Dan Abrams
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Feb
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The kinds of departments that we follow, we try to follow a mix of departments around the country and make this a really compelling show year after year.
Correct. So it'll be both geographical diversity and also diversity of types of departments, the size of the department. We're in everything from Las Vegas, one of the top 10 biggest police departments in America, to Hazen, Arkansas, where we ride with the chief of the department and the two folks who work in his office. So it's a pretty diverse group of departments.
And what's interesting is, of course, that the laws are different, sometimes state to state, too. particularly on kind of drug crimes. So, you know, that's part of what makes this interesting is we can compare what's happening around the country with different police departments.
Well, look, I think there was a backlash against police. You know, it wasn't just police shows. It was against police. And I said at the time when Live PD was canceled, which I hosted as well, I thought it was a vast overreaction to what I said when the show was canceled. And I maintain it to this day. I think that people overreacted.
And the reason it's important to talk about this is there's going to be some other incident. where a cop does something that the cop shouldn't have done. And it might be really bad. And any good cop will tell you that the worst thing for good cops is a bad cop. And so there will be something else that will happen.
And the reason we need to talk about it now is so that we don't again have the overreaction, which is all cops are bad. See, see, all cops are bad. Hmm. That's not the reaction or shouldn't be the reaction, in my view, to an incident where something happens with police. where a police officer engages in some form of wrongdoing.
Because no matter what career you're talking about, considering there are hundreds of thousands of police officers around the country, you are going to have some bad cops. That doesn't mean that the rest of the cops, the vast majority, overwhelming majority of cops who are doing really hard work every day,
Look, I was upset. I made it very clear I was upset. There was no secret in the fact that I was upset that the show was canceled because I liked the show, I liked working on the show, and I thought that it was unfortunate that there was this national overreaction that ultimately led to this ridiculous defund the police movement.
And so I was not happy about it and always wanted to do something like it again. and believe that it wasn't just something that I liked. I also thought it was important. I think it's important for people to see what it's like to be a police officer.
And by the way, there are people who watch On Patrol Live who see a scene with an officer, and police officers will be watching, and they'll say, oh, that officer shouldn't have done that. Okay, fair enough. That's part of what the transparency involves. But the point is, it's, I think, a good thing for people to be able to see what an ordinary cop has to do every day.
The problem is, in the media in general, most of the time, the vast majority of time, when people are talking about police, it's a police-involved shooting, right? It's a cop either who's been shot or, more regularly, the media covers it when a police officer shoots a civilian. Mm-hmm.
And that's the public's understanding of policing, unfortunately, in a lot of cases and in particular communities. And, of course, the majority of officers never fire their weapon in the line of duty ever. Ever. And so now we're focusing on what 98% of policing is, which is getting a call, someone saying there's a problem, there's an issue, an officer arriving at a scene not known.
exactly who's who not knowing who the reporting party is not knowing was this person the victim and wait we heard that there was someone breaking in from the back door what there's no oh there was no back door break in okay the uncertainty that police officers have arriving at a scene if you don't understand that you really can't understand what it's like to be a police officer
Exactly.
Well, look... I will tell you that when you watch these officers in action, there's still a lot of people who treat police officers terribly. I wouldn't say most people, but there's still way too many who, the minute there is some interaction... Remember, in most cases, the police have been called to that scene and then get attitude from people who arrive there or aren't treated well.
Happens all the time. But more broadly... I think that there has been a recognition, even among, let's call them police critics, that the defund the police movement was absurd and that it didn't work. And that's why liberal cities around the country that did engage in it are refunding the police and rehiring police officers because they realized that it made no sense.
So from that perspective, yes. I think that there's been a something of a reevaluation. But again, there's going to be another incident. So you just the more people know more broadly and more specifically about what police officers do. I think the better to not let single incidents define policing as opposed to the broad spectrum of the work that they do.
Maybe, but I'll tell you that as soon as Live PD was canceled, I was getting outreach from people asking me about the project. So from a show perspective, I think it was really just a question of when. There's no doubt that in the immediate months after the show went off the air... To many, the show would have been too hot. Couldn't do it. Can't risk it. Don't want to risk the protests.
Don't want to risk the backlash, etc. I do think that that faded to some degree. But again, my perspective publicly never changed, right? I mean, from the moment the show went off the air, I was complaining about it and saying that this show ought to still be on the air.
So I think that there's two things at play, right? I do think you're going to have people who are simply looking to make the police the bad guys, right? So people who come into it hoping, looking for rooting against the police, right? That's slightly separate than the people who will root specifically for someone who has accused of doing something horrible like Luigi Mangione.
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