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Season 16 of COPS starts off in New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2003 with officers arresting a tourist for mooning a crowd; three men fight when one of them gropes a female victim; and a man claims a building has no stairs after he is arrested climbing down a drainpipe.
The stupid behavior at Mardi Gras 2003 in New Orleans continues with officers charging two women with public intoxication and disturbing the peace after their alleged fight; a female suspect is arrested for vandalism after pouring beer on a cameraman's equipment.
Season 16 Premiere of COPS shows civilians joining officers in a human chain to rescue a man from a river; a person is extracted from an overturned car; and a surveillance video IDs a casino-burglary suspect. Departments featured: Passaic County NJ SD, NYPD, Pierce County WA SD
Portland, OR - Suicidal man climbs a construction crane. Maricopa County, AZ - Deputy Brandon Uptain arrests a man beating a woman. San Bernardino County, CA - Deputy Hank Valencia attends the rescue of a man stranded on a truck in a river.
Portland, OR - Officer Jason Preston responds to a naked man riding a bike. Des Moines, IA - Officer Michael Coughlin catches a tattooed man naked in the back of an SUV. Des Moines, IA - Officer Lori Wilson arrests a naked bleeding man who tries to escape by breaking through a fence.
Stories of people resisting arrest include an intoxicated person who starts an intense struggle after admitting he was looking into the windows of a local recovery center.
Passaic County New Jersey Sheriff's Deputy Cpl. Anthony Damiano detains a suspicious male he saw sidestep into a nearby apartment building and discovers he was smoking pot in a hallway.
Stories about belligerent females include an officer needing assistance when a man and his female companion both become combative, a traffic stop goes from bad to worse with an angry woman, and another traffic stop involves a woman on heroin.
Officers Deas and Nelson assist a carjacking victim in New Orleans; a man claims a discovered crack pipe does not belong to him.
Sgt. R. Ragili of the Palm Beach, FL, County Sheriff's Office conducts a reverse-prostitution sting designed to capture suspected "johns." Deputy Lisa Whiddon poses as prostitute in an attempt to attract interested clients. The first suspicious "john" is taken into custody after offering Deputy Whiddon $10 for oral sex.
Stories include residents who beat and restrain a prowling suspect who was caught peeping in neighborhood windows; drugs and thousands of dollars are found when officers stop a suspicious Lincoln Towncar; and after a burglary drugs are found in a bicyclist's backpack.
Stories include officers in a high-speed pursuit of a man with warrants on a motorcycle whose female passenger tries to get him to pull over and which ends in a crash, a drunk man who lives in a filthy trailer pulls the phone off the wall after his girlfriend whom he beat up calls the police, and after a man is seen coming out of an abandoned building, police find a loaded .22 rifle in his car. Departments featured include: Palm Springs CA PD, Palm Beach Count FL SO, Indio CA PD.
Responding to a call about a fight at a local gas station; two women are detained at a convenient store after jealousy causes them to fight.
Stories include a man in Palm Beach County, Florida who jumped a fence after trying to steal cooper wire from a business; officers are called to a Blockbuster video store after a teen who was there to apply for a job knocked over an expensive display; and a burglar of lawn equipment is stopped with stolen tags on his car, claiming his wife did the swap.
Stories include a stolen vehicle leads a high-speed pursuit that includes sidewalk driving and the ramming of a cruiser by the perps; another car-theft suspect claims it's his parents' car and that he's working as an undercover narcotics officer; and officers pose as "Johns" to bust street walkers. Departments featured include Passaic County, NJ SO, Palm Beach County, FL SO, Jacksonville, FL SO.
Passaic County, NJ - Officer Jason DeGroat assist another officer in a foot pursuit. Maui, HI - Officer Nicholas Krau performs a traffic stop where the driver runs away and abandons his vehicle with crystal meth inside. Passaic County, NJ - Corporal Joe Petrocelli arrests a male observed buying drugs in the housing projects in Paterson.
Stories include armed agents storm a known drug house and arrest a suspect with cocaine and marijuana, then use the house for a reverse sting to nab unsuspecting buyers; an officer observes a drug buy and after a chase finds drugs on the passenger; and a repeat offender tells the officers that he'll let them get pricked by his AIDS infected syringe when they do a search. Departments featured include Jacksonville, FL SO, Passaic County, NJ SO, Portland, OR PD.
Stories in both parts of this special include a woman strangling a man with a sock, a woman with two black eyes reports a beating, a street fight sees a woman slap her husband in sight of an officer, a woman tries to keep her boyfriend from using a phone, a man punches his girlfriend's husband, a couple won't exit a house after a fight, a man just out of the Army hits a woman and she stabs him with a kitchen knife, a man shoves cheese in his wife's mouth knocking her false teeth out a window, a man breaks into his bedroom to find out what his wife is doing, after a man comes home drunk his wife punches him out, a man punches a woman in the face knocking a tooth out, a man calls the police when he wants to just get his clothes and leave but his wife won't let him, police arrive to find blood all over a house but the woman won't press charges against her ex-husband, cops stop a man and woman who are fighting in the street, and a man gets stabbed by his mother when he tries to break up a sexual encounter involving her and his wife. Locations include: Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Harris County, Jacksonville Florida, Virginia Beach, Pierce County WA, Miami Florida, Sarasota County Florida, Lee County Florida, Kansas City KS, Mesa AZ, Los Angeles, and Providence RI.
Passaic County, NJ - Corporal Anthony Damiano busts the same person for second time in a week for buying drugs. Albuquerque , NM - Officer John Guilmette responds to a trespassing call to find a man hiding under a mattress. Wichita, KS - Officer Justin McCluskey assists another officer to catch a bike thief.
Jacksonville, FL - Officer Tom Hemsley responds to a shots fired call to find a body on the floor of a trailer home. Spokane, WA - Officer Jason Uberuaga assists officers on a warrant call where they send a K9 into the basement of a house. Pierce County, WA - Deputy Erik Clarkson attempts to perform a traffic stop on a Chevrolet El Camino but the driver shoots at him and refuses to pull over.
Jacksonville, FL - Officer Frank Canaday finds a vehicle traveling on the freeway that escaped from a chase in another police zone. Whittier, CA - Officer David Elizarraras searches for a driver that escaped on foot from another officer. Maui, HI - Officer Cliffor Pacheco pulls a van over, but lets the driver go when someone reports an assault with a pipe close by.
From Passaic County, New Jersey: Police call in a K-9 unit to search for narcotics after a foot chase. From Witchia, Kansas: Two suspicious people are sitting in a car in front of an abandoned house. One is arrested for possesion of drug paraphernalia. From Palm Beach County, Florida: An officer arrests a man for domestic battery.
Stories include a person who resists arrest following a traffic accident; a trailer park husband who needs four officers to take him into custody after he beats his wife while she is holding their child; and a K9 unit is used to find discarded drugs after the foot pursuit and arrest of a suspect.
Philadelphia, PA - Officer Neil Carr chases a young man on a bicycle who swallows his drugs. Spokane, WA - Officer Brian Eckersley responds to a call where a business owner sits on a rottweiler dog to keep it from biting anyone. Des Moines, IA - Officer Mike Moody observes a biker outside a bar in an altercation with his girlfriend.
Spokane, WA - Officer Rob Boothe pulls over a tattooed man who gets tasered when it appears he's going to fight the smaller officers. Portland, OR - Officer Tim Manzella arrests a man on a bicycle who flees after they observe him with a known prostitute. Wichita, KS - Officer Eric Smith responds to a domestic dispute between a father and son at a rural trailer home.
Officers must use a stun gun to break up a fight outside a bar; a routine traffic stop finds marijuana.
Palm Beach County, FL - Deputy Grant Henderson works with undercover officers in a drug sting. Spokane, WA - Officer Charles J. Pavlischak assists in a domestic disturbance call where they kick open the front door of a house to arrest the man inside. Des Moines, IA - Officer Joe Morgan keeps a turkey sandwich ready to go on his dashboard, and gets his car stuck on railroad tracks while pursuing a motorcycle.
Portland, OR - Officer Craig Mendenhall assists officers involved in a foot chase including an officer on a horse. Palm Springs, CA - Officer Sam Steepleton assists another officer in a traffic stop involving a man wanted for burglarizing vending machines. Wichita, KS - Officer Aaron Gillespie responds to a domestic disturbance where a father won't let his son into the house.
A driver regains consciousness after hitting a tree; a pursuit of a stolen vehicle goes through a residential area before ending in front of a school, where the driver is found to possess pot.
Passaic County, NJ - Corporal Anthony Damiano pulls over a car seen leaving a known drug area, and persuades the two occupants to admit buying heroin. Riverside County, CA - Deputy Matthew Sims stops to investigate a car without working tail lights, and another officer notices one of the three occupants smells like marijuana. Wichita, KS - Officer Javier Guete sees a car at a known drug house and waits until it leaves before stopping the driver for having a cracked windshield.
Jacksonville, FL - Officer Lance Whitaker investigates a suspicious parked car with two people inside, and one resists arrest by running away before he can be put in the patrol car. Maui, HI - Officer Nicholas Krau assists with a vehicle refusing to stop leading to a foot chase in the bush. Maricopa County, AZ - Deputy J. Gilchrist pursues a black motorcycle that resembles one stolen earlier.
Spokane, WA - Officer Daniel Waters responds with other officers to a shoplifting call inside a 7-Eleven convenience store. Jacksonville, FL - Officer Jamie Eason pulls over a car for a traffic infraction after it was seen leaving a know drug house. Philadelphia, PA - Officer William Toughill respond to a domestic disturbance at an apartment involving a woman who slashed another with a knife.
When Sgt. Valentino Demps of the Jacksonville, FL, Sheriff's Office supervises a buy-bust sting designed to capture unsuspecting drug dealers in an area known for high drug activity, a suspect takes off on foot after completing a drug deal with undercover agents, and another sting features a suspect quickly taken into custody after he sells drugs to the undercover agent.
Additionally, Officer Joe Luiz and Officer Troy Pahlke of the Portland, OR, Police Bureau investigate a dispute between a tow truck operator and a vehicle owner. At the scene, the tow truck operator informs the officers that he was in the process of removing a vehicle from a private parking lot, while the vehicle's owner claims that his girlfriend, an exotic dancer, has to perform lap dances in order to generate the money to pay the release fee. To the dancer's dismay, the tow truck operators don't wait for her to complete her routine and promptly tow away the vehicle.
Stories include 0fficers responding to a father's call for help and must use a taser gun to subdue his 20 year old combative and mentally ill son, a woman sitting in a car that is not hers is questioned and admits to having a crack pipe and two rocks on her, leading to her arrest, neighbors call in a burglary leading to the spotting of three men walking on the road, complete with stolen property and a screwdriver used to enter the house.
Jacksonville, FL - Officer Dan Perrotti assists along with a K9 to catch a robber fleeing on a bicycle. Palm Beach County, FL - Deputy Jeff Lower checks a car parked next to a closed business that's been broken into before. Albuquerque, NM - Officer John Corvino checks a parked car that neighbours reported in an area known for drug activity.
When Officer Tom Hemsley of the Jacksonville, FL, Sheriff's Office attempts a routine traffic stop, the driver of the car refuses to yield and stops just long enough for the passengers to flee. The suspect then leads Officer Hemsley on a high-speed pursuit on several busy highways. After the driver loses control of the vehicle and crashes into a guardrail, he bails out of the vehicle, jumps off an overpass and disappears into the night. Officer Hemsley tries to give chase, but sustains a head injury when he jumps off the overpass and is transported to an area hospital.
Another segment features Officer Jonathan Acosta of the Maui County, HI, Police Department, investigating a suspicious van parked in front of the residence of a known drug dealer. The driver and passenger are ordered from the vehicle and questioned. After learning about the female's previous drug-related arrests, Officer Acosta suspects that her backpack may contain crystal methamphetamine and calls for the K-9 unit.
From Jacksonville, Florida. Police coordinate a sting aimed at street-level drug dealers and an officer in Iowa investigates a domestic complaint involving an assault on a juvenile.
