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Hondo put in motion the C.O.P.E program. It was a program where civilians take mental health calls. This frees up the police. They save time as well as resources and it will lead to less shootings because in all honesty the police aren’t equipped to handle mental health calls. They aren’t trained to deescalate. But Hondo as a police officer recognizes that.

Its why he came up with the COPE program and its why Nichelle is involved. Nichelle was holding the first meeting for the program at her community center. She was later running a meeting when she got a call from the adoption agency and so she had to go because the birth mother went into labor. And so Hondo was running the meeting until he too was called away.

Hondo and his team were called in after a prisoner managed to escape his detail at a hospital. The prisoner was Joey Barratta. Barratta is dying of a brain tumor and so his guards knew this. They therefore thought his fake medical episode was the end.

They took him to the hospital to get treatment and unfortunately that’s where his accomplice was waiting. The accomplice gave Rocker what he needed to wake up. He also pulled a gun on the doctor and they created a bomb to go off after they left the room. And so the two of them got away after everyone was recovering from the explosion.

The team knew that Barratta probably had several stash houses from before he went to prison. They had no idea about his resources and so they contacted ATF because it was ATF that captured him the first time. The team was later joined by ATF Special Agent Ray Kaminski, but Kaminski had history with Hicks and the two men hated each other.

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LAPD Officer Alexis Cabrera was hazed. She and other SWAT recruits or at least female ones had found their lockers filled with tampons and it’s amazing how anyone thought they could get away with that in this day and age. Yet, Cabrera wasn’t the one to make a complaint. The only reason Deacon found out about it is that he heard it through the grapevine. He then got angry. He made sure the guys responsible cleaned up the mess and most of the women targeted never even knew what occurred. It was just Cabrera that knew. Chris also found out about it by witnessing the men cleaning up the tampons and so she promised herself that she would talk to Cabrera at the end of her shift.

What no one counted on was that a cyberattack would first happen. Hondo and his team were out on a call responding officers in trouble when they lost connection with Command and they had to rely on their old ways to get out of a tough spot. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get the bad guys because someone warned them to make a run for it. The same person that warned the gang was the person behind the cyberattack. Also known as Shadowboxx. It was his screen name. He was selling information to the bad guys and he could be jeopardizing undercover officers. Commander Hicks ultimately decided to take SWAT offline.

They were going to do everything by hand. Only the thing about that is the fact it’s so much harder. They had to rely on eyes and hands and that didn’t always work out. Chris took time from the cyberattack case to check in with Cabrera. Cabrera said she was fine. She also said she doesn’t want to talk about it. She just wants to be left alone. The hazing thing with her had brought back memories for everyone. Tan remembered when someone left him a dim sum in his chair once. Chris remembered when they took her clothes while she was in the shower and how she had to walk back naked. And Street remembered doing that exact same thing to someone else.

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