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How did these people manage to get themselves in a uniform instead of being locked up behind prison bars seems to be a miracle. The '''dirty cop''' often appears as a villain in both [[Cop Show]]s and [[Crime-Time TV]]. [[Police Brutality|Brutal]], fascist, and often on the take from the local mob, this cop makes most criminals and prisoners look like...well, saints.
 
All too often an example of [[Truth in Television]]. May escalate to [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]] for entire precincts.
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== Real Life ==
* The infamous LAPD Rampart scandal is easilyarguably one of the mosta infamoustextbook casescase of police misconduct in America, due to the CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) unit which was combating street gang violence in Los Angeles, being the cause of widespread corruption. The CRASH scandal was loosely dramatised in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' where a similarly named police task force served as one of the game's primary antagonistic factions, putting CJ at their mercy where he is roped in to killing and/or intimidating those who get in Tenpenny and Pulaski's way and at the same time profiteering off gang violence in the city.
* And then we have the murder of George Floyd, whose death in the hands of racist cops sparked national outrage and intense sociopolitical discussions, as well as [[Too Soon|changes]] made by companies and organisations out of sensitivity in light of the incident, e.g. [[Disney]] reworking the Splash Mountain ride in [[Disneyland]] into ''Tiana's Bayou Adventure'' owing to the previous ride's association with the controversial 1946 film ''[[Song of the South]]'' which depicted Black plantation workers in a less-than-flattering light; Disney however stated that the reworking of Splash Mountain into a ''[[Princess and The Frog]]''-themed ride were already been considered prior to the protests.
 
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