According to the time codes flashed on screen, Ray gets in his car at 2157, but when the first arrest is made several minutes later, the time code is 2127--which is 30 minutes EARLIER than 2157.
Even with the now exiting-service Ford Crown Vics, the dash cam was always mounted from the windshield header. In the depicted position laying on the dash board in the movie, it would only capture video of the hood.
At 1:28.20, Mandel switches the police car radio off, and his partner asks why they are going off the grid. Even with the 2-way radio off, a piece of hardware called Telogis reports the location of the police unit in real time to dispatchers.
Our protagonists call sign is 20-L-14. A basic patrol car with an "Lincoln" designation is a one-officer car. The correct call sign should be 20-A-14. An Adam designation is a two-officer car.
Holland tells Mandel that he carries a SIG P226 duty weapon but is later shown handling a Glock, which is LAPD issue. Mandel is shown firing a 1911-style .45, which only Metro/SWAT officers are authorized to carry.
Later in the film, the Crown Victoria drives past an M&T Bank building. M&T Bank operates on the East Coast of the U.S. and not California.
At the start, inside the parking garage, as Ray waits for Nick, a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV of the Buffalo Police Department in New York can be seen parked in the background, when the setting is California.
Mandel tells Holland that a situation is "just like at Elysian Park." Although the original LAPD academy facility still resides at Elysian, recruit training has taken place at the Ahmanson Recruit Training Center in Westchester since 1995.