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The Rookie
2018 · TV series · 9 seasons
Created by Alexi Hawley
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
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Btw does anyone know if TV shows like The Rookie are part of Copaganda? Or if it's just bad writing?
I just tested it with The Rookie. Why is the country list not sorted alphabetically? And why does it show for Germany, that I need NordVPN? Are you sponsored? Because it IS available on Netflix Germany. Last, only season 1-4 is available, not season 5-6. This is important information left out.
I think this plays a huge part as well. My wife and I were watching an episode of the US cop show “The Rookie” and they casually discussed paying a ticket for driving SEVENTY MILES OVER THE SPEED LIMIT. I went and checked and in LA the cost is about $500. This blew my mind.
In Australia, you are very at risk for jail for going over anything above 40km/h which is about 25mph. It’s considered reckless/dangerous driving. Your license would also be suspended for six months. I think we have excessive fines but the US seems to go in the opposite direction.
Coincidentally, the latest episode of The Rookie (S05E02 - a show which portrays the LAPD as highly caring/moral) was partially about a group of dirty cops. Essentially the good cops were (sheriff plus deputies) like: "Cops can hang out together all they want, but as soon as they give themselves (their group) a name, they are destined for jail. 'Never fails'."
Great show, funny how that works out. I'm sorry that it isn't remotely accurate it seems (when it comes to the rest of the cast).
I think the last episode of The Rookie has a scene where a lady is trying to talk to one of the main characters while they're trying to wrangle a daylight drunk individual. The lady intervenes and gets the drunk to sit quietly on the curb.
Then announces, "I teach fourth graders," by way of explaining how that worked.
It goes farther than that. Every cop show has themes like this.
For example, in The Rookie, the titular character gets shot at at an alarming frequency per episode. If cops had to endure so many shootouts, a) their life expectancy on the job would be in the order of a few months at most, and b) militarization and shoot-first-and-ask-questions-never would be understandable (not defensible, but understandable). Seriously, front line soldiers in war zones do not see as much action as rookie cops in LA presumably do, if the show is taken as realistic.
Or almost in any cop show, only guilty people ask for lawyers. And if the lawyers get someone out of jail, it is depicted as an injustice and a technicality.
The list goes on and on. Police procedural, both comedy and drama, suffer from a serious lack of verisimilitude.
Just this week package theft was part of the tv show The Rookie and last December Mark Rober had that staged video highlighting it.
For my apartment complex, generally the carriers will just leave it at your door. However, at this time of year, USPS won't even attempt to deliver packages and takes them all to the office and makes the office text/email recipients (I don't think this is legal and I've complained about it but no one cared) and the other carriers (except for Amazon delivering themselves) will knock and if you don't answer in the time it takes them to scan the bar code they'll take it back to the distribution center for UPS and to the FedEx office a couple miles away for FedEx packages.
This is purely done as a response to theft.
At my current apartments I have had some Amazon packages go 'out for delivery' then just never come. Most recently this happened 2 weeks ago and Amazon issued a refund as a gift card balance. In this case it was just 10$~ of microfiber eyeglass cloths.
When I still lived in a house 2 years ago, I'd regularly have Amazon packages taken off my porch that was 20 ft from the street and blocked by bushes. I never had any plain brown boxes taken though, only stuff with the Amazon tape. Fortunately a lot of the stuff was garbage I was getting for free to review and the few times it was something I paid for Amazon would reship or issue a refund without hesitation.
Without running the numbers I'd say my personal theft rate is probably below 1% in the apartment and probably below 10% when I was at the house.