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* Poison Idea's "The Badge", which was famously covered by Music/{{Pantera}} for Film/TheCrow soundtrack.

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* Poison Idea's "The Badge", which was famously covered by Music/{{Pantera}} for Film/TheCrow Film/TheCrow1994 soundtrack.
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"Well, we'll see how smart you are when the K9 come!"\\

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"Well, we'll see how smart you are when the K9 come!"\\come!"
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* A ''lot'' of the songs of French HipHop band Music/SupremeNTM are about PoliceBrutality in the low income French suburbs with heavy ethnic diversity (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue banlieues]]''). "Nique la Police" ("Fuck the Police") is a common occurence, and they attacked [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem Ministers of the Interior]] (a job that's often nicknamed 'First Cop of France') such as Charles Pasqua and Jean-Louis Debré in their songs on occasion. Needless to say, their CopHater behavior made them quite infamous among law enforcement agents.
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* Music/JayZ's song "99 Problems" features a verse that depicts an interaction between the rapper and a police officer who has [[Bigot with a Badge obviously pulled him over on a flimsy pretext due to racial stereotyping]].
-->''So I pull over to the side of the road\\
I heard,'' "Son, do you know why I'm stopping you for?"\\
''Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hat's real low?\\
Do I look like a mind reader, sir? I don't know\\
Am I under arrest or should I guess some more?"''\\
"Well, you was doing fifty-five in a fifty-four\\
License and registration and step out of the car\\
Are you carrying a weapon on you? I know a lot of you are"\\
''"I ain't steppin' out of shit, all my paper's legit"''\\
"Well, do you mind if I look around the car a little bit?"\\
''"Well, my glove compartment is locked, so is the trunk in the back\\
And I know my rights, so you gon' need a warrant for that"''\\
"Aren't you sharp as a tack?\\
You some type of lawyer or something?\\
Somebody important or something?"\\
''"Well, I ain't passed the bar, but I know a little bit\\
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit"''\\
"Well, we'll see how smart you are when the K9 come!"\\
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* Music/KneecapBand:
** "C.E.A.R.T.A"'s lyrics and video show two of the band in trouble with the police. The one English section of the lyrics, in the policeman's voice, explains that one of them is being detained for "damaging public property". The video shows this crime as graffiti.
** "Your Sniffer Dogs Are Shite" is about being stopped for a drugs search and threatened by the police. The protagonist eventually snaps and knifes both the policeman and the sniffer dog, or at least fantasises about doing so.
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* "Fuck The Police" by Music/{{NWA}}, from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton'', is an obvious example of the trope, being a BoastfulRap about a ReasonYouSuckSpeech against the LAPD for its brutality and bigoted racism against African-Americans, putting the LAPD "on trial."

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* "Fuck The tha Police" by Music/{{NWA}}, from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton'', is an obvious example of the trope, being a BoastfulRap about a ReasonYouSuckSpeech against the LAPD for its brutality and bigoted racism against African-Americans, putting the LAPD "on trial."
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* Vincent E.L.'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI Fuck the Fire Department]]" is a spoof of these types of songs, as well as an example by analogy- in this case, it's about a world where fire departments regularly burn down people's homes.

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* Vincent E.L.'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI Fuck the Fire Department]]" is a spoof of these types of songs, as well as an example by analogy- in analogy--in this case, it's about a world where fire [[LastSecondWordSwap pol- fire]] departments regularly burn down people's homes.homes. The song is also a dig at the phrase "Ain't no song called 'Fuck the Fire Department'".
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* Unexpectedly reversed in "On the Beat, Pete" from ''Music/{{Absolutely}}" by Music/{{Madness}}, which is a song from the point of view of a kindly OldFashionedCopper who helps the disabled and lost tourists, banters with criminals, and is compassionate to tramps and prostitutes.

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* Unexpectedly reversed in "On the Beat, Pete" from ''Music/{{Absolutely}}" ''Music/{{Absolutely|Album}}" by Music/{{Madness}}, Music/{{Madness|Band}}, which is a song from the point of view of a kindly OldFashionedCopper who helps the disabled and lost tourists, banters with criminals, and is compassionate to tramps and prostitutes.
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** Other artists that have recorded songs with the title "Fuck The Police", with content to match, span from Music/JDilla to Music/BoosieBadazz and Music/{{Stitches}}

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** Other artists that have recorded songs with the title "Fuck The Police", with content to match, span from Music/JDilla and Music/DeadPrez to Music/BoosieBadazz and Music/{{Stitches}}



--> ''The police in New York City''
--> ''Chased a boy right through the park''
--> ''In a case of mistaken identity''
--> ''They put a bullet through his heart''

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--> ''The police in New York City''
--> ''Chased
City\\
Chased
a boy right through the park''
--> ''In
park\\
In
a case of mistaken identity''
--> ''They
identity\\
They
put a bullet through his heart''



--> ''There are six men in Birmingham,''
--> ''In Guildford there's four of 'em,''
--> ''Picked up and tortured and framed by the Law''
--> ''While the filth get promotion, they're still doing time,''
--> ''For being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time! ''

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--> ''There are six men in Birmingham,''
--> ''In
Birmingham,\\
In
Guildford there's four of 'em,''
--> ''Picked
'em,\\
Picked
up and tortured and framed by the Law''
--> ''While
Law\\
While
the filth get promotion, they're still doing time,''
--> ''For
time,\\
For
being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time! ''



--> ''Mommy, mommy, mommy, look at your son,
--> ''You might have loved me, but now I've got a gun''
--> ''You'd better stay out of my way - I think I've had a bad day!''
--> ''Daddy, daddy, daddy, proud of your son''
--> ''Got himself a good job, killing niggers and Mexicans''
--> ''I'll tell you one thing, it's true - you don't find justice, it'll find you!''

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--> ''Mommy, mommy, mommy, look at your son,
--> ''You
son,\\
You
might have loved me, but now I've got a gun''
--> ''You'd
gun\\
You'd
better stay out of my way - I think I've had a bad day!''
--> ''Daddy,
day!\\
Daddy,
daddy, daddy, proud of your son''
--> ''Got
son\\
Got
himself a good job, killing niggers and Mexicans''
--> ''I'll
Mexicans\\
I'll
tell you one thing, it's true - you don't find justice, it'll find you!''



--> "Those who died, are justified,"
--> "For wearing a badge, and the chosen whites!"
--> "You justify those that died,"
--> "For wearing a badge, and the chosen whites!"

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--> "Those ''"Those who died, are justified,"
-->
justified,"\\
"For wearing a badge, and the chosen whites!"
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whites!"\\
"You justify those that died,"
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died,"\\
"For wearing a badge, and the chosen whites!"whites!"''



* The death of amateur boxing coach Liddle Towers after being arrested and allegedly beat by police in jail in 1976 inspired a string of protests songs like "Time for Truth" by Music/TheJam, "TheMurder of Liddle Towers" by Music/AngelicUpstarts and "Blue Murder" by Music/TomRobinsonBand.

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* The death of amateur boxing coach Liddle Towers after being arrested and allegedly beat by police in jail in 1976 inspired a string of protests songs like "Time for Truth" by Music/TheJam, "TheMurder "The Murder of Liddle Towers" by Music/AngelicUpstarts and "Blue Murder" by Music/TomRobinsonBand.Music/TomRobinsonBand from the nascent punk scene.



-->The British Police are the best in the world\\

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-->The -->''The British Police are the best in the world\\



I don't believe that sort of thing happens here

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I don't believe that sort of thing happens herehere''
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* The death of amateur boxing coach Liddle Towers after being arrested and allegedly beat by police in jail in 1976 inspired a string of protests songs like "Time for Truth" by Music/TheJam, "TheMurder of Liddle Towers" by Music/AngelicUpstarts and "Blue Murder" by Music/TomRobinsonBand.
* Besides Blue Murder", Music/TomRobinsonBand also recorded famous ProtestSong "Glad To Be Gay" which skewers the tabloid press and social homophobia in its latter verses, but starts with a take down of PoliceBrutality against gay clubs.
-->The British Police are the best in the world\\
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard\\
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all\\
Lining the customers up by the wall\\
Picking out people and knocking them down\\
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground\\
Searching their houses and calling them queer\\
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here
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** Other artists that have recorded songs with the title "Fuck The Police", with content to match, span from Music/JDilla to Music/BoosieBadazz and Music/{{Stitches}}

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