What "Cops" 15-th episode about
(7:20 PM Runaway Child) Metropolitan Police Dept - Officer Randy Sutton goes to the call of Jessie, an eight year-old boy, who ran away an hour ago after a domestic dispute and hasn't been seen since. He pulls up to #2645, clipboard in hand. The woman says he was beating up on some kids and she got done talking to him and sent him to his room until dinner and he might not get any. She never does that. Then her younger son Ricky told her he ran out the door with his backpack filled with toys. She went to the school, drove around to look for him, but didn't find him. Randy calls Gloria on the phone then there is a knock on the door. The neighbors found Jessie and returned him. Randy calls the kid over and asks why he did it. He says Dave and cries. He says Dave hits him and all that, he's his baby brother's dad. He hits them both. Ricky says he doesn't hit him. Jess says he does. He kicks him in the head in the morning to get him to go to school. He shows a mark on his face from him. He ran away because of Dave and thought his mom would be better off without him. Randy says that's not true and he'll talk to them both if he promises not to run away again. She's holding a baby and says Dave never hit him with a belt, but he's threatened to use it. He's never been punched or slapped, but doesn't know how he got the mark on his face. He doesn't like Dave because he's strict with him, he's the only one who can keep him in line. She told him Dave would take care of him when he got home, that might be why he ran away. Randy sees no signs of abuse and lets him stay there. He leaves and thinks there is a grain of truth to the story, so he's filing a report on it. (10:30 PM Traffic Stop) Southeast Area Command - Officer Dominick Rodriguez says if he can help someone out he'll do it. That's the best thing when you see someone in a tight spot who needs help and you can come through for them it's a good feeling. He spots a small car run through a red light, it's one of his pet peeves because it causes a lot of accidents. Carrie is laughing when he walks up. She says it wasn't red when she went through and doesn't have her license because she left it at home. She doesn't drink, doesn't do nothing. He writes her a ticket. She's never run a red light before. He has her sign the ticket. She says deep inside she fells like he thinks she's really guilty. He says he's doesn't, don't be too upset about it, just don't do it again. She says she's shy and goes to start the car and it won't start. She says it's a bad alternator. She says it's a 4 speed and she's not good at push starting it. He says she has a complex. He'll push her, pop it into second when she gets to the sign and it'll be ready to go. He pushes her with the police car, then pulls up next to her and she says she ran out of gas. He says he'll drive her to the gas station. She says it's really embarrassing. He takes her to a phone and she calls the wrong he number. Then she calls her mom Carol and can't handle it. Dom talks to her, says he needs to give Carrie a ride home. He explains she has a leak and doesn't want to leave her at the 7-11, but he can't drive her across town, she'll be at Flamingo and Eastern. He feels safe leaving her there. Clark County Detention Center - Lt. Patricia Kessel says the first time coming to jail has got to be a horrendous experience, she would be terrified and she's been there 12 years now. If you get someone shouting orders here and there, telling you do this, do that and you don't know what's happening to you, you are not a free person. It's understandable that you are upset. They teach officers IPC - Inter Personal Communication. One of the most vital parts of their training program is to teach folks that when someone comes in and they are angry, calling you every obscene name in the book, clutching at you, grabbing at you or whatever, it's not you they are angry at, it's what you represent. They bring a drunk guy in and take his picture. He's an older guy, says he's got money and drives a Cadillac. They don't want to hear he's someone who knows the sheriff and everyone. Pat says they want a blood sample from him. They don't want to grab them by the hair, it looks really bad, it's a tactic that hurts, but doesn't injure. It gets their attention, you have to get their attention before they'll listen to you. The guy from before hit his face on the wall and bust his nose and mouth. He's bleeding and a nurse cleans him up. Pat begs him to cooperate, they aren't there to fight. He needs to agree to submit. He says he's not fighting with anyone. She says he just needs to do what they ask. He says he's not resisting and agrees to take a breath test, it's that or blood. Officer Jack Clark talks to a woman who is belligerent. She curses him out and wants the cuffs off, but he won't. She says someone needs to. She was caught giving oral sex in the back of a car and her fly is open. The guy from before says Jack hit him, someone hit him. He explains he hit the wall outside. Then he refuses the blood test so they take him off to the drunk tank. They smell alcohol on him. They'll let him calm down and sleep it off. They take blood from another guy who asks why they are doing it. He says he wants them to test it for every kind of disease. The guy from before got all squirrelly in isolation. He got the cuffs off and punched a cop right in the face. They'll have to file a report. They've heard, "I know the sheriff, the governor, I pay your salary". She wants to ask them for a raise then.
Episode number: 15
Episode name: "Las Vegas, NV 5"
Episode release date: 23 december 1990 at 01:00
Status: aired