Hindi says “keep the noise down” and teaches banding your keys together as a means of noise reduction. Hooker has his keys dangling from his duty belt. Hindi, a real international instructor in both PR-24 and expandable baton, advocates keeping your baton in your hand and use it to control resistive subjects. Hooker advocates the “PR-24 throw” to take down fleeing suspects. See if you recognize any of the idiosyncrasies of the fictional TJ Hooker character. So here’s a tongue-in-cheek 10-point side-by-side comparison of Hooker vs. decides to venture out on a series of investigations first with a rookie partner, Officer Vince Romano, and later in a solo squad. The series is unclear how he gets assigned to the academy precinct as both a street cop and a trainer. Hooker, decided to relinquish his plainclothes position after his partner is killed during a bank robbery response and go back in uniform as a street boss to “rid the streets” of the vermin who killed his partner. In the show’s premier, LCPD Detective Sgt. Hindi, Officer, LVMPD, took care of business. However, I’ve began taking another look at the program, this time through another set of eyes-tactical rather than entertainment.Īnd I also thought it might be neat to look how the fictional cop/trainer, Thomas Jefferson (TJ) Hooker, Sgt., LCPD, handled things compared to how a real-life cop/trainer, Robert C. I have to admit, I did enjoy the show when I had occasion to watch it. It originally ran from mid-March 1982 through late May 1986 on two different networks, ABC (1982 – 1985) and CBS (1985 – 1986). Hooker” has resurfaced on an oldies TV channel down here in Paradise. Recently, I’ve noticed that the 80s cop show “T.J. We’ve trained together, taught together, and I had the honor of co-authoring, along with my Street Survival Seminar teaching partner, Bob Willis, Hindi’s excellent training manual, The Hindi Duty Belt SAFETY System.

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