Alison continually acts naive and defiant
Alison has a dream of a person in danger, but the dream gives no clue as to where the person is, or who is holding them against their will, etc.
She tells the police or the DA, and they have to tell her that there is nothing for them to do if they don't have a clue where to look for the person.
This happens over and over again. No matter how many times this happens, Alison always acts as though she expects everyone to jump into action, and acts frustrated when they don't. Each time they have to explain the obvious to her, even though they have explained this stuff to her time after time. Same with her husband Joe. He is certainly a long suffering and patient person.
Or perhaps she knows who the bad guy is, but she has no evidence or clue for the police to go on, no idea when or where the crime takes place. Time after time the police have to explain to her that they cannot arrest someone without evidence and they cannot get evidence without having some idea of where to look for it. e.g. "we need more to go on than "the person wore a green jacket"".
Still Alison just about has a tantrum when they don't run out and look for a person in a green jacket in a city of almost a million people.
Time after time she has a dream and jumps to conclusions and later finds out she was mistaken about her assumptions. She never remembers that she has made those kinds of mistakes. She talks Scanlon and DeValos into bringing someone in to talk to them with nothing to go on except her dream and her assumptions. It blows up in their faces because they had no evidence and could not even give an explanation as to why they hauled the guy in to talk to them.
Bridgett the middle daughter has no respect for her parents' authority because she sees the way her mother acts. Allison and Joe scold her and ground her and command her not to do something, and she goes right ahead and does it again anyway, and has that look of defiance on her face. And she is not a teenager, she is just a little girl.
I guess the writers are trying to inject emotion into the story. Still I think this is a weak point in this series. Alison is made out to be so naive and petulant. She sees a person in the trunk of a car in a dream. Then she wants to call the police in the middle of the night to tell them to look for the person, even though she doesn't know which car it is, or where to look for the car, or who is holding the person. It's nuts.
Then at the end when her dreams finally help lead to an arrest she is the heroine and is validated.