On Patrol: Live All-New Episode Tonight

A recap of the May 23, 2026, On Patrol: Live episode on Reelz, as anchored in the #OPL Jersey City, N.J., studio by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams, along with LEO analysts Tom Rizzo and Marlowe Botti, follows below.

This On Patrol: Live recap/update also includes the often-provocative or playful social media reaction to the law enforcement incidents in the field.

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Updates from Friday Night’s Episode

See the video clip below for one update from Clayton County, Ga., and one very awkward New Jersey trivia quiz:

On Patrol: Live Tonight

A Clayton County, Ga., shooting incident, a 911 text message in Greene County, Mo., and crowd dispersal in Richland County, S.C., were the focal points of this all-new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

See below for details on all 24 law enforcement encounters across eight On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments in this On Patrol: Live episode guide.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for May 23, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-80)

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  • Baton Rouge, La. (just prior to air) — In the video clip below from the show open, Corporals Jermaine Javius, Brett Usey, and Wendy George and other cops assist a neighboring agency in serving an outstanding warrant at a residence. The subject is taken into custody. Cpl. Usey provides a recap:
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Bryce Hughes responds to a report of alleged shoplifting at a gas station/convenience store. The suspect allegedly “always steals” from the store. The sergeant makes friendly contact with a male outside who is holding a coke can rather than a Red Bull, the latter which was the item allegedly taken; that individual is not the suspect. “I’m sorry to bother you.” Master Deputy Addy Perez and another unit are also on scene. Abrams: “Well, they’re both caffeinated…and the can of coke is red. So there are similarities there, but it’s not the guy.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officer Tyler Rodgers and Corporal Daniel Warner respond to a trespassing call at a garage. It turns out that the suspect is allegedly the same guy who cops found passed out in an alley during the May 16th episode and received Narcan at the scene. The suspect is arrested.

Cpl. Warner’s preliminary assessment of the call: “He’s a known drug addict in the area. Obviously, last week we were able to help him out and give him some assistance. He’s on probation. He has an active probation warrant, meaning he probably didn’t check in with his PO…he’s been uncooperative us when we got here, trying to like move his arms and stuff. He’s probably high again. So right now, he’s just gonna be under arrest for his active warrant. We’ll contact his probation officer and see if they want to do anything else with that. But we’ll solve this problem for today. And it seems like last week didn’t really help him out…he was inside somebody’s else’s garage, doesn’t live here, isn’t known to the owners and stuff. So they wanted him out, and that was the original call. And then, obviously, when we got here and contacted him, he was uncooperative with us, and then we found out that he was on probation with an active warrant for not checking in. So we’ll take him in for that one.”

Listen below to the On Patrol: Live studio panel discuss this incident (Abrams: “…It is actually someone that we saw on the show last week…and now here he is, back again.”):

Listen below further updates from Officer Rodgers and Corporal Warner including potential charges in this incident:

  • Greene County, Mo. — Deputy Tim Hamp and other units respond to a what OPL originally described as a 911 hang-up at a residence. They make contact with a couple at the residence. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating 911 text message.” The male says about his girlfriend “she’s fine. She’s having a mental issue.” Bleeping. Abrams: “Santa’s been naughty…” The woman tells police that she needs no help. Abrams: Deputies are “trying to make sure she doesn’t need help before they leave.”

Deputy Hamp recap: “As you all could see, they get along great, but this is typical for what we had when were were out here earlier. For some reason, they keep texting or calling 911, and then we get here, they don’t have a complaint, but it’s not illegal to argue, and that’s all they’re doing. So we’ll just let them continue to watch their TV show, and we’ll go on the way. So — interesting.”

On Patrol: Live studio host Dan Abrams: “It does look like they are watching some episode of OP Live in there. You can see it on the door…we don’t know if it’s live tonight or if it’s on Reelz Plus, watching one of our former episodes, but clearly there’s some familiarity with the show…well, continue to watch their TV show and create our TV show, I guess. All kind of comes full circle. But you would think at the least that these would be people who are very familiar with the way law enforcement works and the concerns about abusing 911…”

  • Colton, Calif. — On Patrol: Live captions: “Report of train theft,” “Investigating train theft.” Officer Thomas Enriquez and several colleagues detain a couple on scene who deny any involvement with theft. Cops find several boxes of items that were allegedly stolen. They also speak with a witness. Abrams: “Not exactly Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch…” A special agent for the train company arrives on scene to question the duo and take over the investigation.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Eric Gilbert responds what OPL initially indicates is a “report of a threat by Uber driver.” With another LEO on scene as backup, Officer Gilbert makes contact with a male to get his side of the story. Abrams reacting Officer Gilbert’s questioning of the subject: “So we got a little clarity there. Apparently, it is not a threat by an Uber driver. It was a domestic incident, and then this guy got into an Uber…isn’t it true…that a lot of the time, a call will come in, right?, and It won’t necessarily be exactly what you find when you get there.” Chief Botti: “No, and it’s the information that comes across. Most of the time, it’s backwards, it’s twisted, and it’s up to us now to figure it out…with time, we do figure it out.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Daniel Woods administers field sobriety testing on a motorist at a traffic stop. Abrams: “…and for this driver, it hit particularly close to home.” Lieutenant Joseph Toombs and Deputies Desmond Whitson, Devon Brown, and Louis Rinaldo are also on scene. in the video clip below, Deputy Woods explains that the driver is arrested for alleged DUI.

Abrams: “She says she was so close to home.” Chief Botti: “We hear that all the time, where they say, ‘I’m so close to home. Doesn’t this mean a free pass, right? Like, just let me slide.’ But statistically, it says usually these crashes with DWIs are within a one-mile range. So you got close, but you’re lucky you didn’t hurt somebody, and we don’t give those free passes out.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Bryant Ferguson is among many cops, including Lt. Toombs, who respond to a report of a shooting. A male shot in the head is on the ground at the scene. The victim is described as conscious. Paramedics also respond and transport the victim to the hospital on a stretcher. Cops search an adjacent residence that might be associated with shooter and then canvas the area for the shooter who purportedly ran from the scene after getting into an argument with the victim. On Patrol: Live caption: “Search for shooting suspect.” The suspect is at large.

Deputy Ferguson preliminary update: “We don’t have a whole lot of information to go off of. Right now, we just have a male that we found with a gunshot wound to the head. We will get the EMS in here and…give them a turn and burn. He was alert, conscious, eyes open, and talking…so right now, we’re just gonna get him in, turn and burn…keep it moving…we got a little bit of suspect information, but there being just some language barrier that we don’t really have much to go off of, but we’ll work with what we got.”

Listen below to On Patrol: Live analyst Tom Rizzo explain what “turn and burn” means in this context when time is of the essence in a critical injury:

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Greene County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of intoxicated wrong-way driver.” Deputy Hamp searches for the subject vehicle “driving completely in oncoming traffic.” Other cops apparently are able to initiate a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle. Deputy Hamp continues to the scene to provide backup.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Perez, Sgt. Hughes, and other cops respond to a report of a disturbance at a club or outside the club and make friendly contact with one or two males outside who are apparently or possibly managers.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Detectives Aaron Dudley and Jake Bombrys and Officer Kaleb Torbet and John Sawicki respond to a report of an assault where 20 individuals are supposedly beating up a female juvenile. When they get on scene, cops find no one is outside fighting. Det. Bombrys: “So as of right now…we’re just gonna check, make sure nobody happens to be laying down in a random, dark spot that got beat up or something like that…”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Hughes leaves a traffic stop to walk across the street where a large crowd has gathered in connection with a sweet 16 party. This appears to be the same location as the prior call above. Among other LEOs on scene, both Sgt. Hughes and Deputy Perez engage in crowd dispersal: “Get in your car and go home…we’re not sitting there, and chit-chatting, Instagram, all that shenanigans…get out of the parking lot…”

Chief Botti comments on the police car airhorn in the background: “…that is a deterrent. Get them moving along. It’s annoying to listen to. It’s intentional. We want to make it uncomfortable for them, so they don’t have to sit around and listen to this. They’re gonna want to leave.” Dan Abrams: “Tom Rizzo, you were saying that someone literally sitting there with their finger holding down the button to make the noise?” Rizzo: “I might had, be, that person because in sincerity, the longer the people loiter there and linger, inevitably bad things happen, altercations, and we don’t want it. So you’ll makeshift some type of course, as you’re seeing Addy do there. Turn only this way, one point of ingress/egress to get the people out of that area.”

Listen below to Chief Botti briefly explain law enforcement crowd-dispersal strategies:

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Gilbert makes brief, friendly contact with a man on couch outside and than moves on. The officer is familiar with the man. “I was just checking to make sure it wasn’t somebody new.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of man jumped by his own gang.” Officer Alec Van Buren and a colleague make contact with the victim in a restaurant. The victim apparently declines to press charges on a suspect, although Officer Van Buren says “…I would like to be able to charge whoever did this with you with assault and potentially aggravated assault because that’s a felony…” Paramedics summoned to the scene to check out the victim. Officer Van Buren: “If you’ve got a concussion, obviously the hospital’s gonna be the best option for you, because if you fall asleep with a concussion, you might not wake up…”

Victim: “I think I’m brain dead.” Officer Van Buren: “Well, you ain’t brain dead because you’re talking and you’re alive…”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Toledo, Ohio — The four cops that OPL is following make a traffic stop on a slow roller. Although the officers point out that there is no such thing as home base when it comes to a potential tow (“they think it’s home base and that we can’t do anything”), the driver is apparently going to be released with a warning.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Torbet and Sawicki leave the above call to respond to a supposed breaking and entering in progress. The call apparently turns into a domestic-related investigation where a woman was allegedly being held captive by her ex in her home. Police subsequently detain a demonstrative man on a traffic stop who is allegedly involved but seems to indicate that he was just trying to get his sh*t out of the house. Officer Sawicki: “He’s claiming that she let him in. He was grabbing his stuff, and then allegedly, ‘I’ was on the steps, pulling down his paints, allegedly…sounds like it’s gonna be ‘he said, she said,’ but we’ll find out more once the other crew talks with her.” Cops also obtain the woman’s side of the story. Abrams as cops talk to the female: “Everyone seems to be in a pretty good mood there…figure out what her position is on what happened.”

Listen below as Dan Abrams and Chief Botti discuss how cops investigating domestic incidets sometimes have to gather evidence by taking pics of sensitive body parts:

In the video clip embedded at the bottom of this recap, Officer Sawicki provide the results of the investigation to this point in which he implies that as a result of physical altercation, the male might end up arrested “probably for domestic violence and assault.” Abrams: “Think they did not buy his account of what happened.”

  • Triple Play #3 — police pursue a fleeing U-Haul truck in Paulding County, Georgia.
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Ferguson and Lt. Toombs make contact with a male outside a convenience store. Suspended license. Lt. Toombs pours out a can of beer. Cops release the man with a warning not to drive. “…so, again, test my gangster, brother. That sh*t smooth, until I make sh*t crazy. I catch your ass driving, it’s that. You understand?”
  • BOLO segment — a Fredericksburg, Va., alleged attempted kidnapping by someone in a Pink Panther costume.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Corporals Usey and Detective Andrew Carlton conduct a traffic stop. According to Abrams, “that guy [who] was hotboxing in his car was was told to get a ride home and not get behind the wheel of his car.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Perez assists other units in a pursuit of an allegedly fleeing driver. Cops pull over the driver. Two beers allegedly consumed. The driver seemingly declines to participate in field sobriety testing. Car search; open container allegedly found. Potential language barrier. In the video clip below, Master Deputy Jason McLees provides the reasoning for the stop and outlines the potential charges against the driver:
  • Missing segment — Florida, Alaska:
  • Knox County, Tenn. — As the episode concludes (see clip below), Officer Gilbert makes a traffic stop on a motorbike for allegedly doing wheelies. “Is there any way I can smoke a cigarette?”
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-79, May 22, 2026.