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Because he destroyed Police Academy property by overturning a car with a cadet inside, despite several warnings.

Because he had gotten into trouble with the cops on a regular basis and Capt. Reed was getting tired of letting him off the hook, despite the fact that Reed was good friends with Mahoney's father, a policeman, himself. He had two options: join the academy or go to jail. He would be allowed to get kicked out, but quitting was not a choice.

Accident-prone cadet Douglas Fackler casually threw an apple on the head of a tough guy on the sidewalk. The guy thought the other one with the bag of apples was responsible and a fight broke out and vice versa.

Toronto, Canada. The Police Academy was actually an abandoned psychiatric facility. The movie itself is supposed to take place in an unnamed American city.

No. They made a bet with Commissioner Hurst that most of the cadets would quit within the 14 week training period. However, they all were proven wrong, even though four of the cadets quit early on.

Donovan Scott (Barbara) said in a later interview that he was surprised he was not asked back for the second film. Andrew Rubin (Martin) declined the offer to participate in future sequels.

Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Michael Keaton, etc.

Neal Israel and Pat Proft, but Hugh Wilson wrote the final draft of the screenplay to give it more character depth.

Just an extended scene after Lt. Harris lands in the back of the horse and is facing his cadets back at the academy and promising to throw all the cadets out. Another scene occurs after when Thompson is unsure about going to the prom with Mahoney, saying that he ha caused enough trouble.

The circumstances leading up to the seizure of their weapons, egging on the criminals who were waiting for them to get to the gate, would have been taken into account, too. Not knowing there was a gate and that it was open displays a lack of situational awareness that would get the academy to tell Blankes and Copeland that being police officers might not be them.

Not at all. There would be waves of pushback from police commissioners, other governors, and likely many citizen action committees. Whilst this author is unaware of who gets the final say in the rules of police on a statewide or citywide basis, I highly doubt this edict would stand for long.

Just look at the behaviour of Tackleberry. He is a walking reason why police departments have at least some psychological screening.

The film's premise was based on an experience that producer Paul Maslansky had when filming The Right Stuff. A ragtag group of cadets from the San Francisco Police Department were bussed in to provide on-set security and when he enquired about them to the sergeant in command, Maslansky was told that the SFPD had an open-door hiring policy, although most unacceptable recruits would fail during training. So the premise of this film is entirely plausible as it was based on an actual incident.

"El Bimbo" performed by Jean-Marc Dompierre and his orchestra.