- Factual errors: The Boston Police patches feature a drawing of what appears to be either Fanueil Hall or the Old State House; in reality the patches feature a drawing of City Hall.
- Factual errors: The badges the Massachusetts State troopers wear are the generic badges with interchangeable city seals that are issued to the police departments of Massachusetts towns.
- Errors in geography: The inspection stickers on the vehicles have a "0" before the number of month of which they are inspected. In Massachusetts, they do not.
- Revealing mistakes: When Patrick and Angie are driving Helene in their Buick the rear-view mirror is missing in scenes inside the car. The mirror is in place in later scenes outside the car.
- Continuity: When Patrick, Angie and Helene McCready are driving in a car, they don't have their seat belts fastened. Then for a moment Patrick has it, and then again he doesn't.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the article "Cop Father of Slain Child Vows: 'Never Again,'" the byline credits the newspaper as "The Bosotn Globe."
- Continuity: When Remy and Patrick are drinking rum out of a bottle, Remy screws the lid back on the bottle multiple times, but we never see or hear him remove the lid.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Patrick says "Quincy (quin-cee) quarries" - people in Boston pronounce it "Quin-zee"
- Factual errors: Det. Bressant talks about rolling into a Columbia Point crack house in 1996 to make a bust. Columbia Point was notorious for drugs and crime but was knocked down in 1989. A new, largely market-rate development called Harbor Point was built over it in 1990.
- Revealing mistakes: When Harris and Ashton are preparing to raid the house, they load a shotgun with rounds from a blue plastic box. The rounds in the box all have indented primers which would make the ammo useless.
- Errors in geography: When Patrick and Angela meet Detectives Brassant and Poole for the first time in the diner, they are going over the rap sheet for Roberta Trent. She had some charges in Lawrence and Lowell where the ZIP codes were listed 02114, which is the ZIP code for Boston. Lawrence and Lowell's ZIP codes start with 01 (i.e 01843)
- Continuity: Casey Affleck's teeth appear extremely yellow when he is outside talking with Angie about finding Amanda in a dumpster, but are white when he goes and meets Helene.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Helene, Patrick, and Angie are driving to Chelsea to get the money from Ray's house, Helene says "What am I supposed to do, call the cops and tell them I run cocaine and heroine, in case that's irrelevant?" When the word, in fact should be relevant.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In Nick's funeral procession the boot in the horse's stirrup is backwards, and there is no leg in the boot. This is done on purpose; a riderless horse or caparisoned horse is part of a state funeral. This might still be a goof, though, because the honor is usually accorded to military commanders, ranked colonel and above, rather than police officers.
- Factual errors: During Nick's funeral service, the DVD subtitle reads "Latin being spoken". This was a mistake in two ways. 1) The language being spoken is actually Greek. The funeral service appears to be a Greek Orthodox service. 2) Probably the DVD technician wrongly assumed it to be a Roman Catholic service. But even so, the Catholic church does not regularly use Latin, not since Vatican II Council in the early 1960s.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While Dottie talks to the press, she repeatedly uses the word "visual" when she means "vigil."
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- Continuity: SPOILER: Patrick is in Helene's home staring at the framed Boston Herald's front page titled "Amanda Comes Home". At first glimpse of the Herald, the Boston Red Sox logo is on the upper right portion of the paper. Later it is seen with the Boston Bruins logo.
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