COPS
Fort Worth, TX 23
TV Flash files “Fort Worth, TX 23” as hour 440 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 12, episode 22, aired 2000-02-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E22: listed hour 440 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 22 of 36 in season 12. It aired 2000-02-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Albuquerque, New Mexico 12” (S12E21). Next is “Albuquerque, New Mexico 13” (S12E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Fort Worth officers assist on a stakeout of two burglary suspects, and happen upon a possible drug deal in progress, witnessing suspects tossing suspicious items. They also question a man who claims self-defense in an attack by his mother's elderly husband.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Fort Worth, TX 23 sit in the COPS guide?
S12E22 is listed hour 440 of 1267 — hour 22 of 36 in season 12, season 12 episode 22.
When did COPS S12E22 air?
Fort Worth, TX 23 aired 2000-02-19 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is there a host or a script?
Ride-along vérité: handheld cameras, minimal narration, chaos scored to "Bad Boys." The format is the author.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Handheld ride-alongs set to a reggae hook: policing as weekly spectacle, no narrator required. The format that taught reality TV how to chase, cuff, and cut. Controversial by design — vérité as entertainment, neighborhoods as set, and a chorus that still follows every squad-car clip. View it as craft and as argument; it was always both.
Visual first: handheld grain, a reggae hook, neighborhoods framed as set, no narrator to soften the silhouette. John Langley and Malcolm Barbour's Fox series premiered in 1989 and became a syndication staple through the 1990s. *Ride-along vérité as weekly spectacle.* Inner Circle's *Bad Boys* is inseparable from the brand — the chorus that still follows every squad-car clip. **This was not a procedural costume; this was policing photographed as entertainment.**