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

A recap of the November 4, 2023, OPL episode (OPL #02-28) 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 studio host Dan Abrams’ one liners, analysis, and banter with co-host Curtis Wilson, the Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff, and guest analyst of the week, Chief Bradley Taylor (Hazen, Ark., PD), follows.

[Click here for the OPL #02-27 recap]

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

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Sgt. Paul Yacobozzi conducts traffic stop on pick-up truck that was using median to pass cars. Before he makes the stop, Yacobozzi says “No, that sh*t ain’t gonna work.” He uses a translation app to communicate with the driver owing to a language barrier. Two tickets issued. The driver had an empty beer in his pocket, and Yacobozzi asks the driver’s friend who had arrived at the scene and who is helping with the translation to explain that “he can’t have open beers in the car.” Abrams: “Kind of cut him a little break there considering that not only did he use the middle lane there, he also didn’t have a license.” Chief Taylor quips that “He was driving like he’s up here in New York…” Dep. Wilson: “Do not waste the horn.”
  • Fullerton, Cal. — Cpl. Alexa Ekabarra makes contact with a pedestrian apparently wearing a Scream mask. Abrams: “That’s a little bizarre. The guy’s like a regular — scaring with that mask every day they said…not even in the Halloween season.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers pursue a man on foot and take him into custody amid resisting. Ofr. Brandon Ramirez: “When I showed up on scene, he was kicking in the door of this building…got him into custody, and obviously you can see that he’s not very happy about it.” Ofr. Matt Grosse: “We’re gonna bring him out to get evaluated now, and we’re just gonna try to get him some help. And he’s gonna be going to jail for resisting.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Dep. Addy Perez conduct traffic stop for running running a red light. The driver is released with a warning.
  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Officers respond to a shots fired call in which about two dozen rounds were fired into a residence. Homeowner: “I can’t calm down; I was almost shot to death.” Shell casings spotted in backyard. Detectives to investigate further. Ofr. Heather Smith: “Looks like the house is shot up pretty extensively.” Wilson: “It’s a great tool that law enforcement uses now. It’s pretty accurate as well. It gives you sound, time, location, and uses a triangulation to give you that exact spot where this is going on at….as soon as those shots go off, it goes to their mobile phone.” Chief Taylor: “It looks they’re just trying to figure out what’s going on, and then trying to get her to calm down a little bit and just talk to her and get the information they need to see which direction they need to go as far as who they need to be looking for. They’re on that beat; they know that neighborhood.” Abrams: “You can understand why she’s scared, right? Taylor: “She’s upset; yeah, her house was just shot up.”
  • Weld County, Colo. — Dep. Stephen Del Negro conducts a traffic stop for speeding The man exits the vehicle rather than staying inside and also mentions that he doesn’t want to get shot. The driver also has a miniature goat in the back seat. Del Negro says he “smells the odor of alcohol” and notes that the driver “is very standoffish in any questions.” Chief Taylor: “You just don’t jump out for no reason.” In a callback to Friday night’s episode, Taylor jokes that he is the resident goat expert. Ultimately, the man is released with a ticket.

Dep. Del Negro to driver: “For future reference, when you get pulled over, if you get pulled over, stay in your vehicle. It’s for our safety and your safety as well…And as soon as we have lights on, pull over right then, don’t pull over off into a business parking lot or anything like that, okay? Because it kind of looks like you’re trying to bait us into somewhere that we shouldn’t be going in.”

  • Richland County, S.C. – Capt. Danny Brown and Dep. Perez conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle for allegedly blocking traffic and no turn signal. Two occupants detained. Heavy bleeping. Car search. Weed and other drugs allegedly found. Brown: “We don’t know if it’s a weapon or a pizza.” Abrams: “It appears that was not oregano for the pizza.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong assists the highway patrol in a pursuit of two motorcycles. Chief Taylor: “What it looks like they’re trying to do is like keep them off from taking the exits because those motorcycles at those high speeds, they’re gonna run out of gas. They don’t have a big gas tank on them. At high speeds, it’s sucking gas. So if they can keep them from taking the exits, more than likely they will run out of gas without even having use any force or anything.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Sahagian makes contact with a bar/restaurant manager over a report of someone whose car is supposedly blocked in at a parking lot and briefly plays Jenga with some customers on the way out of the establishment. Caption: “Jenga!”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Bryson Fowler responds to an alarm going off at a business, and after sensing movement in the wooded area behind the building, searches the immediate area. Chief Taylor: “He hadn’t even went in the back yet, and you’re hearing all he dogs and everything else barking…in my line of work, we call that a clue.” Cpl. Fowler also investigate the interior of the premises. The business owner comes to the scene during the investigation and mentions that a break in occurred a few months ago.

Abrams: “We see a lot of these false alarms; this was not one of them.” Taylor: “I think the bad guy was there when the officer arrived on scene at the time The dogs started barking. It was like he took off, and he neighbor’s dogs started barking, and it was still possible he could have been still hanging out pretty close.” Abrams: “And remember, [Cpl. Fowler] heard something when he was there, too, so a lot of reasons to believe that the guy was very close.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Shawn Trometer and other units make contact with a victim of an attempted carjacking, obtain a description of the suspect who had fled and the direction of travel, and dust the vehicle for fingerprints. Dep. Trometer: “As of right now, we have a subject that made entry into the vehicle. He ended up causing damage to the ignition system…the owner of the vehicle was able to catch him. At the time, he made contact with the subject, the subject pushed him out of the way, and ran northbound…at this time, we’re gonna have a burglary of a conveyance with criminal mischief and possibly a battery on the victim…”
  • Hazen, Ark. — #ChiefTaylor Q&A.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Cops make contact with a male outside a fast-food restaurant and question him about drug use. The cooperative subject says he consumed three edibles that day and nothing else. According to Ofr. Elkabarra, he will be arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and he will be cited and released at the station.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Dep. Perez spots a Beagle in an unattended car outside a hotel. Caption: “K9 welfare check.” Mismatched plate. They make contact with owners (one of whom says he didn’t know the the dog was in the car) at their hotel room, who have two other dogs with them, and advise them to remove the dog from the car and bring the pooch to their room. She also advises hem to resolve the tag situation and that they should probably not drive the vehicle in the meantime because the car will likely be towed if they are stopped again.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cp. Fowler and Sgt. Yacobozzi respond to a report of a reckless driver. They find the abandoned vehicle, with the driver’s wallet inside, that has significant damage. The alleged driver allegedly took off on foot. There is also apparent related damage in the area to a telephone pole, a mailbox, and a sign. Cpl. Fowler goes to the home of the registered owner who is not there. Later, in a foot search, they find and detain a man who purportedly is the driver. Sgt. Yacobozzi jokes that he was able to catch the subject despite describing himself as a “41-year-old man in cowboy boots.” Abrams: “That makes the pursuit a little tougher when you got the cowboy boots on.” The state highway patrol will take over the investigation. According to Cpl. Fowler, the subject faces a DUI charge.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Ray McGrew attempts a traffic stop for running a stop sign, but the driver flees after initially pulling over, and gets away during the pursuit. Abrams: “These pursuit polices vary quite a bit from department to department. Let’s just say that the driver is lucky he wasn’t in Hazen, Arkansas.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — Traffic stop by Sgt. Corey Fay and Chief Armstrong on a truck for alleged erratic driving. Open container allegedly spotted. A passenger argues with Chief Armstrong (who tells the subject to “chill your grits”) and winds up in cuffs. Armstrong: “Your behavior is making me nervous…you are making me think there might be something going on. When a police officer tells you got to get out of the vehicle, you got to get out of the vehicle. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It’s Supreme Court law. If you don’t believe it, you’re more than welcome to Google it when I get done with you, okay?…”

Abrams: “So this guy just talked his way right into the back seat of a police car.” Taylor: “A lot of times you hear us say, ‘hey, you got the right to remain silent — use it.’ He didn’t…” Abrams:…”He had him for the minute that the alcohol container fell out of the vehicle, immediately had the violation, right? And so the question becomes ‘all right, what do we do about it?’ And if he cooperated, my guess is maybe nothing if not a ticket at worse.”

Chief Armstrong: “We stopped this vehicle here. Brantley said the vehicle was all over the roadway. Sounds like there’s possible alcohol impairment going on…once [the passenger] rolled the window down, he acted like he really didn’t want to engage with me or say anything, which was his right…Brantley pulled the driver out, and I wanted to get the passenger out as well just for my safety, and his safety, everybody’s safety, just based off his behavior…we asked him to step out of the vehicle. He acted like he was gonna resist originally. We pulled him out. There really not much going on there besides he just wouldn’t listen. But once he opened the door, though, an open container fell out, which is obviously why his behavior was the way it was, and he didn’t want to interact with me because he was doing something he wasn’t supposed to do…The attitude was just been disrespectful; his behavior is disrespectful…our job is to enforce the law. We don’t have to take your bullcrap…our job is just to make sure that everybody goes home safe, because we’re here to do a job. You act respectful, you get what you get, right? You act disrespectfully, you get what you get as well.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — After a traffic stop, a driver receives a warning for speeding .
  • Triple Play #3 — Canton, Ohio.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Greg Long Jr. and Shade Keeney make contact with a man in connection with some sort of DoorDash dispute. Caption: “Food delivery denied.”
  • Fullerton, Cal. — Multiple cops including Ofr Jason Coleman make a traffic stop at gunpoint on a possibly stolen U-Haul van. Drugs allegedly found the vehicle. After they take the driver into custody, he appears to pass out, and officers administer Narcan to him. Abrams: “It seems that he may have just swallowed some drugs.” Wilson: “They’re also administering the sternum rub as well.” Paramedics called to the scene. Abrams: “So obviously, this has become a very sensitive situation here where this guy seemingly admitted he’s just swallowed or ingested fentanyl, which is incredibly dangerous.”

Cpl. Elkabarra: “We were able to do a felony stop. Everything was safe. At some point, though, after we got our driver in custody for having a stolen vehicle, he divulged to use that he’s probably swallowed a gram of fentanyl and was overdosing. So what you saw there was pretty usual for an overdose on an opioid, and we were able to utilize two Narcans which is kind of the elixir for an opioid like that. So he’s gonna start coming to. He’s gonna go to the hospital. He’ll end up getting checked out and hopefully after some treatment, he’ll be able to be booked, and we’ll get him through the rest of the system.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. McGrew and other units make contact with a pedestrian with a bloody nose following a 911 call. Some bleeping of the subject’s remarks. The man declines medical attention and walks away. Det. McGrew: “So obviously, he was not the most friendly person. He said he don’t want help from us. He asked for medical and have them come, but about at that point, he said he don’t want their help now. Probably a little intoxicated, maybe. But he knew where he was at, he knew what was going on around him, so we have no legal right to detain him or force him to sit and talk to us. So he’ll probably going to WaWa and call for help later on. I’m pretty sure we’ll probably be back out for him later.” Abrams: “I don’t know if he would be an easy ride for the ambulance, either, if they had arrived there instead of the police.” Chief Taylor: “They would have called law enforcement to come help them.” Abrams: “Well, no crime committed there, so he gets to go on [his] way, and hopefully we will not be going to another call in Daytona based on that guy.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — On a noise complaint, Capt. Brown advises a homeowner to turn down the music. Brown jokes that a dog at the scene “scared the piss out of me when it came up.”
  • Missing Update and new Missing segment (Wheaton, Ill.)
  • Brookford, N.C. — Traffic stop for an expired tag. Three occupants. A passenger resists and is subdued by officers and handcuffed. Chief Armstrong: “Brother, when they tell you don’t put your hands in your pocket, don’t put your hands in your pocket. We’re law enforcement officers, man. You make us nervous when you do stuff like that.” Meth pipe found that the man insists “is not mine.” Probable cause car search. Abrams: “They say meth pipes don’t grow on trees. Apparently this one did.” Armstrong: “It turns out he pulled out a meth pipe, so that’s why he didn’t want to take his hands out of his pocket.” Probable cause car search. “Once they finish searching the vehicle, I’m gonna decide whether I’m just gonna write tickets or if I’m gonna write tickets and I’ll take somebody to jail,” Armstrong adds.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — During an investigation of a possible hit and run, officers pull a man out of a car who refuses to exit voluntarily. Cpl. Elkabarra: “Looks like he might have been involved in a traffic collision. Saw some of the cones knocked over. It sounded like a collision. As soon as we looked over, we saw him kind of bust around the cones, and take off through a red light. Once we got him stopped here, it took him kind of a while for him to stop, to the driver’s side we can already smell the alcohol emitting from his person, which prompted us to begin an under-the-influence investigation, which during that time he decided he was not gonna come out of the vehicle willingly. So he was placed him under arrest for resisting and obstructing our investigation, and the follow-up investigation of under the influence will be held at the police department.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — As the episode concludes, Ofr. Coleman responds to a dispute at a tea shop possibly involving a DoorDash order.