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Laverne Hooks is a diminutive and soft-spoken woman with a very high-pitched voice. However, she is known for becoming aggressive when frustrated or otherwise pushed to her limit, punching people out or pulling her service weapon, screaming the memorable phrase: "Don't move, Dirtbag!"

Personality[]

Hooks is very soft-spoken and nervous in situations she’s never been in before. However, when enlisting in becoming a police officer, she is very dedicated. She tends to being aggressive and get business taken care of when needed, since her training days in the Academy and everything she’s learned from Harris, and more particularly Callahan.

Roles in the films[]

In the first movie, she is waiting to get started in her first day at the Academy having already signed up. As time flies by, she begins to progress in further and further. When Harris is kidnapped, and after Hightower saves him and Mahoney both from Harris’s kidnapper knocking him out, Hooks draws out his gun on him telling him “Don’t move, dirtbag”, and arrests him. A few days later, after the completion of the academy training, she graduates with the rest of her fellow cadets and becomes a full fledged officer in the police force and marched with the rest of them upon graduation.

In the second movie, she is assigned to the 16th precinct under Captain Pete Lassard. First, she was given the duty of dispatcher under Mauser for obviously no reason. Sometime later, while Mahoney was going undercover, he was found out by Zed to be a cop and kidnapped, she calls out for assistance, to which Proctor protested, only to find it within herself to knock him out to do the right thing and send help for Mahoney. Later, after the other officers rescued Mahoney, Zed gets knocked out, Hooks stomps on his hand and had him at gunpoint and arrests him. Sometime later, she is attending Tackleberry and Kirkland’s wedding as one of the bridesmaids.

In the third movie, Hooks became more assertive in keeping people in line. She was the first who quickly figured out that her former cadets, Blankes and Copeland, were playing tricks on Lassard. However, she kept it to herself and let them think she knew nothing, After knocking them out cold, she ordered Cadet Fackler to inform Mahoney of the situation with the Governor.

In the animated series, she is seen with Hightower as her partner (even in the 5th and 6th films).

Trivia[]

  • Her "dirtbag" phrase is possibly something she inherited from her days in the Academy, under Thaddeus Harris's training regime.
  • There was a deleted scene from the first movie where Hooks' friend, Karen Thompson, showed Debbie Callahan a backdoor that lead to the top of the building. When she asked why Hooks never mentioned this, Thompson explains she tried to, but Callahan never heard her. Hooks was motioning for her to follow so they can apprehend the thug.
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