#live pd

J.J. Bullock at NewsNation Now: 

(NewsNation) — Fans of “Live PD” can rejoice … the popular TV show, which followed police officers around on their patrol beats live, is returning to television under a new name and on a new network.

NewsNation’s Dan Abrams, who hosted “Live PD” during its run on A&E, announced Wednesday that he will be hosting and executive producing a new version of the show, “On Patrol: Live,” on Reelz.

“So first I want to say ‘thank you’ to Live PD Nation,” Abrams said. “I know this wait was long but we needed the right platform to make this show what it should be. You never gave up the faith and neither did I. As many of you know, I had been advocating for the show to return since the day it went off the air.”

“Live PD” was pulled off the air by A&E in wake of the death of Minnesota man George Floyd at the hands of police Officer Derek Chauvin. When A&E canceled the show, they called it “a critical time in our nation’s history.”

The show itself was also broiled in controversy at the time, as it became known that “Live PD” filmed, then destroyed, footage of a man dying in police custody in 2019. At the time, producers said they regretted the action and that it was standard practice to destroy footage when an investigation was complete.

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But now, Abrams will once again host an iteration of the live cop show, along with frequent contributor to “Live PD” and NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live,” Sean “Sticks” Larkin.

Larkin said the return of the show has been “a long time coming.”

You go pull that dead baby out of a hot car because its mother overdosed or took her own life while in it. You watch animals leap from the tops of their cars and stomp on another man’s head. You watch as your wives and daughters are raped by thugs who think they’re above the law or take a victim stance because they’re “oppressed.” You solve the murder cases with all your knowledge and resources. You catch the guys who broke in and robbed you blind. You stop the guy who’s slipped something into your sister’s drink and had his way with her. I dare you to go “protest” when she’s on the ground and shaking. Just say no to drugs while you’re at it--that’ll stop them all. Don’t even get me started on calls involving children or animal welfare.

Come stand beside me for that matter, when at twenty years old I’m shuffling through files where a psychopath butchered a hooker he hired on Craigslist. Her body’s cut to hell and she’s dead, and when he tried to fuck her corpse he couldn’t get off and that angered him even more. There was no remorse. It was so matter-of-fact with him. He’d smashed his pet with the same weapon days before and they hadn’t gotten there in time before he’d taken her life. So the woman lived a life of crime too, but who seeks what justice they can for her? Who delivers the news to what family or friends she has? While you’re at it, go find the killer and try to take him down while he’s waving what he butchered her with in the air. 

Is that a little too coarse for you? Because I have news for you: it’s all reality, and there’s a reason some of us can talk about it so easily. It’s like talking about any other day at work. Your office and assignments just look a little different.

You’re not even aware of how they work with and within these communities, and how many lives they save or improve. You’re not aware of how much they let slide where they wouldn’t elsewhere just so they can catch the bigger fish or the more dangerous criminal with what limited resources they have.

But silly me. I should’ve done the Correct thing and checked CNN or MSNBC for details.

In all seriousness, I will not be replying to hate, ignorance, and cowardice. Either suck it up and get some damn perspective or unfollow me. This is a free-thinking platform, will remain apolitical, and none of your Brownshirt bullshit belongs here. 

To be frank, if some of you get your way and there are no police left, there will be nobody to protect you from everyone you’ve wronged and the communities you’ve ruined.

For starters, I'd highly suggest listening to the Running from COPS podcast. It's a short little documentary about the seedy and often corrupt nature of cop documentaries and how they purposely present a one-sided view of policing through selective editing and showing. One of the episodes had a lawyer watch Live PD and go over all of the violations the cops were committing while the host in the show kept saying how it was "good police work." Hell, the main reason it was canceled was that the showrunners were caught destroying key evidence that may have indicted an officer in my hometown after a suspect was killed in his negligent custody.

I'll just say this from experience: I live in Williamson county, and our police office is corrupt. They regularly run rackets on restaurants and local businesses, the most common one is having a cop go undercover as an "underage" person and present an Id that's so realistic that besides the name and numbers being made up it's indistinguishable from the real one. If the cop is sold booze they show up 4-5 days later and demand a fine and a newly updated training certificate that comes from the PD that the owners have to pay for, or they're shut down. 

It doesn't matter that the cop is actually of age or that the license is an officially made reproduction, the cops claim that it's a breach of law to sell anyone labeled a minor alcohol and that it's a failure to follow procedure. No one can challenge them because they're all friends with the DA and the local judge. I know this because I worked at several restaurants and they pulled this shit on three of them while I was working.

These same fucks also arrested an innocent man, Greg Kelly, for molesting kids at a daycare he worked at. He was found guilty in what amounted to a kangaroo court and quietly shuffled off to prison. The case was so sketch that the state of Texas actually brought in internal affairs officers and a Texas Ranger who specialized in molestation/rape cases and they all called it a "hit job." It turns out it wasn't Greg, but the son of the owner of the daycare who was already a known sex offender, but said daycare owner was good friends with the DA who all but penned the case on Greg and even made him use a lawyer that was testifying against him. The PD themselves did no investigative work and the lead detective showed up at Kelly's and declared him the culprit without even knowing where he lived, and got caught changing dates to make it seem like Kelly's schedule lined up with the molestations.