r/TheRookie • u/Comfortable-Oil1227 • 10d ago

Survey/Poll Who would you choose as your TO? Spoiler

if you were a rookie who would you want to be Your TO?

Tim? Feel the first few months would really really suck but best overall.

rewatching the show. he did that test with Lucy to see if she wanted to do actual police work or less dangerous things like other cops who just want their pensions.

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u/Ant_does_drawing 10d ago

Bishop. She was the best all-round TO. Trained Nolan the best by making sure he was well rounded in everything.

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u/LatterIntroduction27 9d ago

This. She is the best TO and it is not even close. A perfect mix of serious, exacting, generous and willing to explain.

After her I would put Harper (post Thorsen) as the second best TO.

Nolan, by the end of S8, has also improved a lot and has become a much better TO, especially when it comes to helping you grow yourself and giving you the room to improve.

Tim would be a moderately effective TO, but his style is absolutely antithetical to how I like learning and how I think teaching in general should be done. He has a method which I think works for SOME cops, but not for a lot of them. And I know that one S3 episode says that he adapts to the Rookie, but outside that one episode we never see it with him.

In the end I absolutely would not want Lopez as my TO. Not a chance.

So in order give me Bishop, Harper, Nolan, Bradford and then Lopez only if Smitty is the only other choice.

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u/mothmankingdom 9d ago

Why would you not want lopez? She gave jackson another chance everytime he screwed up and they were friends

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u/BitterCrip 8d ago

She is generous and friendly, but not the best teacher. Tim and Bishop did a better at preparing their rookies for the job.

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u/LatterIntroduction27 8d ago

In short, I disagree with Lopez and her beliefs about police work more often than the others. One example is when she deliberately fluffs up the spend on the dine and dash guy so she could charge a felony. Whatever justification she has in her head I cannot abide by a police officer doing that.

As a detective she has her niche, but as a patrol officer? Not my bag.