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World's Wildest Police Videos (shortened to Police Videos during its fourth season) [3] is an American reality television series that ran on Fox from 1998 to 2001. [3] [4] In 2012, Spike announced that it had commissioned 13 new episodes with the revival of the original name and John Bunnell returning as host, [5] which premiered on May 7, 2012, and ended on August 13, 2012.
Reality television has combined with the car chase genre in a number of television shows and specials such as World's Wildest Police Videos, Most Shocking, and Real TV which often feature real footage of car chases involving suspects fleeing police. [15] In addition, videos and livestreams of car chases are popular content on social media. [16]
The program underwent a number of name changes, including Police Patrol [6] and True Blue, [7] before the eventual title was finally announced in June 2006. [8] The Western Australia Police was the only police service to agree to be filmed in the first two series of the show. [3]
The 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis was an incident that took place between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on 31 January 1984 in George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, when a 35-year-old male went on a bank robbery spree, taking 11 people hostage, before holding police at bay for several hours before finally being shot dead.
On the morning of 27 April, Hayes stole an Australian Army M113 APC (without ammunition) from Irwin Barracks. Some reports have alleged police abuse and harassment as the motive for his behaviour. [5] Hayes drove the APC through a fence and into the side of the Wembley police station at 4.40am. He then rammed a police van and drove towards the ...
Cops videos have been subpoenaed and used by defense attorneys, resulting in the suppression of evidence owing to police misconduct which was revealed in the Cops videos. [ 113 ] [ 114 ] In 2015, "late at night in a high-crime area," a Fort Myers, Florida police officer—accompanied by a Cops video crew—stopped and frisked a man who was ...
Fireworks being shot at police during the riot. The 2004 Redfern riots took place on the evening of Sunday 15 February 2004, in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern, New South Wales, and were sparked by the death of 17-year-old Thomas Hickey, also known as TJ Hickey, resulting from a bike accident in the neighbouring suburb of Waterloo on 14 February 2004.
The police car was rammed and run off the road and the chase taken up by a second police unit. A police officer in this vehicle was seriously wounded when the fugitives shot him in the face. The chase culminated at a police roadblock at Woodville, where the pair ran off, shooting at police as they fled into the bush. An intensive ground and air ...