The reality show "The Academy"

[Regulus]

What is the current attrition rate at the academy now? It seems more make it through than in times past. My class LASD#191 started with 106 Cadets. We graduated with 66.

Now it seems most graduate.

Wow... almost half the class?

I think the attrition rate has been much less than that for decades. IIRC, my class LASD #259 didn't lose a single one.

[Fire in the Hole]

My class 197 lost about 50% too. And less than half of them were still on the job after 5 years. Including me.

[Bizcuits]

Checked it out on Hulu, will definitely watch it later tomorrow.

[fullrearview]

we started with 65 and finished with 37. Great class though. class before us started with 75 finished with 17. 3 of those who failed previous, passed with us.

[scombs263]

Academy

How close is this to resembling the actual sheriff's academy?

What parts are similar and what parts are different? Are some of the recruits really as slow (both mentally and physically) as the TV show makes them seem?

There really needs to be a show about the Orange County Sheriffs Academy. That is how an academy should be run. It is night and day difference with what you have seen on TV.

[Fire in the Hole]

Funny, you never hear much about them as an agency. I think partly because most of OC is incorporated, and with the large tax bases all the cities can afford their own P.D.s

Take San Francisco Co. Every square inch of SF Co. is incorporated. I've got frfiends who've lived there entire lives in SF, and have never seen or heard of one. Their job must dedicated the courts unless SF runs a separate Marshalls Office, and custody. Anybody know? Nevermind, I just looked their website. 800 employees Limited to running the 6 Co. Jails, Court Baliffs, and Warrant Service.

[SkyStorm82]

Funny, you never hear much about them as an agency. I think partly because most of OC is incorporated, and with the large tax bases all the cities can afford their own P.D.s

You can say that again...

[retired]

Plus, OC's uniforms are something else

I first met some OC deputies in 1978 when I was riding out of Idt. on a 3 month program from the jail (PEP). We were in Diamond Bar on a traffic accident on ems.

The car had gone off the road and into the trees. This occurred on Brea Canyon Rd. near the OC line. My T.O. and I were in this area when suddenly I saw 2 guys in green uniforms walking in the same area. I asked my partner why the forest service was there and he told me they were OC deputies.

He told me to go look at their patches to confirm it. Well I did so and saw they were in fact deputies, but I could not believe the symbol they had on the patch: It was an ORANGE!!! That's right; it was a fruit!. I guess there was nothing left since we had taken the bear.

I returned to my T.O. without laughing, tho I wanted to and under my breath to him I laughed. He thought it was funny also.

I'm just joking around and if anyone here is an OC deputy, please realize this. My former neighbor was an OC deputy, then sgt. and I had a lot of respect for him and his dept.

The physical agility test for them is by far the hardest one I ever took. Running in that sand was energy sapping to say the least.

[SkyStorm82]

Pickle suits

[Jonathan Doe]

My class started with 80 and graduated 63.

[scombs263]

OCSD

There really needs to be a show about the Orange County Sheriffs Academy. That is how an academy should be run. It is night and day difference with what you have seen on TV.

OCSA is one of the last HIGH STRESS academies in the state of california. I went there back in 90's and it was hard core. They pride themselves on how many they can get to fail or quit. I think that they usually lose 30-40% of all recruits. My buddy went there about 5 years ago and asked what was it like and what to expect, I told him to watch the series on Navy Seal training on cable tv, it is kind of like that, but not as hard core, he thought I was joking. When he went there, he understood what I was getting at. That academy expects nothing but the best from you and doesnt settle for average, they pride themselves as only passing solid officers. I'm not saying that other academies dont, just this one really pushes it to another level.

[SoCalDep]

I work up in the AV, and while not one of the chosen few who work/worked 21/03/02, I like the unique challenges of the area.

I know a lot of good guys from the above stations, and some of the best people I've ever met work the AV. We may not have the homicide stats, but that might have something to do with our arrest stats...

[Fire in the Hole]

Does the OCSO train all the P.D.'s in OC?

[Ron-Solo]

Do you think "The Academy" was a good recruitment tool for potential candiates, or did the severity of some of the episodes scare more away than it attracted? Adam12, Police Story, SWAT, the short lived 240Robert, and CHiPs paid off in aces as recruitment tools, but of course were much softer. CHiPs was of course Fantasyland, but it had an international audience, and sure sold like hotcakes.

It helped recruitment, which wa a good thing.

If I remember correctly, our class (190) started with somewhere in the vicinity of 135-140 and graduated 89. At our 30 reunion last August, 26 were still active. Sadly, over 10 of those who graduated are deceased.

[Ron-Solo]

There really needs to be a show about the Orange County Sheriffs Academy. That is how an academy should be run. It is night and day difference with what you have seen on TV.

Orange County has an academy? Just kidding.....


Like I said earlier, take what you see on TV with a grain of salt.