This is another typical Hollywood movie that wouldn't go along with the technical advisor's recommendations about real police procedures. As a retired deputy sheriff from L.A. County, I can tell you that most police and sheriff's departments assign two officers to all street patrols (except for day shift). And as for detectives they always work with a partner. There is no such thing in police work as a "rogue cop". The only reason that Hollywood continues to make cop movies this way is that it supposedly makes the movie and it's main character more interesting and exciting. All I can tell you is that the more cop movies you continue to see, the more you yourself will begin to catch the obvious false police procedures that are shown.
*Note- Of all the cop movies that I have seen, the one movie that was more authentic than all the rest was Heat with Al Pacino as the police detective and Robert DeNiro who plays the crook. With the exception of the scene where Pacino and De Niro meet at a coffee shop to discuss why they do what they do which in real police work never happens, the rest of the movie was very real especially the shootout scene outside the bank near the end of the movie. The special effects were true to life when the rounds were hitting the vehicles and no sparks were seen. Most people do not know that all ammunition used in police work, even copper jacketed rounds, do not make sparks when they hit metal, cement or any hard objects. So when you see a cop movie that shows rounds hitting objects and sparks flying then you're seeing a movie that a director/producer didn't give you the benefit of the doubt that you were smart enough to know the difference.
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