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Rookie ages
Topic Started: Dec 6 2011, 08:19 PM (2,418 Views)
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Right... I can;t find it but I remember there was a topic about ages...

I recently got a bit annoyed by people who have the age-frame all mixed up on FF, so I did some quick calculations :blush: And I need somehelp (Sorry, I am a sucker for numbers...)

Traci is the easiest to start with. She must be around 23/24. Pregnant in High School (I remember her saying 16 I believe) and Leo is said to be 7 somewhere along the line. Easy numbers :D

Now I always assumed all the Rooks are around the same age.

I was not to sure about the TO's, but in a way I believe they are too. Now didn't Noelle have a line in S2 sating something about her being 38? So that would give us a guideline for the other TO's right?

Could people help me out on getting me through this? It's been on my mind for days now...
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Pretty sure all of the other Rookies are around 25/26. The ABC website used to have something about it but I don't know if it is still up and I'm in class right now so I can't check it.
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there was an episode, where Dov got asked and he said he was 24 (i think it was S1, E3 - Fite Nite).
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I think the TOs were all assumed to be in their late 30s-40,41 at max. Noelle(?) made a comment that she has been a cop for 12 years (or was that just from fiction I read)
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Oliver made reference to being "a 30something at a Taylor Swift concert" in the episode with the quarantine.
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Dec 6 2011, 08:51 PM
I think the TOs were all assumed to be in their late 30s-40,41 at max. Noelle(?) made a comment that she has been a cop for 12 years (or was that just from fiction I read)
That's what I keep running into... Confusing RB and fanfic...

But if the rooks are 25/26 they got the Traci timeline wrong. And aren't they a bit old? I mean, here they stay the academy around 17/18 and finish 4 years later. At least that's what I understood...
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I'm pretty sure we had a similar discussion (but I don't remember where because I think it was in the middle of a thread). The gist of it was that Sam knew he was going to be a cop when he was nine and Sarah was thirteen because he made the decision after she was attacked. He could be like Traci. If he became a cop at 21-22, he really might not be that much older than Andy if he has been on the job between 10-12 years.

The other discussion has been whether Oliver and Sam were rookies together. In episode 4, Oliver makes a comment to Sam about 'tell me we weren't that stupid as rookies'. Most people agree that the statement means they were rookies together but it could be one of those generic statements that cops use (just showing both sides, I'm not looking to start an argument). Regardless, we don't know if Noelle was a rookie at the same time and as we see from the varying ages of "our" rookies, just because people are rookies together doesn't mean they are the same age.
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But if the rooks are 25/26 they got the Traci timeline wrong. And aren't they a bit old? I mean, here they stay the academy around 17/18 and finish 4 years later. At least that's what I understood...
I think when they said Rookies they were really talking about Andy - also, if Gail and Chris are 25 or 26, then 25 would be the ballpark age. Also, they spent three months in the academy (pretty sure that is what Chris says in the beginning of the first episode).
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I know it really gets to people, but after having an almost meltdown trying to figure out ages and calculations for other ages, I just generally settle on Mid twenties for andy, traci on the lower end of that decade, and mid to late thirties for the TOs. But most of those judgements are based on the above statements and their looks (which I know I can't really trust given the antiaging magic of television). I try not to make a solid statement in my fics.
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Best thing to do...those of you on twitter...ask one of the writers.
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One reason for varying Rookie ages could depend on their education. Around here police academy only takes 3-6 months but they prefer cops to have a college education often at least 40 to 60 college credits in criminal justice or something similiar. So Rookie ages can differ based on what they did before going to Police Academy. Those that know may have joined academy as early as possible while others may have done more college.
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Diaz said he spent the last 3 months at the academy to prepare himself.

My friends did the 3 year Police foundations diploma at Centennial College, but didn't continue on. I think Police training at the Academy in Toronto/Ontario was 20 weeks or so is what my friend who was trying to get into TPS said.
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Dec 6 2011, 10:16 PM
One reason for varying Rookie ages could depend on their education. Around here police academy only takes 3-6 months but they prefer cops to have a college education often at least 40 to 60 college credits in criminal justice or something similiar. So Rookie ages can differ based on what they did before going to Police Academy. Those that know may have joined academy as early as possible while others may have done more college.
I was just going to write that I think Andy, Dov, and Gail all went to college before academy. I don't think Traci did, so I think she's at least a couple years younger than the other rookies. I'm not sure about Chris. He could be more Traci's age and not with a 4-year college degree. He definitely seems closer to high school mentality, not just because he's from a very small town either.

I think Sam went into the academy without going to college first. Luke definitely went to college, as that's the only way he could have made Homicide detective so young. A always picture him as 2-3 years younger than Sam. I think Sam and Ollie started together, but Oliver is probably older by a couple years. Noelle could be the same age as either Sam or Oliver, not sure about that.

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@LAWoman. I feel the same way. Esp about Andy, Dov, Sam and Luke. The others I'm not really sure i thought much about, although, given that we knew more about Traci's age, I always just assumed she went straight into the academy. but I also agree about Chris, mostly because that just feels right. He does seem a little less....worldly, i guess. Although im not sure that's exactly the word im looking for.

And I don't think superintendent Peck would let her daughter enter the profession without every possible advantage....which means she'd also have some sort of degree.
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from shaw/matt gordon's page in the forum.

Matt was was interviewed
Q) We've heard references before to Sam & Ollie being rookies at the same time, will we be learning more about that? Maybe a flashback episode?

A) Ben [Bass] and I work on the premise that we've known each other for a really long time. Very often in the series, even in the first and quite a bit in the second, I refer to him a lot as brother because we've probably known each other for fifteen or twenty years and we did come up together.
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@sillygyrl8 - good find!! I wonder if the writers are going to follow that assumption.
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I am so sure that somewhere in S2 Noelle says something about here age (somewhere in the conversation with Frank when she tells him she understands why he would not want to be with her "we haven't even kissed yet", that conversation...)...
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Noelle in 2.11 said she was 38
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Noelle in 2.11 said she was 38
I knew it! I knew it!

And it was in a conversation with Frank right?!
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