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{{quote|'''FBI Agent Norman Jayden:''' Blake, you are an unbalanced, psychopathic asshole!

'''Lieutenant Carter Blake:''' I'll take that as a compliment.~~|''[[Heavy Rain]]''}}~~

'''Lieutenant Carter Blake:''' I'll take that as a compliment.

|''[[Heavy Rain]]''}}

The Rabid Cop is a specific character in police procedural shows who's usually the most prominent portrayal of [[Police Brutality]] in fiction.

The [[Rabid Cop]] is a specific character in police procedural shows who's usually the most prominent portrayal of [[Police Brutality]] in fiction.

They might be [[Dirty Cop|casually dirty]], [[The Sociopath|overbearingly psychopathic]], or anywhere in between, but they all have two things in common: a ruthless disregard for civil rights, and an unwavering conviction that any person they've identified as "the perp" really is a perp (regardless of any contradicting evidence) and deserves to suffer. In a [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]] routine, they usually take the "Bad Cop" ball and run clear out of the stadium with their torture methods. Likely to be on the emphasis of the "Bad Cop" part in the [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]] setting.

Compare [[Sociopathic Soldier]], a person in the military who commits war crimes. Contrast the (presumed) moral [[Cowboy Cop]].

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== Film ==

* Steve Pruitt in ''[[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans]]'' is Terrence McDonagh's partner who threatens Dub with a beating in the interrogation room. And McDonagh starts to turn into a violent person himself as his addictions spiral out of control.

* Van Stretch from ''Internal Affairs'' is Dennis Peck's partner who assaults a drug pusher and his girlfriend for resisting arrest.

** Peck is also implied to be disliked by his fellow officers, due to his unscrupulous methods during his job.

* Officer Curtis Mooney in ''[[Killer Klowns From Outer Space]]'' is a misanthropic police sergeant who has to be almost physically restrained by Dave Hanson from beating up two teenagers whom he brought in for public drunkenness. He later arrests Jumbo (~~unbeknowest~~ to him, is actually a Klown instead of a prankster in a costume) for pranking him with a bunch of water ~~squriting~~ flowers, and later hits the Klown's head with a flashlight, which turns out to be [[Mugging the Monster|not such a hot idea]].

* Officer Curtis Mooney in ''[[Killer Klowns From Outer Space]]'' is a misanthropic police sergeant who has to be almost physically restrained by Dave Hanson from beating up two teenagers whom he brought in for public drunkenness. He later arrests Jumbo (unbeknownst to him, is actually a Klown instead of a prankster in a costume) for pranking him with a bunch of water squirting flowers, and later hits the Klown's head with a flashlight, which turns out to be [[Mugging the Monster|not such a hot idea]].

* Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo from ''[[Memories of Murder]]'' are a duo of detectives who both uses brute force against suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation. {{spoiler|Though he eventually loses his temper after his ~~frustations~~ gets the better of him and nearly shoots a factory worker.}}

* Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo from ''[[Memories of Murder]]'' are a duo of detectives who both uses brute force against suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation. {{spoiler|Though he eventually loses his temper after his frustrations gets the better of him and nearly shoots a factory worker.}}

* Alonzo Harris from ''[[Training Day]]'' is a rogue narcotics detective who had terrorizes his neighborhood with his controversial and radical methods. He is also just a sociopath who has no qualms about abusing his suspects.

* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'': Barricade is portrayed as a "bad cop" cliche when he interrogates Sam Witwicky in an attempt to find where are his great-great-grandfather's glasses for the coordinates of the AllSpark.

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== Literature ==

* [[Discworld]]: "THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!". Commander Sam Vimes tries to do the best he can not to turn into a psychopath. ~~Thought~~ he also {{spoiler|actually has a Vimes-esque entity in his mind to prevent him from succumbing to the darkness.}}

* ''[[Discworld]]'': "THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!". Commander Sam Vimes tries to do the best he can not to turn into a psychopath. Though he also {{spoiler|actually has a Vimes-esque entity in his mind to prevent him from succumbing to the darkness.}}

* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Desperation]]'': Collie Entragian. Of course, ''I'm going to kill you'' not all he seems, ''I'm going to kill you'' this being a [[Stephen King]] novel. ''I'm going to kill you.''

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* DS Jimmy Beck in ''[[Cracker]]'', once causing his superior officer to say, "I don't know what you did to him, but you scared the hell out of me."

* Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'', who has a habit of barking and growling like a rabid dog. And bit preps on a regular basis.

* Elliot Stabler from ''[[Law ~~and~~ Order Special Victims Unit]]'', what with his [[It's Personal|desire for revenge]] against suspects who had abused children. Which is roughly every other week. This tendency earned him the [[Fan Nickname]] Un-Stabler. Most likely because Elliot is increasingly unstable and psychotic. That series will ~~NOT~~ end until he actually kills someone, ending his massive fall from grace. He finally leaves the police force due to his fatal shooting of Jenna Fox in the precinct. His shooting of said 14 year old girl is justified, since she was shooting up the holding cell.

* Elliot Stabler from ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', what with his [[It's Personal|desire for revenge]] against suspects who had abused children. Which is roughly every other week. This tendency earned him the [[Fan Nickname]] Un-Stabler. Most likely because Elliot is increasingly unstable and psychotic. That series will ''not'' end until he actually kills someone, ending his massive fall from grace. He finally leaves the police force due to his fatal shooting of Jenna Fox in the precinct. His shooting of said 14-year-old girl is justified, since she was shooting up the holding cell.

** Nate Kendall in the (ironically named) "Unstable" made Elliot look normal.

* ''Most'' of the 1973 detectives in ''[[Life On Mars]]'' are unnecessarily violent by today's standards, especially in contrast to 2006 transplant Sam Tyler, but Gene Hunt deserves a special mention, here.

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* Peter Boyd of ''[[Waking the Dead]]''. A Detective Superintendent who tends to yell at the top of his voice when confronting his supsects and verges on being violent at times, though usually one of his team is watching through one-way glass and bursts in to stop him.

* Jack Malone of ''[[Without a Trace]]'' is an extremely dedicated FBI agent who would do anything to get information on the missing persons case.

* Several of the policemen in ''[[The Wire]]'' are rough around the edges, but standout examples are Anthony Colicchio, who attacks an elementary school teacher when said man asks him to move his car, and Eddie Walker, who out of ~~frustation~~ over having additional paperwork to fill out, breaks Donut's fingers over stealing a car, and causing a lot of damage to the other parked cars during the joyride.

* Several of the policemen in ''[[The Wire]]'' are rough around the edges, but standout examples are Anthony Colicchio, who attacks an elementary school teacher when said man asks him to move his car, and Eddie Walker, who out of frustration over having additional paperwork to fill out, breaks Donut's fingers over stealing a car, and causing a lot of damage to the other parked cars during the joyride.

== Music ==

* "I Shot The Sheriff" by [[Bob Marley]]. The song is about the narrator who's accused by the police of killing a deputy. However, the narrator admits to having shot Sheriff John Brown after being ~~harrassed~~ by him (for unknown reasons) one time too many. It's also implied that the sheriff ~~stomp~~ over the narrator's garden while he's sowing (marijuana) seeds.

* "I Shot The Sheriff" by [[Bob Marley]]. The song is about the narrator who's accused by the police of killing a deputy. However, the narrator admits to having shot Sheriff John Brown after being harassed by him (for unknown reasons) one time too many. It's also implied that the sheriff stomped over the narrator's garden while he's sowing (marijuana) seeds.

== Video Games ==

* Agent Robert Nightingale in ''[[Alan Wake]]'' is a ruthless federal agent in pursuit of the main character. Though the source for his trigger-happy behavior is explained in [[All There in the Manual|his backstory]].

* Carter Blake in ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' is an immoral police lieutenant with immunity from the local precinct (it's a miracle how) who prefers beating a suspect rather than extracting any information, has no problem with breaking the law during his investigation, and will have no qualms about arresting even an innocent person. First, he tries to scare Nathaniel Williams, a religious fanatic who wasn't involved in the murders. Then he roughs up Clarence Dupré, Ethan Mars' psychologist, who had done nothing wrong other than refusing to admit that one of his patients is a murderer. When the psychologist confesses that Ethan (who's only trying to look for Shaun, his 10-year-old-son) had visions of drowning bodies, Blake then does everything in his power to assure those affiliated with the investigation that said innocent man is the Origami Killer. [[The Profiler|The FBI agent attached to the investigation, Norman Jayden]], isn't convinced, and the two have a very rough rivalry. If Ethan is arrested, then it leads to a [[Moral Event Horizon|scene where Blake will mercilessly beat Ethan into unconsciousness]]. Jayden can intervene and punch Blake, which will prompt him to hold Jayden at gunpoint, waiting for the perfect opportunity to kill him.