, might have been involved in the burglary. The car was not actually stolen. But the person who was detained was charged with a felony for having brass knuckles…he was sent to a neighboring agency to further investigate the burglary.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpt. Danny Brown makes a traffic stop on vehicle that was allegedly involved in a drug transaction. The driver is detained. Open container and BB gun spotted in the vehicle. Car search. Caption: “Crack cocaine found.” Paramedics summoned because the man claimed he was on the way to the hospital for a broken arm. Driver: “That ain’t mine.” Cpt. Brown: “You don’t know what it is, bro.” Abrams: “Might have spoken a little too soon there.”

Cpt. Brown: “So he’s been cleared by EMS. No broke arm. The driver is going to jail for trafficking in crack cocaine, failure to stop for blue lights, and driving on a suspended license. The passenger is going for trafficking in crack cocaine and possession of cocaine, because he had a dollar bill of cocaine in his right-side pants pocket…The reason why they’re both getting charged with the crack is that it’s inside the vehicle…in arm’s reach of both of them..”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Greg Long Jr. and Shade Keeney mediate a neighborhood dispute apparently over loud music that supposedly involved one neighbor allegedly pointing a laser or threatening to shoot a paintball at the other’s house. Abrams: Cops “brought together warring neighbors to get them to talk it out.” Long: “Hopefully, they can ‘kiss and make up’ for the weekend.” Chief Taylor: “He’s gonna get them to talk. They live in the same neighborhood. Your neighbors. ‘Let’s talk, let’s work it out,’ and just move on. And just take the law enforcement out of it, period, and just neighbors get along and go home.” Abrams: “Just some community policing.” Dep. Wilson: “Why they’re called peacemakers.”

Abrams: “Kind of an interesting thing to threaten someone to shoot at, right? A paint ball, a very specific kind of threat.” Wilson: “It is. But those paintballs can hurt.” Taylor says he’s been previously shot by a paintball and jokes that “I don’t think I’d be bringing a paintball gun to a gun fight.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops detain a pedestrian. Caption: “Arrested for open container.” Ofr. Chance Palm: “As were driving through — this is a high crime area, high narcotic area. We had a lot of issues out here…he’s sitting over here making comments about he’s not worried about the police, using explicit language. As I looked at him, I noticed that he’s standing there with an open container, which is illegal in Daytona Beach. So at this point, since he’s obviously intoxicated making poor decisions to cause a disturbance, we’re gonna to nip this in the bud now and just take him to jail….” Abrams: “Small crime to go to jail for.” Chief Taylor: “He talked himself right into that. I mean, he walked right into it.”

Ofr. Palm adds that “this is an area where we have a lot of crime, a lot of narcotics, and property crimes, stuff like that. This area over here, a lot of people like to loiter…this lot over here is vacant. And it’s not typical that people are over here. There are two vehicles. One actually has its doors open which we’re gonna look at here. As I’m coming through, this guy starts off by being disorderly, just saying that someone said something about the police being through here or coming through here, which is fine. But as he’s doing that, he’s obviously intoxicated; he’s standing there with an open container, which is illegal in the city of Daytona Beach. So he’s gonna end up taking a ride on that. And now we’re gonna go look into this vehicle and see what’s going on over here. One of the doors are open. So he’s been secured in one of our vehicles…for transport, and we’re gonna go from there.”

  • Hazen, Ark. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers apprehend a wanted felon after a vehicle pursuit followed a foot chase with a K9. Sgt. Clayton Dillion: “He’s ran from several different departments over the past month. He’s made statements that he was not going back to prison, that he was gonna go out with a bang, whether he had to bang an officer or the officer had to bang him. I take that as a threat with a firearm…” The subject is taken into custody; taser deployed in the encounter. A firearm is found in the vehicle. Drug paraphernalia also found. Dillion: “He’s gonna go to his new home for a little while.” At the scene, Chief Taylor nixed the idea of the female passenger hugging the suspect. Taylor tells Abrams that “That guy’s been running for several months, and he had a felony warrant for his arrest. So, no, we’re not gonna hug…known him personally for years since he was a little kid. He got into the drug scene, and he just can’t shake it, that’s what we see a lot of times.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a report of a burglary in progress and clear the residence and an adjoining Airbnb. Everything appears secure.
  • Lee County, Fla. –Dep. Shawn Trometer and other units respond to a report of a cow hit by a car. They lead the other cars back to a farm and close the gate. Caption: “Report of a bovine bumper thumper.” Dep. Trometer: “One of the cows ended up going into the roadway, and a car ended up hitting it…unfortunately, that one cow did not make it. But we were able to secure five or six cows into a fenced yard that’s next to the pasture that we believe that they belong to. So the other cows are safe for tonight.” Abrams asks Chief Taylor about cows becoming a “serious nuisance” especially on the highway. Taylor: “They get out on that roadway, and you have an accident. And then the owners of the cows start becoming liable for things like that. And it’s not only, like you heard him say, it killed the animal and then injured the person in the vehicle…we’ve had incidents where cows get close to the interstate. You’ve got to weigh the value of the cow or the human life, and nothing outweighs human life.”
  • Hazen, Ark. — A montage of Chief Taylor memorable moments from OPL.
  • Hazen, Ark. — In-studio Q&A for #ChiefTaylor.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Dylan Lee makes contact with a witness near a Waffle House parking lot: “She stated she heard two dudes arguing in this fence back here, and heard them get into an altercation, and then heard like a loud bang, maybe a gunshot or something like that, and then the guy was like saying ‘ help me, help me.'”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong makes a traffic stop on a car with expired tags. No license. It turns out the driver allegedly has a felony warrant. Armstrong advises her that “you got to show up [for court] because you’re wasting money going to jail…” Abrams: “This is the fourth time she’s going to jail on the same warrant.”
  • Triple Play #1 — Jonesboro, Ark. Abrams: “The amount of footage we get out of Arkansas is insane; just telling you.” Chief Taylor: “Amazing.”

Abrams: “You wouldn’t see those maneuvers in every department around the country.” Taylor: “No. You don’t mess with the Arkansas state police. I was telling you they got a new director, and them boys mean business. Eventually, I would think these guys will quit running from us because it’s getting out there, the state troopers will take you out.” Abrams quips that “Curtis, I like the fact that you added in the parking lot was of an adult lingerie shop. Thank you for that detail…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Trometer responds to noise complaint, explains the ordinance to the homeowner, and asks him to turn down the music.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Keith Foreman responds to a domestic disturbance involving a woman “trying to bring home the bacon,” according to Abrams. Ofr. Foreman: “I guess she wanted some money, but she really wanted her meat back, which was in the freezer. I don’t know if she got all of it back, but she got the majority of it back, I guess…” Abrams: “So much to say here, yet so little, at the same time. I mean, this is an example of the kind of things that police get called to every single day.” Wilson: “Family squabbles; no question about it. But Thanksgiving is on the way. Maybe she’ll…let them come over and get some of the meat that she took.”
  • Fullerton, Cal. — Cops make a traffic stop and search a motorist.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Derenick conducts a traffic stop on a vehicle with no exhaust. The vehicle apparently is unable to go in reverse and has a cracked windshield. The registration is possibly expired. Drugs and paraphernalia allegedly found in the vehicle. The driver and passenger are both detained. Derenick tells them they will be fingerprinted and then released. Abrams: “No exhaust pipe, but they had a different kind of pipe.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Lee assists in a vehicle pursuit.
  • BOLO segment — a highway robbery, “literally,” in Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Lee and other units respond to a report of two men allegedly fighting with a security guard at a taco restaurant — a “taco tussle” according to Abrams. After an investigation, cops tell the duo, who are allegedly intoxicated, to leave the place, and they Uber home. Lee: “They just want them to go and disappear pretty much.” Abrams: “A lucky Uber driver there is about to get a couple of five-star passenger..in his vehicle.” Lee later adds that “They’re going to wait for their Uber, and they are gonna leave the property at the owner’s request. Nobody got hurt really. The guy just got his shirt ripped. And they learned a lesson to pick up litter, and that will be all.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. (pre-recorded segment) — Cops investigate a report of an armed robbery at a store. One man detained; no gun found. The subject is arrested for robbery.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Cops detain a pedestrian. Abrams: “So another person who seems to be under the influence of something.” Taylor: “He seems to be out there right now.” Abrams: “But now he is safely in the custody of the Fullerton police.”
  • Triple Play #2 — Marion County, Fla.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops investigate a fight at or near a restaurant possibly involving a gun that might have originated in a home invasion. They interview a victim outside who is applying an ice pack on his head. They then converge on a home and detain multiple parties there. Investigation ongoing.

Sgt. Bryant: “We’re trying to figure out what we have here. Trying to break it all down based on what he said. They’re in an apartment; they’re hanging out with some friends. Somebody with a gun hit somebody, hit him, over the head…ran out, fell down the stairs, possibly broke an ankle or a leg. Trying to get to the bottom of it. It’s all a little bit suspicious…but we’re gonna take names and get everybody’s information…he can’t tell me the apartment number. He’s not telling me much…allegedly robbed or something, pistol whipped…” Abrams: “A lot of questions about exactly what went down. So you can see a lot of different officers there talking to a lot of different folks.”

Bryant subsequently adds that “Here’s what we know. There was a disturbance in this apartment. There were weapons involved. There was a fight. Somebody’s head was busted open. Somebody fled, and they’re possible a couple of blocks away. So we’re not sure who the victims completely are or the suspects. So we’re detaining everybody…the problem we’re running into here with this call is everybody is doing drugs in the house. Everybody is under the influence of something, whether it be alcohol or drugs…more investigation work has to be done for this one to determine whether we have a home invasion, an aggravated battery, or what….It’s gonna take ‘a minute.'”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor Q&A, round 2.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Cops make friendly contact with a woman walking a goat. Caption: “Just kidding around.” Abrams: “Chief, we saw you with some goats at one point.” Taylor: “I was the resident goat expert.” Abrams: “The goats that you were dealing with, though, were having some stomach issues.” Taylor: “Medical issues.” Abrams: “You asked some very important questions there about the type of food that the goats may have consumed.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers detain a man near the train tracks who may have been riding a bike and also detain another man in a tent at the scene. Abrams: A ‘tents’ situation.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong makes a traffic stop for speeding. Armstrong: “This young lady is doing 63 miles an hour; there’s just really no reason for it. The speed limit is 45 through here. She’s doing 20 miles over the speed limit. She says because her mom hurt her foot, and she had to go home and check on her. That’s not gonna work.”
  • Weld County, Colo. — Dep. Christopher Dalzell conducts a traffic stop for speeding. The driver is released with a warning. Dalzell: “Do me a favor in the future: If you do get stopped again, don’t ask for a warning because that’s one of our biggest pet peeves, okay?…just drive safe. This is where a lot of our accidents happen. I don’t want see you to become one of them.” Abrams: “She was going 12 miles over the speed limit. So good thing that he gave her a warning there. Learned her lesson.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Lee responds to a trailer park on a report of an ex-girlfriend allegedly taking things out of ex-boyfriend’s house without permission. Caption: “Unwanted yard sale.” Lee: “Just because you stay here maybe one night or two, that’s not like living here and giving you permission to come over here and pack up stuff…the daughter says if you want to come back and get stuff, you can when she’s over here. That’s not a problem. But you can’t come over here when he’s in the hospital and do stuff, okay?” She says you don’t live here…” The subject agrees to leave the premises and arranges for a ride home.

On Patrol: Live Summary for November 4, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-28)

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The A&E vs. OPL Lawsuit Is Moving Forward

The pending litigation may explain the new OPL set design and changes to the logo, music, and names of the recurring segments. That also may be why the clever incident captions have or had tapered off.