History Series / APB

* CoolCar: Part of the upgrades Reeves provide are new 650 horsepower patrol cruisers that can take anything short of a .50 caliber bullet.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Some of the toys that Gideon provides to the CPD are things they're only able to acquire because he's footing the bill for them, such as a two million dollar sports jacket that contains an undetectable concealed wire. Very useful for sting jobs, but since each jacket costs more than District 13's precinct building, it's unlikely that the CPD will be able to afford any more of them than the prototype Gideon commissioned on his own dime.

* HeroismWontPayTheBills: "Risky Business" has Reeves facing opposition to the 13th District project from a new direction - the board of his own company, as the Reeves Industries Police Division has spent quite a lot of money developing tech for the police without bringing any money back in (and as mentioned in AwesomeButImpractical, some of the items are simply too expensive for most police departments to buy anyway). By the end of the episode, they get convinced that some of the gear can in fact be marketed - only for later episodes to reveal that their plan is to sell subscriptions to an upgraded version of APB, which Reeves refuses to do because the people who need the service most wouldn't be able to afford it. This leads to open opposition from many stockholders.

* TheCSIEffect: InvokedTrope. In "Hate of Comrades", Murphy points out that it would take at least a week for CSI to process the hideout they just found and get any usable data out of it, and they only have a few hours until the gang they're after make their move and then leave the city. Then Reeves arranges for a van containing a prototype portable CSI lab and its development team to show up in a matter of minutes. They then succeed in processing the scene in time, though they do end up misinterpreting one key piece of evidence (They successfully identify a location that is important to the gang by finding a point on a map that had been handled repeatedly, but came to the wrong conclusion as to why that location was so important, leading the police to stake out the gang's getaway route rather than the location of their next heist).

* GoodOldWays: Played with. Reeves' new toys may be very useful for the police, but not all the cops are fans, and it's made clear that APB can't totally replace old-fashioned legwork.

** The show is explicitly based on a true story, [[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/magazine/who-runs-the-streets-of-new-orleans.html except it actually happened in New Orleans]], along with a few other changed details. This has actually led to criticism of the show as the real-life event had the entrepreneur bail on his pet project not long into it, which the show occasionally brings up as a possibility. Furthermore, the project was designed to protect the homes of the wealthy versus the poor (Something the board of Reeves Industries also wanted to do in the name of profit).

* HeroismWontPayTheBills: "Risky Business" has Reeves facing opposition to the 13th District project from a new direction - the board of his own company, as the Reeves Industries Police Division has spent quite a lot of money developing tech for the police without bringing any money back in (and as mentioned in AwesomeButImpractical, some of the items are simply too expensive for most police departments to buy anyway). By the end of the episode, they get convinced that some of the gear can in fact be marketed.

** The show is explicitly based on a true story, [[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/magazine/who-runs-the-streets-of-new-orleans.html except it actually happened in New Orleans]], along with a few other changed details. This has actually led to criticism of the show as the real-life event had the entrepreneur bail on his pet project not long into it, which the show occasionally brings up as a possibility. Furthermore, the project was designed to protect the homes of the wealthy versus the poor.

* SpiritualAntithesis: An interesting case as it wants to be a SpiritualSuccessor to Film/{{Robocop}}. Except, Robocop used the rich corporate moguls who privatized the police force and gave it super-tech as the ''villains.'' Notably, OCP gave the cops a walking tank with an armor-piercing handgun, while Gideon gives the CPD less-lethal super-tasers and bulletproof jackets. In a sense, it's similar to the LighterAndSofter ''Robocop'' TV Series.

* XMeetsY: [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] fixes up the precinct from Film/RoboCop.

** "Daddy's Home" has multiple miniature drones used to tail automobiles used by Moretti mob soldiers. Unfortunately, they weren't tested well enough to see if batteries or long range distance would lose the signal.

* ShoutOut: The most prominent cop in the show is a [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles detective named Murphy]] paired up with a wisecracking smart guy who isn't really a cop, he just helps the cops out. For bonus points, the TV version of Murphy was changed to a Hispanic woman, and APB's Murphy is Hispanic on her mother's side.

* FairCop: Murphy, to the point where Gideon's dad [[LampshadeHanging wonders aloud]] if he walked into a police station or a modeling agency.
** Goss is not bad-looking either.

* HeroismWontPayTheBills: "Risky Business" has Reeves facing opposition to the 13th District project from a new direction - the board of his own company, as the Reeves Industries Police Division has spent quite a lot of money developing tech for the police without bringing any money back in (and as mentioned in AwesomeButImpractical, some of the items are simply too expensive for most police departments to buy anyway). By the end of the episode they get convinced that some of the gear can in fact be marketed.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Most [[BStory B-stories]] concerns Goss and Brandt dealing with typical policing situations, such as car theft.

* FairCop: Murphy, to the point where Gideon's dad wonders aloud if he walked into a police station or a modeling agency.

* HeroismWontPayTheBills: ""Risky Business" has Reeves facing opposition to the 13th District project from a new direction - the board of his own company, as the Reeves Industries Police Division has spent quite a lot of money developing tech for the police without bringing any money back in (and as mentioned in AwesomeButImpractical, some of the items are simply too expensive for most police departments to buy anyway). By the end of the episode they get convinced that some of the gear can in fact be marketed.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: During Reeves' introductory presentation to the 13th District, Murphy points out that the district averages ten unsolved homicides a month, so why hadn't he tried to do anything about that before one of them was somebody connected to him. Reeves admits that it's a fair question.

* CryingWolf: The first use of the titular app is a kid calling in a man with a knife who just wanted to see if it worked. The kid later used it again and gets accused of it but it turns out that the kid's dad was committing DomesticAbuse.

* HeroismWontPayTheBills: ""Risky Business" has Reeves facing opposition to the 13th District project from a new direction - the board of his own company, as the Reeves Industries Police Division has spent quite a lot of money developing tech for the police without bringing any money back in (And as mentioned in AwesomeButImpractical, some of the items are simply too expensive for most police departments to buy anyway). By the end of the episode they get convinced that some of the gear can in fact be marketed.
* HotPursuit: Car chases are a major part of "Personal Matters", which includes an explanation as to why criminals often have an advantage in them, even if the cops have better vehicles: The police have to try to avoid damaging property or hitting people, and are obliged to render aid to civilians who get hurt during the chase. The criminals frequently don't care about collateral damage.

** The show is explicitly based on a true story, [[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/magazine/who-runs-the-streets-of-new-orleans.html except it actually happened in New Orleans]], along with a few other changed details. This has actually led to criticism of the show as the real-life event had the entrepreneur bail on his pet project not long into it. Furthermore, the project was designed to protect the homes of the wealthy versus the poor.

* SpiritualAntithesis: An interesting case as it wants to be a SpiritualSuccessor to Film/{{Robocop}}. Except, Robocop used the rich corporate moguls who privatized the police force and gave it super-tech as the ''villains.'' Notably, OCP gave the cops a walking tank with an armor-piercing handgun, while Gideon gives the CPD less-lethal super-tasers and bulletproof jackets.

* StunGun: Reeves arms District 13 with state of the art taser weapons. The main advantage is that you can nonlethally ShootTheHostage then ShootTheHostageTaker, followed by their greater range and faster rate of fire than conventional tasers.

* SpiritualAntithesis: An interesting case as it wants to be a SpiritualSuccessor to Film/{{Robocop}}. Except, Robocop used the rich corporate moguls who privatized the police force and militarized it with super-tech as the ''villains.''

* StunGun: Reeves arms District 13 with state of the art taser weapons. The main advantage is that you can nonlethally ShootTheHostage then ShootTheHostageTaker.

* {{Macgyvering}}: Gideon is able to build an artificial cell tower using a police car radio and various parts his tech team store in their van in under seven minutes in order to triangulate a cell signal.
* MustHaveCaffeine: One of the lesser things Gideon does for District 13 is upgrade the coffee machine.
* PerpSweating: In "Hate of Comrades", Murphy does this to a suspect while he is sitting on a chair that was retrofitted by Reeves to read vitals that acts like a LieDetector.

* PostCyberPunk: Reeves Industries helps the [=CPD=]'s 13th District to tackle crimes and terrorism by providing new gear/equipment. There are some sectors of the public and CPD who don't like Reeves' approach in being involved with the police.

* TheCSIEffect: InvokedTrope. In "Hate of Comrades", Murphy points out that it would take at least a week for CSI to process the hideout they just found and get any usable data out of it, and they only have a few hours until the gang they're after make their move and then leave the city. Then Reeves arranges for a van containing a prototype portable CSI lab and its development team to show up in a matter of minutes.

* TheCSIEffect: In "Hate of Comrades", Murphy points out that it would take at least a week for CSI to process the hideout they just found and get any usable data out of it, and they only have a few hours until the gang they're after make their move and then leave the city. Then Reeves arranges for a van containing a prototype portable CSI lab and its development team to show up in a matter of minutes.