COPS
Desert Dustup
Season 37, Episode 17 · Aired 2025-06-13
Synopsis
A bicyclist with a warrant in Riverside County ignores lights and sirens and pedals into the desert to avoid contact with a Deputy. Deputies at the Jurupa Valley Station in Riverside County investigate a beer run and discover that one of the suspects caught on surveillance camera was just put on probation. A man in the midst of a breakup tells Officers in Wichita that he met his girlfriend as she smoked crack on his front porch, and now he wants to get her clean and marry her.
In the series
This episode is part of COPS (1989–present) on Fox.
Bad boys theme, ride-along camera — policing as vérité spectacle.