COPS
Street Arrests #3
TV Flash files “Street Arrests #3” as hour 872 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 25, episode 3, aired 2013-01-05, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E03: listed hour 872 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 3 of 16 in season 25. It aired 2013-01-05 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Ho! Ho! Ho! #10” (S25E02). Next is “Chases... and Cars #2” (S25E04). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A traffic stop of a bicyclist leads Alameda County Sheriff's Office deputies on a foot chase that ends blocks away at the suspects home where he tries to hide in his daughters bed. Next, officers from the Newport News Police Department confront three suspects in a vehicle outside a local nightclub that has had numerous drug complaints. Finally, officers from the Chattanooga Police Department respond to a call of a man threatening to beat up his girlfriend with a brick.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Street Arrests #3 sit in the COPS guide?
S25E03 is listed hour 872 of 1267 — hour 3 of 16 in season 25, season 25 episode 3.
When did COPS S25E03 air?
Street Arrests #3 aired 2013-01-05 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.**