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* Stephen King's ''Under the Dome''. The Chester's Mill 'police' hired by the town's tyrannical second selectman beat, shoot, {{spoiler|rape}}, and kill whoever they want to without any real fear of retribution.
* Occurs in ''[[Wise Blood]]'', in two plot-crucial moments. First, an officer pulls Hazel Motes over for driving without a license, then destroys Hazel's car by pushing it over an embankment. Second, two police officers find Hazel lying in a ditch, barely conscious. When they tell him that his landlady wants him to return, he says he doesn't want to, so they club him the rest of the way into unconsciousness and load him into their car. {{spoiler|Hazel dies on the way back to his apartment.}}
* ''[[Stone Butch Blues]]'' largely describes the way gays were treated in the pre-Stonewall era; [[Truth In Television]] is that police brutality against minorities was common, but the police were notorious for their inaction when these same minorities were victimised by crime.
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