This show started off so good. -- Now it's a freaking high school drama that has NOTHING to do with "the rookie" and all to do with childish cliche relationship drama, babies, long conversations about feelings and ridiculously improbable situations that rarely happen to the majority of officers over their entire careers, let alone rookies. It might as well be Gilmore Girls or 90210. (Groan).
I understand that they want to hype up the drama to make an exciting show. But there's a massive list of cop shows that came before this that didn't need to dumb down the show to appeal to high school age kids.
Heck, when I was a kid everyone in those cop shows was older than me. Now, they're not only younger, but so childish that they don't behave with the maturity required or desired of someone who graduated from a police academy and walks our streets carrying fire arms.
Also, another dumb writer mistake: .223 rounds are not a "sign that the sniper is a professional" with military training. .223 is the consumer version of the NATO 5.56 round. Virtually the same (since they can be fired from the same rifle), but technically different. - There's also no way to tell if a round is 5.56 or .223 because the bullets are the same. The only way to tell after they have been fired is to read the stamp on the primer end of the casing.
Writers are just too dumb to use Google. Sad. Lazy.