>>>>BTW though I'd scour the screen for any glimpse of a car decal or shoulder badge I could NEVER discern what city HS Blues was supposed to be. And I don't think it was ever mentioned.
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>>>>Does anyone know? It was a bloody miserable looking place anyway.
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>>>I think they very intentionally didn't identify the city. Although some things make it feel New Yorkish, other stuff feels midwestern.
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>>They never made it explicit but parts of it were definitely Chicago. The police cars are like the ones here, right down to the "We Serve and Protect" slogan, and the station house was an actual Chicago police station. I believe most of the show was shot in L.A.
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>Isn't that the motto of every police jurisdiction? "To serve and protect".

Well not all. I read an article a couple years ago that the Los Angeles police remove the motto from their police cars.