COPS
Resisting Arrest #5
TV Flash files “Resisting Arrest #5” as hour 817 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 22, episode 28, aired 2010-05-15, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E28: listed hour 817 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 28 of 36 in season 22. It aired 2010-05-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Police Pullovers #6” (S22E27). Next is “Coast to Coast #168” (S22E29). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When officers from the Amarillo Police Department in Texas are called to investigate a domestic disturbance, they arrive just in time to witness the aggressor drunkenly trying to tackle his opponent. Meanwhile, officers from the Boynton Beach Police Department in Florida arrest a man for disorderly intoxication after he offends passengers with his cell-phone ringtones.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Resisting Arrest #5 sit in the COPS guide?
S22E28 is listed hour 817 of 1267 — hour 28 of 36 in season 22, season 22 episode 28.
When did COPS S22E28 air?
Resisting Arrest #5 aired 2010-05-15 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.**