On Patrol: Live All-New Episode, Tonight

On Patrol: Live new tonight: An On Patrol: Live recap of the televised police ride-alongs, plus commentary/analysis from host/executive producer Dan Abrams and anchor desk panelists Tom Rizzo (a captain with Howell Township, N.J., PD) and Sean “Sticks” Larkin (a retired Tulsa, Okla., PD sergeant), follows below. OPL was in best-of reruns during Easter weekend.

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This recap also includes the often-provocative or playful social media reaction to the incidents in the field.

As #OPNation (i.e., the cohort consisting of the show’s avid followers) is well aware, and for those viewers and/or social media users new to the program, On Patrol Live on Reelz is more or less a reboot or rebrand of Live PD.

Updates from Previous Episodes

In the First Shift video clips above, Tom Rizzo (who has been away from On Patrol: Live for several weeks) talks about his family health challenge with Ewing sarcoma and expresses heartfelt gratitude for the outpouring of support from #OPNation. The update also includes a brief interview with Greene County, Mo., Sergeant Carl Scharpf, as his agency debuts on On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

Knox County, Tenn., update: Officer/Deputy Dalton Swanger, who was seriously injured in the line duty during the June 21, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode, has returned to duty. And Dan Abrams announces during this episode that after an “incredible recovery,” Officer Swanger will be in the OPL studio for Saturday evening’s show. “We are excited to meet him in person.”

On Patrol: Live Tonight

Along with the return to the studio of Tom Rizzo, see below for details on all 22 law enforcement encounters across 10 On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments on the current roster in this On Patrol: Live episode guide. Check back for updates.

Agency notes: Christian County, Mo., did not appear in this episode, and Daytona Beach PD apparently took the weekend off from OPL filming other than a cameo from Sergeant Christopher Maher during a Volusia County investigation. In this episode, the Greene County, Mo., Sheriff’s Office from the Live PD era makes its debut on On Patrol: Live.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for April 10, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-67)

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  • Baton Rouge, La. — Sergeant Jordon Lear, Officer Devon Johnson, and other cops respond to a report of shots fired (14 or 15 shots allegedly fired). They make contact with a female complainant and a male on scene and search on foot for a discarded weapon, during which Sgt. Lear briefly picks up a frog. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating shots fired.”

Sgt. Lear preliminary recap: “So they out with the victim. He was getting shot at. The victim or the intended target ended up shooting back at the suspects, but instead of just keeping the gun, he’s saying he threw it out of the car, a couple of streets up, so we can go see if we can find it.” Dan Abrams: “Sean Larkin predicting it’s gonna be tough to find.” Larkin: “I’m predicting, based on the ‘magic words,’ based on my own training and experience, that this guy did not throw the gun out the window…at least it’s somewhere else, but they have to go out and at least look to say they did a proper search.” Officer Johnson adds that “so right now, we got the subject detained. We’re gonna try to locate that firearm before one of these kids, other kids, pick it up, or somebody, anybody, pick it up at this point. He’s been cooperative, so…I ain’t putting him in handcuffs because he pretty much told us the whole story of what’s going. Seems like a good kid; just got caught up in this environment…” Abrams: “Well, Sean Larkin called that one. He predicted they likely would not find a gun.”

Abrams: “You think they won’t be able to find it even with glasses like yours, if they had those?” Larkin: ” These — they would be able to see through vehicles and go ‘the gun’s right here.’ So they would know.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — With backup from other deputies, Corporal Rachel Salka conducts a traffic stop. She questions the driver about any alleged contraband in the vehicle. The driver, who denies having anything illegal, is detained.  Abrams: “We’re gonna find out pretty quickly if he’s telling the truth.” Car search. The driver ends up getting released with a warning. Cpl. Salka to driver: “Stop riding dirty…riding dirty ain’t gonna get you home…” On Patrol: Live caption: “Kool-Aid saves the day.”

Abrams: “By the way, we’ve seen a lot of fans on this show. We haven’t seen ‘fans’ like that on this show…”

Cpl. Salka recap: “So we located cocaine in the vehicle. It wasn’t testable at the point that it was drenched in Kool-Aid or whatever’s in his cup, so we’re not gonna arrest him on that. I’m gonna have him leave the vehicle here until he’s able to get it properly tagged, so we’ll let him get a tow truck or whatnot.” Abrams: “So it seems he’s gonna be going on his way and gotten a lucky break there…”

Abrams: “…Rizzo looks like, sort of, 1970s. You could be in like CHiPS or something.” Tom Rizzo: “I always wanted to work in that era.”

  • Greene County, Mo. — Sergeant Carl Scharpf makes a moped stop. Sgt. Scharpf: “I got this guy just hanging out in the middle of the road, working on a moped. We have a lot of stolen mopeds out right now…as you can see, it’s in multiple pieces, and it’s been custom painted several different times. Mopeds are very commonly stolen…this looks like a Lego kit…” The driver is released following a friendly interaction after the sergeant verifies that the moped, that the driver purchased for $60, is not stolen. Abrams: “Sixty bones for that…he’s got a good deal.” Sgt. Scharpf to driver: “Thanks for being cooperative and letting us check you out.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deputy Tyler Perry and other units search for a woman, age 79, with dementia, and according to Abrams, “is also apparently aggressive.” They subsequently locate her in the bushes, and she is okay. On Patrol: Live caption: “Missing woman found.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clip below, Deputy Shamari Davis initiates a traffic stop for alleged stationary blue lights “which is illegal in the state of Georgia…just because it’s a form of blue doesn’t make it not blue..” Tickets issued to the somewhat disputatious driver. Sean Larkin: “The things you get in arguments with people over are unbelievable.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers John Sawicki and Dallas Kwapich investigate some sort of alleged or potential disturbance or former disturbance at a neighborhood bar. On Patrol: Live captions: “Cops walk into a bar…”, “Throuple trouble?” Officer Sawicki: “Sounds like the problem is resolved for the night. If they have any other issues, she’s gonna call us back…” He and/or Officer Kwapich joke that “85 and still in the game…it’s twins too!…that’s great.” Abrams: “Some call it harassment; others call it fantasy.” Tom Rizzo: “Double the fun.”
  • Triple Play #1 — a Muskegon Heights, Mich., pursuit where, according to Abrams, “a suspect in custody channeled her inner Houdini.”
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Sgt. Lear makes a friendly traffic stop on a truck: “I gotta know; what the hell is that white thing on top of your truck?…it looked like a satellite dish for this big-ass TV you got going on right over here. Oh, it is a balloon…” He also interacts with a group on scene at an outdoor BBQ.
  • Greene County, Mo. — Sgt. Scharpf provides backup to other officers in a vehicle pursuit. The driver is already taken into custody. Car search. Open containers allegedly found. The driver, who discusses his background with police on scene, plus denying any attempt to evade, allegedly is subject to a “quarter-million bond.” Bleeping.

Deputy on scene: “How much have you had to drink, though, man? I get that you’re sober from meth from what you’re saying, but, man, you reek of alcohol.”

Abrams: “He also has that ankle monitor, which makes everything he does a little trickier, when you got the weapon, not supposed to have it. As he said: He said he knew that. But he certainly was drinking, it seems.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clip below, OPL provides a follow-up to the high-speed pursuit by Sergeant Khristian Pickett and other units from a recent OPL episode. In the culmination of the pursuit, police detain a suspect at an apartment complex.

Abrams: “Sergeant Pickett and the other officers there did not find anything in the car, and that apparently was his girlfriend in the back. She said he was not living there, but that all of the evidence found was, in fact, his. He’s now facing several charges, including evading arrest, tampering with evidence, and simple possession or casual exchange.”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Sgt. Lear and Officer Charleston Armstrong initiate a traffic stop. Three occupants. Vehicle search. Citations issued for alleged non-functioning headlight and expired tag. Another occupant is cited for alleged possession of drug paraphernalia.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clips below, Deputy Toddson Catoe backs up colleagues on a stolen-vehicle stop which turns out to be an misunderstanding involving similar cars. Abrams: “…as it turned out, the ‘car thief’ had a pretty convincing excuse.”

Listen below to Tom Rizzo and Sean Larkin in the OPL studio briefly discuss this incident:

  • Volusia County, Fla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of shooting.” Deputy Ethan Thomas is among the officers responding to the scene, including Sergeant Chris Maher from Daytona Beach PD.

Sgt. Maher preliminary update: “So there was a shooting last night involving this vehicle. Detectives were able to get a search warrant for the vehicle. They were able to come up with some technology that it was in our area. Luckily, County was able to spot it, and I was able to pull up as they were doing a takedown, and they were just making contact with…the driver, all the occupants of the vehicle. Got them detained for now, just because they are in the car. And we’re gonna identify them, and the detectives are gonna do what they need to do for the search warrant.” Deputy Thomas adds that “we’re gonna turn over the investigation to Daytona Beach. They’re gonna be leading an investigation involved in the shooting yesterday…” Abrams: “Coordination between departments there — county and city.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal Avery Arrington makes a jovial traffic stop for an alleged blue lights violation. “You can’t have blue lights under your car…or blue lights on your car, period.” Abrams: “At least he didn’t use the cyan defense. Maybe he knows that it’s not particularly effective. It works about as well as the ‘I’m just a traveler’ defense.”

Driver: “We’ve been driving around in this car for the last two months, every Friday and Saturday night, trying to get it on Live PD.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Kaitlin Rogers initiates a traffic stop for an alleged unreadable tag, which is a traffic infraction under Florida law (and subsequently issues a ticket to the somewhat disputatious driver). “…Give me your driver’s license…I’m not here to argue…you can take it to court…” Deputy Rogers explains that “he’s pretty upset that he had to provide his driver’s license, so maybe some people just don’t like getting pulled over, obviously. Gonna run him, see if his driver’s license’s good, and then let him be on his way.“

Listen below to the deputy explain her reasoning for not shaking hands with subjects and followed by the studio panel banter about handshaking:

  • Triple Play #2 — a Livingston, Texas, “wet and wild” police pursuit that involves multiple PIT maneuvers.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — On Patrol: Live caption: “In pursuit.” Deputy Myles Mathis and Cpl. Salka participate in high-speed highway chase of a fleeing vehicle with its lights off that another agency or agencies apparently then takes over. Deputy Mathis: “…We’re gonna BOLO it out to neighboring counties…the chances of us catching that are slim and none.”
  • BOLO update (Texas) and new BOLO segment (a Fairfax County, Va., “bottomless bandit”):

Listen below to some ‘edgy’ studio banter about the new BOLO incident:

  • Richland County, S.C. — In the video clip below, Deputy Perry responds to a report of a robbery in progress at a residence.
  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of a woman menacing a man.” Officers Sawicki and Kwapich separately make contact with a male and a female on scene who are allegedly exes. In an attempt to mediate the situation, Officer Sawicki tells the vocal female, who lives nearby, to just go home. Officer Sawicki: “So, like, baby-baddy drama. He doesn’t really want her here. He said that allegedly that she made threats about kicking over their oven…so we told her it’s just best that she goes home for the night…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputy Mathis makes friendly contact with a driver at a at a gas station. Abrams: “That is a souped-up Slingshot…here in the big city, we don’t see cars like that that often.”

Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Johnson participates in a good-natured foot race (plus a rematch) with some kids. Abrams: “A little community policing going on here.” On Patrol: Live caption: “On your Crocs…get set.” Sgt. Lear: “…obviously, these guys might never have a positive interaction with the police other than something like this. So hopefully, this shows them that ‘hey, we’re human… like everybody else.’ It’s a good thing. I’m not doing it. Absolutely not.”

CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-68, April 11, 2026.