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In any film or show in which [[Dirty Cop
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== Film ==
* This was a very common trope in [[Bollywood]] films from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Most crime bosses had a few cops on their payroll who could be seen hanging around the villain's lair in most scenes without actually doing anything coplike.
* In the thriller ''Confidence'', two members of [[Con Man]] Jake Vig's gang are actual members of the LAPD, whose role it is to bust in on the scene of the con and force the victim to leave in such a rush that he abandons his money. {{spoiler|Eventually, it is revealed that Gunther Bhutan, the federal agent who has seemingly come to town to bust Jake, is actually on his payroll, too. One wonders how he justified the trip to his supervisors.}}
* In the Mob comedy ''[[The Freshman (1990 film)|The Freshman]]'', the young student played by Matthew Broderick is unwittingly drawn into the schemes of a mobster played by [[Marlon Brando]], and soon finds himself pursued by two agents of "Department of Justice, Fish and Wildlife Division." Eventually, it is revealed that these agents are actually in the pay of a rival Mob family, and plan on killing both the student and the gangster and stealing the proceeds of their crimes.
* The DEA agents in ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' are hard-pressed to explain the brutal gun fight that stirred the plot into action, but nobody ever questions why they were there in the first place, and they are never seen pursuing actual police work throughout the film.
* Detective Liebowitcz in ''[[Sin City]]'' seems to exist purely to punch [[Bruce Willis]] in the face. His comic counterpart would later be seen walking around, taking orders from a guy who controls a guild for assassins.
** This trope is inverted later in the same movie where cops actually arrive '''too quickly'' to the scene of the crime in Marv's story, clueing him in that they work for the [[Big Bad]] and are trying to frame him. He's right, too.
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