COPS
Ohio Drug Arrests Special Edition
TV Flash files “Ohio Drug Arrests Special Edition” as hour 707 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 19, episode 28, aired 2007-05-19, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E28: listed hour 707 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 28 of 36 in season 19. It aired 2007-05-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “High Crimes #2” (S19E27). Next is “Coast to Coast 125” (S19E29). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After Officer Mike Harper of the Cincinnati, OH, Police Department follows a vehicle out of a bar parking lot, the suspect refuses to pull over. The driver leads Officer Harper into a dead end, where the pursuit turns into a foot chase. Officers arrest him, but not before the suspect tries to ditch the drugs hidden in his shoe. Also featured is Corporal David Hill of the Hamilton County, OH, Sheriff's Office, responding to an unusual domestic disturbance call.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ohio Drug Arrests Special Edition sit in the COPS guide?
S19E28 is listed hour 707 of 1267 — hour 28 of 36 in season 19, season 19 episode 28.
When did COPS S19E28 air?
Ohio Drug Arrests Special Edition aired 2007-05-19 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.**