Police Brutality: Difference between revisions

* There's a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' wherein George Sr. or his twin brother (or one of them disguised as/mistaken for the other) gets tackled by the police and then one officer clubs them on the head. There was also an instance in which George Sr. was captured by Mexican police who were in a vengeful mood on account of a defective product George had knowingly marketed in the country. He fakes his death and has it reported that the police beat him to death- this actually is what probably would have happened had he not satisfied the officers with a legal argument (read: paid them a large bribe).

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': [[Da Chief|Micheal Garibaldi]] tries to put a random [[Jerkass]]'s head through a tabletop when he refuses to stop talking trash about Marsies during a period of violence on Mars. It no doubt didn't help that Garibaldi's ex-lover lived on Mars, and he had been unable to find out if she had been harmed in the fighting.

* In regular ''[[CSI]]'', there was a variation on the trope. One of the CSIs slugged a perp, but everyone was ticked off at the guy in general, and Brass calmly said something about not seeing it that way, that the perp attacked the CSI first.

* Stella Bonasera has gotten called out for using excessive force a couple of times on ''[[CSI: NY]]''

* Vic Mackey and his Strike Team from ''[[The Shield]]''.

** The show was inspired by the [[wikipedia:Rampart Scandal|horrific scandal at the LAPD's Rampart Division]], which included some rather eye-popping allegations: A bank robbery planned by a police officer, multiple suspects killed with weapons planted on them for justification, actually joining the "Bloods" street gang, stealing drugs from the evidence locker for hip-hop producer Suge Knight, and murdering Notorious B.I.G.

** In another episode, Sledge pitches the benefits of being a cop on the basis that he gets paid to legally beat up and kill people.

* Parodied on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' a couple of times:

* One of the patients in ''Amateur Surgeon'' is a police officer ''named'' Officer Brutality... though, apart from his name, not a whole lot implies that he's particularly tough on criminals. After all, he did go to back alley surgeon Alan Probe for treatment.

* ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' takes this to [[Nightmare Fuel]] levels. {{spoiler|At the end of Day 4, when some of the more-maligned cops get their own demon-summoning COMPs, they decide that since Tokyo is locked down and isolated, that they're gonna disregard law and order (or rather, what little of it remains due to, again, Tokyo being cut off from the rest of Japan) and '''murder''' some civilians. After seeing one civilian die at their hands, the cops then turn their attention to you and you're forced to fight them.}}

* In ''[[Fable]]'', the guards around town beat you if you don't have enough money for a fine... and attacking in self-defense raises more charges against you. Kind of justified in a medieval setting, but still excessive.

* All of the [[Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto]] games contain this; police will often shoot you for hitting their car. You're often guilty of much more, so perhaps they're justified. However, you can usually run over three or four pedestrians before they'll take any notice. Corrupt police officers are obviously abundant in the [[Crapsack World]] and will often hire the player for hits. Particularly notable is ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'', where Frank Tenpenny is a corrupt CRASH officer and the final mission takes place during what are basically the GTA world's version of the Rodney King riots.

* Occurs in ''Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure'', wherein the city has enacted draconian measures to prevent graffiti, including assaulting graffiti artists with deadly force. One early level forces you to sneak away from a scene while two officers beat a graffiti artist to death while discussing how they'll decide he "resisted arrest."

* Stryker of [[Mortal Kombat]] shows police brutality in his x-ray move, fatalities, and some parts of his fighting style. Though to be fair, Mortal Kombat is brutal. He's even fond of shouting it!

* In one level of [[Super Scribblenauts]], Maxwell takes on the role of a police officer, and is eventually tasked with dispersing a peaceful hippie crowd without killing anyone.And "killing" is the center word.Sure, he can just type "megaphone" and make them disperse...or throw tear gas and flashbangs at them.Or sic a guard dog.Being a game where you can use any word, the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] is pretty much unlimited.

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