History Main / TakenOffTheCase

* ''LetsPlay/{{Captainsauce}}'': In his "The Life Of Kevin" ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' play-through, during the Llama Man arc, Kevin is working as a detective investigating a crime. When it becomes apparent that the suspect is the Goth's daughter, he tries to arrest her but is prevented from doing so. The next day, he's taken off the case and given a new one. Captain decided that this was the result of a conspiracy and that the cops and the Goths were working together.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

** ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Catherine was taken off a Sam Braun case by Grissom, once it was known he was Catherine's father.

*** Horatio took himself off a case in which a woman he'd been out with two nights prior was found dead and he was the last person known to have seen her alive.
*** H told Eric to stay out of the case of Marisol's marijuana purchase.

*** Mac took Danny off a case because it turned out the dead guy wasn't murdered. Danny didn't buy it easily and kept at it, only for Mac to chew him out later.

* The case got too big and [[JurisdictionFriction had to be handed to the FBI or by another agency that has a huge stake in it]].

* ''Series/AlienNation'': In the episode "The Game" both Sikes and Francisco are investigating a series of Newcomer deaths but are pulled off the case by Captain Granger when Francisco cannot control his emotions in the presence of the Overseer who murdered his brother. This does not stop Francisco from continuing to pursue the leads and find that the Overseer had indeed caused the deaths of several Newcomers on Earth.

* The season 4 finale of ''Series/BlueBloods'' has the government conspiracy type. Danny and Baez work a woman's homicide with the District Attorney's Investigators, and Danny has a massive verbal quarrel with one of them. He eventually gets taken off the case on orders from [=1PP=]. The DA investigator with whom he quarreled did ''not'' file a complaint, but an ADA for whom he works. Said ADA was not running a prostitution sting op, but rather an entrapment, to collect blackmail material of high-profile figures, such as celebrities, famous athletes and high-ranking officials[[spoiler:, including the Chief of Department]].

** In "The Past in the Present", serial killer and longtime nemesis Christopher Pelant manages to implicate Brennan in the murder of a former colleague of hers who made schizophrenic threats towards hers and Booth's daughter. After Pelant pushes Booth to assault him, that and the evidence gets both Brennan and Booth taken off the case, with Booth suspended from the FBI altogether. The new agent assigned takes Sweets (for his biased defense of Brennan) and Caroline (since she received a sum of money from Brennan's account, courtesy of Pelant's hacking) off the case as well. [[spoiler: This forces Brennan to go into hiding with her father and daughter.]]

** The game sees the player put on the titular case due to this happening to the original detective. Steve Lowry supposedly caught the man behind the "Skeleton Murders", but it wasn't until the suspect was stabbed to death in prison that they realized he was the wrong guy, and that he was only ever deemed guilty in court was because Lowry royally screwed up his case. The game starts with DaChief reassigning the case onto [[PlayerCharacter Halligan]], much to [[TheRival Lowry's]] recurring disdain.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona2 Eternal Punishment'', Katsuya Suou is removed from the JOKER serial killings case by his superior after delivering a report that included that JOKER was a demon summoner. He continues working on the case on his own with the support of the party, even after threatening to have [[TurnInYourBadge his badge removed]]. It turned out to be quite a good call, since said superiors [[spoiler:were part of an ApocalypseCult type of [[TheConspiracy Conspiracy]] and among other crimes, they were covering up for the murders]].

** ''Series/{{CSI}} Vegas'': Maxine is eventually taken off of David Hodges' forged-evidence case when the higher-ups believe she is helping Grissom and Sara cover up David's (alleged) guilt.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': In Episode 7 of Season 2, Raquel, the lead inspector in the Mint heist's investigation until then, is taken off her position once the Spanish National Police identify the Professor and discover the romantic relationship Raquel had with him. In reaction, Raquel tells them that they can go on without her as she angrily lends her badge and the pistol she had in hand by then to them, determined to go on a manhunt for the Professor on her own.

* ''Film/SawV'': After getting out of the meatpacking plant alive and arguing with Hoffman over Perez's supposed last words[[note]]Perez actually faked her death for coverage, as shown at the beginning of the [[Film/SawVI next film]] in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series.[[/note]] (which led Strahm to become suspicious of Hoffman), Strahm is taken off the case on the order of his superior Erickson, after which he goes to investigate and pursue Hoffman on his own.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': In Episode 7 of Season 2, Raquel, the lead inspector in the Mint heist's investigation until then, is taken off her position once the police identify the Professor and discover the romantic relationship Raquel had with him. In reaction, Raquel tells them that they can go on without her as she angrily lends her badge and the pistol she had in hand by then to them, determined to go on a manhunt for the Professor on her own.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist: In Episode 7 of Season 2, Raquel, the lead inspector in the Mint heist's investigation until then, is taken off her position once the police identify the Professor and discover the romantic relationship Raquel had with him. In reaction, Raquel tells them that they can go on without her as she angrily lends her badge and the pistol she had in hand by then to them, determined to go on a manhunt for the Professor on her own.

* In ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', Police detective Renee Montoya has been investigating crime boss Roman Sionis for six months, including four murders. Because she hasn't come up with any solid evidence of Sionis's guilt, her captain takes her off the case and puts another detective on it. She continues to investigate Sionis and eventually helps take him down.
* In ''Film/TheKiller'', Inspector Li Ying is taken off the case after getting the wrong guy at the airport since the superintendent thinks the man is siding with the guy he's supposed to take in.
* In ''Love and Bullets'', Detective Charlie Congers is taken off the case for leaving a trail of bodies in Switzerland and letting a key witness get killed.
* In ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'', Agent Rhodes is taken off the "Four Horsemen case" after having failed repeatedly to get hold of the protagonists and even having [[UnwittingPawn unwittingly helped them]] getting access to classified information. It's later revealed that [[spoiler: Rhodes himself was TheManBehindTheMan and faked his ineptness to let the Horsemen accomplish their goals]].

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E13ForTheUniform For The Uniform]]" Starfleet Command orders Captain Sanders to take over the pursuit of the renegade Michael Eddington, feeling that Captain Sisko was way too personally invested in hunting down Eddington.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E13ForTheUniform For The Uniform]]" Starfleet Command orders Captain Sanders to take over the pursuit of the renegade Michael Eddington, feeling that Captain Sisko was way too personally invested in hunting down Eddington.

* The ''Franchise/CSIVerse'' has a couple:
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
*** Catherine was taken off a Sam Braun case by Grissom, once it was known he was Catherine's father.
*** Maxine is eventually taken off of David Hodges' forged-evidence case when the higher-ups believe she is helping Grissom and Sara cover up David's (alleged) guilt.

** ''Series/CSIMiami'':
*** Horatio took himself off a case in which a woman he'd been out with two nights prior was found dead and he was the last person known to have seen her alive.
*** H told Eric to stay out of the case of Marisol's marijuana purchase.

* ''VideoGame/TheMysteryOfTheDruids'' sees the player put on the titular case due to this happening to the original detective. Steve Lowry supposedly caught the man behind the "Skeleton Murders", but it wasn't until the suspect was stabbed to death in prison that they realized he was the wrong guy, and that he was only ever deemed guilty in court was because Lowry royally screwed up his case. The game starts with DaChief reassigning the case onto [[PlayerCharacter Halligan]], much to [[TheRival Lowry's]] recurring disdain.

* There may be a conflict of interest because [[ItsPersonal it's too personal]], e.g. the detective got [[InLoveWithTheMark romantically involved with the prime suspect]].

* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'': After Axel Foley manages to [[BananaInTheTailpipe put a banana in the tailpipe]] of their car and disable it and later lures them to a stripper bar where they foil a robbery, officers Taggart and Rosewood are taken off the case by their captain, and two other detectives are assigned to trail Foley.

* The season 4 finale of ''Series/BlueBloods'' has the government conspiracy type. Danny and Baez work a woman's homicide with the District Attorney's Investigators, and Danny has a massive verbal quarrel with one of them. He eventually gets taken off the case on orders from [=1PP=]. The DA investigator with whom he quarreled did ''not'' file a complaint, but an ADA for whom he works. Said ADA was not running a prostitution sting op, but rather an entrapment, to collect blackmail material of high-profile figures, such as celebrities, famous athletes and police officers in leadership[[spoiler:, including the Chief of Department]].

* They might have failed to capture the BigBad one time too many.

* The detective [[CowboyCop goes too far and breaks too many rules]] in pursuit of his suspect.

** Happened fairly frequently to Beckett and Castle, particularly on cases that centered around [[MythArc the murder of]] [[BerserkButton Beckett's mother]] or one of the squad personally.