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

A recap of the October 28, 2023, OPL episode (OPL #02-26) 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 Lt. Richie Maher (Daytona Beach PD), follows.

[Click here for the OPL #02-25 recap]

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On Patrol: Live Summary for October 28, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-26)

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpt. Danny Brown and Sgt. Garo Brown conduct a traffic stop on a car with no lights. The driver is argumentative. Odor of weed allegedly coming for the car. The driver informs Brown that she has a legal gun in her purse.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Brandon Ramirez responds to a report of a neighbor threatening neighbor and detain a man at the scene. Abrams: “So you can see Officer Ramirez there just trying to figure out who said what to whom and when.” After an investigation, the subject is released with no charges. According to Abrams, “It seems they were not able to determine whether anyone was specifically at fault there, at least for now.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Multiple officers head to the scene where a group was reported fighting with weapons. It turns out to be large Halloween party in a residential neighborhood. Lots of bleeping. Lt. Maher comments on the chaotic scene: “Sometimes it goes this way. It’s not a comfortable position, but they’re doing a great job. They’re keeping eyes on each other. Not running into crowds…If you approach it properly, with enough officers safety, you can de-escalate it…there’s a report of weapons here. The last thing you want to do is run in a crowd — you don’t know who’s armed…”

The cops disperse the teens at the scene including with pepper ball rounds deployed. Dep. Wilson about the latter: “It messes with your respiratory system…” Ofr. Austin Bly: “Put got pepper in the air. Make them cough. Make then leave the area. So right now, we’re just trying to clear it all out. It’s too cold out here to be doing all this.” Sgt. Geoff McClendon adds that “A little bit of OC in the air, so it gets the crowd to disperse. So right now, we’re just getting the last bit of crowd out here…it’s that time of the year, Halloween, so we get a lot of parties.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Mike Bryant responds to a report of a man wearing a Wendy’s uniform near a convenience store after an alleged domestic assault. At the store, he encounters a customer there who is dressed up as Nacho Libre. Bryant: “You couldn’t wait until Tuesday?” He also interacts with a woman there.
  • Weld County, Colo. — Dep. Grady Nicholson conducts a traffic stop. He advises the driver to get rid of an open container at the first gas station that the motorist encounters.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies pursue a vehicle that fled from a traffic stop; a foot chase ensues after the car wrecks out. The driver is detained. Cpl. Devante Smith to the driver: “You can’t run from Berkeley County, my boy.” Smith, who finds a wad of cash in the car, describes the driver as “a small-time hustler” and says that the subject will “be going to jail for failure to stop for blue lights.”

Abrams: “We have seen a lot of stop sticks, and we don’t actually talk about exactly what they’re made of, what they look like. What exactly is it?” Lt. Maher: “So it’s essentially just a set of three long, triangular-shaped tubes. Inside is a little bit of foam, and there’s a bunch of steel or some kind of metal — hypodermic needles that are a little bit thicker. When the car goes over it, they puncture the tire, they stay sticking on a little bit. It slowly drains the air. It doesn’t actually blow the tire open. It’s not like the movies.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant assists at the scene of an accident at or near a parking lot mall that was not involved in involved in a vehicle fleeing from him in the area or a separate hit-and-run call. Bryant: “So this is just a minor fender bender; it has nothing to do with my fleeing vehicle. Nobody is injured here….we gonna go look for that other car.”

Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Greg Long Jr. makes contact with a pedestrian. Caption: “Twerkin’ for a living.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Cameron Blackmon conducts a traffic stop for no tag light. The driver allegedly admitted he had a couple of drinks. A highway patrol officer comes to the scene to conduct field sobriety testing. The driver ultimately refuses the tests and is arrested. Bystanders at the scene are very argumentative about the driver being pulled over. Abrams: “These guys definitely not helping here.” Wilson explains that “not all officers are field sobriety test-certified. So they call the trooper in, or another officer, who may be. So the trooper is there to actually conduct this. But as you notice, he’s getting a lot of interference from these other individuals…” Abrams: “So Corporal Blackmon is the one who actually pulled him over. And then he calls in the trooper who is certified to do the field sobriety test. This guy is saying he’s not gonna do it. Now gets arrested. And they could still file charges even without a field sobriety test.” Wilson: “Yes, they can…what’s gonna happen, they’ll take him down to the station. They’ll go ahead and get a warrant; get a blood draw.” Abrams: “And they will get the answers…”
  • Weld County, Colo. — During a snow storm, Deputy Grady Nicholson checks on a rear-wheel driver sports car with hazard lights activated that might be disabled. Caption: “Vehicle assist.” The vehicle is okay, but he advises the motorist to drive “super, super slow,” given the road conditions. Nicholson: “She’s okay, doesn’t need any help from us. And she says she’s just gonna continue driving on just very slowly, which is the best option in that kind of car in these kinds of roads. In “Vehicle Assist – Take 2,” he agrees to escort her down the road. Nicholson: “So we’re gonna follow her…she was gonna go to Walmart, but she’s abandoning that now with the roads like they are. So we’re gonna follow her, kind of escort her back. Probably not be able to go all the way home with her, but at least give her an escort so that she’s safer and the other traffic is safer as well. And that way she can get back and feel a little bit more comfortable driving on the roads.”
  • Brookford, N.C. — After a traffic stop, Chief Will Armstrong apparently issues tickets for no insurance and erratic driving. He advises the driver to stay between “the mustard and the mayonnaise.” Abrams: “That is a great phrase that I’ve never heard before — staying between the yellow line, the white line. You don’t want any ketchup.
  • Triple Play #2 — Portland, Ore.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Alex Champagne investigates a domestic incident in which a subject says that three males jumped him and wants to press charges. Champagne: “In order for me to help you out…you have to give me all the…details.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Cops detain two men after a report of some guys allegedly peering into cars. The officers detain the men. Voluntary car search. Caption: “Drug paraphernalia found.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Brandon Ramirez makes a contact with woman who allegedly was talking to a man in a truck outside a check-cashing store for 40 minutes and gives her a friendly no-loitering warning. She insists that she legitimately patronized the store and happened to bump into a friend there. Ramirez: “They thought that y’all were kind of like in the truck fooling around or something…It’s not a big deal…it’s okay; I believe you.” Abrams: “Sounds like she made a point…she was pretty definitive…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — A follow-up to a stolen motorcycle pursuit from about a month ago. Abrams: “But at that time, they couldn’t prove the bike was stolen, so the suspect was released. Investigators eventually confirmed it was, in fact, stolen.” Cops locate the suspect hiding in a crawlspace and take him into custody on a warrant in connection with that incident. Wilson: “When they bring in a neighboring agency that’s where this individual is, our arrest powers only go three miles outside our jurisdiction, so therefore you need this other agency to make that arrest and transfer over.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpt. Brown and Sgt. Garo Brown make a traffic stop outside an apartment complex. The driver was allegedly making furtive movements. Car search.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sgt. Clayton Dillion conduct a highway traffic stop on a truck. Taylor: “We’re probably just gonna end up towing him, getting it completely out of here…This is too dangerous…they’re arguing over a bill…”
  • Fullerton, Calif. (pre-recorded segment) — Cops, including Ofr. Matthew Levin, make a traffic stop for no front plate, “but plenty of booze and bluster in the back,” according to Abrams. Open container spotted. One of the occupants is uncooperative and is pulled out of the car. The other occupants who were cooperative are released. Ofr. Levin: “The fourth one has been drinking a lot. Maybe that gave him some liquid courage not to listen to us. That’s fine. He’s going to jail for resisting and obstructing and delaying an officer as well as possession of an open container.”

Abrams: “The ‘you work for me’ thing is something I’m sure you’ve heard — every police officer has heard that.” Maher: “It can be extremely frustrating. It’s not that it’s untrue. We do work for the public. But we’re not gonna be abused by the public. We’re not gonna have the public resist us. As you saw, he got resisted bigtime. We do work for you, but it doesn’t give you free rein.” Abrams: “And ‘we may still end up arresting you, even though we work for you.'” Maher: “You’re tax dollars may pay for your stay in the…jail.”

  • Brookford, N.C. — After a traffic stop when a motorist allegedly turned off from a routine license check without using a blinker, a motorist is released with a friendly warning.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers respond to a noise complaint at a Halloween party and ask the revelers to turn down the music. Abrams: “We were all saying it doesn’t sound that loud.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Blackmon responds to a noise complaint at a trailer park. It apparently is an alarm. The trailer is cleared. While in the area, he is flagged own by a woman, but it is difficult for the deputy understand what she is trying to convey.
  • Triple Play#3 — Flagler County, Fla.
  • Lee County, Fla. — In an follow-up to the earlier incident, a distraught woman claims that she was assaulted by the subject who was interviewed in that previous encounter. After gathering information from the woman, Dep. Alex Champagne tries to locate the subject potentially hiding at a storage facility: “We’ll attempt to make contact if he’s there. If he is, then he’ll be coming with us tonight.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Ramirez and other units detain a suspicious person outside a strip mall plaza allegedly “causing a scene.” Abrams quips that “He’s snot resisting, so that’s good.”
  • Weld County, Colo. — Deputies respond to the scene of an overturned semi on the side of the road and assist with traffic control.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers remove a unruly passenger from a train. Cpl. Ruiz Ramirez: “Now that the train is leaving, we’ll be out of here. No one wants to press charges, so it’s not gonna be a crime.”
  • BOLO segment — Seattle area attempted home invasion.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies detain and subsequently release two men outside an apartment complex, one of whom was wearing a “trouble always finds me” T-shirt. One of the men asks if the cops will return his weed. Abrams: “He can ask.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Round 2 of #RollinWithRichie Q&A session.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Cops respond to a large house party and tell any underage attendee to go home.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers respond to a report of a stabbing at a fast-food restaurant. It turns out that the victim was the same man who minutes earlier was kicked off the train and whose commentary is heavily bleeped. Abrams: “Apologize for all the bleeping that’s going on here, but as you can imagine, there’s a lot of stuff being said…what a turn of events this has become.” The man has a stab wound to the stomach. Cops render first aid prior to the arrival of paramedics who transport the man to a local hospital. A woman is detained at the scene; a knife is also found at the location.

Ofr. George Peterson explains that the man had “stab wounds to his torso. The female is in custody. She stated that she stabbed him the male approximately two or three times with a knife…so we followed the blood trail. The initial stabbing was approximately 500 yards or so from here at the Amtrak station…suspected knife here, down here. So we got CSI here gonna take photographs of the scene. Got the female detained. The male is transported to the hospital right now. We’ll be doing photographs of the scene, talking to witnesses inside, trying to see if we can get some more video footage of the interior as well.” Abrams: Wow. So the stabbing actually occurred at the train station, and or at least the dispute started at the train station, right? Looks like from all the blood there that it may have just been the remnants…the knife then found at that scene, which is interesting. And she doesn’t seem to be denying much of this either. She literally has blood on her hands, as they say.” Maher: “Super cooperative.

Abrams: “This guy is not exactly helping his cause here. I really don’t know what his cause his…” Wilson: “He’s just ‘a little upset.'” Abrams: “He was upset before. Let’s remember: He’s not upset because of the stabbing per se, right? He was yelling and screaming at officers exactly this same way when he got kicked off the train, and according to him, he apparently had quite a good time on the train before he got kicked off, so he claimed.”

  • Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong and other units respond to a report of an alleged domestic incident at a residence. They make contact with a man who was sitting in a car outside who initially was not following instructions. Armstrong says he smells alcohol on the subject. The man says he drank “a little bit” and denies that any arguing had occurred at the scene.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Brown observes a large crowd, some of whom are in costume, queued up outside a former Chinese food restaurant or some other venue apparently for a Halloween party. Abrams: “They must make some fine Chinese food there.”
  • Hazen, Ark.— As the episode concludes, Chief Taylor makes a traffic stop on a car that used its high beams. Expired insurance card.