Continuity mistake: During the street scenes it appears to be fall with leaves on the ground, grass green and streets and sidewalks dry. However, when police raid the park worker's house there is snow on the house roof and on the ground. When the police stake out the same house, there is no snow on the house roof or ground. (00:36:00 - 00:41:00)
Continuity mistake: Ruzek and Hailey are waiting to swap cash for guns. The pickup truck drives up very close to them and stops but then when the driver exits the truck he is parked a considerable distance away.
Continuity mistake: Dawson and Atwater are tracking a suspect at a bus station locker. The suspect takes the bag from the locker and they take off after him. They pass the same bank of lockers twice.
Pink Cloud - S10-E5
Continuity mistake: Upton finds the young girl in the warehouse and while she is comforting her, the perp sneaks up behind her and knocks her out with a blow to the back of her head. The injury, however, from that point on, is on her forehead.
Continuity mistake: Toward the end of the episode Burgess begins to board the bus looking for the murderer. As she boards she is greeted by the bus driver who is sitting behind the wheel but as she begins to walk down the aisle the driver's seat is empty.
Continuity mistake: When Atwater finds the gun in the box, it's sitting on lined notebook paper but when Voight looks in the box, the gun is now sitting on cardboard.
The Thing About Heroes - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: The bulletproof vest and pants Officer Ruzek is wearing change colors from dark blue to maroon and back to dark blue. The same for the bulletproof vest worn by Officer Atwater. (00:21:46)
Center Mass - S7-E14
Continuity mistake: While Rojas and Upton are questioning their suspect in the interrogation room, the plate with a sandwich is constantly shifting position from near the detectives to immediately in front of the suspect with no-one touching it.
Center Mass - S7-E14
Continuity mistake: Atwater and Rojas begin to chase a suspect out of the library where he had been spotted by a uniformed officer. As the chase begins Atwater moves ahead of Rojas with the officer in a distant third place. As they emerge from the rear door Rojas exits first, followed by the officer with Atwater behind him by several seconds.
Continuity mistake: Officer Jay Halstead shoots a suspect and jumps in to render first-aid. As he goes to render aid he tosses his police handheld radio. Shortly after, his partner calls him on the radio - he answers the call immediately and the radio is in his hand. He doesn't appear to reach for it and if he was rendering aid to gunshot victim he would need both hands. (00:19:00)
Continuity mistake: Toward the end of the show Voight and Ruzek are in their car chasing the suspect who is running. Sgt. Voight gets out of the vehicle first and is chasing the suspect toward the stairs only a few yards away. When they get to the stairs Ruzek is in the lead.
Continuity mistake: When Voight is making his "I lie for you speech" he starts talking with his office in the background but the next shot has him standing by the stairs on The Other Side of the floor.
Continuity mistake: Opening sequence, they are called to Kinzie and Dearborn. They instead show up at Franklin and Erie. After a short run down an alley, they call in their location as 3233 S. Princeton (more than three miles south of where they were, and nowhere near the Loop). (00:01:34 - 00:02:50)
A Night Owl - S3-E14
Continuity mistake: When the woman came into the precinct and showed Erin and Voight her daughter was taken on her phone, she dropped her hand after Erin took it. The very next shot from the reverse still shows her holding the phone as does Erin.
Answer: Because he is a great cop and gets the job done better than anyone.