The LAPD serves 4 million people speaking over 100 different languages. Sometimes things get lost in translation.

Narrator

They say they have your back but they will throw you under the bus faster than anyone.

Mendoza

Lydia: I'll take dead bodies over screaming babies any time.
Reuben: They both stink.
Lydia: At least the bodies are quite.

The ones with the wedding bands are always the worst ones.

Cooper

Come on, Dwayne, everyone in South Central knows you hate your Momma.

Sammy

People punching each other because they're hot and sweaty. Classy.

Cooper

Being a cop in Los Angeles is different from being a patrol officer in other cities. Not every officer can take the heat.

Narrator

Welcome to the info age. Instant riots, just add tweets.

Dewey

Permission to toy with these people Sir, or do you want them all to yourself?

Steel

Come on Ruben, don't go soft on me. I got a baby at home I don't need another at work.

Lydia

Blood, guts. All fun and games until you're in it for real.

Steel

God is definitely a man.

Lydia

Southland Quotes

It seems like it changes nothing... but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. And that, my friend, is God's work.

John Cooper

Taking a life is a big deal to me.

Ben Sherman