User Reviews

I was just enjoying the first quarter of the show, thinking it was nice, getting them back to routine "real" police cases, albeit in their new roles (achieved unrealistically quickly). Then Nolan got into a discussion with his boot (Celina Juarez) about things police officers do to ensure things go well. Juarez had used sage in the car. Nolan responded by saying that officers were a superstitious group, for instance, he said, a lot of officers wore St. Christopher medals. Believing in God and in the saints is not a "superstition"! Nolan not washing his hockey jersey to keep winning IS a superstition. I'm not religious, but I respect those who are. So much for my enjoyment of the episode. That's a typical Hollywood offensive comment about those who are religious and, while hardly surprising, is galling nonetheless.

Then Juarez made a stop without "probable cause." For starters, that's not even the standard for making an investigatory vehicle stop. The standard is a lesser "reasonable suspicion." In such a situation, officers are permitted to make "commonsense judgments and inferences about human behavior." [Wardlow, 528 U. S. 119]. You'd think the writers of a cop show would know such a basic fact, considering the way they throw around "fruit of the poisonous tree," but then many commentators here and elsewhere have bemoaned the sorry state of writing in Hollywood today.

Regardless of the standard, that's something I've never totally gotten. Taxpayers spend all this money to train officers and develop their instincts and then they are not allowed to use those instincts that they've spent years developing. Later, Nolan briefly references an officer's trained "intuition" (which the boot doesn't yet have), but then goes on to make a speech basically disparaging the concept. (He does relent somewhat at the end based on Juarez's real-life experience.)

And all the others being angry and blaming Nolan and Juarez for not being able to use the evidence from the car? They are still better off than they would have been if Juarez had NOT stopped the car.

It would also be nice if the writers made ANY attempt to mirror what's happening with the real L. A. police and prosecutors. Generally, they are portraying the exact opposite. At the very least, they are certainly ignoring the reality of what's going on.

Also, I am grateful that, while they've added another ethnic brunette, at least I can tell her apart from the other two. I've watched this show from the start, and I still get Chen and Lopez mixed up. I like Juarez's character too.

Last, I'll add my vote to others: Wrap up this annoying Rosalind story line!

The new "boot" broke the first rule with the "dark aura" bs, and the second, more deadly rule of leaving her partner and going after a suspect on her first day, and damn near getting killed. She should've been dropped right then, but instead they decide to make this a teachable moment. There's no such thing when lives are at stake.

Any real life situation like this would've resulted in the immediate dismissal of a seriously flawed rookie candidate. One more episode like this, and the show will be done.

Oh and the Rosalind story line is taking way too long to teach its conclusion. Get it over with.

And the Los Angeles PD would allow mentally ill people to become officers. Not sure why the writers would come up with such nonsense. Her character was annoying from the first moment. And even for show standards, this was unrealistic. I mean you either try to be authentic or go full Once Upon a Time. Her character doesn't fit at all. An AI could have written a better script.

And the Los Angeles PD would allow mentally ill people to become officers. Not sure why the writers would come up with such nonsense. Her character was annoying from the first moment. And even for show standards, this was unrealistic. I mean you either try to be authentic or go full Once Upon a Time. Her character doesn't fit at all. An AI could have written a better script.

Really? We need a numpty feelings cop? I and not just a feelings cop but a mystical aura cop.

Reality, she washes out day 1 or even more reality she never gets through the academy because people like that don't make it throigh training.

It's not just the feelings it's the running off on your own half cocked, again reality check she is dead because that's what happens to people with olno experience that can't follow standard operating procedure and have no real skills.

You know a programme has reached the end of useful life when they introduce story lines like this or the stories don't work without characters being personally involved in the crimes.