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[tense music]

[reel whirring]

[rock music]

- [Mark] Happy Fourth.

[fireworks exploding] [people cheering]

- [Stephen] I have a witness.

- Hi, Mom.

- Sit down!

- Police. If you're in here, make yourself known.

- [Officer] Oh, man. Looks like you struck a deer.

- [Driver] We did.

- This puppy is under arrest. [puppy whimpers]

[dog barks] [indistinct shouting]

- I gotta ask, why's your zipper down?

- How you doing?

- [Angel] You need to have compassion.

You need to understand where people are coming from.

- Thank you for not being a jerk.

- Now it's a party.

[rock music]

[fireworks exploding]

- Right on! - Whoo!

[fireworks exploding] [people cheering]

[upbeat music] [people cheering]

- [Mark] Sit down!

- Well, this is the first real day

of our 4th of July weekend.

- [Mark] How's it been?

We're here on the Strip,

officially known as the Bagnell Dam Strip.

It's an historic part of town.

You have retail stores,

restaurants, drinking establishments.

You have a few attractions for the kiddos,

ice cream shops and things like that.

But because you have so many people down here

over the 4th of July,

we're gonna have adequate police coverage

to make sure they can do that safely.

On Friday and Saturday nights, the Strip

is packed with tourists from all over the Midwest,

all over the country.

- We're all from Wisconsin.

- Outer Banks!

- Typically, our city is less than 2,000 people

of folks that live here full time.

By the time 4th of July gets here...

- We have a huge influx in traffic volume.

That's gonna generate more traffic stops

and particularly our DWI arrests.

Our job shifts a little bit from mundane,

day-to-day office work,

and we hit the streets with the guys and gals.

[cheering]

- [Mark] On your call, Chief.

- [James] It's my first summer as chief,

first 4th of July as chief.

I'm excited for the opportunity to kinda,

you know, try things with maybe a little bit

of a different twist this year.

Even though I'm chief, these officers working down here,

so I think it's important to be down here next to them.

- Oh, ho.

That is such a cute pup.

[dance music] [people chattering]

- We've located a person downstairs

causing a peace disturbance,

but they're not sure how he got downstairs in the basement.

He's not supposed to be down there.

- [Officer] I'm not the one.

[dramatic music]

- We got called to the scene.

There was a male subject that went into the kitchen

and down into the basement.

- He was resisting staff to get out of the kitchen area,

tried to be a little squirmy and combative.

- (bleep).

- They found him in the basement.

They had no idea how he got there.

- They don't wanna press charges.

They don't wanna do anything with him,

but he blew a 0.206.

So he's heavily intoxicated.

- He may just be so drunk he wandered down there

and didn't realize where he was.

[upbeat dance music]

- For me, it's very important

that we're approachable to folks.

We're not always gonna see eye to eye with everybody.

We're gonna have to take a few people to jail.

We're gonna have to issue some citations.

But we can do that in a respectful way.

And we do deal with a lot of folks

that are down here drinking.

And that takes a level of patience

that sometimes can be hard to find.

We are at full staff right now, just 11 officers,

and that includes me.

- How's it going? - Good.

- If things get outta hand,

we are very used to just having to jump into action

to deal with whatever might happen.

We're ready for summer

and we're ready to get this thing rolling.

It's go time.

- So, hey. I'm not actually gonna put my handcuffs on you,

but I'll make it look like I am.

- Okay, but--

- Hey, here's the deal. You are going to jail.

You gotta look sad. You can't smile.

Nobody is happy they're going to jail. You know what I mean?

You gotta make your mom believe it, right?

Turn and face him.

Put your hands behind your back.

Are you sad?

Pout. You're sad, you're going to jail.

- Yeah, exactly.

- Yeah. You got it?

- All right. There you go.

- You guys (indistinct) - Yeah, absolutely.

- Thank you. - Yep. Have a good night.

It's a real quick way to build rapport.

Like, say something happens later on tonight

and I gotta get information from that guy.

He knows that I'm nice.

Maybe he'll be more willing to give information.

I help change his mind on police,

so that way he's nicer to the next police officer

that he encounters, you know?

And it humanizes the badge.

It makes us look like we're not robots, 'cause we're not.

We're normal people.

[upbeat music]

- [James] With a town that sees this many visitors

every year, and with a small crew,

we have to do things in a way

that other agencies don't do them.

- Thank you for your safety, sir.

- Thank you.

- [James] And I want our officers to be respectful.

- Hey, bud. Why don't you move down just a little bit

so you don't get hit by a car. Appreciate you.

Where's the honeymoon gonna be?

- [James] And it takes us a long ways.

We have a lot of support in our community

for the way we police.

- My man.

- You do have the select number of people

that come down here looking for trouble.

And so those are the ones that

we kind of want to keep guessing.

[energetic music] [fireworks exploding]

[tense music]

- We got a call here on Highway KK

for a motor vehicle accident, two vehicles involved.

So, I'm gonna help Officer Kaegy with traffic control.

July 4th is usually Osage Beach's busiest weekend.

There's probably 75,000 to a 100,000 people here.

I would consider Osage Beach to be the front line of defense

of the massive influx of tourism

that brings the obvious crime here

at the Lake of the Ozarks.

On a holiday weekend like this,

we're already dealing with drunk individuals in the day.

I think it's safe to assume it's only gonna get worse

as the night goes on.

[police radio chatter]

[tense music]

- Coffee all day?

- Okay.

- So Officer Kaegy has suspicion

that the driver's possibly intoxicated.

He asked her to submit to some field sobriety tests

to which she agreed.

Officer Hudler is with the other half of the accident.

Nobody's hurt.

- [Driver] Okay.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- We can have a-- Would you like to blow in a PBT?

- Okay, okay.

- Uh-huh.

- [Kale] No, you're okay. Don't fall out.

- [Kale] Okay.

- [Kale] Yeah, we will.

- [Kale] Okay, where's that stuff at?

- [Bobby] The driver gave Kaegy a specific location

where, I guess, some drugs were located.

I found a little bag containing some kind of pill.

Probably send it to the lab

to get some confirmation on what it actually is.

[radio chatter] [machine beeps]

[radio chatter] [machine beeps]

- [Kale] Keep blowin'. Keep blowin'.

- [Kale] Okay, take a-- [driver coughing]

[driver hacking and spitting]

Ready? Big breath.

[driver inhaling]

Go!

Nope, you're not even blowing.

- Okay., sorry. - [Bobby] It knows when

you're trying to cheat it.

- [Bobby] Last time. - Okay.

[machine beeps]

- [Bobby] All right.

- [Driver] Why can't I do it?

[lively music]

- 4th of July starts

the heaviest part of the summer season,

and you will find residents shooting off fireworks

and enjoying their liberties

that you have here in Lake Ozark, Missouri.

Where I live, my home on the main channel,

I can see fireworks for miles all over the lake.

It's quite a sight.

So, the city of Lake Ozark is unique

in that it's really the front door of the entire

Lake of the Ozarks region.

If you're into the outdoors,

there's no better place in the United States.

Whether you're fishing, boating activities.

We've got golf courses.

We've got 50,000 acres of state park.

But Lake Ozark has changed tremendously

over the last 30 to 40 years.

Known as a small mom and pop business destination,

mainly Missourians would come vacation here,

come down on the weekends,

and now you've got all kinds of people.

It's been said that we have several million people visit

on an annual basis, and there's no doubt about it.

And one of the challenges

the city of Lake Ozark specifically faces,

is a modest police department.

But our guys are trained.

We've got a great chief teaching 'em how they can deal with

that type of activity.

They do a great job of protecting our citizens

and our community, and it's a very special spot.

[gentle music]

- The Lake of the Ozarks is pretty chill, calm, collected,

and then the 4th of July hits and it's a whole new animal.

It's like the whole week for the Lake of the Ozarks.

It's pretty packed and it is hectic.

There's lots and lots of drinking.

Most of them just wanna have fun,

but you get to drinking

and sometimes the alcohol kind of gets to you.

We do a pretty good job keeping the community safe.

I got into law enforcement because I love helping people.

I'm the only female in the department,

but that doesn't stop the boys from acting like

I'm one of them, and I enjoy that.

So, we're all pretty close

and we love to help each other when we can.

We also love to give each other

a little bit of crap when we can too.

Keeps us on our toes.

- We're gonna go check that out.

A lot of our job is knowing how to talk to people,

and a lot of it's just kind of, like, common sense too.

But if you're willing to learn

and put your life on the line for others,

no matter what it comes down to, you'll do just fine.

I have a little boy who looks up to me

and thinks police officers are just the coolest thing.

But he keeps telling me he wants to be a firefighter though.

It's like, "Okay, we'll see".

Trying to convert him, but as long as he's happy.

[blinker ticking]

Okay, so right now, we are in front of Marty Byrde's

for an illegally parked white Chevy Tahoe.

We get a lot of people that actually think it's okay

to park in the handicap spot.

That's one of my biggest pet peeves.

Gonna try and find the owners for that.

[radio chatter]

It's gonna be a temp tag.

Looks like it's on a 2024 Chevy Tahoe.

10-4. Will you go ahead and get me a tow truck started?

- Gotta park responsibly if you're gonna park.

- [Angel] 10-4.

[truck rumbling]

[car horn honking]

[truck rumlbing] [car horn honking]

- What?

[car horns honking] - So, it's illegally parked.

If you're not handicapped,

you don't park in the handicap spot.

Okay?

[radio chatter]

They're almost done. They can wait five extra minutes.

It's fine.

- Yep. We're doing our job, sir. Thank you.

7-12. Miller County Hi-Tech has possession of vehicle.

- [Dispatch] Vehicle entered and will be towed.

- 10-4.

- Is that your car?

- All right. Well, they're towing it now.

They already have it on the trailer,

so you'll have to follow and talk to him.

Are you handicapped?

- [Angel] Okay. Do you have your ID on you?

- That fast? We got a complaint on it.

- So, you can't park there unless you're handicapped.

It's not fair to the handicapped.

- [Dispatch] 9-27. - So, we had the owner

of the vehicle show up.

He was advised that his vehicle is still gonna be towed,

so he will still be receiving a summons.

[tense music]

[dramatic music]

[fireworks exploding]

- [Stephen] In the five years that I've been with Osage Beach,

we get a pretty good variety of calls,

especially in the summertime.

I've worked petty stealings, to burglaries, petty assaults,

domestic assaults, homicides.

Because it's a tourist town, we get all kinds

and sometimes people, when they visit here,

bring their problems with them.

So you're getting a lot thrown at you at once

and you either adapt or you drown.

[radio beeps] - 9-20, copy. En route.

Is this in progress or already occurred?

[radio beeps] - Copy.

[tense music]

Normally when we come up on a call like this,

we're gonna look for things in the yard

that might lead us to believe forced entry.

Once we actually get into the residence,

we're gonna treat it as though someone is in there

and we try to clear it tactically

and efficiently in groups of two or three.

These can be quite dangerous.

[slow dramatic music]

- Pretty good. I'd ask how you're doing,

but it sounds kind of stressful.

- Yeah. You mind if we all--

- Okay. Thank you.

- Yes, sir.

[tense music]

[dogs barking]

- You can go with him. I'm good here.

- [Officer] Okay. Am I gonna follow you?

- Let me know when you're at the door and I'll make entry.

[radio beeps] 9-20, open.

- [Dispatch] 9-20. Go ahead.

[radio beeps] - 30, 11,

and myself are making entry into the residence.

- Police! If you're in here, make yourself known.

[radio beeps] - 30, 11,

and myself are making entry into the residence.

- Police! If you're in here, make yourself known.

One of you hold the stairs.

The other come back here with me and we'll start on this side.

[radio beeps] 9-20 O.B.

Interior of the residence is clear.

Yeah. Someone worked this place.

So, there's no one in there,

but it's clear someone went through it.

If you want to come in with us, since we do know it's safe.

I've got my guys in there looking

for signs of forced entry.

You can kind of point out if anything is missing.

- Did they take the entirety of it, like the entire safe?

- How much was the safe?

- 80 grand? - Yeah.

Like, it's my slush fund for my business

when I need, like, large purchases.

We do diesel repairs, so we're always spending.

[crying]

- Because of the amount,

especially in the safe and the jewelry,

we're probably gonna call our on-call detective out here.

He's gonna have some questions for you guys.

We're gonna see if we can probably lift prints,

things of that nature, and then go from there. Okay?

- [Stephen] But I understand too if you need a minute. So...

- I'll step out for a moment

and give you guys a little bit of privacy.

- [Stephen] The ropes?

Yeah, dude, it was cut.

Yeah, his boat's gone.

[radio beeps] 9-20, 9-30, are you 10-12?

[radio beeps] - The boat's gone from the dock.

The rope that they used as a tie-down

looks like it's been cut, it's floating in the water.

[tense music]

Boat's gone, man.

- Should be. In theory.

We're gonna need the specifics on it though.

- [Stephen] Yes, sir.

What's up, man?

- How we doing here?

- We make entry through both the front and back door.

Both are unlocked. The entire house has been gone through.

- Boat's been found.

State's got a towboat en route.

So right now, Detective Owen's gonna

continue the investigation.

Any trace evidence he can get that hopefully leads us

to the perpetrators would be beneficial.

We can get back out on patrol.

Around here, we get a lot of burglaries and thefts.

They'll then resell what they steal and purchase drugs

or other illicit substances with it.

And then it's a vicious cycle.

[pensive music] [bird chirps]

- Ooh. Is that a real black snake in the road?

You see that black snake?

- I think so. It's what I was gonna go check.

If it's not, I'm gonna move it outta the roadway.

He knows I ain't gonna touch that dang thing.

Mm-mm.

- What? You're not funny.

Come on, little guy.

Oh, I think it's dead. It's sunburnt.

Oh, no. I don't know if it is.

- Hey!

- It's a broken down vehicle.

I'm gonna see what they're needing help with.

7-0-5, Miller.

- [Dispatch] 7-0-5, go ahead.

- I'll be with a broken down GMC SUV

in the off ramp of 242.

[rock music]

Hello.

- Wow. You got excited.

- No, I was like, I've been sitting here for so long

and nobody has stopped to help.

- [Mark] So what's going on?

- Yeah, gas does that.

Let me see if I can get somebody

over here with some fuel for you, all right?

- Okay. That would be great.

- Do you have your ID on you real fast?

Sit back. I'll be right back with you.

7-0-5 Miller subject. Motorist that ran out of fuel.

First name, Michelle. Date of birth, (bleep).

Female, white. Outta Missouri.

Go ahead, Miller.

10-4.

All right, miss. We got an officer coming with a gas can,

but we gotta talk about something else.

- [Michelle] Oh, yes.

- Your driver's license is revoked.

- Yes, yes. - You can't be driving.

You are gonna be getting arrested

for driving while revoked.

- [Mark] Your driver's license is revoked.

- Yes.

- You are gonna be getting arrested

for driving while revoked.

So, here's what's gonna happen.

When my officer gets here,

what's gonna happen is she's gonna transport you

to the police station where you're gonna get fingerprinted

and a citation for driving while revoked,

and then you'll be released.

If you can get somebody here to drive your vehicle, great.

If not, then I'm gonna have to tow it, obviously,

'cause it's in the middle of the road.

- [Mark] Do you have any weapons or anything in this vehicle?

- Just making sure.

- No, don't threaten me with sleep now.

[Michelle chuckling]

Officer Macormic's gonna be doing me a favor,

placing her in handcuffs and transporting her to booking.

- Right, yeah.

- You want me to grab that?

[laughs]

- [Angel] Got a lot of stuff.

- [Mark] Do I need to contact tow?

- She has somebody.

- How far are they? - Where are they coming from?

- [Mark] Okay, we'll go ahead and put it over there.

- Okay. I think that's good. - All right.

I'm trying to be a nice guy here.

We're gonna go ahead and move the vehicle off the road

into the grass area.

- Her parents are coming down to pick up her vehicle.

- Ay-yi-yi.

- [Mark] It saves her a burden of an extra tow bill.

[rock music]

7-0-5, Miller. Be advised the vehicle has been

moved off the roadway.

Family members are coming to pick it up.

Excuse me.

- Do not miss this court date, okay?

If you have any questions about this court date,

you can contact that phone number there

and they can help you further with that, okay?

Have a better day.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- Good to be a sergeant here.

You got officers willing to help you.

- I try. Everything's logged. She's good to go.

That's all good.

- [Mark] All right. Thank you.

- Teamwork makes the dream work, bruh.

- [Mark] That's what I read on a fortune cookie.

[laughing]

[ethereal music] [fireworks exploding]

- So as you can tell,

they're shooting it literally from a boat.

Here in the Lake of the Ozarks during the 4th of July weekend,

it brings in a lot of tourism.

This is the hub. It's the kickoff to the busy season.

We gotta stay vigilant.

We gotta change our tactics on how we do stuff.

How many people we have on patrol.

We go from a small town atmosphere

to the littlest big city around.

I was born in Poland.

Lived there for the first seven years of my life,

and we moved to Southern California.

Then my sister moved out here

and she's like, "Man, you'll love it. Come on down."

And so I went through the police academy at 30 years old,

I was a late bloomer into law enforcement.

- [Dispatch] Conviction in 23 for speeding.

- So, [sighs]

I just got asked by Officer Glascock

to respond to his location.

0-5 out with 0-7.

[tense music]

- Yeah.

- [Mark] Gotcha.

How you doing tonight?

- Enjoying my night. How about you?

- Yeah. Where are you heading from?

- Gotcha, gotcha. - Yeah, yeah.

You from around here or?

- Oh, nice. - Yeah.

- Nice. Good deal. Doing all right?

- [Mark] Good.

[fireworks exploding]

[suspenseful music]

- Okay.

- [Mark] Gotcha.

Medically wise, you're doing good and stuff like that?

- [Mark] Okay, good deal. I saw you got some pups.

- Friendly, or?

- Hey, poochies. Aw, what's up?

- [Mark] Aw, aren't you adorable?

Okay. This one's gotta be really young

'cause those paws are huge.

- [Mark] Man.

- All right.

So I gotta do, I gotta ask.

- Yeah. - Why is your zipper down?

[Mark laughing]

- Okay.

[both laughing]

- That's fair.

- You gotta admit that looks kinda weird. [chuckles]

- Usually when somebody's trying to stuff stuff away

or anything like that.

- Are you gonna come back? [laughs]

Do you mind if I pat you down, make sure?

- Okay. All right.

[tense music]

- All right.

[fireworks exploding]

- He had nothing on him or crotch area

or nothing like that.

It was kind of a little suspicious

that when he jumped out, his zipper's open.

- No.

I told him. I said, "Listen, I get it.

We all run late." Like me this morning,

but my zipper was up. [chuckles]

All right.

[fireworks exploding]

[dramatic energetic music]

- I'm famous. I'm famous.

[motorcycle engine roaring]

[energetic dance music]

- Just hang out here.

- 14. Another stack of fake IDs

just from one bar for one night.

- Security guys are doing their job.

- You want these?

- Yeah, but I'm old enough to drink.

- [laughs] Yeah.

- No? [Mark laughing]

- Come on in, guys. - Come on.

- I'll take it.

- Oh, nice. - That's why I always

- Well then, in that case. - Yeah, I appreciate it.

Thank you, guys.

- Appreciate you. - Thank you so much.

Thank you, guys. Have a good night.

- Hey, buddy. You doing all right?

- Let's get off the road

and definitely throw the beer out, so the cops don't see it.

- [chuckles] Yeah.

Not right there.

- Hey, right there. Right over there.

- Thanks, bro.

- I appreciate it, bud.

[upbeat music] [attendees cheering]

- Are you gonna be leaving right now?

- [Mark] Yeah, we can check.

- You're very welcome.

I appreciate you coming up and asking.

- I'm just making sure it wasn't like a, "Hey,

let's see who can get a higher blood alcohol content."

[laughing] - No? All right.

Just making sure.

Believe it or not, it's been asked.

How many drinks have you had?

- [Mark] Just one?

- [Matthew] This fine officer here is

allowing her to use a PBT to see if she has to Uber.

All right.

- Responsibility. - One or the other here.

- [Matthew] Keep going, keep going, keep going,

keep going. Okay.

- What is it?

- You're at a 0.039. - 0.039.

As long as, also, you feel okay?

- [Driver] Yeah, I do.

- If you're spinning, then obviously,

even though it's below, you can still get a DWI.

But if you feel fine.

- Well, you got different levels of tolerances, right?

Somebody for the first time having a beer

gets a little dizzy

but they're not gonna be over the legal limit.

- Pleasure to meet you both.

- Thank you. Take care, guys.

She says she feels fine.

So she's able to drive.

[tense music]

We've made it through 4th of July.

We had a successful weekend.

You know, we always look forward to 4th of July,

but at the same time we look forward to it being over.

We can take a little bit of a deep breath

knowing that we made it through without any real problems.

But now we look to the rest of the summer.

We'll definitely be ready for what's to come

and hope to make it through unscathed.

[fireworks exploding]