Officers React #37 - The Rookie Returns! | Struggling Police Department Hires Elderly Man Pt.1
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Texas LEOs Josh and Bill show support for the elderly in this episode of The rookie! PART 1 OF 3
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"Nine months after witnessing (and foiling) a bank robbery in his small town of Foxburg, Pennsylvania, John Nolan, a 45 year old divorcé packs up his entire life to move to Los Angeles and becomes a cop. His assignment to the force, particularly the Mid-Wiltshire Division of the LAPD is met with skepticism from his fellow officers, particularly his watch commander, Sergeant Wade Grey, and his training officer Talia Bishop. Nolan's first few days on the job are marked by a domestic dispute that quickly escalates out of hand (during which Nolan witnesses his first death), an unbalanced father who leaves his child in a locked car on a hot day, and an escaped felon who quickly tests Nolan in ways he never expected. Also joining Nolan as rookie officers are Jackson West, son of a high-ranking LAPD officer and eager to live up to the family legacy, and Lucy Chen, who became a cop against the wishes of her therapist parents and is carrying on a secret affair with Nolan despite the risk it poses to her career. Grey informs Nolan that he will do everything in his power to discourage him from continuing to serve, as he fears that Nolan's inexperience and age will endanger the lives of his officers. Nolan tells Grey that he believes being a cop might be his calling. Grey responds that if that is true, nothing Grey puts Nolan through will deter him."
The Rookie is an American police procedural crime drama television series created for ABC by Alexi Hawley. The series follows John Nolan, a man in his forties, who becomes the oldest rookie at the Los Angeles Police Department. The series is based on real-life Los Angeles Police Department officer William Norcross, who moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and joined the department in his mid-40s.
The series stars Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Titus Makin Jr., Mercedes Mason, Melissa O'Neil, Afton Williamson, Mekia Cox, Shawn Ashmore and Eric Winter.
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I love the relationship that developed between sergeant Gray and officer Nolan.
I look forward to see that!
Thank you for doing The Rookie again! I'm a lil bit obsessed with the show at present and I love watching these Officer React videos and finding out what's pretty realistic and what's just Hollywood fluff.
I'm glad we could help!
So if you look into the whole background for "The Rookie", it gets REALLY interesting.
LAPD was one of the two following agencies across the States to employ anyone over the age of 35 and somehow somewhat, the executive producer of the show, Jon Steinburg, has a friend who went thru the same path of being one of the more elderly cop that went thru training and actually becoming a LAPD officer.
Nathan Fillion, the main actor basically plays that friend abeit with a more dramatic path but that's what it was.
That is a really cool bit of trivia! There is definitely some realistic aspects of the show and I think it does a better job than most of getting things right.
We had four "elderly" recruits in my basic training platoon: 2 women at the cut off age (34 and 35) and two guys (29 and 35) who had previous service (one former Air Force and one Coast Guard). I was 20 yrs old and, honestly, all four were in better shape than I was starting out. They got a lot of ribbing about their "advanced age", but the only issue the drill instructors seem to have with any of them was "re-training" habits/methods learned from previous service, especially Coast Guard guy. He was kind of full of himself the first few weeks, like "I already knew that". The former AF guy was the opposite, quiet and self-deprecating, and full of gentle wisdom (his nickname was literally "Old Man" but not in a bad way, more in a "wise guru" way).
Both of the women did well enough but one of them (surname Fish-something) was so motherly by nature that her nickname was "Mama Trout" by the 3rd day of basic.
That was probably an awesome recruit class! Prior service can definitely be a good or a bad thing depending on the outlook towards training. Law enforcement is such a uniquely open ended job that there is no real substitute for experience and good mentoring.
No of those people are elderly lol.
The rookie deffinelty puts them to shme. He's what 45 or something like that
I’m excited that you guys are doing the Rookie again. I hope you guys go in order and react to each episode!
That is the plan for now
So glad the reacts are back!!!
Glad you’re back!
We are too!
I viewed the scene of "I don't like what you stand for" as a message to the audience : Don't watch this then want to become a hero
This I can understand. I don't think law enforcement is for everyone, to actually do the job well you have to be truly selfless and it's often times not the case with people who end up taking the oath.
We has the moto "Service before Self" in my old department, and it was rare that I saw it lived out.
😂 five months. In the UK it takes two to three years of training to become a cop. For firearms alone it's 12 weeks training and that is only after the basic training.
Yeah, most PDs in America the bar is WAY too low. Bill and I were lucky that our department required a 4 year degree before even applying, then a year and a half worth of training both in academy an field training 😁
I would love to see your take on the Dim and Juicy story line. It is spread throughout season finally of season 4 and season 5 episode 1. It is highly chenford, but I’m so curious about the realism of it!
We will add it to the list!
"Realism"? Are you kidding? 😂
This video reminded me of Castle season 4 episode 7. definitely should give it a watch and reaction. I think there’d be a lot for you guys to unpack and I’m sure you’d have your fun with that episode 😂
We will definitely add this to the list!
It's always fun watching these with you guys
Wow!
Really interesting to see a reaction of cops about my favourite TV show! Waiting for other parts, and hope for other episodes then. Let's do watching all seasons in that format?
That would be fun to watch.
We did start this with season 1, so we have several episodes filmed. If I remember correctly we filmed up to episode 8 so they'll be coming out really soon!
@@OnlyCops Wow, sounds like great news!!! Thank you!
Awesome episode guys! I’m pumped for part two, I hope y’all’s editor gets that done soon!! 😅
Hey be nice to that guy, he’s doing a lot!
I don't watch this show but I love watching you 2,stay safe boys.❤️🚔
I don’t blame you Daniel, but we appreciate you
We love you, Daniel!🦘
In Denmark it takes 2 years and 4 months if school to become a cop😂
In Arlington Texas (when Bill and I were cops) it took a 4 year college degree and almost 2 years worth of training before you could be a cop 🤣
I love seeing vids like this of police officers or doctors even explain what not to do in a tv show in which their portrayed its fun haha great work guys and as a tv show anyway I do like the rookie more than most I've seen its funny has charm and seems to show alot of what cops do but happy you guys can explain whats what
It's definitely a fun show and is MUCH better than a lot of other police related content 🤣
Or you could use common sense. It's fiction.
Our SOPs are to just use lights and turn them off several blocks out. Also, Bill I moved across the country 😂
Yay more The Rookie reactions!!!
Great stuff guys! Plenty of wisdom in a short review. Although I think the announcement during the bank robbery was for the turd who was gonna be shot next😁
Good point Keith! There was 2 guys in there
It’s so wild to hear about 8-12 month academies. Mine was around 4, and FTO was only a month or so. Obviously more training is better, it’s just foreign to me, coming from the rural Midwest lol
The long application process is real though, I think it took me about a year from applying to my first day
Yeah, we definitely came from a practically 2 year long process from application to working the street by yourself
I think you guys should watch the TV series Third Watch. It is basically Southlands but in the NYPD.
We will add it to the list!
Love the shirt bill.
Thanks buddy!
Based
@2:01 she was ready to "thank him" IYKYK!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 1000% she wanted the D
There was a guy who got shot by NYPD and his Carthart jacket stopped some of the rounds
I need a reference story!
So are we gonna let all the young cops in the discord hear that last bit from Josh?
Yes 100%
Preach
Yep
Thank you. I love this movie❤
Thank you for the nice comment!
Sergeant Grey and Officer Bishop were so ageist in the beginning, it’s a bit hard to watch from that respect. Glad they moved on from that aspect of the show.
No kidding! It was definitely one of my least favorite things about the first couple of episodes
Elderly??? SIRS!!! You wound us!!! 🤣☠️
Captain Tightpants is not elderly! Just a little slowed down....😏😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm sorry 😅
@@OnlyCops He's in his 40s so not elderly
Im a few episodes into this series and it feels pretty good but i do have one pretty big issue. The criminals are always so compliant in every scene. The second they get caught they just instantly give up and put there hands behind their back even when they are extremely angry before. It just ruins so many scenes for me
I am with you there, someone motivated enough to commit violent crimes often keeps that motivation to try and get away. That's part of a list of issues I have with how they portray these interactions
Why did I watch this haha so your telling me Bradford and Chen get married 😮 ahh I’m so excited
🤣 Hello friend, I'm sorry for the spoilers
They are not married. Only watching clips could make you think that :) it is a fun ride though.
A sad thing a couple years ago during a mass shooting. A young African American found himself in a mass shooting at the mall. I’m not sure if he was a licensed carry or off duty, but he tried to help and was shot by the police. I mention that he’s African American because people don’t always think brothers will try to help, but we do. At the same time, when police roll up in an unknown mass shooting incident, they have no idea what’s going on. That’s why it’s sad because it’s a perfect storm of chaos. Also, maybe this is a good time to ask….. I know there’s the smart recommendation to shelter and be a good witness. But I also feel like sometimes, there’s the 1 out of 50 where you feel like you have to take a chance to immediately preserve life. What do you do? I’m guessing if you are legally carrying, do you even try? I dunno, I think every cop would say, shelter somewhere safe and be a good witness. Am I right or wrong?
Active shooter scenes are always awful and difficult to navigate for both LEO and the people at the location. That's tragic that the guy lost his life for just trying to step up and help and I hate that for everyone involved.
My biggest suggestion for active shooter response for regular people carrying (and even for off duty LE) would be to act fast. There is a small window of opportunity between first shots and officers making scene (likely anywhere from 60 seconds to 4 minutes) its then and only then that I would act to stop the threat unless some other circumstances change the game.
Running towards the sounds of the gun fire and staying concealed until you actually see the shooter and are capable of taking the shot would be my recommendation incase LEO response times are fast or they happened to already be on scene, and or another person doing the same thing is less likely to mistaken you as the shooter. Once you've taken care of business, holster up and let emergency response take over.
As a bonus, you could have someone with you call in and give a description of you as someone trying to stop the shooter, I have already training my wife on how to do this so that dispatch can notify, that could be the difference between officers knowing you're a threat or not.
Our academy is 18 weeks
spoiler alert : brandford and chen broke up
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Lapd application process is 1 year, academy is 1 year, fto is 1 year. Idk why they said 9 months later
That seems like a pretty easy detail to get right. That is super weird that they missed that
@@OnlyCops At one point LAPD had an expedited application process. I applied out of college did the background paperwork and the 1st written test within in a few weeks(test date lined up nicely) got a call from LAPD's recruiting dept and asked if I wanted to do the expedited process. Started the application process mid August they called last week of August about doing it expedited so I would be in that Fall's Academy class.
Not sure if they still do it since that was 10 years ago but iirc it was for out of state applications and if they were short on a particular class.
6 to 9 months lol!?
Starting from Rank 1 is 2 years here, and Starting with Rank Sergeant is 4 years and for Second Lieutenant is 6 Years...
Dude, there is definitely garbage promotional processes in a ton of departments 🤣
@@OnlyCops i am From Greece, here you have to study, and pass the academic actions to get the diploma, in order to get to be a police officer or patrol
@@OnlyCops our Police training last about 3 years.
This is copied from finnish Police academys site "The scope of the Bachelor of Police Services degree is 180 credits, and it takes about three years to complete the studies. During the studies, students learn practical knowledge and skills needed in police work. The studies also include a practical training period of about one year in a police unit.
I have never seen anybody critize police program beforehand. I would love to see you 2 jokers run around during the summer with the gear they carry!!!
We were cops in Arlington Texas for 4 years 🤣 I did more than just run around during the summer with the gear. Can confirm it does suck
YAll need more views
Thanks😁
You should do season five episode 20 please!!!
We will add it to the list!
sorry to say this, but 8-9 months of training/education at police academy is not long... Here in norway its 3-4 years degree depending on what you wanna do...
My department required a 4 year college degree before even applying, so it's a minimum of 5 and a half years before you are a full fledged police officer. And that doesn't include specialized training for specialized units or yearly training requirements. Though there are definitely A TON of American police departments that fall way short of an acceptable standard for law enforcement, I can say with confidence that I worked with some of the best police officers on the planet. I would back it up with a trip to Norway if I need to 🤣
@@OnlyCops I dont doubt it, im sure a lot of these videos show the worst or bad. There are loads of police who do a great job and all respect to you for the job you have done/are doing. I also think the job differs highly from working in Norway and the US. You guys have a much bigger risk factor than most norwegian offiers would have. And thanks for informing me about the need for education in some departments didnt know about that🤯
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Can you please please please do s5ep10
We will add it to our list!
FIrefly!
To be fair it is California, not much of an armed populace.
That is very true
welp 100th like
🤣🤣🤣 thanks!