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** The entire Gotham City police department is corrupt, with the exception of Gordon and one or two good cops. This becomes a major plot point in ''[[Gotham Central]]'', a series set within the Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Department, the only consistently honest branch of the department. Since its members are all personally selected by the commissioner they have a modicum of integrity and competence, but the universal corruption of the rest of their force makes even their simplest of cases difficult since the other departments are stealing evidence, accepting bribes, and often committing the crimes themselves. This comes to a head in the ''Corrigan'' story arcs, where Jim Corrigan (The ''main'' corrupt cop of the series) is selling crime scene evidence on the black market, redistributing the heroin that is collected by the narcotics department, and eventually starts personally murdering other police officers that are trying to stop him. At the end of the series, though everybody ''knows'' he did it, his web of corruption [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|has spread so far]] that the case against him is sabotaged and he gets off ''[[Karma Houdini|completely free]]'' until Final Crisis Aftermath where it comes back to bite him in the ass. And the one time Internal Affairs and the MCU are actually able to build a case against him, they have to compromise their morals and let him go to save one of their own.

** Even the MCU isn't immune. Harvey Bullock went too far when he gave one of his Mafia connections information on a man in witness protection so they would kill him. The man in question is an assassin who shot Commissioner James Gordon, but still. In his pre-Crisis origin, Bullock was formerly corrupt, on orders from Hamilton Hill, a corrupt mayor, to sabotage Gordon's career, but then came to respect him.

** Blüdhaven is (or rather ''was'')<ref>The city [[Soiled City on a Hill|destroyed during the ''Infinite Crisis'' storyline]] and has been an uninhabitable nuclear waste dump ever since</ref> even worse than Gotham. Criminals there who didn't share the profits from their crimes with the police were murdered. Chief Redhorn placed a bounty on Nightwing's head, although as bad as he was, his brother Mark (aka Blockbuster) was

** Blüdhaven is (or rather ''was'')<ref>The city [[Soiled City on a Hill|destroyed during the ''Infinite Crisis'' storyline]] and has been an uninhabitable nuclear waste dump ever since</ref> even worse than Gotham. Criminals there who didn't share the profits from their crimes with the police were murdered. Chief Redhorn placed a bounty on Nightwing's head, although as bad as he was, his brother Mark (aka Blockbuster) was [[Dragon-in-Chief|a far more lethal villain]]. The only truly honest cop — technically — in Bludhaven was Nightwing himself, who, in his Dick Grayson identity, joined the force [[The Mole| in order to bring it down]].

[[Dragon-in-Chief| a far more lethal villain]]. The only truly honest cop — technically — in Bludhaven was Nightwing himself, who, in his Dick Grayson identity, joined the force [[The Mole| in order to bring it down]].

* Almost ''every'' cop in ''[[Sin City]]'', with the notable exception of John Hartigan.

* The Brotherhood in ''X-Men Noir'', Chief Magnus' private task force dedicated to controlling the criminal element from within. Magnus ''is'' dedicated to the pursuit of justice, but as he says, "laws only work on the law abiding."