The Conners Finally Revealed Why Jackie Is No Longer A Cop

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Jackie has had plenty of unusual jobs on The Conners over the years, but the show waited until season 4 to reveal why she is no longer a police officer. Part of what makes The Conners and its franchise predecessor Roseanne such popular sitcoms is their depiction of the working-class struggle. The Conners has never shied away from the realities of making ends meet in modern America even as the show finds humor along the way.

One of the best examples of this is The Conners heroine Jackie, who has been through innumerable jobs throughout the show’s long run. Between Roseanne and The Conners, Jackie has variously worked as a plastic factory employee, a department store worker, a truck driver, a restauranteur, and a life coach among other occupations. Her ever-shifting career trajectory has always followed both a paycheck and Jackie’s changing passions, resulting in a strange screen CV.

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However, The Conners (and Roseanne before it) never dwells too much on how Jackie loses and gains these jobs. The character has been through plenty of occupations on the two shows, but it was not until “Hot For Teacher And Writing A Wrong” (season 4, episode 12) that The Conners actually explained, for example, why Jackie no longer works as a police officer. The conversation came up during a discussion about Mark’s prescription pill abuse subplot, with Jackie claiming she would use her old police interrogation tactics to grill Darlene’s ambitious son.

This prompted a conversation about Jackie’s time as a police officer between Dan, Ben, and her, resulting in the revelation of what caused her to quit the force. According to Jackie, she claims that watching promising kids like