COPS
Police Pullovers Special Edition #3
TV Flash files “Police Pullovers Special Edition #3” as hour 726 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 20, episode 11, aired 2007-11-17, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E11: listed hour 726 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 11 of 38 in season 20. It aired 2007-11-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “700th Milestone Episode” (S20E10). Next is “Stupid Criminals Special Edition #2” (S20E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Sergeant Jason Hapner of the Indio, CA, Police Department spots a vehicle listed on the hot sheet as stolen, the driver attempts to evade the Sergeant in the vehicle as well as on foot. Also featured is Officer Justin Gauker of the Las Vegas, NV, Metropolitan Police Department, who notices a vehicle stopped in an alley with passengers and no license plate and finds more than just mischief.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Police Pullovers Special Edition #3 sit in the COPS guide?
S20E11 is listed hour 726 of 1267 — hour 11 of 38 in season 20, season 20 episode 11.
When did COPS S20E11 air?
Police Pullovers Special Edition #3 aired 2007-11-17 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.**