2 (Eastern Division Street Patrol) Sheriff's Dept - Deputy Bob Frausto says they are going to a shooting call where a girl was screaming on the phone. Astrea Division - Air Support helicopter flies over. Bob runs to the house with another cop and finds a woman crying hysterically. She says she accidentally shot her boyfriend in the gut while playing with aballoon. Fire and Rescue comes in and ambulances him off. Deputy Jon Shellhammer lands his helicopter so they can airlift him out. The girl says she was being taught how to shoot theballoon and it went off. The bullet missed an artery by an inch. (3:45 PM Traffic Stop) Bob pulls over Dennis, a Hell's Angel Biker. He tells him to get off the bike and he won't. Bob asks to see his license and he just holds it up and tells him he knows he has one. He says the Sgt. told him he had a license. Bob says he has been suspended since 8/17, but the computer says it is valid. Dennis says he will beat him up any time, anywhere. (8:37 PM Family Disturbance) A man is trying to get into his house, but his wife won't let him in. He was supposed to pick her up for lunch, but didn't and she was embarrassed. She yelled at him, took his keys and cuddled him with a pencil through the window. Cops get his keys back so he can leave. Northern Division Street Patrol - Deputy Bill Hubler takes the call of a Mexican man holding a kid at knife point. (3:05 PM Attempted Kidnapping) They talk to the young girl who said he held a knife to her throat when he grabbed her from behind and covered her eyes. He said if she screams he'll cut her head off so she kneed him in the private spot and ran. She didn't see his face though. She takes him to Beaumont where she was walking home from school and shows Bill where he dragged her through the bushes. They find no evidence and since they have no description all they can do is step up patrols in that area. (9:22 PM Restaurant Disturbance) A woman doesn't want the pizza she bought because it was supposed to be 12 slices and it was only 8 and since they touched it when they cut it she doesn't want it. The owner says the pizza is the same size no matter how he cuts it. He winds up refunding her money to get rid of her.
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.