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A video captured on the Qingdao–Yinchuan Expressway displays vibrant laser lights hovering above the vehicles.
These lasers are used to prevent drivers from falling asleep.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-X1fox91b4
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These lasers are used to prevent drivers from falling asleep.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-X1fox91b4
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Cop’s hilarious traffic stops and surprise pro-drugs views make him YouTube star
Social Links forJerry Oppenheimer
Published Nov. 15, 2023, 6:00 a.m. ET
It’s the middle of the day, and traffic’s picking up when Deputy Sheriff Frank Sloup spots a clunker of a sedan jumping a curb on a stretch of highway in rural Pinal County, Ariz.
Sloup, a 21-year veteran of law enforcement hits the flashing red and blue lights and siren of his department-issued, unmarked, hyper-fast blue Dodge Charger, and pulls the offending car over, only to find a meek, skinny teenager, seemingly lost in a cloud of recently burnt cannabis.
The teen does not know it yet, but he is about to become part of Sloup’s YouTube channel, “Fridays With Frank”: a funny, tough and often uplifting weekly compilation of the deputy’s stops — “Cops” crossed with “Reno 911” for the YouTube era.
It shows the 45-year-old Sloup confronting, ticketing and arresting speeders, drunks, stoners, and other law-breakers and miscreants with a mix of sarcasm — “you push that right pedal, you do go faster” — and compassion.
And it has made the deputy a star: Thanks to “Fridays with Frank,” Pinal County Sheriff’s YouTube channel now has 245,000 subscribers, while Sloup’s own contributions regularly clock over 1 million viewers.
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Unlike most traffic cops, Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Sloup has a cameraman-editor in the back of his Dodge Charger, helping produce the hit “Fridays With Frank” videos on the department’s YouTube channel.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
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Sloup, a Long Island-born bartender-turned-cop is a transplant to Arizona, where he stops unsafe drivers and racks up busts as he is recorded for the modern-day mash-up of “Cops” and “Reno 911.”Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
His most recent episode took just three days to reach more than 350,000 views, making him quite possibly America’s most popular internet cop — with some unexpected views on drugs.
“When was the last time you smoked marijuana?” Sloup gently asks the teenager he has pulled over. “This morning,” responds the youth, his speech unduly slow.
“I can smell it,” says the deputy. “You know the other reason I stopped you?” he good-naturedly asks. “Did you feel yourself drive over that curb?
“Yeah,” acknowledges the driver.
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This teen’s stop resulted in him being busted for driving under the influence, but it was his Yeezy slides which gave the episode a title: “Kanye Shoes.”Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
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Sloup uses the usual tools of his trade — a speed gun, a powerful cruiser — and a combination of warmth a wit to deal with drivers committing infrations on the road.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
After a roadside field sobriety test, where he humorously comments that the motorist is “rocking” Yeezy open-toe slides, Sloup handcuffs the stoner, placing him under arrest for “being under the influence of marijuana.”
In the Grand Canyon state, the three-year-old Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control Act, and the Smart and Safe Arizona Act states that only those aged 21 and above can legally possess marijuana.
Anyone under that age can only buy weed if they have medical marijuana identification cards, which the offender didn’t, earning him a booking. And his Yeezys earned the YouTube episode a search-friendly title: “Kanye Shoes.”
You might think that when it comes to drugs, like his pinch of the teen for weed, Sloup’s probably a hard-nosed, real-life Harry Callahan of the highway — the “Dirty Harry” character played by Clint Eastwood, who also used unorthodox policing methods.
Not so.
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Stops like these are all material for “Fridays With Frank” but also allow Sloup to deliver public safety information.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
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Stops by the deputy often feature drivers who know who he is. One said, “I was like, it’s Frank,” when he was pulled over.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
To promote his YouTube channel and his work for the sheriff’s department, Sloup recently appeared for more than two hours on “Blue To Green,” a pro-pot podcast whose host is cop-turned-outspoken stoner AJ Jacobs, who wants to “bridge the gap between the cannabis world and the law enforcement world.”
The two shared everything about drugs and law enforcement, except a joint. Sloup says he’s never smoked, not even a cigar. “I just don’t inhale stuff.”
Sloup told him: “My sister’s a giant cannabis user for years. She’s absolutely awesome. You can be super pro-law enforcement and a cannabis user.”
“Those two can exist on the same plane. I talk about drugs all the time, and I say I love drugs. I’m not using them, but man I sure play with people who are using them.”
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Quantities of marijuana are a regular find for the deputy. Arizona’s laws allow possession of no more than an ounce by over-21s or under-21s with a medical marijuana card.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
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Driving under the influence is also forbidden, leading to busts like these, of a marijuana pipe and supply.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
Sloup emphasizes that when the grass and age are legal, “I don’t trample on rights. If you want to get baked, go for it. My job is not to just put bad guys in jail, but to make sure good people are not victimized.”
The episode starring Sloup garnered 878 comments – all in support of Pinal County’s favorite cop.
Sloup, an easy-going native of Long Island, NY, was a bartender before he moved west and became a law enforcement officer two decades ago.
Pinal County, the size of Connecticut, but with a fraction of its population, is just 50 miles from the southern border. Dominated by desert, it has been jokingly referred to by a local radio station as, “The land of the dirt people.”
Sloup, a lifelong bachelor who dates a police detective, rides Pinal County’s roads with a small microphone hidden under, or on his armored tactical, vest.
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Pinal County is the size of Connecticut, with a fraction of the population, giving Deputy Sloup many miles of rural roads to patrol.Mapcreator.io/OSM.org; AW3D30 (JAXA)
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One recurring character in “Fridays with Frank” is his mom, who comes for ridealongs, dispensing her own views on her son’s methods, and being part of the show. In the back is Jack, the cameraman-producer who creates the YouTube hit.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
Also in the back seat of his cruiser is a professional cameraman-editor named Jack, and, on occasion, Sloup’s sprightly gray-haired mother riding shotgun.
She is prone to critiquing his often-outlandish law enforcement style, and even suggests who he should arrest, or give a break to. Sometimes he agrees. She calls him, “a very good son.”
Before “Fridays With Frank” went viral, Sloup happily went about his job anonymously. But now that he’s become a YouTube and social media sensation, with tens of thousands of avid followers, his life has drastically changed.
“I’m just a traffic monkey,” he notes modestly. “I write tickets, and now I’m in a restaurant and people come up to me, ‘Can I do a selfie with you? My wife and I watch your videos all the time,’ and it blows me away. To say that I’m humbled is a disgustingly gross understatement.”
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So popular if Deputy Sloup that a local Facebook group called “Find Frank” has sprung up, with people posing when they have done that.Chito LZ/ Facebook
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Sloup isn’t just a hit with drivers, he has younger fans including these Pinal County girl scouts.
Stops regularly feature people saying they know him from “Fridays With Frank.” There is even a local Facebook group called “Find Frank,” while children dressed up as him for Halloween.
But then there’s the dark side he faces with all the recognition.
“Death threats – detectives are working death threats on me. I’m a target now and I’m kind of hyper-vigilant.”
So how did Deputy Sloup become an internet star, who these days exchanges Pinal County Sheriff Department uniform patches with other cops around the globe who tune into “Fridays With Frank” online?
Sloup’s YouTube channel was given the green light by his media-conscious boss, outspoken and controversial Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, 50, who has made himself a frequent cable news voice critical of the Biden administration and previously of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Boss and sometime ride-along companion Sheriff Mark Lamb is behind the YouTube fame for Sloup. The county sheriff is now mounting a run for the Senate.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
Lamb, an occasional co-star, is now running for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat-turned-Independent Krysten Sinema.
Sloup, who serves on the regional SWAT team as both an operator and a sniper when needed, considers Lamb a “rock star” and Pinal County Sheriff’s Department as “an island of awesomeness” where he gets both to do what he loves, and be YouTube famous.
Cop’s hilarious traffic stops and surprise pro-drugs views make him YouTube star
BySocial Links forJerry Oppenheimer
Published Nov. 15, 2023, 6:00 a.m. ET
It’s the middle of the day, and traffic’s picking up when Deputy Sheriff Frank Sloup spots a clunker of a sedan jumping a curb on a stretch of highway in rural Pinal County, Ariz.
Sloup, a 21-year veteran of law enforcement hits the flashing red and blue lights and siren of his department-issued, unmarked, hyper-fast blue Dodge Charger, and pulls the offending car over, only to find a meek, skinny teenager, seemingly lost in a cloud of recently burnt cannabis.
The teen does not know it yet, but he is about to become part of Sloup’s YouTube channel, “Fridays With Frank”: a funny, tough and often uplifting weekly compilation of the deputy’s stops — “Cops” crossed with “Reno 911” for the YouTube era.
It shows the 45-year-old Sloup confronting, ticketing and arresting speeders, drunks, stoners, and other law-breakers and miscreants with a mix of sarcasm — “you push that right pedal, you do go faster” — and compassion.
And it has made the deputy a star: Thanks to “Fridays with Frank,” Pinal County Sheriff’s YouTube channel now has 245,000 subscribers, while Sloup’s own contributions regularly clock over 1 million viewers.
13Unlike most traffic cops, Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Sloup has a cameraman-editor in the back of his Dodge Charger, helping produce the hit “Fridays With Frank” videos on the department’s YouTube channel.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
13Sloup, a Long Island-born bartender-turned-cop is a transplant to Arizona, where he stops unsafe drivers and racks up busts as he is recorded for the modern-day mash-up of “Cops” and “Reno 911.”Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
His most recent episode took just three days to reach more than 350,000 views, making him quite possibly America’s most popular internet cop — with some unexpected views on drugs.
“When was the last time you smoked marijuana?” Sloup gently asks the teenager he has pulled over. “This morning,” responds the youth, his speech unduly slow.
“I can smell it,” says the deputy. “You know the other reason I stopped you?” he good-naturedly asks. “Did you feel yourself drive over that curb?
“Yeah,” acknowledges the driver.
13This teen’s stop resulted in him being busted for driving under the influence, but it was his Yeezy slides which gave the episode a title: “Kanye Shoes.”Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
13Sloup uses the usual tools of his trade — a speed gun, a powerful cruiser — and a combination of warmth a wit to deal with drivers committing infrations on the road.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
After a roadside field sobriety test, where he humorously comments that the motorist is “rocking” Yeezy open-toe slides, Sloup handcuffs the stoner, placing him under arrest for “being under the influence of marijuana.”
In the Grand Canyon state, the three-year-old Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control Act, and the Smart and Safe Arizona Act states that only those aged 21 and above can legally possess marijuana.
Anyone under that age can only buy weed if they have medical marijuana identification cards, which the offender didn’t, earning him a booking. And his Yeezys earned the YouTube episode a search-friendly title: “Kanye Shoes.”
You might think that when it comes to drugs, like his pinch of the teen for weed, Sloup’s probably a hard-nosed, real-life Harry Callahan of the highway — the “Dirty Harry” character played by Clint Eastwood, who also used unorthodox policing methods.
Not so.
13Stops like these are all material for “Fridays With Frank” but also allow Sloup to deliver public safety information.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
13Stops by the deputy often feature drivers who know who he is. One said, “I was like, it’s Frank,” when he was pulled over.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
To promote his YouTube channel and his work for the sheriff’s department, Sloup recently appeared for more than two hours on “Blue To Green,” a pro-pot podcast whose host is cop-turned-outspoken stoner AJ Jacobs, who wants to “bridge the gap between the cannabis world and the law enforcement world.”
The two shared everything about drugs and law enforcement, except a joint. Sloup says he’s never smoked, not even a cigar. “I just don’t inhale stuff.”
Sloup told him: “My sister’s a giant cannabis user for years. She’s absolutely awesome. You can be super pro-law enforcement and a cannabis user.”
“Those two can exist on the same plane. I talk about drugs all the time, and I say I love drugs. I’m not using them, but man I sure play with people who are using them.”
13Quantities of marijuana are a regular find for the deputy. Arizona’s laws allow possession of no more than an ounce by over-21s or under-21s with a medical marijuana card.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
13Driving under the influence is also forbidden, leading to busts like these, of a marijuana pipe and supply.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
Sloup emphasizes that when the grass and age are legal, “I don’t trample on rights. If you want to get baked, go for it. My job is not to just put bad guys in jail, but to make sure good people are not victimized.”
The episode starring Sloup garnered 878 comments – all in support of Pinal County’s favorite cop.
Sloup, an easy-going native of Long Island, NY, was a bartender before he moved west and became a law enforcement officer two decades ago.
Pinal County, the size of Connecticut, but with a fraction of its population, is just 50 miles from the southern border. Dominated by desert, it has been jokingly referred to by a local radio station as, “The land of the dirt people.”
Sloup, a lifelong bachelor who dates a police detective, rides Pinal County’s roads with a small microphone hidden under, or on his armored tactical, vest.
13Pinal County is the size of Connecticut, with a fraction of the population, giving Deputy Sloup many miles of rural roads to patrol.Mapcreator.io/OSM.org; AW3D30 (JAXA)
13One recurring character in “Fridays with Frank” is his mom, who comes for ridealongs, dispensing her own views on her son’s methods, and being part of the show. In the back is Jack, the cameraman-producer who creates the YouTube hit.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
Also in the back seat of his cruiser is a professional cameraman-editor named Jack, and, on occasion, Sloup’s sprightly gray-haired mother riding shotgun.
She is prone to critiquing his often-outlandish law enforcement style, and even suggests who he should arrest, or give a break to. Sometimes he agrees. She calls him, “a very good son.”
Before “Fridays With Frank” went viral, Sloup happily went about his job anonymously. But now that he’s become a YouTube and social media sensation, with tens of thousands of avid followers, his life has drastically changed.
“I’m just a traffic monkey,” he notes modestly. “I write tickets, and now I’m in a restaurant and people come up to me, ‘Can I do a selfie with you? My wife and I watch your videos all the time,’ and it blows me away. To say that I’m humbled is a disgustingly gross understatement.”
13So popular if Deputy Sloup that a local Facebook group called “Find Frank” has sprung up, with people posing when they have done that.Chito LZ/ Facebook
13Sloup isn’t just a hit with drivers, he has younger fans including these Pinal County girl scouts.
Stops regularly feature people saying they know him from “Fridays With Frank.” There is even a local Facebook group called “Find Frank,” while children dressed up as him for Halloween.
But then there’s the dark side he faces with all the recognition.
“Death threats – detectives are working death threats on me. I’m a target now and I’m kind of hyper-vigilant.”
So how did Deputy Sloup become an internet star, who these days exchanges Pinal County Sheriff Department uniform patches with other cops around the globe who tune into “Fridays With Frank” online?
Sloup’s YouTube channel was given the green light by his media-conscious boss, outspoken and controversial Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, 50, who has made himself a frequent cable news voice critical of the Biden administration and previously of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
13Boss and sometime ride-along companion Sheriff Mark Lamb is behind the YouTube fame for Sloup. The county sheriff is now mounting a run for the Senate.Pinal County Sheriff's Office/YouTube
Lamb, an occasional co-star, is now running for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat-turned-Independent Krysten Sinema.
Sloup, who serves on the regional SWAT team as both an operator and a sniper when needed, considers Lamb a “rock star” and Pinal County Sheriff’s Department as “an island of awesomeness” where he gets both to do what he loves, and be YouTube famous.