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How Cop Shows Survived the Cancel Mob—and Won 2024 | 3.8.25

Morning Wire

The Daily Wire

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4.925.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Dan Abrams discusses the enduring popularity of cop shows despite cancellation attempts sparked by the 2020 George Floyd backlash. Plus how “On Patrol: Live became 2024’s top entertainment program. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.

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0:00.0

Dan Abrams is one of the most prolific producers of law enforcement and legal content in the entertainment

0:08.7

industry. His latest show, On Patrol Live, was the number one entertainment show of 24 on Friday and

0:15.4

Saturday nights, and it was just picked up for 90 more episodes. In this episode, we speak to Abrams about cop shows and their lasting popularity despite

0:24.0

efforts to cancel them after the death of George Floyd.

0:27.3

I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Vickley with Georgia Howe.

0:30.6

It's Saturday, March 8th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

0:38.2

Joining us now is Dan Abrams, the host and producer of On Patrol Live. Dan, thank you so much for

0:43.7

joining us. My pleasure. Nice to be here. You've done so much in the illegal and law enforcement

0:48.7

space. For those in our audience who may not be as familiar with your background as we are,

0:53.3

can you give us a brief

0:54.3

overview of your professional career? Yeah, I mean, I am a lawyer by training, and I use that

1:01.7

pretty quickly to pivot into media, where I ended up covering some of the highest profile

1:08.0

criminal cases from the last, sad to say, because it exposes my age.

1:12.6

The last three decades, I started really, when I covered the O.J. Simpson case, I was in court

1:18.9

every day for that criminal trial and civil case. So that was certainly the biggest case I'd

1:24.6

covered to that point. And then since then, I've covered all the biggest trials around the country.

1:30.5

And then recently I've started a company called Law and Crime.

1:34.1

We now have a 7 million YouTube subscribers,

1:37.5

and it's a massive legal and crime channel.

1:41.9

But that background is, I think, why the producers came to me to host what is now on

1:48.9

patrol live, which is a live police show where we follow police departments in real time.

1:55.9

I think that they wanted someone who had a bit of a legal background to host the show. And this is a show that is

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