I really want you to watch Tim during the time chen graduated and he got another rookie who was a vet like him. It shows how great of a TO he actually is.
Hi guys! I hope you enjoy the episodes, just a little bit, before you pull them apart! ;) Scottish Kiwi from NZ, and I liked your breakdowns, What did you think of the Cop Cutie intros? 'Cos I laughed like a loon. Seriously, I couldn't stop for over 5 minutes.
Yeah, some of the "Tim Tests" are pretty egregious, but a lot of them are fantastic. This was when the series was grounded in a bit more realism. Hollywood has really taken over the series in the newest seasons.
Yeah, but it's still really good. But I also still hope they return to the realism a little bit more in season 6. (I dunno if they're doing a season 6, 5 isn't available in my country yet, but don't tell me if they do or not, please!)
Absolutely loved Bradford during season 1 😂 man was the best TO throughout the show. What made it more real was that Tims character was former military so you could see that emphasis within the show
Fun fact: during a episode dealing with a racist cop, the stop Tim and Lucy made is brought up again and tim realizes that he was actually racist during that. He also promises Lucy to never to something like that again
@@virz4432that’s not true, I believe. I think, after Lucy is out of her Rookie phase, he has respect for her, even though they annoy each other on purpose.
@@mercedesvalente8154 Ok, true... But that doesn't change they did wrong. Tim was wrong and Lucy covered him. Lucy should've reported Tim back then. ("Test" what? To be complicit? Shady)
The scene at 4:31 was actually addressed in later seasons. She basically told him that it was racist of him to act that way and he agreed, although it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. It doesn’t even suit his character.
Thoroughly enjoyed this! you find out later that Tim was the way he was with Lucy specifically because she was kind and saw nothing but the good in people and he needed to show her that the world can be a scary place. Every test she passed and failed truly made her a better cop! I’ve gone back and watched the older reactions as well. Would love to see more from The Rookie and Chenford!
The reason they don’t have mics and pull the entire radio out is because LAPD doesn’t use mics. It’s part of their tradition as well as cost. Same as only allowing clean shaven or mustaches, constantly shining their leather gear and no tac vests.
I love that Bradford later on admits that he didnt handle that stop in the second clip well, as well as being amazing when switching styles for Chen and breifly working with Burke.
I loved getting all these real life insights and reaction! A good one I recommend of the rookie is season 3 episode 11, in this ep there are new rookies and Tim takes a different approach than being a tough FTO but a caring one to his new boot.
I loved hearing your reactions. Honestly the first season was one of my favorites. It was more policing then drama/soap opera. I enjoy the relationships on the show, but I really loved the effort that was put into making the show more realistic. Now that's out the window. They've gone Hollywood. I've excepted it because I've grown to love the characters. I'm invested. However if they went back to everyday regular policing with the occasional big issue at the end of the season, that would be preferred. That being said I am a big shipper of Chenford. My favorite character is Tim. That guy has been through some sh*t! He's completely different now in season 5 then in that first season. Night and day. Best character development on the show.
Love watching The Rookie reactions! If you're looking for suggestions, there is a recent episode (Season 5, Ep. 11, I believe), specifically the plot line that involves Lucy Chen. In it, she meets a young woman, whom she suspects is being abused by her boyfriend at home. The plot line is woven through the whole episode and culminates in Lucy having to respond to a domestic violence call involving said woman and boyfriend. Lucy is riding alone at this point and handles the arrest (which gets very intense ). Anyway, I would LOVE to see you guys break down the episode. I'm curious to hear how realistic of a scenario The Rookie set up considering the type of call, the fact that she is riding alone (and all the procedures that would be involved in that), and ultimately the outcome... :)
The whole belt thing happend to a rookie of another unit of mine. He did not hang the belt on the toilet. No! He unholstered the gun and put it on the toilet cistern while taking a dump. He then forgot it there... It was a truck stop. Gun including 15 rounds gone with the wind. His last day on the force.
Context to the Tim Test with the Hispanic gentlemen in the truck because the rest of the scene was cut out. He goes onto explain that he was intentionally being racist to test if she would call him out on it or do what she did and let it slide.
I was a Paramedic with a pretty populous Hispanic part of town. Probably 90% of my patients supposedly couldn’t speak English. What they meant was, they literally couldn’t speak it but they could understand it.
When I was in the military, we had 12 hour shifts. If you nodded off, you would get pranked hard. One guy was duct taped to his rolling chair outside in the snow. One guy had not put his keys in his locker but tossed them in his cover (aka cap/hat) and when he nodded off, they let him sleep, filled his cover with water, put it in the break room freezer. When they woke him for shift change, he couldn't go home because he had to find a way to free/thaw out his keys without cooking them (electronic tab). Can't say the guy never nodded off again but he never forgot to look up his keys, cell, or other personal objects again.
🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious and evil all at the same time! It's better to get embarrassed than sleeping through something that needed your attention and someone gets hurt because of your absence.
That was interesting!! Thanks. And the last bit with the Chenford explanation was really funny. I have more Rookie-related questions: Is something like the "Golden Ticket" really a thing? And: Do they do a good job depicting undercover work?
Thank you so much for the feedback! The "Golden Ticket" is definitely not a thing (at least where I come from). Promotions or transfers are always done through an evaluation process and often times have prerequisites and references. I didn't personally do any undercover work but there are both good and bad examples in the show. It's definitely more organized then the show would lead you to believe and there is almost no overlap with undercover officers and other units. It also takes more than some dirt and bad clothes to look like a drug addict 🤣
Great breakdown of certain scenes. As far as the question as to PC for search on the pedestrian stop that ended in a fight, in California officers do not need PC during the stop or encounter to search when the subject is on parole. It’s strange to other jurisdictions that require PC or a least reasonable suspicion for all encounters, California does it their own way.
That is definitely par for the course for California. I don't like the idea of Terry stops and think that it undermines public trust. I'd rather do it the right way even if it's harder.
Would love to see you react to other episodes of the Rookie: 1x08 (Officer involved shooting) and 5×22 (Pretty action packed and far-fetched) It'd also be cool to see a reaction of Blue Bloods. An episode I can think of would be 8×22. Specifically where Eddie saves Jamie.
My father, who is a retired cop from New York, told me the first db he went to was when the senior cop handed him a cigar. He took up cigar smoking that day and has been smoking ever since. Anything to cover the smell. He’s now ninety, and still smokes two or three every day.
I was in Fresno CA during 2020 and our governor told all the police to enforce the masking and social distancing, etc. Some administrator gave the instructions on essentially a zoom call with all the sheriff departments. Our sheriff explained that CA's new zero bail policy meant her officers were too busy re-arresting the same criminals over and over to bother with such policing and gave him a list of state officers he actually had authority over (Fish and Wildlife, Beach patrols, Forest Management, etc.) It was so badass.
I love your channel! It's instructional and entertaining. As for the Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIEDs), Chen procedures was to evacuate the area, while transmitting the call from a safe distance, always keeping an eye on the location.
@@OnlyCopsComment comes from 39+ years of preparing to deal with RCIEDs and IEDs. As a comic strip once showed, it had a Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) specialist talking to someone on a cloud in Heaven, he says "I only made one mistake".
I fell like the Ghost Head one, that was Bradford's deal with the CI. He brings him rookies to test out But also, Bradford in season one was dealing with so much RL trauma it's unsurprising that he didn't seem to care about people much, and yet at the end of the day, was still a good guy who was being hard because he cared. Favourite growth arc of the series
I worked 20+ years on midnight/third shift. A large part of that in a stop-n-rob, caffeine was my friend. I once ate a small bag of chocolate covered expresso beans. I mostly lived a vampire's life sleeping in the daytime.
@@OnlyCops I hesitate to recommend it (due to legality in your state??) but an edible could help greatly. Be sure to start with a 1/2 the first time. Sleeping pills are a problem because between the side effects and the addiction potential they are a bad choice, at least for me. Getting old helps too.
In case no one told you guys, they address that racist Tim test in a later season and Tim apologizes for using that tactic. He never does another racist one again
From what I've seen from the show since filming I actually really like Tim's character arc and think the Rookie is actually a pretty entertaining show minus a couple of scenes 😁 thanks for all the comments 😊
Really enjoy watching your videos listening to other cops stories and experiences. I have a couple of stories you might get a kick out of. I was a Deputy Sheriff in the mid 90's and when I started we had old school black toilet seats in the officers locker room. One night a deputy had the bright idea of covering them with fingerprint ink. Nobody really knows how many "victims" there were but within 24 hours every seat was replaced with a white one and every shift got an ass chewing at roll call. The second one is similar to Officer Chen losing her gun belt. A patrol deputy on the midnight shift stopped on a rural road to relieve himself. He took off his gun belt and put it on top of his patrol car and did his business but then got in his car and drove off forgetting his belt and GUN. The only reason it became known because a farmer found it on the side of the road and took it back to the Jail and turned it in. We got to hear about that at roll call also. There are a crap load more but you I am sure you have countless stories of your own. Keep up the good work because these videos are fun to watch. Thanks
Analyzing Tim Bradford behaviour I recommend to go through season 3 episode 11 episode. That is when new rookies arrive at the scene and Tim start teaching new rookie absolutely in a different way. In my opinion that makes him great FTO, because he adapt his training technikes.
I've never hallucinated, but I've fallen asleep at work, and you do get some odd dreams. Ironically I would be great at midnight shift - my clock is pretty much upside down. I usually don't get to sleep until 4 or 5 am.
Loved that show, loved seeing your views on it. In the second scenario I think the guy she was fighting was actually another cop Tim knew or an ex-cop or something.
I made my Rookie get out and figure it out, but I made him run. He came and said what ever the street name was and then I said what block number. 😂 he got out on his own and ran back to the street sign. He got back again and I said what house did we stop in front of. 🤦🏻♂️ when I was a rookie I did the entire shifts constantly saying what street I was on in my head. I just wish I was police in the town I grew up in.
I had to say it out loud in the car the whole time I was driving on shift. I would call out direction of travel and and street. It would have been much easier if I policed where I grew up 😅
My lord i remember my first time wearing duty belt with keepers, i got advice to just drob the pants with the belt, but i forgot i had the mic on (Wasnt used to it yet) and i ripped my epaulette off when the pants went down. Oof
I'm an auxiliary police officer with the Walker County Sheriff's Office (Texas not Alabama) and the belt thing is real. I heard a story about a friend who lost his belt in the locker room at the YMCA. We pulled in for a missing persons call and while we were checking the locker room, my partner said he was going to wipe tomato sauce off from his waistband (We had pasta and meatballs for lunch) So that dumbass pulled his whole belt off and started to wipe. I looked in one of the showers, and my partner started yelling. We caught the guy at the exit, but he was ridiculed by my coworkers and repremanded by my sergant.
This was not the "Tim Tests" I was expecting. There's a channel that had a series of "Tim Test" skits of Tim Drake identifying superhero secret identities based on the fact that in the comics he was able to deduce Batman's secret identity.
Thanks for the interesting video. My best wishes to you. Creative success, good luck and, as is customary in my country, boring shifts! /Sorry for Google translation)))
When i worked security and i had to use bathroom that was public id hang my belt off the toilet paper dispenser and keep a hand on it and i wasn't carrying any legit weapons. Except that stupid little mag lite thats only useful if you chuck it at someone ehen theyre coming at you with a knife.
I went into houses, with interns, where people actually lived and the interns would gag from their living conditions or we went to a small travel trailer for an illness, the patient supposedly had not been outside in 4 months. Fire Department was already there and between them and the patient it was pretty much full so I sent the intern in and my partner and I waited by our rig. As we watched, there seemed to be a lot of movement through the window. We couldn’t figure out what was going on then it dawned on us, it was the gross amount of flys buzzing around. The intern as pretty green when he came out.
I wasn’t working but I saw what looked to be an IED (thankfully it was fake. Supposed to be a training device) called it in. Watched the first guy on scene put his face inches away from the device. I was surprised someone who used to be my supervisor made a stupid decision like that.
The fight he got her in was with an undercover cop. She was perfectly safe she just did not know that. The last bomb test was right after she was cleared for duty after being kidnapped by a serial killer. He was trying to help her get back on her feet.
For the officer taking no action, he ends up reassigned to another station. Officer west finds out, and he with gray show the body cam from the fight as a training material at the station the officer was reassigned to
That first Tim Test wAS ABSOLUTE SHYTE. I've lived in the same city for 35 years, and I still get lost, because I don't know the street name, but I kinda still know the street. I never walk like" I'm entering Cameron Road Second Avenue....I'm entering Cameron Road Third ave...Yea, what a life. F*ck that sh*t. I'd rather be a criminal, according to the antiquated laws. If Tim had just been shot, administer pressure, and call in your gps on your shop. Quicker and easier than trying to figure your location. Also, with gps, fire and ambulance just need a Maps update, and then Nolan sees Bailey again! Yay! Or is it Bayley? John SHOULD know!
I do think it's was a BS test but orientation is a huge part of being a police officer. Response time for resources can be critical for the person who needs them and being able to to not only give accurate directions, but also some Intel on how best to get to your location can be the difference between help getting there on time or not. It's an unfair thing to expect them to experts right out of academy, but it should be something they work towards as they continue in their career.
During the Ghost Head body search, the suspect in question was a known drug dealer out on parole and in the state of California (more specifically in LA) they can do random searches on said individuals and their property without warrants and or warning. Basically make it so that if at any given time when they conduct such searches and they find anything that can be in breach of their parole they have to arrest them
If it's a condition of their parole I could see this still being lawful, but I still think it's crummy. If they can be trusted to walk about in the public, they should have their rights restored.
Not a cop, but i worked retail sales with about a billion and 1 small little camera gear items and sold 89 different cameras models, and id take all the price tags off everything and the first day training would be pricing the department. Its mean but they could find everything after that easily, and could figure out what products they need learn about.
Problem with the bomb test one. What if a random person off the street accidentally set it off had an allergic reaction from what ever the powder is and died.
I really want you to watch Tim during the time chen graduated and he got another rookie who was a vet like him. It shows how great of a TO he actually is.
I am excited to get to those episodes soon! We have more episodes filmed and coming out soon!
Hi guys! I hope you enjoy the episodes, just a little bit, before you pull them apart! ;) Scottish Kiwi from NZ, and I liked your breakdowns, What did you think of the Cop Cutie intros? 'Cos I laughed like a loon. Seriously, I couldn't stop for over 5 minutes.
#Chenford clips are the best
@@byteme5072 Hi from NZ aswell
He explained to Chen why he trained her the way he did
My dad was a policeman in London. Whenever there was a film or tv show with a car chase all you ever heard was ‘that road doesn’t lead there.,
🤣🤣🤣🤣 he would know lol
Yeah, some of the "Tim Tests" are pretty egregious, but a lot of them are fantastic. This was when the series was grounded in a bit more realism. Hollywood has really taken over the series in the newest seasons.
Agreed !
Facts...but I definitely still love it❤️
Yeah, but it's still really good. But I also still hope they return to the realism a little bit more in season 6.
(I dunno if they're doing a season 6, 5 isn't available in my country yet, but don't tell me if they do or not, please!)
@@FluffyJackie they are, it releases in 3 days in the U.S
@@Shadowzzzz_1 Cool
Absolutely loved Bradford during season 1 😂 man was the best TO throughout the show. What made it more real was that Tims character was former military so you could see that emphasis within the show
They definitely made it more interesting!
Fun fact: during a episode dealing with a racist cop, the stop Tim and Lucy made is brought up again and tim realizes that he was actually racist during that. He also promises Lucy to never to something like that again
It always a good practice to self evaluate and ensure you're not allowing personal bias to dictate decision, especially in law enforcement.
But she never reported him and he never faced consequences, so it's empty. He only started being "nice" to her when they started dating.
@@virz4432that’s not true, I believe. I think, after Lucy is out of her Rookie phase, he has respect for her, even though they annoy each other on purpose.
@@virz4432False
@@mercedesvalente8154 Ok, true...
But that doesn't change they did wrong.
Tim was wrong and Lucy covered him.
Lucy should've reported Tim back then.
("Test" what? To be complicit? Shady)
The scene at 4:31 was actually addressed in later seasons.
She basically told him that it was racist of him to act that way and he agreed, although it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. It doesn’t even suit his character.
It was a test and she passed it.
Honestly I just assumed they were in on it like tim's friends or something
@@jestbone89it was a test AND it was racist. two hints can be true at once
They definitely hadn't quite found his character yet at that point.
@@fibanocci314 no they had, it's a reflection of a guy who's dealing with a heap of personal shit and doesn't particularly feel loved
As a former FTO and retired sergeant, I can hear it now, "He's picking on me......"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 yep
Thoroughly enjoyed this! you find out later that Tim was the way he was with Lucy specifically because she was kind and saw nothing but the good in people and he needed to show her that the world can be a scary place. Every test she passed and failed truly made her a better cop!
I’ve gone back and watched the older reactions as well.
Would love to see more from The Rookie and Chenford!
It's definitely on the list now!
Justifying abuse ✅️🙄🤦♀️
@@OnlyCops he does get a different rookie later, who he approaches with a completely different style.
@@virz4432abuse is a VERY strong word
@@virz4432If ypu become a cop, you need to get ready because there will be abuse. And that isnt even abuse what he does.
Favorite Tim Tests are with Barnes. You see a way different side of Bradford, when he's dealing with a fellow combat vet turned officer.
I am looking forward to those episodes 😁
MINE TOO!
The reason they don’t have mics and pull the entire radio out is because LAPD doesn’t use mics. It’s part of their tradition as well as cost. Same as only allowing clean shaven or mustaches, constantly shining their leather gear and no tac vests.
Tradition can be dumb sometimes but I can't argue with the authentic. They do have great uniforms and always look professional
They wear vests underneath
This episode should have finished with the clip of Tim losing his Radio.
🤣 that scene is pretty hilarious
I love that Bradford later on admits that he didnt handle that stop in the second clip well, as well as being amazing when switching styles for Chen and breifly working with Burke.
He definitely has some redeeming qualities to him. I actually like Tim overall
I loved getting all these real life insights and reaction! A good one I recommend of the rookie is season 3 episode 11, in this ep there are new rookies and Tim takes a different approach than being a tough FTO but a caring one to his new boot.
Thank you for the kind words and suggestions 😁
This would be a great follow up to this reaction
I loved hearing your reactions. Honestly the first season was one of my favorites. It was more policing then drama/soap opera. I enjoy the relationships on the show, but I really loved the effort that was put into making the show more realistic. Now that's out the window. They've gone Hollywood. I've excepted it because I've grown to love the characters. I'm invested. However if they went back to everyday regular policing with the occasional big issue at the end of the season, that would be preferred. That being said I am a big shipper of Chenford. My favorite character is Tim. That guy has been through some sh*t! He's completely different now in season 5 then in that first season. Night and day. Best character development on the show.
The show jumped the shark when they killed off Jackson and started doing black ops stuff in Guatemala.
Another police show that started out great and fairly accurate was Southland. Would love to see these guys comment on that show as well.
It was NEVER "realistic" at all. 🙄🤦♀️
They all end up that way, seal team is the same way
@@Tbhnarinever seen this but I need to start it at least
This was so fun! I’d love to see all the Chenford reactions 😂❤
We will add it to the list! Is there a good compilation of their best moments?
@@OnlyCopsthere’s a 20 min video of their whole story that’s pretty good. But the married couple one is a good one to watch as well
Love watching The Rookie reactions!
If you're looking for suggestions, there is a recent episode (Season 5, Ep. 11, I believe), specifically the plot line that involves Lucy Chen. In it, she meets a young woman, whom she suspects is being abused by her boyfriend at home. The plot line is woven through the whole episode and culminates in Lucy having to respond to a domestic violence call involving said woman and boyfriend. Lucy is riding alone at this point and handles the arrest (which gets very intense ).
Anyway, I would LOVE to see you guys break down the episode. I'm curious to hear how realistic of a scenario The Rookie set up considering the type of call, the fact that she is riding alone (and all the procedures that would be involved in that), and ultimately the outcome...
:)
Thanks for the suggestion and feedback! This makes filtering for content WAY quicker 😊 please always feel free to drop suggestions!
The whole belt thing happend to a rookie of another unit of mine. He did not hang the belt on the toilet. No! He unholstered the gun and put it on the toilet cistern while taking a dump. He then forgot it there... It was a truck stop. Gun including 15 rounds gone with the wind.
His last day on the force.
Holy shit..... yeah that would have been my last day too 🤣 that is unforgivable unfortunately
Don't just stand there Uvalde style.
Dude, that was HILARIOUS
lol these stories are great, "retired" Aussie Cop here and love this show, very relatable.. and now subbed to this Channel - thanks Gents.
Thank you for your service brother 😁 welcome to the channel!
@@OnlyCops Thank you and to you )
Context to the Tim Test with the Hispanic gentlemen in the truck because the rest of the scene was cut out. He goes onto explain that he was intentionally being racist to test if she would call him out on it or do what she did and let it slide.
I figured as much, I'm glad they at least clarified that in the show itself
I was a Paramedic with a pretty populous Hispanic part of town. Probably 90% of my patients supposedly couldn’t speak English. What they meant was, they literally couldn’t speak it but they could understand it.
That was about half of my beat 🤣
the van thing was foullllll when she made the arrest he was casually leaning on it with his leg up like a 90s movie cool kid XD
🤣🤣🤣🤣 agreed
“When she reached for her belt I was like NOOooOooOO! What is she going?” - I died. 🤣🤣🤣
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Can't wait to see more Chenford video from you guys.
There have definitely been a lot of requests for it lol
So glad you did this video. I love The rookie and always wondered how real the Tim tests were ! amazing video, thank you !
Thank you for the support,we have a lot of other stuff on the channel and in the making 😊
Pls do more this was quite entertaining and it’s always useful to know how accurate these shows actually are
Will do 😁
When I was in the military, we had 12 hour shifts. If you nodded off, you would get pranked hard. One guy was duct taped to his rolling chair outside in the snow. One guy had not put his keys in his locker but tossed them in his cover (aka cap/hat) and when he nodded off, they let him sleep, filled his cover with water, put it in the break room freezer. When they woke him for shift change, he couldn't go home because he had to find a way to free/thaw out his keys without cooking them (electronic tab). Can't say the guy never nodded off again but he never forgot to look up his keys, cell, or other personal objects again.
🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious and evil all at the same time! It's better to get embarrassed than sleeping through something that needed your attention and someone gets hurt because of your absence.
I love this! It's cool to see how accurate the Tim tests are😊
We love your support 😊
That was interesting!! Thanks. And the last bit with the Chenford explanation was really funny.
I have more Rookie-related questions: Is something like the "Golden Ticket" really a thing? And: Do they do a good job depicting undercover work?
Thank you so much for the feedback!
The "Golden Ticket" is definitely not a thing (at least where I come from). Promotions or transfers are always done through an evaluation process and often times have prerequisites and references.
I didn't personally do any undercover work but there are both good and bad examples in the show. It's definitely more organized then the show would lead you to believe and there is almost no overlap with undercover officers and other units. It also takes more than some dirt and bad clothes to look like a drug addict 🤣
Great breakdown of certain scenes. As far as the question as to PC for search on the pedestrian stop that ended in a fight, in California officers do not need PC during the stop or encounter to search when the subject is on parole. It’s strange to other jurisdictions that require PC or a least reasonable suspicion for all encounters, California does it their own way.
That is definitely par for the course for California. I don't like the idea of Terry stops and think that it undermines public trust. I'd rather do it the right way even if it's harder.
im not a cop and i have no interest in becoming a cop but yet i love watching yall😭🙌🏾
I appreciate the support!
Would love to see you react to other episodes of the Rookie: 1x08 (Officer involved shooting) and 5×22 (Pretty action packed and far-fetched)
It'd also be cool to see a reaction of Blue Bloods. An episode I can think of would be 8×22. Specifically where Eddie saves Jamie.
We will add it to the list! Thank you so much for the feedback 😁
Love your commentary! Thanks for using my compilation! 🙌🏼 I’m from Texas too!
Thanks for providing it and thanks for the compliment! If you're ever in north Texas give us a holler 🤠
@@OnlyCops oh no way! I am in North Texas. I live in Fort Worth.
@@emilynthephoto DM us on IG or Tik Tok and I'll get you some contact info 😊
When Lucy is undercover is probably her best moments with Tim
I am looking forward to those episodes!
“You don’t get to do Tim Tests”
“Well that’s because this is a Lucy….Lesson”
Great moment in the show 😊
Tim is one of my favorite characters in that show. His rookie Lucy actually has a big effect on him throughout the show, he becomes a big softie lol
He is definitely a really dynamic character on the show 😁
"Do I look like a big softie?"
My father, who is a retired cop from New York, told me the first db he went to was when the senior cop handed him a cigar. He took up cigar smoking that day and has been smoking ever since. Anything to cover the smell. He’s now ninety, and still smokes two or three every day.
That's an expensive habit 🤣 more to him though, anything to cover up the smell!
I was in Fresno CA during 2020 and our governor told all the police to enforce the masking and social distancing, etc. Some administrator gave the instructions on essentially a zoom call with all the sheriff departments. Our sheriff explained that CA's new zero bail policy meant her officers were too busy re-arresting the same criminals over and over to bother with such policing and gave him a list of state officers he actually had authority over (Fish and Wildlife, Beach patrols, Forest Management, etc.) It was so badass.
I love your channel! It's instructional and entertaining.
As for the Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIEDs), Chen procedures was to evacuate the area, while transmitting the call from a safe distance, always keeping an eye on the location.
Thank you for the love! Thank you also for the insight! I love these kinds of comments!
@@OnlyCopsComment comes from 39+ years of preparing to deal with RCIEDs and IEDs. As a comic strip once showed, it had a Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) specialist talking to someone on a cloud in Heaven, he says "I only made one mistake".
The funniest part about the "park Fail" test, is they callback to this later and call it a bad stop.
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I fell like the Ghost Head one, that was Bradford's deal with the CI. He brings him rookies to test out
But also, Bradford in season one was dealing with so much RL trauma it's unsurprising that he didn't seem to care about people much, and yet at the end of the day, was still a good guy who was being hard because he cared. Favourite growth arc of the series
Tim and Chen are definitely some of my favorite characters in the show so far 😊
More chenford for sure 👍
🤣 it's on the list
I worked 20+ years on midnight/third shift. A large part of that in a stop-n-rob, caffeine was my friend. I once ate a small bag of chocolate covered expresso beans. I mostly lived a vampire's life sleeping in the daytime.
I have been out for over 2 years now and I still struggle to go to sleep before 2 or 3am
@@OnlyCops I hesitate to recommend it (due to legality in your state??) but an edible could help greatly. Be sure to start with a 1/2 the first time. Sleeping pills are a problem because between the side effects and the addiction potential they are a bad choice, at least for me. Getting old helps too.
Oh, this is gonna be good.
the time you gain awake from caffeine offsets the lower lifespan so your good in that department XD
I am definitely going to die at 50 then 😅
In case no one told you guys, they address that racist Tim test in a later season and Tim apologizes for using that tactic. He never does another racist one again
From what I've seen from the show since filming I actually really like Tim's character arc and think the Rookie is actually a pretty entertaining show minus a couple of scenes 😁 thanks for all the comments 😊
I loved the tim meets dim
Just found you guys... AMAZING
Thank you so much for the feedback and support 😊
Really enjoy watching your videos listening to other cops stories and experiences. I have a couple of stories you might get a kick out of. I was a Deputy Sheriff in the mid 90's and when I started we had old school black toilet seats in the officers locker room. One night a deputy had the bright idea of covering them with fingerprint ink. Nobody really knows how many "victims" there were but within 24 hours every seat was replaced with a white one and every shift got an ass chewing at roll call. The second one is similar to Officer Chen losing her gun belt. A patrol deputy on the midnight shift stopped on a rural road to relieve himself. He took off his gun belt and put it on top of his patrol car and did his business but then got in his car and drove off forgetting his belt and GUN. The only reason it became known because a farmer found it on the side of the road and took it back to the Jail and turned it in. We got to hear about that at roll call also. There are a crap load more but you I am sure you have countless stories of your own. Keep up the good work because these videos are fun to watch. Thanks
Leaving your belt on the top of your car is a bad day at the office 🤣🤣🤣🤣 poor guy. Thank you for your service brother 😁
Heres my list of favorite Chenford episodes.
1x14
1x19
1x20
2x03
2x06
2x10
2x11
2x12
2x14
3x06
3x13
3x14
4x01
4x09
4x12
4x21
4x22
5x01
5x02
5x05
5x06
5x08
5x09
5x10
5x11
5x12
5x13
5x17
5x20
5x21
5x22
I know its super long..
We will add these to the list 😅
he was under probation in the third test, if I remember right they were doing an intentional search for a reason besides just the revenge test
Analyzing Tim Bradford behaviour I recommend to go through season 3 episode 11 episode. That is when new rookies arrive at the scene and Tim start teaching new rookie absolutely in a different way. In my opinion that makes him great FTO, because he adapt his training technikes.
He's my favorite character in the whole show and definitely think of the clips I've seen
I think we are all waiting for an Adam 12 reaction
Agreed!
We heart CHENFORD
23:29 😀this is the one I was waiting for.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 this scene is so ridiculous lol
I love your videos. You guys are relatable and funny.. 👮🇱🇷🚔
Thank you so much for the support!
He was not a drug dealer, but an undercover cop
it's alos worth mentioning, that (iirc), the guy they searched was a CI of bradfords.
That makes WAY more sense
Chenford! Love them 😭
We love them too!
I've never hallucinated, but I've fallen asleep at work, and you do get some odd dreams. Ironically I would be great at midnight shift - my clock is pretty much upside down. I usually don't get to sleep until 4 or 5 am.
There are definitely some people who do much better on that schedule that others 😊
I hate when this police shows are about the LAPD and the Cruisers doesn't have the actual LAPD light bars
Loved that show, loved seeing your views on it. In the second scenario I think the guy she was fighting was actually another cop Tim knew or an ex-cop or something.
Thanks for the support! That would make a bit more sense 😅
Funny 😂. I love this movie & respect to all the good cops❤. Really a scarry job❤.
Thank you for the kind comments. We appreciate them 😊
Based on the story @2:24, if you were on Cooper, that's really funny. lol
Worse 🤣🤣🤣 I was on N. Collins st and Abrams. Less than 2 miles from the north station 🤣
I made my Rookie get out and figure it out, but I made him run. He came and said what ever the street name was and then I said what block number. 😂 he got out on his own and ran back to the street sign. He got back again and I said what house did we stop in front of. 🤦🏻♂️ when I was a rookie I did the entire shifts constantly saying what street I was on in my head. I just wish I was police in the town I grew up in.
I had to say it out loud in the car the whole time I was driving on shift. I would call out direction of travel and and street. It would have been much easier if I policed where I grew up 😅
the nice thing about my job is most of the time if i'm tired i can just sleep on the clock
🤣🤣🤣 I had at least one FTO do this to me lol
I'd love to see a reaction to Chicago P.D., another fantastic TV Cop Drama
We will add it to the list!
My lord i remember my first time wearing duty belt with keepers, i got advice to just drob the pants with the belt, but i forgot i had the mic on (Wasnt used to it yet) and i ripped my epaulette off when the pants went down. Oof
Oh noooooo
The Mexico arc was by far the most fun dumb part of the entire show 😅
I am both looking forward to it and not all at the same time 😅
I'm an auxiliary police officer with the Walker County Sheriff's Office (Texas not Alabama) and the belt thing is real. I heard a story about a friend who lost his belt in the locker room at the YMCA. We pulled in for a missing persons call and while we were checking the locker room, my partner said he was going to wipe tomato sauce off from his waistband (We had pasta and meatballs for lunch) So that dumbass pulled his whole belt off and started to wipe. I looked in one of the showers, and my partner started yelling. We caught the guy at the exit, but he was ridiculed by my coworkers and repremanded by my sergant.
That is definitely a bad day at the office 🤣 poor dude
24:57 to be fair she got even 😂
She's a pretty awesome character and is definitely inspired by some great women in law enforcement.
I would love to see you watch a full episode so you can see all the context
We will see about doing so, it would just dramatically slow down our production process. If we can and still produce enough content we would love to!
This was not the "Tim Tests" I was expecting. There's a channel that had a series of "Tim Test" skits of Tim Drake identifying superhero secret identities based on the fact that in the comics he was able to deduce Batman's secret identity.
That is incredible 🤣 well now I need to look up the series you mentioned lol I hope we weren't too much of a dissapointment for you 😅
@@OnlyCops It's "ThePandaRedd" channel. And not a disappointment. I always like seeing how professionals view fictionalized depictions of their jobs.
Tim went off on her for a good reason just because you don't think I might speak the language doesn't make it so.
Thanks for the interesting video. My best wishes to you. Creative success, good luck and, as is customary in my country, boring shifts! /Sorry for Google translation)))
I didn't know there was remediation I thought if you mess up in during FTO you are basically booted.
99% of the time yes, but there are some instances where remediation can be an option depending on what the issue was
When i worked security and i had to use bathroom that was public id hang my belt off the toilet paper dispenser and keep a hand on it and i wasn't carrying any legit weapons. Except that stupid little mag lite thats only useful if you chuck it at someone ehen theyre coming at you with a knife.
I went into houses, with interns, where people actually lived and the interns would gag from their living conditions or we went to a small travel trailer for an illness, the patient supposedly had not been outside in 4 months. Fire Department was already there and between them and the patient it was pretty much full so I sent the intern in and my partner and I waited by our rig. As we watched, there seemed to be a lot of movement through the window. We couldn’t figure out what was going on then it dawned on us, it was the gross amount of flys buzzing around. The intern as pretty green when he came out.
EMS definitely gets the grimy side of emergency response as much as anyone else does. Not to mention the amount of bullshit calls y'all get sent to 😅
Am I the only one who likes the duty cap? Love the old school look tbh better than a baseball cap
Yes lol
Chen is Lucy's last name and Bradford is tims last name so their ship name is chenford
That is awesome 🤣
The Rookie Chenford Lucy Lessons.
We will add it to our list!
19:16 ive had garlic mayo poured in my ear. surprisingly hard to get the smell and the oil out.
🤣 that sounds both good and bad all at the same time 🤣🤣🤣
I wasn’t working but I saw what looked to be an IED (thankfully it was fake. Supposed to be a training device) called it in. Watched the first guy on scene put his face inches away from the device. I was surprised someone who used to be my supervisor made a stupid decision like that.
Cops are often under equipped/trained to deal with anything that's not a traffic stop or domestic unfortunately.
The fight he got her in was with an undercover cop. She was perfectly safe she just did not know that.
The last bomb test was right after she was cleared for duty after being kidnapped by a serial killer. He was trying to help her get back on her feet.
That makes a bit more sense 🤣 test like these just wouldn't be administered in the field like this 🤣
For the officer taking no action, he ends up reassigned to another station. Officer west finds out, and he with gray show the body cam from the fight as a training material at the station the officer was reassigned to
Oh snap! This show really knows how to lay on the drama 🤣
That first Tim Test wAS ABSOLUTE SHYTE. I've lived in the same city for 35 years, and I still get lost, because I don't know the street name, but I kinda still know the street. I never walk like" I'm entering Cameron Road Second Avenue....I'm entering Cameron Road Third ave...Yea, what a life. F*ck that sh*t. I'd rather be a criminal, according to the antiquated laws.
If Tim had just been shot, administer pressure, and call in your gps on your shop. Quicker and easier than trying to figure your location. Also, with gps, fire and ambulance just need a Maps update, and then Nolan sees Bailey again! Yay! Or is it Bayley? John SHOULD know!
I do think it's was a BS test but orientation is a huge part of being a police officer. Response time for resources can be critical for the person who needs them and being able to to not only give accurate directions, but also some Intel on how best to get to your location can be the difference between help getting there on time or not. It's an unfair thing to expect them to experts right out of academy, but it should be something they work towards as they continue in their career.
Miss the feel of the show from Season 1.
We are enjoying for the most part so far, despite our complaints 😁
8:04 audio muted? did he accidentally doxx someone or something 😅
I think there was some doxxing 😅
During the Ghost Head body search, the suspect in question was a known drug dealer out on parole and in the state of California (more specifically in LA) they can do random searches on said individuals and their property without warrants and or warning. Basically make it so that if at any given time when they conduct such searches and they find anything that can be in breach of their parole they have to arrest them
If it's a condition of their parole I could see this still being lawful, but I still think it's crummy. If they can be trusted to walk about in the public, they should have their rights restored.
Not a cop, but i worked retail sales with about a billion and 1 small little camera gear items and sold 89 different cameras models, and id take all the price tags off everything and the first day training would be pricing the department. Its mean but they could find everything after that easily, and could figure out what products they need learn about.
I'd love one
9:40 well if u watch the show long enough u learn to understand Tim wouldnt let it go that far
If he thought shes about to loose he would step in
It's definitely still a terrible idea IRL but I get what they are doing for the show
@OnlyCops yea with context that it's fictional its understandable I get why it would be icky to people that worked for real law enforcement
Is there a reaction video to them getting together? Or the episodes where she was buried alive? And their undercover work. 😊
We are on our way to that part of the show
POV tim tests: 2018 Chen Ford make she poor luck and make sad.
2022 tim tests to Thorsen: sorry sir. I watch DM by mom ini Marseille
2:40 I would’ve pulled out my phone opened google maps
You unfortunately would have to walk still 🤣
@@OnlyCops aww
I clip mine to the railing on the sidewall….
Problem with the bomb test one. What if a random person off the street accidentally set it off had an allergic reaction from what ever the powder is and died.
That's what I'm saying!
It's baby powder.
Hello friends i am Munipal police in Brazil , estate Minas Gerais and Municipe Contagem Best React !!!
New to the channel, how long have y’all been cops?
We were cops from 2017 to 2021
The Rookie was so good in season one. From about season three or four it became super unrealistic.
I am glad at least we got this season 😁