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

On Patrol: Live Season 4 All-New Episode Tonight

An On Patrol: Live recap, featuring New York City-based studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and witty/sarcastic banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), and analyst Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J., PD) as they comment on the featured police ride-alongs, plus the often-provocative or playful social media reaction to the incidents in the field, follows below.

For those viewers and/or social media users new to the show, On Patrol Live is more or less a reboot or rebrand of Live PD.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

Although there were only 17 incidents presented in tonight’s On Patrol: Live new episode, police chases of fleeing suspects constituted the dominant theme. This included one in which a public-spirited citizen assisted cops. Other highlights included an unusual burglary, a callback to Beevis and Butt-Head, and a cringe cavity search in Knox County. See below for details on all of the encounters across nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments, And check back for updates. Note: Berkeley County and Christian County are/were both on the OPL roster but did not appear.

Abrams: “It’s already been an action-packed evening here on On Patrol: Live…”

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On Patrol: Live Recap for November 7, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-29)

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  • Baton Rouge, La. — On Patrol: Live caption: “In pursuit.” Officer Devon Johnson and other units chase a pickup truck that is allegedly connected to a homicide. The driver is detained after a foot bail and a brief foot pursuit. Officer Caruntal Harrell is also on scene. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Miranda warning issued. Gun allegedly found. Listen below to Officer Johnson’s recap:
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective Roger Carlin and colleagues purse a fleeing vehicle. The driver is detained. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Det. Carlin: “If you’re gonna run, you got to be quicker than that, welcome to Daytona, because you’re gonna ago to jail every time.” The driver apparently mentions that he fled because he was unlicensed. Cops conduct an article search and also a search for the passenger. Detectives Ashlyn Cooper and Noah Galbreath are also on scene. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “So this guy crashes out after trying to run from Daytona police. In Baton Rouge, another guy apparently crashed out after there fleeing from officers…”

Listen below to as detectives summarize the incident and also admonish the driver for putting the community at risk by fleeing (“all that because you don’t have a license? Are you serious, bro?”):

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Daniel Woods assists other LEOs at a traffic stop for a passenger that is allegedly resisting or interfering. In an interaction with Lieutenant Christian Stearley, the purported passenger on scene provides a long explanation of what may have happened. Abrams: “So as you listen to what he’s saying here, it becomes clear that it wasn’t as simple as ‘well, I was just trying to stay out of it.’ It was actually ‘no, I was getting involved in it and actually going up to the car and trying to open the door.'” On Patrol: Live co-host Deputy Curtis Wilson: “Which was distracting the officer while he was trying to conduct field sobriety testing.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Captain Tom Rizzo: “And he did say ‘to make a long story short.'” Wilson: “That’s a separate ‘violation.'”

Deputy Woods recap: “Basically, at the end of the day, we just responded to a non-compliant passenger who ended up…turning into a use of force. He got gently assisted to the ground. So at this point, he’ll be going to jail for obstruction and simple assault because he also told the deputy that he better not catch him outside. So only one can articulate what that is…the driver, she’s actually gonna be going in for a felony field sobriety testing. So it is determined that she’s been impaired. The 85-year-old mother is still in the vehicle, but she’ll be waiting…nearby relatives said that they’ll come pick up the vehicle and drive her back. So no need to tow the vehicle. So we’ll go ahead and head back in service and see what else we can catch tonight.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deputy Collins Harper, with Sergeant Ethyn Perkins as backup, makes a traffic stop on a Slingshot vehicle for a potential lights infraction. Deputy Harper: “You look like a Christmas tree, and it’s not even thanksgiving yet, and it’s like a really big, like, traffic hazard driving down the roadway, like, with all this going on…you cannot have any color but white, amber, and red..now, blue light, green lights, yellow lights, purple, pink, fuchsia, ‘Christmas tree,’ you can’t have that unless on private property…” Abrams: “Could argue that fuchsia lights in an of itself is a ‘crime”…he says he’s got a license, just doesn’t have it with him. See if he ends up just getting a warning here.” Deputy Harper subsequently conducts field sobriety testing resulting in an alleged DUI arrest. The car is towed as Deputy Harper explains to the family who have come to the scene: “I would have to ask him for permission to release it to you, but he is under the influence, so his judgment, and his calls, on who he releases his stuff to, might not be sound…”

Abrams: “It’s like ‘please pull me over, please pull me over.'”

Abrams: “In this kind of situation, that probably wasn’t the right vehicle to be driving around in with all the lights.”

  • Wheeling, W.Va. — Officers Zach Stoneking and Cory Holt at a traffic stop. On Patrol: Live caption: “Vehicle search.” One of the occupants is arrested on an alleged active warrant.
  • Triple Play #1 — A Slidell, La., alleged fleeing shoplifter.

Rizzo: “That’s movie stuff, man.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Ian Brewer and colleagues pursue a fleeing dirt bike. A dirt bike driver is detained, but he may be a different subject than the person who allegedly previously fled from officers. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Drugs allegedly found.

Listen below to Deputies Sierra Strickland, Daniel Gray, and Brewer recap this incident after which Abrams asserts that “I think this may be two separate vehicles, two separate motorcycles. Sounded like she was talking about a black motorcycle, guy all dressed in black. But let’s see. We’re not 100 percent sure, but it may have been two different vehicles. We’ll find out.” :

Listen below to Deputy Brewer’s update in which he indicates, among other things, that the subject, who is not the dirt-bike driver who fled from Deputy Strickland after all, is “gonna go to jail for obstruction, possession of a bunch of drugs, and maybe fleeing and eluding because he didn’t initially stop until he threw his container of goodies here.”

Deputy Brewer: “So he’s got a little bit of everything. A little North Fort Myers Friday night right there.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective Carlin on a traffic stop; he emphasizes to the driver that “…honesty goes a long way with me…I’m not worried about a little bit of marijuana. So is there marijuana inside the vehicle? Okay, because I can see it, and I know you’re bullsh*tting me…” The incident ends up when Det. Carlin gives the driver some advice/encouragement about life choices, and accordingly, releases the young man with a warning. The weed is confiscated for destruction.
  • Det. Carlin initial initial summary: “So obviously, like I said, honesty would go a long ways with me. He’s lying about marijuana. I can smell the marijuana. He doesn’t have a valid medical marijuana card, and then in plain view from outside the vehicle, there’s marijuana sitting right here. So what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna retrieve that marijuana. We’re gonna test it. It’s gonna give us probable cause to search further inside the vehicle, and we’re gonna continue our investigation.”

Listen below as Det. Carlin compassionately explains that he is cutting the respectful young man a break:

Abrams: “A traffic stop turns into a bit of a pep talk.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Malik Clark and other units conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint on an alleged stolen car. The vehicle is a rental.

Deputy Clark recap: “The owner [says] he don’t want to press charges. He just wants his car back. At this point, we released the gentleman. He’s gonna get all his belongings out of the car. Owner’s gonna recover his vehicle, and I guess [the driver is] gonna find another way to get home, I guess.”

Listen below to a studio panel discussion about this incident in which Abrams starts off by saying that cops are “a little frustrated” because the owner declines to prosecute (Wilson: “…no victim, no crime”).

  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Perkins and Deputy Harper make a traffic stop for allegedly swerving in the road. On Patrol: Live caption: “Box truck stop.” Abrams update: “A field sobriety test was conducted on the driver. He passed. He was released with no charges.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Harper and Sgt. Perkins assist on a high-speed pursuit. Deputy Harper successfully and expertly deploys stop sticks on the fleeing vehicle. Abrams: “That’s about as clean a stick hit as you can get.” Rizzo: “Not only just that — the coordination of it, right? How fast he had to get the sticks out of the road for the other responding units. And if you notice, he had to be forceful because other vehicles — he’s got to protect them from getting struck by the vehicle that’s sitting here running from his other deputies.” Abrams then expresses concern for the civilian vehicles on the road, too. Wilson: “Absolutely. That’s what Rizzo was talking about. These vehicles that were sitting there…it still all worked out, and then they got all four times on that thing.” Abandoned vehicle located; marijuana allegedly found. Perimeter established; K9 and drone resources deployed. Search ongoing for three occupants. Listen below as Deputy Harper provides some updates on the investigation.

Abrams: “That’s about as clean a stick hit as you can get.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer John Longendorf conducts a traffic stop on a pickup truck that was allegedly “all over the roadway.” Officer Longendorf: “…he doesn’t give any indicators that he is under the influence of alcohol or drugs or anything like that. There is a heavy odor of like spray paint or something like that coming from the vehicle. I’m not sure if that’s impairing his ability the operate the motor vehicle, but there is front-end damage, so I don’t think he’s intoxicated. I’m gonna check his license, and we’ll go from there.” Abrams: “So this guy may just be on his way.” The driver is subsequently released with a friendly request to drive safely. Officer Longendorf recap: “He’s good to go. I don’t believe him to be under the influence of anything. The heavy odor of that spray paint or whatnot — he dispelled all of my fears that he might be under the influence of even the spray paint maybe messing him up a little bit. But he’s good to go; he’s free to go.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Triple Play #2 — A Watertown, S.D., “burglary” in progress.

Abrams: “I’ve heard of being a buck in the bedroom — never seen it literally like that….”

  • BOLO segment — A bike shop break-in Hoquiam, Wash. Abrams introduces the segment by quipped that the suspect “wanted for unlawful entry, or more specifically, rear entry.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Longendorf and other units back up Officer Luis Sanchez on a traffic stop. Three occupants who are Mirandized. Officer Longendorf when chatting with the cooperative female occupant: “Crack is whack.” Female subject: “Tell me about it.” Cops allegedly recover drugs from a male subject’s derriere area. On Patrol: Live caption: “Rock bottom?,” “Fentanyl found.” Cops release the female and another male after searching them.

Officer Longendorf recap: “It’s a tell-tale sign when some is, like, clinching; you can tell it’s not a natural thing for someone to just be, like, moving like a board…so I got up in there pretty good, and he’s got this pretty good size baggie of fentanyl. So he’s gonna take a ride for, at least, the fentanyl and the paraphernalia. More than likely, because of the location with it as well, tampering with evidence, since it was inside of his draws up his butt area.” Abrams: “On this show a number of times we’ve heard the defense ‘those are not my pants.’ For a moment there, I thought he was gonna say that he didn’t know how it got there, and almost suggests ‘that it isn’t my butt.’ He didn’t say that…he simply was saying that he panicked.” Wilson: “Personal pockets…” Abrams: “Again, one of the challenges being a police officer is that you go to do that stuff…trying to get to ‘the bottom’ of this.”

Listen below to Tom Rizzo discussing certain search techniques in this context:

Abrams quips that “after that cavity search, guy’s having a smoke.”

Officer Longendorf further update: “The one male with the fentanyl that was shoved in his crack, he’s gonna take the ride. We still got to weigh it, but it’s at least three to five grams, which is a felony amount. You don’t use that much heroin by yourself, so he’s probably gonna get distribution of fentanyl tonight, as well as tempering with evidence because of the locale of where those drugs were located. The other two are gonna be free to go, to drive off from this traffic stop, and we’re gonna go on to the next one.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by explaining that “Officer Tyler Thoman was called to a local supermarket after a dude inside was unwilling to abide.” After making contact with a subject and asking him to leave the premises, listen below as Officer Thoman ends up arresting the man for alleged trespassing. Note: This Tennessee statute may or may not apply to this incident.

Abrams: “Well, this guy talked his way right into that one.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — As the episode concludes, Deputy Brewer responds to a report of a burglary in progress (“the caller saw a shadowy figure in one of their sheds in their yard”) and searches the neighborhood in his patrol car for a suspect that allegedly “was running through yards” after cops set up a perimeter and deploy a K9 “in case…there is a confirmed crime that’s been committed.”
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-30, November 8, 2025.