COPS
Crimes in Progess Special Edition
TV Flash files “Crimes in Progess Special Edition” as hour 724 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 20, episode 9, aired 2007-11-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E09: listed hour 724 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 9 of 38 in season 20. It aired 2007-11-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Coast to Coast #134” (S20E08). Next is “700th Milestone Episode” (S20E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Detective Aaron Vigil of the Rialto, CA, Police Department assists fellow officers in a pursuit of an intoxicated and dangerous suspect, the situation gets intense after the bandit involves innocent bystanders. Also featured is Deputy Jeffery Grant of the Hillsborough, FL, County Sheriff's Office, who stops a vehicle in a known drug area and finds that the situation is not all it's cracked up to be.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Crimes in Progess Special Edition sit in the COPS guide?
S20E09 is listed hour 724 of 1267 — hour 9 of 38 in season 20, season 20 episode 9.
When did COPS S20E09 air?
Crimes in Progess Special Edition aired 2007-11-03 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.**