The BEST episodes of Cops season 12
Every episode of Cops season 12, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cops season 12!
COPS is one of the first (and only) true and UNSCRIPTED reality shows, it follows the activities of police officers by embedding camera crews with police units. The show’s formula follows the Cinéma vérité convention, with no narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact. COPS has followed officers in 140 different cities in the United States and also has been shot in Hong Kong, London, and the former Soviet Union. Each episode is approximately 22 minutes in length and typically consists of three segments, with each segment being one or two self-contained police incidents.
#1 - Fort Worth, Texas 26
Season 12 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/2000
Officers pursue a suspect who abandons his car; a mother tries to convince her runaway teen to come home.
#2 - Fort Worth, Texas 16 (Chases Special Edition)
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1999
Fort Worth, TX - Officer Antonio Maldonado II chases a silver dual rear wheel pickup truck through a residential area. Officer Carolyn Jacoby joins a pursuit started by the gang unit and a helicopter until they reach a street closed for construction where it becomes a foot pursuit. Officer Ernesto Tamayo stops to find out why a man is sitting in a parked car, but he drives off leading to a chase during which he throws a loaded syringe out the window.
#3 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 11
Season 12 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/2000
Albuquerque officers question a suspect who allegedly pulled a knife during an altercation; pursue a driver who refuses to stop for a routine traffic violation; and detain a trespasser who tells a tale after they find what appears to be heroin concealed in her shoe.
#4 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 10
Season 12 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/2000
In Albuquerque: Man wears a leotard; two women fight in the street; stabbing victim walks down the street.
#5 - Indianapolis, Indiana 11
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1999
Indianapolis, IN - Officer John Reichle attempts to pull over a car, but the driver bails out of the car while its still moving leading to a foot chase. Officer Jay Travis stops three shirtless young men who were trying to get a dog away from animal control officers. Speedway, IN - Officer Mike Clupper responds to a report of shoplifting in progress to find two women in a car parked with the trunk open and clothing with the tags still attached.
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#6 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 12
Season 12 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/2000
Albuquerque, NM - Officer James Badway responds to a 911 hang up call from a known eccentric lady. Officer Michael Riley assists a bicycle officer in the pursuit of a man on another bicycle. Officer Michael Riley goes to a motel where a man was arguing with a woman contemplating prostitution.
#7 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 13
Season 12 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/2000
Albuquerque, NM - Deputy Leonard Armijo chases a car with occupants that shot at a police. Officer Gary Barboa visits an emotionally distraught woman who called 911. Officer Gary Barboa responds to a disturbance at a motel where they find a man being held down and tied up.
#8 - Fort Worth, Texas 25
Season 12 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/2000
In Fort Worth; helicopter assists in pursuit; alleged prostitute admits to crack use; battered woman won't press charges.
#9 - Fort Worth, Texas 27
Season 12 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/8/2000
In Fort Worth; driver owes thousands in tickets; father and son fight older man; marijuana found in cereal box.
#10 - Fort Worth, Texas 15
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1999
Fort Worth, TX - Officer John Ost stops a driver who repeatedly asks to have his lawyer present. Officer Jerry Dalton responds to a report of a snake in a woman's bedroom. Officer Randy Watkins finds a woman on the hood of a car without any pants while a man is in the driver's seat.
#11 - Fort Worth, Texas 28
Season 12 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/22/2000
In Fort Worth; driver speeds away from traffic stop; woman claims a man tried to rape her; suspect's cell phone rings during questioning.
#12 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 16
Season 12 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/6/2000
Albuquerque, NM - K9 unit Officer Rick Garcia commands a man with a knife to get down on the floor. Officer Duffy Ryan and Officer Troy Weekley find two men sitting in a car while patrolling and discover one is carrying a gun. Seargent Clarence G. Davis runs a sting with police posing undercover as band members.
#13 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 17
Season 12 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/13/2000
In Albuquerque; prostitution sting; officers find narcotics; grandmother's car stolen.
#14 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 18
Season 12 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/20/2000
Albuquerque officers conduct a prostitution sting; question a driver suspected of running a van off the road; tackle and handcuff an uncooperative suspect who was beaten after allegedly harassing a man's girlfriend.
#15 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 19
Season 12 - Episode 34 - Aired 7/15/2000
Undercover officers follow an alleged prostitute back to her motel room; police handcuff an unruly suspect.
#16 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 20
Season 12 - Episode 35 - Aired 7/22/2000
In Albuquerque, N.M., police officers make a major drug bust; an undercover john snares an alleged prostitute.
#17 - Fort Worth, Texas 17
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1999
Fort Worth, TX - Officer Jim Grow walks to a former motel to look for drug dealers, but nearly gets run over with another officer in a narrow space as a car attempts to escape. Officer Royce Hearne pulls over a vehicle for failing to dim its headlights only to discover the female driver has 13 warrants after she breaks down in tears and confesses. Officer Ernesto Tamayo II pulls over an SUV for speeding and observes the passenger throw marijuana out the window.
#18 - Indianapolis, Indiana 9
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1999
Narcotics suspect flees; a woman drives her SUV into the wall of a building; gun-brandishing suspect has pot; in Indianapolis.
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#19 - Indianapolis, Indiana 10
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1999
Indianapolis, IN - Officer Frederick Hamer searches for the driver of a green truck that speeds away when he tries to stop it. Speedway, IN - Officer Alan Jones pulls over an SUV on the freeway and the driver admits to possessing marijuana. Officer Bradley Weaver responds to a child neglect call at a motel across from the racetrack.
#20 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 14
Season 12 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/2000
From Albuquerque, New Mexico. Suspicious suspects in an automobile, theft of a cross-dresser's purse and cake is thrown in a woman's face.
#21 - Indianapolis, Indiana 7
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1999
Indianapolis, IN - Officer Genae Gehring chases and catches a man in a foot pursuit who claims the drugs found in his pocket are Kool-Aid. Marion County, IN - Deputy Mark Myler responds to a call where a man drove his pickup truck over a child on a bicycle. Indianapolis, IN - Officer Richard Wilkerson enters a house and finds the caller beaten up in the bathroom.
#22 - Indianapolis, Indiana 8
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1999
Indianapolis, IN - Officer Robert Cook finds a robber bloody and unconscious on the pavement and the victim sitting nearby. Officer Jon Daggy goes to a house where a man was scratched and beaten when he tried to deliver a VCR. Officer Kimberlee Carmack works undercover in a prostitution sting.
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#23 - Indianapolis, Indiana 14
Season 12 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1999
From Indianapolis, Indiana. A fleeing suspect leaves marijuana in the car, a driver crashes into a telephone pole and a foul-mouthed suspect quarrels with a landlord and harasses his tenant.
#24 - Fort Worth, Texas 18
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1999
From Fort Worth, Texas: A man accused of stealing a car flees from the police, a suspect hits another man who is asleep with a beer bottle and a car stop in a known drug area leads to a search and a struggle with police.
#25 - Fort Worth, Texas 19
Season 12 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1999
From Fort Worth, Texas: A man is armed with an assault rifle, a domestic dispute between a husband and wife and a domestic disturbance between a mother and daughter leads to the daughter being detained and then getting loose from her handcuffs.