 What's up guys and welcome back to the John Key channel. Thank you so much for watching. I'm really excited about this video. So let's just get straight into it. I do get this question asked all the time. Are police shows and crime shows on TV really portraying what it's like to be a police officer? Well, that's a good question. Let's break it down real quick. I do want to answer the kind of the number one question I get asked all the time. Do you have a shop? And in the show The Rookie, they call their police car or patrol car the shop. Bradford saying to one of the rookies, it's not a cop car, squad car or black and white. It's a shop. It's where you work. First, we examine the exterior. Now the question was that I call my patrol car the shop. He would never refer to the patrol car as the shop. First of all, is it realistic? Now I would say certain parts of the show called The Rookie are realistic. As someone who went through field training not too long ago, the first season is pretty true, like true to what it's like to be a police officer going through field training and what that entails. When I graduated the academy, they put me into a field training regimen, which actually the police department that I was at actually followed California's field training regimen or guide, if you will. And it's about three months of field training and it's three phases, phase one, phase two and phase three. Now in the show The Rookie, it's pretty much the same thing. They go through each phase, phase one, two and three and each phase gets harder and harder and in each phase comes different field training officers. Some are really nice and some can be not so nice. It kind of depends on who you get. And if they're having a good day or a bad day or choose to just be a grumpy person the entire phase. So in terms of phases, The Rookie actually portrays it pretty well. Now we understand that it's a show and you have to get shot at almost every single episode and I can't really speak to that because I don't live in California and I didn't work in California but maybe the police officers who are watching this who are in California, do you get shot at every single day? Are you shooting your gun every single day? I don't really know. Comment down below though. In that show The Rookie, the field trainees would be shooting at suspects or bad guys and the very next day or the next shift they'd be back on the street without any kind of like investigation and that's kind of where maybe that's not so true. Depending on how long the investigation goes, you might be out on ebb and lean for about two to four weeks depending on just how long it is. I understand it though. It's Hollywood. Of course they should be shooting at the bad guys because a bad guy shot at them. Like it makes sense but in the real world you wouldn't go back on the street the very next shift or the very next day. Like you're going to be out for a little bit just because there's a lot of things that go when you shoot your gun as a police officer. With using your firearm on duty, they do go through kind of the repercussions or kind of what happens to a person when you do shoot someone or use your firearm on duty. It can be, I've had friends who have been in those situations and it does take a toll on your mind and your body and sometimes it can be rough for some people and some can just truck along and hey that's part of the job that's what happened and they can, you know, they can put it in like kind of like a box of this is what happened on that call. This is what I needed to do and I did it and others are kind of like oh man they really struggle with it and they oftentimes want to quit or really think about quitting and leaving because they couldn't handle that. And the rookie does kind of touch on that just a little bit. I wish they would go more into that because it is psychological and it is something that police officers should be prepared to go for because it's not a matter of if it's going to happen it's when it's going to happen. Front and cherry northeast corner. After season one it kind of became like okay mission impossible style tv show where they would go to different countries as police officers in and work cases down there and try to catch bad guys. They'd be jumping out of helicopters and like doing all this cool stuff out of country. It's not something that you would do as a police officer in my experience and who I've talked to like you just go to your shift you clock in you do your two or three days in a row and then you're off for a couple days and then you do it again and then you're off on the weekend. So it's not like you're going to go work then on your off days your Tom Cruise mission impossible three and fighting bad guys across the country or even in the rookie show in different countries it just doesn't happen but I think it's kind of funny that they put that in there because they kind of have to make it again it's Hollywood they have to make it more entertaining for you and me the viewer and consumer to keep watching this show and to keep recommending the show so I get it but overall it's not that's not what you do as a police officer. The one thing that the rookie did get right is running after suspects and in this show they they do run quite a bit and it's California and of course there's a lot of alleyways buildings and just people are going to run because guess what bad guys don't want to get caught by the police I don't know if you guys knew this but ironically they don't want to go to jail or back to jail and so the cardio aspect is very true when I was going through the academy I would post my journey people to always ask me in the comments Johnny what should I do how should I exercise to be prepared for the academy and a police officer I can tell you right now you could be you could be really really buff and ripped but when someone is fighting you and you're trying to get someone's hands behind their back and they're on the ground and they're like this and they're not going to give you their hands no matter how strong you are you're not going to be able to pry those hands open so the cardio is for real I mean you should be in jujitsu learning different kinds of moves and keeping that cardio up because if you do have to run after someone you're going to be running and if they're fast well then you just got smoked the last thing that I want to touch on on the rookie is specifically the type of calls that officers are going to now some days can be very boring and other days and other shifts it's like oh my gosh we're 15 calls in and it's like the first four hours some shifts are like the first two or three hours you're like at 20 20 calls already and you're just thinking this is going to be a long shift but I will say the rookie it seemed like the type of calls it would go to was always high energy really high intensity like you know very lethal calls and it could be dangerous not that every call isn't dangerous but when I was a police officer I would say I don't know like two or three out of five calls were you know something that could be dealt with just by talking or trying to figure out what's going on and then the the rest were maybe like more high intense high intensity calls some may disagree like I said other nights would be higher up other nights would just be like less busy so uh the the rookie really portrays as if you're an officer in California you're going to calls and you're going to be doing this which makes sense because there's more people in California there's more gangs it's dangerous to be in California or certain parts of California so I understand and maybe that part isn't as much of Hollywood per se but it really can't be more dangerous for police officers going call to call in California versus somewhere like I don't know in Kentucky if you guys think I missed anything in this video comparing the rookie to real-world police officer please comment down below and maybe I'll make another video on it but until then thanks so much for watching I will catch you in the next Johnny Q video peace