Chicago PD

This is a very popular television show depicting the life and times of a police precinct in Chicago. Very frequently, you'll see characters from the television show Chicago Fire on here. This show and Chicago Fire have very frequent crossovers, which means that the characters from one show will appear on the other and vice versa.

Summary

-The life and times of two different groups of people in the District 21 of the Chicago Police Department: the Intelligence Unit and the uniform police

Cast

-Jason Beghe: Hank Voight

-Patrick John Flueger: Adam Ruzek

-Marina Squerciati: Kim Burgess

-LaRoyce Hawkins: Kevin Atwater

-Amy Morton: Trudy Platt

-Jesse Lee Soffer: Jay Halstead

-Jon Seda: Antonio Dawson

-Tracy Spiridakos: Hailey Upton

-Elias Koteas: Alvin Olinsky

-Sophia Bush: Erin Lindsay

Did You Know?

-Prior to filming the show, the actors and actresses trained with real Chicago police officers and retired SWAT personnel

-The characters on this show will often appear on other shows by creator Dick Wolf, such as Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago Justice and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit because their story continues on those programs

-Each episode's title is taken from dialogue spoken in that episode

-Out of the entire cast, there are only two cast members who were actually born and raised in the Chicago area: LaRoyce Hawkins, who plays Kevin Atwater, and Amy Morton, who plays Trudy Platt

-Brian Tee, who plays Dr. Ethan Choi on Chicago Med, first appeared as a gang leader on an episode of Chicago PD called "The Three Gs"

-In the squad room, there is an alphanumeric cryptic code next to each suspect's photo, for example M/1/19. This refers to the gender of the suspect (male/female). The third part is the suspect's age. The second part refers to, according to a Chicago Police Directive, racial identification being given a code number. 1-Black, 2-White, 3-Black/Hispanic, 4-white/Hispanic, 5-Native American/Alaskan Native, 6-Asian/Pacific Islander

-The Investigative Response Team or IRT is the department within the Chicago Police Department's Detective's Bureau who investigates officer-involved shootings

-While on TV shows such as In the Heat of the Night (1988), violence was exaggerated, murders being committed every week. This show is different; there is a lot more crime in Chicago than what is depicted

-There is a lot of police acronyms and terminology used on the show and the actors and actresses had to learn to correctly use the police terminology