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* ''Series/RobynHood2023'': If the sheriffs aren't threatening to shoot random people or arresting a pair of high schoolers for walking down the sidewalk, expect them to be ''ludicrously'' incompetent. Examples include not grabbing a broken police drone to review its footage, assuming a woman who strangled a police officer while being investigated for suspected ties to the Hood actually had nothing to do with them, "searching" an apartment by looking around the living room and nowhere else[[note]]Robyn, whom they were looking for, was standing out in the open on the other side of the doorframe to the kitchen[[/note]], and being unable to find the Hood despite them repeatedly making music videos about their crimes[[note:Including dancing around a car they stole outside the apartment block they lived in while explicitly saying they lived there[[/note]]. It's almost like they're actively trying not to find the protagonists when they can't spot people wearing masks with LED lights on them in the dark.
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* In ''WebAnimation/BabushkaTheMovie'' and the game of ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' that inspired it, the streamer Masayoshi role plays as a cop since his character is decked out in a police uniform. It's not the most flattering picture of a policeman, as he plays his cop with a hick accent who enjoys throwing his weight around, basically being a MeddlesomePatrolman to the crew mates he encounters while being completely clueless about and helpless to stop the actual impostors. After his death the ghost of one of the crew rips into him for his performance, and he tearfully confesses to being a [[LawEnforcementInc rent-a-cop]].
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* In ''WebAnimation/BabushkaTheMovie'' and the game of ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' that inspired it, the streamer Masayoshi role plays as a cop since his character is decked out in a police uniform. It's not the most flattering picture of a policeman, as he plays his cop with a hick accent who enjoys throwing his weight around, basically being a MeddlesomePatrolman to the crew mates he encounters while being completely clueless about and helpless to stop the actual impostors. After his death death, the ghost of one of the crew rips into him for his performance, and he tearfully confesses to being a [[LawEnforcementInc rent-a-cop]].
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Perhaps understandably, their jurisdiction usually ends up being a ViceCity or WretchedHive. Depending on where you live, this may even be TruthInTelevision, though it's by no sane means the case for every police department. No relation to GoodCopBadCop, though there can be some overlap.
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Perhaps understandably, their jurisdiction usually ends up being a ViceCity or WretchedHive. Depending on where you live, this may even be TruthInTelevision, though it's by no sane means the case for every police department. No relation to GoodCopBadCop, though there can be some overlap.
overlap. There may be one (or more) cops who break the mould and are still decent and honest, in which case see TokenGoodCop.
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* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
** While not out and out universal, the vast majority of the cops in the series are either corrupt or, at the very least, not competent enough to come anywhere close to catching Jigsaw. Tapp obsesses over the wrong suspect to the point of harassing him, Matthews was up to his eyeballs in corruption and planted false evidence on enough people to literally fill a house with them, Rigg has no issue with a suspect being brutally beaten in custody, Hoffman [[spoiler:is a Jigsaw apprentice]], and none of them ever exercise reasonable precautions when going into any of Jigsaw's extensively booby-trapped hideouts, resulting in numerous injuries and deaths.
** While not out and out universal, the vast majority of the cops in the series are either corrupt or, at the very least, not competent enough to come anywhere close to catching Jigsaw. Tapp obsesses over the wrong suspect to the point of harassing him, Matthews was up to his eyeballs in corruption and planted false evidence on enough people to literally fill a house with them, Rigg has no issue with a suspect being brutally beaten in custody, Hoffman [[spoiler:is a Jigsaw apprentice]], and none of them ever exercise reasonable precautions when going into any of Jigsaw's extensively booby-trapped hideouts, resulting in numerous injuries and deaths.
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Unlike just one DirtyCop, or a small group of them, Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop describes an entire precinct (or [[CrapsackWorld world!)]] where police are monolithically terrible. Maybe they're all corrupt. Maybe just a few are corrupt, but the rest are so incompetent that they completely ignore (or feel powerless against) the swath of abuse, violence, and destruction the corrupt cops leave. Maybe they're all just completely insane. Whatever the case may be, here an old saying current in some circles has some merit: "It's such a shame that 90% of cops give the other 10% a bad name."
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Unlike just one DirtyCop, or a small group of them, Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop describes an entire precinct (or [[CrapsackWorld world!)]] world!]]) where police are monolithically terrible. Maybe they're all corrupt. Maybe just a few are corrupt, but the rest are so incompetent that they completely ignore (or feel powerless against) the swath of abuse, violence, and destruction the corrupt cops leave. Maybe they're all just completely insane. Whatever the case may be, here an old saying current in some circles has some merit: "It's such a shame that 90% of cops give the other 10% a bad name."
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* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': The server cop role, which is given out to different members every once in a while. They are always either corrupt or incompetent, usually creating bizarre laws just to have a reason to boss people around and attack them.
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Perhaps understandably, their jurisdiction usually ends up being a ViceCity or WretchedHive. Depending on where you live, this may even be TruthInTelevision, though it's by no sane means the case for every police department. \n No relation to GoodCopBadCop, though there can be some overlap.
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* ''Film/TheFugitive'': The Chicago Police Department arrest Dr. Richard Kimble for the murder of his wife and immediately call it quits, with the OrgyOfEvidence of his fingerprints being all over the crime scene (his own home), the relentless disbelief that a one-armed man exists, and [[MotiveEqualsConclusiveEvidencd the resolve that Kimble killed his wife for her insurance money even if the Kimbles were already stinking rich]] (Marshal Gerard points this out, and they just say "she had more money"). TheReveal that the one-armed man, a crooked security consultant named Fred Sykes, was a former Chicago police officer just piles on a lot of unfortunate implications about the CPD's inefficiency [[LaserGuidedKarma that get tossed to their face by the press as the credits begin to roll]].
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* ''Film/TheFugitive'': The Chicago Police Department arrest Dr. Richard Kimble for the murder of his wife and immediately call it quits, with the OrgyOfEvidence of his fingerprints being all over the crime scene (his own home), the relentless disbelief that a one-armed man exists, and [[MotiveEqualsConclusiveEvidencd [[MotiveEqualsConclusiveEvidence the resolve that Kimble killed his wife for her insurance money even if the Kimbles were already stinking rich]] (Marshal Gerard points this out, and they just say "she had more money"). TheReveal that the one-armed man, a crooked security consultant named Fred Sykes, was a former Chicago police officer just piles on a lot of unfortunate implications about the CPD's inefficiency [[LaserGuidedKarma that get tossed to their face by the press as the credits begin to roll]].
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* ''Film/TheFugitive'': The Chicago Police Department arrest Dr. Richard Kimble for the murder of his wife and immediately call it quits, with the OrgyOfEvidence of his fingerprints being all over the crime scene (his own home), the relentless disbelief that a one-armed man exists, and [[MotiveEqualsConclusiveEvidencd the resolve that Kimble killed his wife for her insurance money even if the Kimbles were already stinking rich]] (Marshal Gerard points this out, and they just say "she had more money"). TheReveal that the one-armed man, a crooked security consultant named Fred Sykes, was a former Chicago police officer just piles on a lot of unfortunate implications about the CPD's inefficiency [[LaserGuidedKarma that get tossed to their face by the press as the credits begin to roll]].
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* The New York City Police Department in ''Film/{{Taxi}}'' (featuring Music/QueenLatifah) is portrayed mostly as competent. The ''incompetent'' part is the character out of it, Detective Washburn. Not only is the guy incompetent (the first time we see him he ruins a drug bust and gets his partner shot) he's also a terrible driver, and bumbles along from one mistake to the other until the end, where he assumes the CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass position.
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* The New York City Police Department in ''Film/{{Taxi}}'' ''Film/Taxi2004'' (featuring Music/QueenLatifah) is portrayed mostly as competent. The ''incompetent'' part is the character out of it, Detective Washburn. Not only is the guy incompetent (the first time we see him he ruins a drug bust and gets his partner shot) he's also a terrible driver, and bumbles along from one mistake to the other until the end, where he assumes the CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass position.
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* The Philippine National Police, which is notorious for tolerating unbridled corruption, particularly in the form of petty traffic bribery. They are also known to torture and beat up small-time offenders in their custody -- an Amnesty International affiliate revealed they used a ''[[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/philippines-police-wheel-of-torture-game wheel of torture]]'' on their victims. Indeed, before the investigation by Amnesty International have started, it is very common for the PNP to rough up recently arrested suspects, which is caught on video.
* In UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} during the Prohibition-era, just about all of the Chicago Police Department was pretty much in UsefulNotes/AlCapone's pockets. Even now, although far better than the Prohibition-era, Chicago Police are known for being very corrupt/incompetent by American standards.
* Likewise, in UsefulNotes/NewYork [[https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/181688 during the 1960s]], as uncovered by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapp_Commission Knapp Commission]], the police served as a protection racket for legal and illegal businesses alike and treated black neighbourhoods as [[ViceCity "crime reservations"]].
* The Department of Justice's more scathing reports on police departments are pretty depressing. Including reports about the aforementioned ''[[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-investigation-chicago-police-department Chicago PD]]''.
* The traffic police in the Republic of Georgia were notoriously corrupt. The president's solution? [[https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/02/241.asp Fire them all!]]
* The Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, also known as Chengguan, gained infamy for their corruption and abuse of power, and earned the moniker "violent thugs in uniform" for a reason. They often dish out brutal beatdown (to the point of manslaughter) towards locals in broad daylight (to the point that even the country's [also corrupt] police force aren't safe), smash vendor stalls, illegally confiscate stuff for their own use, and even kill unregistered pets. Some reports even claim that they have connections with organized crime.
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* The Philippine National Police, which is notorious for tolerating unbridled corruption, particularly in the form of petty traffic bribery. They are also known to torture and beat up small-time offenders in their custody -- an Amnesty International affiliate revealed they used a ''[[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/philippines-police-wheel-of-torture-game wheel of torture]]'' on their victims. Indeed, before the investigation by Amnesty International have started, it is very common for the PNP to rough up recently arrested suspects, which is caught on video.
* In UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} during the Prohibition-era, just about all of the Chicago Police Department was pretty much in UsefulNotes/AlCapone's pockets. Even now, although far better than the Prohibition-era, Chicago Police are known for being very corrupt/incompetent by American standards.
* Likewise, in UsefulNotes/NewYork [[https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/181688 during the 1960s]], as uncovered by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapp_Commission Knapp Commission]], the police served as a protection racket for legal and illegal businesses alike and treated black neighbourhoods as [[ViceCity "crime reservations"]].
* The Department of Justice's more scathing reports on police departments are pretty depressing. Including reports about the aforementioned ''[[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-investigation-chicago-police-department Chicago PD]]''.
* The traffic police in the Republic of Georgia were notoriously corrupt. The president's solution? [[https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/02/241.asp Fire them all!]]
* The Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, also known as Chengguan, gained infamy for their corruption and abuse of power, and earned the moniker "violent thugs in uniform" for a reason. They often dish out brutal beatdown (to the point of manslaughter) towards locals in broad daylight (to the point that even the country's [also corrupt] police force aren't safe), smash vendor stalls, illegally confiscate stuff for their own use, and even kill unregistered pets. Some reports even claim that they have connections with organized crime.
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