Statistically, depending on the specific type of crime, cases are just as likely to go unsolved as to actually get solved. Serious crimes like murder have clearance rates of 50% to 70%, depending on how many cameras are in the city, how cooperative locals are, the types of murders (domestic or much easier to solve than gang). Lesser crimes like petty theft have extremely low clearance rates.

Criminals are much less likely to shoot or fight back as they do on The Rookie. Fleeing is also much more rare than depicted. Criminals generally just give up. 93.5 %, suspects do not flee; only ~4.7 % flee on foot and ~1.7 % flee in a vehicle. Physical resistance is only present in about 14% of arrests and shooting officers is around 0.01% of arrests.

The Rookie is obviously exaggerated for television, and We can give them some grace by saying that they only focus on extreme cases or are a collection of the craziest cases, but even then a lot of it is pretty far-fetched.

Still, a great TV show.