After the training scenario, Officers Wells, Grant, and Reed are talking. At one point, Wells has his arms crossed. When the camera cuts to a longer shot, his hands are on his hips.
A close-up shows Reed's hand changing the frequency switch to frequency 2. The space immediately below the switch is clear except for a thin line of tape. When the full radio/speaker stack is shown a few seconds later, the space immediately below the switch has a piece of yellow card stock with notes taped to the radio face.
When responding Code 3 to the bank robbery, Reed switches to Tac 2. When the radio is shown, the siren switch is in "Horn" and the light switch is switched off, neither red nor amber.
A camera and cameraman on a dolly are visible reflected in the window following Reed and Malloy outside the grocery store during the bomb threat.
There is a group of civilian bystanders outside of the grocery store where a bomb threat has been reported. Even after the bomb squad's arrival, the bystanders are allowed to just stand there right next to the store on the sidewalk. If there was a bomb in the store, and it did detonate, the bystanders could be cut to pieces from flying glass from the store's windows. No group of police officers would allow that group of people to be anywhere close to the building until it was completely cleared.
Beyond Barrett not following orders to "take" the suspect at the bank, Wells, in drawing his weapon, has Barrett, his partner, in direct aim of his firearm, Wells and/or Barrett who should have reacted to the situation of Wells literally pointing a gun at his partner.
The probationary officer Barrett seems to hate police officers.
Someone like this would not have graduated from the police academy, and it's not clear why they would have gone into law enforcement in the first place.
After the bomber is taken into custody at the cleaning plant Reed interrupts his frisk of the bomber's accomplice to berate Officer Barrett, repeatedly turning his head away from the non-handcuffed suspect.
Reed even yells about the suspect not paying attention to his prisoner while he is not paying attention to his own prisoner.
No officer would turn their head away from a suspect who has not yet been handcuffed, especially for something as trivial as yelling at another officer about procedures.
After Reed finishes yelling at Barrett he begins frisking his suspect again.
Reed even yells about the suspect not paying attention to his prisoner while he is not paying attention to his own prisoner.
No officer would turn their head away from a suspect who has not yet been handcuffed, especially for something as trivial as yelling at another officer about procedures.
After Reed finishes yelling at Barrett he begins frisking his suspect again.
In the opening scenario Malloy mentions the exercise is based on a real event in which two officers were killed.
In this exercise, four officers are shot. The real-life shootout that inspired this this exercise, in Newhall, California, resulted in four officers being killed.
In this exercise, four officers are shot. The real-life shootout that inspired this this exercise, in Newhall, California, resulted in four officers being killed.