The BEST episodes of Cops season 5
Every episode of Cops season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cops season 5!
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.
#2 - United States Special 1
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/29/1993
An officer responding to a call of a suicidal man recognizes the suspect; a detective is injured during a drug sweep.
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Season 5 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/10/1993
Deputies respond when a man threatens to blow up a mobile home; a domestic dispute escalates and an officer is assaulted.
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Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/15/1993
Fort Worth, Texas, officers arrest an aggressive suspect and a man with a gun; pursuit of a burglary suspect.
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Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/24/1993
Fort Worth, Texas, deputies respond to a domestic disturbance; a domestic violence call; a murder and attempted suicide
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Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/22/1993
(6:36 PM Shooting Call) Officer Matt Weber grew up in a little farm town in central IL. They didn't even have a stop light. He's been there 6 years and nothing could prepare him for working on the streets. The call is that the guy is supposed to have a rifle. He gets out and there is a bunch of black guys who say the man ran away while there are two guys shot on the ground. He drives off with another unit to where they said the guy went. They pull the guy out off his house. Officer Steve Benjamin mirandizes him. He says he stashed the gun at Walker street. The 2 guys jumped him with pistols and he shot them. He's been shot before and lifts his shirt to show a bullet wound and a huge amount of cut and stitch marks. He lost a kidney and doesn't want to get shot anymore. They were selling dope in front of his mother's house and he was tired of it so he shot them. He stops before they get back to the crime scene where things are heating up and they don't want to bring the guy. They find two rifles in the bushes including a large Marlin 30-30. They have lots of heated arguments in the area that used to be fist fights, now they grab guns and aren't afraid. (9:45 PM Suspicious Activity Call) West Sector - Officer Don Hanlon goes by a cleaners and the door is open and there are no lights inside, it's probably a robbery. Sgt. Tim Ellis joins him and they go up to the door. Don throws his lit flashlight inside and nothing happens. It is very crowded and hard to search. They get to the front and find nothing, but the front door is locked. Out back a witness says he saw 2 guys hiding behind a dumpster. They go to talk to them and they run. Eventually they catch two white guys who claim they were just watching the thieves. Don asks them why they ran, they say because they didn't know what they would do to them. The witness says he saw them loading stuff into a white car by the 7-11. One kid says he was driving his friend home and they saw the police and wanted to see what was go
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 7
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/24/1992
Philadelphia officer James Boone answers burglary-in-progress calls; Off. Joe Longmore arrests robbery suspects; Offs. John Harkins and Jim Diamond nab a suspected purse snatcher.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - San Bernardino County, California 4
Season 5 - Episode 47 - Aired 7/31/1993
In California, a narcotics team conducts sting operations; Cpl. Joe Waltman discovers a drive-by-shooting victim; an unlicensed driver is caught with a pistol after a traffic stop.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Fort Worth, Texas 5
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/20/1993
Fort Worth, Texas, officers assist at an accident where a passenger died; a suspected stolen vehicle.
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Season 5 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/24/1993
In California, police sergeant Joe Waltman examines a car involved in a crime and talks to a victim; Senior Deputy John Russ briefs a narcotics team on issuing a warrant; Dep. Hank Valencia answers a robbery call.
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Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/27/1993
Fort Worth, Texas, officers book and process suspects; investigation of a child abandonment call at a motel; officers stop a car that was reported stolen.
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Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1993
Fort Worth, Texas, officers break up a fight, rescue a disoriented woman and answer a domestic disturbance call.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - San Bernardino County, California 5
Season 5 - Episode 48 - Aired 9/4/1993
San Bernardino: high-speed chase; prostitution sting; restaurant shooting.
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Season 5 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/17/1993
San Bernardino, Calif., officers respond to a firearms call and rescue a man trapped in a flooded waterway.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Fort Worth, Texas 7
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/3/1993
A Fort Worth, Texas, sergeant investigates a shoplifting call; a neighborhood watch report; fight between roommates
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Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1993
Fort Worth, Texas, officers pursue a stolen car via ground and air; an elderly woman fires at a suspected intruder.
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#19 - Denver, Colorado 5
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1993
Denver officers investigate a burglary in progress; an officer is injured during a routine traffic stop.
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#20 - Denver, Colorado 6
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1993
Denver police capture two drive-by shooting suspects; search for a hit-and-run suspect; a man-with-a-knife call.
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Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1993
Fort Worth: Break-in investigation yields shooting victim; domestic disturbance.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Denver, Colorado 4
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1993
Denver police answer a call in which a father has stabbed his son; a disturbance call in a bar; a hit-and-run driver is identified and arrested
#23 - DEA Special Edition 1
Season 5 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/3/1993
#24 - Phoenix, Arizona 5
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 6/5/1993
Phoenix: Burglary suspect is arrested; plane crash; boy is separated from family.

#25 - Denver, Colorado 1
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/31/1992
From Denver: an officer and the film crew are injured when their car is hit by another police car; a threatened suicide call; a drug bust.
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