COPS
Taken Into Custody #3
TV Flash files “Taken Into Custody #3” as hour 882 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 25, episode 13, aired 2013-03-23, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E13: listed hour 882 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 13 of 16 in season 25. It aired 2013-03-23 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Morons on Parade #6” (S25E12). Next is “Coast to Coast 183” (S25E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Officers from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department question a young woman who appears to be soliciting prostitution, but she denies the accusation despite prior arrests. Later, officers from the Chattanooga Police Department respond to a call involving a father and son who got into a physical altercation involving alcohol. Finally, officers from the Portland Police Bureau chase after a suspect who begins to run when they flash their lights on him, and they find out that he tried to get rid of his methamphetamines to avoid being sent to rehab.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Taken Into Custody #3 sit in the COPS guide?
S25E13 is listed hour 882 of 1267 — hour 13 of 16 in season 25, season 25 episode 13.
When did COPS S25E13 air?
Taken Into Custody #3 aired 2013-03-23 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.**