COPS
Bad Girls! #12
TV Flash files “Bad Girls! #12” as hour 777 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 21, episode 24, aired 2009-03-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E24: listed hour 777 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 24 of 36 in season 21. It aired 2009-03-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “750th Milestone Episode” (S21E23). Next is “Dazed and Confused #1” (S21E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Deputies in Harris County, TX, uncover plenty of cracks in a case when they assist in a felony warrant arrest involving a female suspect. Pomona, CA, police officers respond to a domestic-disturbance call where the victim had just admitted to her mother that she got married in Vegas. Also featured are officers in Minneapolis, MN, trying to keep the peace when a quarrel between to two females breaks out.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bad Girls! #12 sit in the COPS guide?
S21E24 is listed hour 777 of 1267 — hour 24 of 36 in season 21, season 21 episode 24.
When did COPS S21E24 air?
Bad Girls! #12 aired 2009-03-21 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.**