COPS
Odd Arrests #4
TV Flash files “Odd Arrests #4” as hour 859 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 24, episode 12, aired 2012-01-07, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E12: listed hour 859 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 12 of 22 in season 24. It aired 2012-01-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Ho! Ho! Ho! #9” (S24E11). Next is “Taken into Custody #2” (S24E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Spokane police must evict a homeless man from a store's handicapped parking spot and disperse a couple engaging in lewd behavior on a stranger's lawn; officers in Des Moines, Iowa, question a man who may have used a pocket knife to threaten someone.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Odd Arrests #4 sit in the COPS guide?
S24E12 is listed hour 859 of 1267 — hour 12 of 22 in season 24, season 24 episode 12.
When did COPS S24E12 air?
Odd Arrests #4 aired 2012-01-07 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.**