Best Episodes
COPS is one of the first (and only) true and UNSCRIPTED reality shows, it follows the activities of police officers by embedding camera crews with police units.The show’s formula follows the Cinéma vérité convention, with no narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact.COPS has followed officers in 140 different cities in the United States and also has been shot in Hong Kong, London, and the former Soviet Union. Each episode is approximately 22 minutes in length and typically consists of three segments, with each segment being one or two self-contained police incidents.
Written by Sophie and last updated on feb 10, 2023.
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Sgt. R. Ragili of the Palm Beach, FL, County Sheriff's Office conducts a reverse-prostitution sting designed to capture suspected "johns." Deputy Lisa Whiddon poses as prostitute in an attempt to attract interested clients. The first suspicious "john" is taken into custody after offering Deputy Whiddon $10 for oral sex.
The episode was rated 7.00 from 14 votes.
Jacksonville, FL - Officer Tom Hemsley responds to a shots fired call to find a body on the floor of a trailer home. Spokane, WA - Officer Jason Uberuaga assists officers on a warrant call where they send a K9 into the basement of a house. Pierce County, WA - Deputy Erik Clarkson attempts to perform a traffic stop on a Chevrolet El Camino but the driver shoots at him and refuses to pull over.
The episode was rated 7.08 from 12 votes.
Stories in both parts of this special include a woman strangling a man with a sock, a woman with two black eyes reports a beating, a street fight sees a woman slap her husband in sight of an officer, a woman tries to keep her boyfriend from using a phone, a man punches his girlfriend's husband, a couple won't exit a house after a fight, a man just out of the Army hits a woman and she stabs him with a kitchen knife, a man shoves cheese in his wife's mouth knocking her false teeth out a window, a man breaks into his bedroom to find out what his wife is doing, after a man comes home drunk his wife punches him out, a man punches a woman in the face knocking a tooth out, a man calls the police when he wants to just get his clothes and leave but his wife won't let him, police arrive to find blood all over a house but the woman won't press charges against her ex-husband, cops stop a man and woman who are fighting in the street, and a man gets stabbed by his mother when he tries to break up a sexual encounter involving her and his wife. Locations include: Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Harris County, Jacksonville Florida, Virginia Beach, Pierce County WA, Miami Florida, Sarasota County Florida, Lee County Florida, Kansas City KS, Mesa AZ, Los Angeles, and Providence RI.
The episode was rated 7.08 from 12 votes.
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The episode was rated 7.13 from 16 votes.
Stories about belligerent females include an officer needing assistance when a man and his female companion both become combative, a traffic stop goes from bad to worse with an angry woman, and another traffic stop involves a woman on heroin.
The episode was rated 7.15 from 20 votes.
Stories include a person who resists arrest following a traffic accident; a trailer park husband who needs four officers to take him into custody after he beats his wife while she is holding their child; and a K9 unit is used to find discarded drugs after the foot pursuit and arrest of a suspect.
The episode was rated 7.20 from 10 votes.
Passaic County, NJ - Officer Jason DeGroat assist another officer in a foot pursuit. Maui, HI - Officer Nicholas Krau performs a traffic stop where the driver runs away and abandons his vehicle with crystal meth inside. Passaic County, NJ - Corporal Joe Petrocelli arrests a male observed buying drugs in the housing projects in Paterson.
The episode was rated 7.25 from 16 votes.
Passaic County New Jersey Sheriff's Deputy Cpl. Anthony Damiano detains a suspicious male he saw sidestep into a nearby apartment building and discovers he was smoking pot in a hallway.
The episode was rated 7.37 from 19 votes.
Stories include officers in a high-speed pursuit of a man with warrants on a motorcycle whose female passenger tries to get him to pull over and which ends in a crash, a drunk man who lives in a filthy trailer pulls the phone off the wall after his girlfriend whom he beat up calls the police, and after a man is seen coming out of an abandoned building, police find a loaded .22 rifle in his car. Departments featured include: Palm Springs CA PD, Palm Beach Count FL SO, Indio CA PD.
The episode was rated 7.40 from 15 votes.
Season 16 Premiere of COPS shows civilians joining officers in a human chain to rescue a man from a river; a person is extracted from an overturned car; and a surveillance video IDs a casino-burglary suspect. Departments featured: Passaic County NJ SD, NYPD, Pierce County WA SD
The episode was rated 7.40 from 20 votes.
Stories include residents who beat and restrain a prowling suspect who was caught peeping in neighborhood windows; drugs and thousands of dollars are found when officers stop a suspicious Lincoln Towncar; and after a burglary drugs are found in a bicyclist's backpack.
The episode was rated 7.41 from 17 votes.
Portland, OR - Officer Jason Preston responds to a naked man riding a bike. Des Moines, IA - Officer Michael Coughlin catches a tattooed man naked in the back of an SUV. Des Moines, IA - Officer Lori Wilson arrests a naked bleeding man who tries to escape by breaking through a fence.
The episode was rated 7.43 from 21 votes.
Stories include armed agents storm a known drug house and arrest a suspect with cocaine and marijuana, then use the house for a reverse sting to nab unsuspecting buyers; an officer observes a drug buy and after a chase finds drugs on the passenger; and a repeat offender tells the officers that he'll let them get pricked by his AIDS infected syringe when they do a search. Departments featured include Jacksonville, FL SO, Passaic County, NJ SO, Portland, OR PD.
The episode was rated 7.50 from 10 votes.
Portland, OR - Suicidal man climbs a construction crane. Maricopa County, AZ - Deputy Brandon Uptain arrests a man beating a woman. San Bernardino County, CA - Deputy Hank Valencia attends the rescue of a man stranded on a truck in a river.
The episode was rated 7.62 from 13 votes.
From Passaic County, New Jersey: Police call in a K-9 unit to search for narcotics after a foot chase. From Witchia, Kansas: Two suspicious people are sitting in a car in front of an abandoned house. One is arrested for possesion of drug paraphernalia. From Palm Beach County, Florida: An officer arrests a man for domestic battery.
The episode was rated 7.82 from 11 votes.
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