COPS
Miami-Homestead, Florida 18
Season 9, Episode 8 · Aired 1996-11-02
Synopsis
An armed Florida father is arrested in connection to an attempted assault call and the child of the dysfunctional parents in question is placed in temporary child custody. A Southern Florida SWAT team suits up for a large scale drug raid, a myriad of evidence is recovered at the scene. While on patrol a Miami Officer stumbles across a van engulfed in flames, the vehicle's owner tells police that the van spontaneously combusted while driving.
In the series
This episode is part of COPS (1989–present) on Fox.
Bad boys theme, ride-along camera — policing as vérité spectacle.