COPS
Resisting Arrest 3
TV Flash files “Resisting Arrest 3” as hour 613 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 17, episode 6, aired 2004-09-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E06: listed hour 613 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 6 of 36 in season 17. It aired 2004-09-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Coast to Coast #69” (S17E05). Next is “Tased and Confused Special Edition” (S17E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Fort Worth Police Officer Sara Straton pulls over a suspected stolen vehicle and becomes alarmed when the driver unexpectedly jumps out of the vehicle and heads toward her. Distracted by the charging driver, the passenger runs from the scene and heads toward a home while the detained suspect claims that he's a schizophrenic. Also featured is Officer Ray Spencer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, responding to a report of a fight between feuding wedding chapel owners. At the scene, a female complainant, Cheryl, claims that one of her competitors threatened to harm her family and bomb her business.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Resisting Arrest 3 sit in the COPS guide?
S17E06 is listed hour 613 of 1267 — hour 6 of 36 in season 17, season 17 episode 6.
When did COPS S17E06 air?
Resisting Arrest 3 aired 2004-09-25 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.**