COPS
Trippin' Taser
TV Flash files “Trippin' Taser” as hour 1219 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 37, episode 10, aired 2025-04-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S37E10: listed hour 1219 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 10 of 54 in season 37. It aired 2025-04-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Playtime is Over” (S37E09). Next is “Missed Connections” (S37E11). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A suspect in Wichita, Kansas with an ATF warrant for stealing guns tries to flee a traffic stop, and a taser is used to gain compliance. The Fort Wayne, Indiana Police Air Support Unit uses drones to assist Detectives in locating stolen motorcycles. When a driver bails out of a stolen vehicle in Riverside, California, Officers track the man's soggy footprints to his hiding place under a canal where the man insists he was "just sleeping".
Viewer FAQ
Where does Trippin' Taser sit in the COPS guide?
S37E10 is listed hour 1219 of 1267 — hour 10 of 54 in season 37, season 37 episode 10.
When did COPS S37E10 air?
Trippin' Taser aired 2025-04-25 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.**