Blooper

Near the end of the movie, during the last drug bust, where the officer next to Joe gets shot you see the bullet entering the right side of his forehead but when you see him on the ground the hole is on the other side.

Amanda wears flesh-tone pantyhose at the beginning of the first scene, but when Bobby leaves her the pantyhose have disappeared.

During the conversation between Bobby and Amada in the hotel near the airport, the time on Bobby's watch is different from one shot to another.

During the car chase in the rain, the same Oldsmobile Cutlass appears numerous times (and driving in different directions).

Bobby leaves the wall twice after hearing about his brother over the phone.

Deputy-Chief Bert's funeral is in a Jewish cemetery. Hebrew writing and symbols are clearly seen on many of the grave stones. However, the family is Polish Catholic.

So what. There are no admission qualifications and since there was already a double plot in his name with headstones, he must have been "grandfathered" in before the Washington Cemetery filled up.

Chief Grusinsky, a Polish Catholic, is shown wearing a Masonic ring. The Catholic Church forbids membership in the Freemasons.

When Bobby is arrested in the beginning the amount of black ink changes from when he left the club to when he went in to the jail.

It wasn't ink. It was charcoal to neutralize drugs. At 0:28:33, one of the cops told the other cop to clean him up because he didn't want it all over the car.

In the scene where Joe goes to jail to pick up Vadim, the desk attendant reviews a clipboard with the prisoner's booking slip. Vadim's photo is clearly affixed to a report with someone else's info on it (report indicates a black defendant named "Robert Anderson," among other inconsistencies).

In the chief's office, there's an IBM model 5151 monochrome monitor sitting on top of an IBM PS2 PC. The two are incompatible since the latter could only support a VGA monitor.

The bullet resistant vest that Bobby wears in the weeds shootout is of a contemporary design and is dark blue in color. In 1988, the vest would have been light blue in color in order to match the NYPD uniform shirt.

When Bobby and Joe are at the cemetery the train that passes by in the background has American Flags on it's cars. The flags were not introduced on the trains till after September 11, 2001.

A poster shown in the background of several squad room scenes shows the NYPD's top four CURRENT medals (Medal of Honor, Combat Cross, Medal of Valor, and Purple Shield). The Purple Shield award was not created until 1995. This is obviously a modern day NYPD poster.

Several of the "extra" NYPD actors in the film are shown wearing American Flag bars above their shields. This custom did not exist in the late 1980's. The bars were authorized during the first Gulf War as a tribute to the troops.

In a scene where Bobby and Amada are sitting on a bed, Eva Mendes is wearing a Hanes a-shirt tank top. The label is visible through the fabric when the camera shows her back. The "tagless" style that she is wearing was not available in 1988.

When Bobby is beating Jumbo up, Jumbo's mouth is closed but we hear him loudly wailing--it isn't muffled.

A sign at the beginning of the church scene indicates that the church is in the Diocese of Queens. This diocese does not exist. Queens belongs to the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Artistic License trumps Geographic Reality.

At the end of Deputy Chief Bert Grusinsky's funeral, another high-ranking police officer gives Bert's son, Captain Joe Grusinsky, a boxed medal that Bert received for his military service during the Korean War. The officer refers to the medal as a "combat ribbon." However, the American armed forces have never had a medal with that title.

A ribbon is not a medal and he said "a combat ribbon", speaking generally. Not "the combat ribbon", referring to it by name.