On Patrol: Live All-New Episode Tonight

On Patrol: Live new tonight on Reelz: An On Patrol: Live recap of the televised police ride-alongs, plus commentary/analysis from host/executive producer Dan Abrams, and the On Patrol: Live cast, i.e., studio analysts Tom Rizzo (a newly retired captain formerly with Howell Township, N.J., PD), and Sean “Sticks” Larkin (a retired Tulsa, Okla., PD sergeant), follows below.

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This On Patrol: Live recap/update also includes the often-provocative or playful social media reaction to the law enforcement 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 Last Weekend’s Episodes

See the First Shift video clip below for updates from the following:

  • Berkeley County, S.C.
  • Henry County, Va.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla.
  • Colton, Calif. (new department in the lineup)

On Patrol: Live Tonight

See below for details on all 25 law enforcement encounters across nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments in this On Patrol: Live episode guide. And check back for updates for On Patrol: Live tonight.

As foreshadowed in the First Shift open, TV personality Matt Iseman — who sits in for Dan Abrams on #OPL from time to time — briefly took over as studio anchor about an hour and half into the show. Iseman was in the building filming a game show.

Iseman: “And when I found out I had a chance to come see my boys, I couldn’t pass up the chance.” Abrams: “And we were thrilled to hear that he was going to be here, and we ‘dragged’ him in here. We made him stay late…for the first time I get to be in the same room as him as opposed to Matt just being here when I’m not here.”

Dan Abrams: “…it’s nice to sit…and Iseman comes in, and upstages me, and does such a great job…” Rizzo: “And now we just want to know your tactical knowledge.”

On Patrol: Live departments: As indicated above, Colton, Calif., PD joins #OPL for the first time, while Fullerton, Calif., PD rejoins after a long absence. Knox County was scheduled, but did not appear (although past practice suggests that agency will get facetime on Saturday evening). Sheriff Offices in Berkeley County, Christian County, Lee County, Volusia County, and Daytona and Hazen PD, are not in the lineup.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for May 15, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-77)

On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “On Patrol: Live in nine departments, and once again, we can say coast to coast, because we are live in two new departments in California tonight.”

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  • Greene County, Mo. — In the video clip below, Corporal Cade Friend conducts a traffic stop. The driver is detained. “Don’t act surprised, bro. You know what you’re doing is wrong.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Arrested for driving while revoked.” Car towed. Barney Fife reference.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Sergeant Jordon Lear and a colleague initiate a traffic stop for an alleged counterfeit plate. Pat down. Car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Cocaine and drug paraphernalia found.” Sgt. Lear: “So he’s a crackhead and a meth head apparently.” Other officer on scene: “He’s got a little variety in his life.”
  • Colton, Calif. — Officer Jeremy Jaeger pursues a motorcycle on the highway, but the chase is discontinued for safety reasons. “We’re not gonna take a chance of going into any traffic, especially with the bikes. It’s our policy; it’s against the law. So just a smart decision to cancel the pursuit…” Abrams: “Frustrating, but it happens.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — On Patrol: Live captions: “Responding to accident,” “Investigating accident.” Deputy Louis Rinaldo, Lieutenant Jonathan Carey, and other cops are on scene where a pickup-truck and car got into an accident. Cops give the truck driver the opportunity to take a PBT (Abrams: “Remember: It’s the other car that appears to have hit him.”) Abrams update:

Listen below to Sean Larkin in the studio address the potential accident reconstruction:

Listen below to Lt. Carey make a preliminary assessment of the accident:

Abrams: “Look, both things could end up being true, right? Which is the other guy could be at fault, and it’s possible he could be driving under the influence.” Rizzo: “Those are the ‘famous’ cases that you see. Like somebody with no license, no insurance, might have warrants…get rear-ended. Wrong place; wrong time.” Larkin: “So one might be going to jail who was not at fault in the accident. The guy might getting citations for an illegal lane change.”

Abrams update: “In Clayton County, that accident we saw. Possible DUI. The Georgia State Police determined the guy was drinking but not intoxicated. And he was released to his wife, who drove him home.”

  • Greene County, Mo. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clip below, Cpl. Friend and other units respond to a disturbance. Abrams introduces the segment by quipping that deputies “responded to a report of a guy who seemed to have some issues at a local fast-food joint. You could say it was his ‘cross to bear.”
  • Henry County, Va. — With other units, Lieutenant Matt Duffy heads to the scene on a report of a breaking-and-entering in progress on a trailer. The alleged subject may also have warrants. No #OPL update provided during the show, however.
  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of woman with mace and knife.” Officers Kaleb Torbet and John Sawicki respond to a disturbance at a convenience store. Cops make contact with a woman on scene and get her side of the story. She ends up detained. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.”

Officer Sawicki preliminary assessment: “So we got another crew speaking with the victim. Sounds like this individual and the other lady, I believe…have issues. She’s stating she wasn’t over in that area, so…we got another crew talking with the victim right now. So we’re gonna see what their story says, and then kind of go off of hers and make a decision.”

Officer Torbet recap: “So we checked the beer cooler to make sure she didn’t drop anything else in there: guns, knives, drugs…she’s got a protection order with the caller that called it in, so she’s gonna be charged with violation of a protection order. She’s also gonna be taken down on her burglary warrants. And then if there’s anything else nefarious inside of that purse, she’ll be charged with that as well. And then she’ll be spending the night in jail; hopefully, the rest of the stuff’s taken care of.”

Tom Rizzo studio commentary: “You know what’s crazy about this? So it’s a violation of a protection order, even though it’s not at her residence, but it could be a store that the motoring public can go to, but it’s the actions that she took. So like she runs in; she tries to hide. So it goes to show you weren’t there by coincidence to just go shopping and happen to be in the proximity of somebody who has a protective order against you. So that’s what could lend to her being charged.”

  • Triple Play #1 — The NYPD rescues a woman on the ledge of a high rise. Back in the studio, Tom Rizzo praises the cops for remaining “calm, cool, collective,” Larkin observes that “they call them like firemen with guns, essentially. Those guys are so well trained for those type of things: water rescues, hostage situations, hazardous materials…these guys are so well-trained compared to a lot of other departments.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Devon Johnson pursues a dirt bike which gets away. On Patrol: Live caption: “Searching for fleeing suspect.” Abrams: “Well, in some departments, they would have given up already. There in Baton Rouge; they’re gonna keep seeing if they can figure out where he might come out.”
  • Henry County, Va. (pre-recorded segment) — On Tuesday of this week as depicted in the video clip below, Sheriff Wayne Davis and SWAT executed a search warrant at what appears to be the same location that seemingly was featured on the May 8 On Patrol: Live episode. Cops detain many occupants on scene.

Abrams update: “One guy was arrested for possession of the meth that was found in the toilet after they ended up drying it out. They sent it to a lab, and they confirmed that it was several ounces. The sheriff mentioned there that they house might look familiar. Well, we were actually at that same house on last Friday’s show. They spoke with several people at the home, serving a warrant…”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Johnson and other cops on a jovial traffic stop with a driver who #OPNation may remember as someone who apparently appeared on a previous #OPLive episode. The driver is apparently released with a warning.

Listen below to Dan Abrams react to this “particularly humorous” stop (although #OPL does not indicate to #OPNation whether cops on that prior stop actually made a transaction with one of the driver’s alleged customers):

Sean Larkin: “…the guy’s in a positive mood every time.”

  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers Ricky Akles and Tyler Rogers on a traffic stop. The cooperative driver is allegedly on probation. Consensual car search. Abrams: “We are glad to be back with the Fullerton PD there…” Abrams update: The driver “was released with no charges.”
  • Henry County, Va. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Executing search warrant.” Deputies including Lt. Duffy arrive at the same house as the Tuesday incident above and detain a woman on a misdemeanor warrant. On Patrol: Live caption: “Third time’s a charm.”

Listen below to Lt. Duffy comment about this incident:

  • Baton Rouge, La. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of someone shot in bathtub.” Sergeant Lear and other officers make contact with the purported victim at a residence. Although the victim is bleeding, Sgt. Lear seems skeptical: “…I don’t believe this gentleman was shot. I think something else is going on….I don’t believe that dude was shot.” Abrams: “So this gets a little more confusing…” Paramedics apparently summoned to the scene.

Sgt. Lear recap: “He’s saying that something came through…and hit him; he believes he was shot. There’s blood everywhere, a lot, and he’s saying it’s coming from his leg, but there’s no blood in that area…we see there are no marks. It ain’t making much sense. Maybe he’s got, like, some vein issue, but we’ll see…so what looks like what happened to this gentleman, he has…a varicose vein. Looked like somehow he had a scab on it that he ripped off, and it was just squirting everywhere. It’s a very, very small wound. So I don’t think he was shot. There’s no evidence of that. They’re gonna check him out; he’s refusing to go to the hospital. They’re just gonna make sure he’s right, and we’ll be on our way.”

Listen below to the #OPL studio panel react to this incident:

  • Greene County, Mo. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clip below, Corporal Joe Duran, with backup from other deputies, conducts a traffic stop on a car that allegedly fled from police previously. Abrams introduces the segment by asserting that “a driver told deputies the car he was driving wasn’t his. And you’ll ‘never guess’ what else he said weren’t his either.”

Abrams: “We’ve heard this excuse before, but this one had a little twist, which is ‘I’m moving,” right?…someone was gonna pick them up, put them on, too big, but I’m moving.'” Larkin: “Usually when you hear ‘these aren’t my pants, this is not my car,’ it’s like a guarantee that there is something illegal…we mix our pants up all the time…”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Greene County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Tandem scooter stop.” Deputy Joseph Beadles on scene.
  • Richland County, S.C. — K9 Specialist Datron Washington makes very brief contact with a woman at an apartment complex unit on some issue with her television which apparently was already resolved.

Abrams jokes that “she wanted to make sure she could get Reelz.” Rizzo: “I was gonna say, otherwise we wouldn’t respond to calls like that…well worth the time and the resources.” Abrams: “They…knew, like, that this was, like…one of those calls…pretty much a waste of a lot of time and effort.” Larkin: “It is; you do get a lot of elderly people that will frequently call the police, oftentimes just to have contact with somebody. And so there are some houses, when you work some of these beats, that you go out to on a regular basis, and you get to know these people.” Abrams: “You don’t get angry, right?” Larkin: “No; you’re obviously understandable about it. And that call is gonna be assigned depending on what the call load is like if they’re gonna be able to get you out there or not.”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — With Officer Johnson on scene, a man at a gas station touts his Instagram page for the #OPL cameras. Abrams: “I’m not sure that it really leads to significant growth in followers by promoting it on this show, but you never know.” Larkin: “We have a large fanbase…maybe this is that guy’s break that he needed.”
  • Triple Play #2 — a Kent County, Mich., police pursuit involving “a fleeing driver who made quite a splash.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — On a traffic stop, Deputies Rinaldo and Desmond Whitson, along with Lieutenant Joseph Toombs, detain two occupants at gunpoint on a report of an alleged stolen car.

Listen below to Deputy Rinaldo and Lt. Toombs preliminarily recap this incident:

  • Greene County, Mo. — Deputy Tim Hamp pursues a speeding motorcycle but the chase is discontinued for safety reasons. “There’s too much traffic out, and it’s not worth him crashing for what would be a speeding ticket…”

Listen below to Deputy Hamp comment on this incident:

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Rinaldo leaves the above stop on a report of a shooting. Deputy Bryant Ferguson is already on scene and checks two adjacent gas stations; no one is shot at either location. Deputy Ferguson indicates that according to an update from the dispatch center, “the call was pinging from the jail.” Investigation pending.

Listen below to the #OPL studio panel allude to the possibility of a prank or worse:

Deputy Ferguson recap: “…so we don’t know if it was a prank call or someone with mental issues or what, but…thankfully, for right now, no one shot, and we can just go from there, and we can investigate the call later, and just move on from there. So that’s what happened.”

  • Colton, Calif. — Officer Jaeger provides backup on a traffic stop. No license. Drugs allegedly found.
  • Richland County, S.C. — in the video clips below as the episode concludes, Captain Danny Brown, with backup from other deputies, makes contact with a male and a female who possibly might have been loitering in an area allegedly known for drugs. “Whose car is this?” The male is released; the vocal female, who says it’s not her car, is detained. Car search; drugs allegedly found. Cpt. Brown satirically asks “Where’d you go to drug school?” In the somewhat contentious back and forth with the female about probable cause and other related issues, Cpt. Brown explains “this is private property, but it’s a place that is licensed for business in our county, which we’re allowed at any time to check, based on the agreement when they sign that business license…”
  • Greene County, Mo. — Deputy Tim Hamp initiates a traffic stop for a non-functioning tail light.
  • Colton, Calif. — In video clips above and below, Officer Jaeger responds to a fight in progress, and as the episode concludes, provides a preliminary update:
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-78, May 16, 2026 [forthcoming] .