COPS
Seattle; Tacoma, WA 21
Season 9, Episode 31 · Aired 1997-05-17
Synopsis
A distressed Pierce County mother and her husband work with a Deputy to find their runaway 14-year-old daughter, who is attempting to run away with an older male friend. A Pierce County mother abandons her young son in a car on the side of the road after her son bit her during an argument. A 9-year-old King County boy alerts authorities about his mother's boyfriend assaulting her, at the scene we learn that the suspect was in violation of a no contact order and he's arrested.
In the series
This episode is part of COPS (1989–present) on Fox.
Bad boys theme, ride-along camera — policing as vérité spectacle.