The jar with spent shell casings sitting on Harry's kitchen counter was brought to the first meeting between Executive Producer Henrik Bastin and Michael Connelly as proof of the details that would go into the show.
Chief Irving's office is patterned after the real-life office of LAPD's Chief of Police, located in the Police Administration Building on West 1st Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Lava Mae has innovated one-stop mobile units to serve tens of thousand of the homeless in Los Angeles. The mobile hygiene program offers showers and such critical services as food, clothing, medical care, and job training.
The Golden Soup is an actual Chinese restaurant located on Valley Boulevard in San Gabriel.
Executive producer and screenwriter, John Mankiewicz, is the grandson of Herman Mankiewicz, the man who co-wrote "Citizen Kane" with Orson Welles.