(12:47 AM Disturbance Call) Hoboken - Officer Mike Plunkett became an officer for the same reason most people do - to change the world, be somebody's knight in shining armor, rid the city of all crime. It's a good attitude to have when you first come on, you need that, but when you're on the streets a few weeks the reality check is you won't be a knight on shining armor, you can't change the streets and the best you can do is make your world a little better. When you retire you'll have a pretty good career to look back on. If you can survive 25 years you've got it made. It's usually around the time when the bars start closing and there are a lot of problems. They centralize themselves in the areas where the bars are in case of problems. He pulls up to a bunch of guys fighting on a sidewalk. Two groups separate as one man in a blue shirt fights and a cop grabs him. A citizen takes his cuffs and cuffs the guy. His friend wants to take him home. They say too late, he's under arrest. They say some guys threw him around and tossed him out. Ten guys did it, but they didn't get thrown out. Why is getting arrested, they came out and found him? He assaulted a cop. Mike says he listened to him, now he can go home. How can he, that guy is his ride. He doesn't care. Det. Brian Murphy says they went to take him out and he got loud and abusive and didn't want to listen and pushed him around, he didn't get hurt, just winded. Mike talks to the suspect at the station. He says he had his drinks, no problems, was having a good time. Then somebody said something to him, he came back, said something again. Then bing bang boom he hit the guy, but he didn't know he was a cop or he wouldn't have touched him. He should've looked first. He's sure Mike's been in a position like that before. No. You won't admit it. He then realized he was a cop. Maybe you had too much to drink. I did. He can live with that. After Mike asks how could he not know he was a cop, he was in full uniform. It wasn't like he was wearing a Good Humor uniform. He was blind drunk. He'll get a summons, be home in an hour, should spend a weekend in county jail, maybe he'll think twice before whacking a cop again. Jersey City (Narcotics Unit Briefing) Sgt. Brian McDonough says they caught a girl with cocaine and she told them there was a house with two Spanish chicks selling cocaine out of there. They have a warrant and it's the top apartment #129. Sgt. Edwin Gillen says she's an old heavy woman, over 50, maybe 45. Brian explains how they will go up and batter the door, it's the weekend, don't get hurt for it. Det. Dennis DeSefano says they are Medellin and laughs. (11:45 PM Service of Warrant) He says when they see the last man go in, Mike, go down the block and cover the sides of the building in case something comes out the window. They go up, knock, say ?Policia', then ram the door. A woman can be heard. Inside there are babies crying, they grab the woman and make her sit, they find an older woman, a man and three babies they secure. Dennis grabs wads of cash that are in a purse. They also find a welfare bundle of cash. The government is good to them. She laughs. They search her and make the family speak to her in Spanish and tell her to turn over any drugs or weapons. They also find a room of stolen clothes, all still have tags on them, enough for a 100 people. It's like doing inventory for JC Penney. One has a tag for $50. They rob stores and trade them for drugs. Six suitcases full of kids shoes, a $75 David Benjamin dress, his wife doesn't wear those and $60 pants. The woman in yellow says she likes it, she uses it. Good country, eh? The kids all scream and now they are worried about the kids when they are taking them out for locking up the grandmother. He's worried about the kids while they deal. They see that and hate the cops, he would too if he was a kid. Brian says the grandmother was hiding in the closet with a couple grams of coke, she was the one in charge. They have a little bit of drugs and a lot of money, a lot of jewelry too. The daughter is in the cage yelling. They find an Irish good luck ring are any of them Irish? Did you go to St. Michael's High School in 1972? It's not the families jewelry it's someone else's. Jersey City (11:50 PM) Officer Thomas Porter gets out of his car at a park that overlooks the NYC skyline with the World Trade Center. They park everywhere, but there's a fire pump they block. He has to chase them away to get them to park somewhere else. (12:21 AM Stolen Car Call) He gets in his car and they give chase on the Pulasky Skyway into Newark. Officer Robert Falconetti drives. A cop tells them they are ?crazy Marty'. They stop on a bridge, get out and run. Sirens are heard down the road. They are supposed to be around somewhere. They look over the bridge thinking he went over, but he didn't jump, he was hanging over the side. They ask the guy they caught where do your friends live. On High St. in Jersey City. They go down and look up. They were chased down the ramp and one of the guys is hiding in the weeds somewhere. There was an accident the police were handling and they were trapped with nowhere to go so one guy jumped off the ramp, but who knows. (Street Patrol) Cops go to a lot where kids robbed a truck full of candy. Kids are dumping candy in a lot. The people say there wasn't much before, then they saw them come around and dump some more. They ask what kind of truck it was. They are from the factory back there, it's a white truck. It's a candy caper. Thomas jokes for them to be under arrest and they all do and laugh. They doubt the thief will come back and the kids are having a ball with it, the candy is probably bad, but they'll let them have fun with it. (1:47 AM) They find a car turned on its side. They parked it in front of a gate that reads, "No No No parking Anytime" in white spray paint. They got mad at them so the cops help out and turn the car back over. Over the credits is the mother daughter drug team at the station.

Cops Season 3 Episodes...

• s03e01 - Minneapolis, MN 1
• s03e02 - Minneapolis, MN 2 - Rookies
• s03e03 - Minneapolis, MN 3 - Women Cops
• s03e04 - Minneapolis, MN 4 - On the Home Front
• s03e05 - Minneapolis, MN 5
• s03e06 - Minneapolis, MN 6
• s03e07 - Alaska 1
• s03e08 - Alaska 2
• s03e09 - Alaska 3
• s03e10 - Alaska 4
• s03e11 - Las Vegas Special Edition 1 Hour
• s03e12 - Las Vegas, NV 2
• s03e13 - Las Vegas, NV 3
• s03e14 - Las Vegas, NV 4
• s03e15 - Las Vegas, NV 5
• s03e16 - Las Vegas, NV 6
• s03e17 - Las Vegas, NV 7
• s03e18 - New Jersey 1
• s03e19 - New Jersey 2
• s03e20 - New Jersey 3
• s03e21 - New Jersey 4
• s03e22 - New Jersey 5
• s03e23 - Pittsburgh, PA 1
• s03e24 - Pittsburgh, PA 2
• s03e25 - Tampa, FL 1
• s03e26 - Tampa, FL 2
• s03e27 - Tucson, AZ 1
• s03e28 - Tucson, AZ 2
• s03e29 - Riverside County, CA 1
• s03e30 - Riverside County, CA 2
• s03e31 - Houston, TX 1
• s03e32 - Houston, TX 2
• s03e33 - Houston, TX 3
• s03e34 - Houston, TX 4
• s03e35 - Houston, TX 5
• s03e36 - Houston, TX 6
• s03e37 - London Special Edition
• s03e38 - Best of Cops #1
• s03e39 - Las Vegas, NV 8
• s03e40 - Houston, TX 8
• s03e41 - Las Vegas, NV #8
• s03e42 - Houston, TX #8

Cops Show Summary

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.