Officer Jason Pate of the Fort Meyers, FL, Police Department responds to a call involving a concerned citizen who says he was approached by an armed man claiming to have used hisballoon in an bank robbery. After Officer Pate locates the suspect during a routine search, the officers find a loaded handgun, drug paraphernalia and two news articles about bank robberies.
Another segment features Officer Jason Hansen of the Las Vegas, NV, Metropolitan Police Department, investigating a call involving a suspected drunk driver. A concerned citizen reports that he saw the man driving erratically and followed him as he ran over curbs and eventually crashed into a house.
Called the original reality show, Cops is a gritty and unfiltered look at the seamier parts of our society as seen through the eyes of the men and women who struggle to keep the peace.
Since 1989, camera crews have traveled across the nation and into other countries providing an intimate look at police officers and the nuts and bolts of their day-to-day work.
Cops uses a modern adaptation of cin... ma v... rit?, a French documentary style of film making from the early 1920s, where life is shot as it happens, without script, narration or interference. Here, the police officer is narrator, guiding you through the shift and what happens within it, using his or her own words.