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8->'''Agent Smith:''' Lieutenant, you were given specific orders.\
9'''Lieutenant:''' I'm just doing my job. You give me that "juris-my-dick-tion" crap... you can cram it up your ass.
10-->-- ''Film/TheMatrix''
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12When two or more law enforcement organizations both can lay claim on a particular criminal case or suspect they will rarely see eye-to-eye on the best way to prosecute/investigate the case. In the U.S., local cops vs. the Federal government (FBI, DEA, etc.) is the most common setup. Usually, the locals will want to shut down a petty crook to protect their town and the "little guy", while the Feds are focused on the big picture and would rather he go free so they can focus on building a case against the "big fish" higher up the criminal ladder. When a case is particularly sensitive or difficult, the friction may be reversed: each group of investigators wants to absolve themselves of jurisdiction to avoid the problems that will come with it. This is most likely to happen if one of the groups is under pressure to improve their conviction rate and does not want to risk taking on a case they cannot solve.
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14Jurisdiction Friction may also occur at the initial crime scene: the hero investigator will barely have the time to unearth a few clues before the rival investigation outfit shows up to flash [[GenericCopBadges badges]] all over the place and claim jurisdiction. At this point, the hero will either turn VigilanteMan or move on to [[WorkingTheSameCase a new case that's oddly reminiscent of the old one]].
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16Which side of the dispute is sympathetic and which is heartless/incompetent/arrogant/corrupt/trigger happy/working for the shadow government [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality depends entirely on who the main characters are]]. FBI agent series such as ''Series/TheXFiles'' and ''Series/WithoutATrace'' naturally will have them in the right, while a PoliceProcedural like ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is frequently on the other side.
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18In addition to local versus Feds, the friction can occur between other law enforcement subdivisions over the same suspect, like drug enforcement officers versus homicide investigators, or simply [[InterserviceRivalry one of a city's police districts]] versus another. InternalAffairs can also get involved at some point. And ''everybody'' has it in for the PrivateDetective.
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20Will likely involve the hero being TakenOffTheCase. Compare RightHandVersusLeftHand, WeAreStrugglingTogether (for when the factions bickering over a common goal are not part of any government), and TrickedIntoAnotherJurisdiction.
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22See also InterserviceRivalry for the military version. IntraScholasticRivalry is a school-aged version.
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33* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
34** NERV is ''really'' not popular with the Japanese government, whose sovereign territory they operate in under a UN mandate. Right in the very first episode, the Japanese military refuses to let NERV handle Sachiel until after the loss of massive amounts of men and materiel, with the generals overseeing the operation making defeating the Angel with conventional forces a matter of pride despite, as the supreme commander of NERV points out, defeating Angels being what NERV and their titular HumongousMecha ''exist for''.
35** Episode 7 later reveals that the Japanese military did not accept being forced to yield to NERV for handling the Angels and tried to develop their own HumongousMecha so that they'd be able to cut NERV out of anti-Angel operations, to which NERV's response was to sabotage the project to ensure it won't divert funding from NERV. Which in turn resulted in the events of the ''Girlfriend of Steel'' visual novel where the Japanese military shifted their priority to keeping NERV in check and ultimately culminated in the events of ''End of Evangelion'', where the government flat-out revokes NERV's authority due to [[spoiler:having been convinced by SEELE's people in the UN that NERV was planning on going rogue]] and the military is happy to oblige in enforcing it.
36** In episode 8, the commander of the UN Navy Pacific Fleet flat-out refuses to turn his cargo, Evangelion Unit 02, over to NERV's operations director while they're still out on the sea, insisting that the Eva and its pilot were handed to them by NERV's Germany branch to be transported to Japan and are under ''their'' jurisdiction until they reach Japan, not a second before. When Gaghiel attacks the fleet and the NERV ops director tries to invoke her authority and take command, she once again gets rebuffed by the admiral who tries to countermand Unit 02's deployment and only relents once half the fleet is gone.
37* Inspector Zenigata has been on the trail of Arséne Anime/LupinIII for years in hopes of hauling the [[KingOfThieves Master Thief]] to Japan to face justice. Which he believes he finally has succeeded in when Lupin is [[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure arrested in Italy]]... until he's told by the local authorities to buzz off. In this case, it's less due to a jurisdiction issue since Zenigata's an InterpolSpecialAgent but a political issue -- [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Lupin has a death sentence in Japan and Italy refuses to extradite suspects to countries on charges if it's likely they'll be executed]].
38* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has some examples of this despite the wartime setting thanks to the personal ambitions of Zeon's ruling Zabi family and their loyalists. After Ramba Ral loses his Gouf in battle with the Gundam, he puts in a request for a brand-new Dom to replace it. The request goes to M'Quve, who ultimately denies the request[[note]]More specifically, he lies and tells Ramba that the transport ship with the Doms was shot down in orbit.[[/note]] because he doesn't want Dozle Zabi (for whom Ral works) finding out about the secret mining operation that Kycilia (M'Quve's boss and Dozle's sister, the two of whom mutually dislike each other) has going in Odessa, which leads to Ral performing an unsuccessful suicide attack against White Base and robs Zeon of another veteran pilot and leader.
39* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', this plays a big part in how the balance of power in the United Kingdom goes.
40** Officially, there are three major branches: the British Royal Family, the Anglican Church, and the Knights of England. On paper, the Royal Family leads the country (and by extension, the parliamentary government as well as the police and other related agencies), the knights maintain the order (by way of ensuring the royal family and the church don't get too powerful as well as dealing with internal affairs the "normal" police can't handle), and the church deals with foreign affairs that cannot be concluded normally due to cultural differences (mainly the magic side affairs around the world and dealings with the science side, particularly Academy City). The friction is especially evident between the Knights (who normally side with the Royal Family) and the Church (who can exert the most pressure on the Royal Family).
41** However, because the UK also consists of four separate cultures with their own desires (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), it's not uncommon for members of the same faction to hate each other or those of different factions to ally with each other based on where they side culturally.
42* ''Manga/HoloearthChroniclesSideEYamatoPhantasia'': The Patrol Company is a squad that serves as the police in Kyo-no-Miyako, but they distrust the Inari Clan who have the same duties due to some past grudge.
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46* A 1990 ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' storyline has a group of Russian terrorists taking over a British sub. With their own British super-teams unavailable, they ask the U.S. for aid who call in the Avengers. They run into the People's Protectorate who are out to stop the rogue Russians. The sub surfaces off the coast of Newfoundland with the two teams trying to figure out a plan...only for ComicBook/AlphaFlight to arrive and claim "jurisdiction of this mess" goes to them as this is now a Canadian matter. The three teams manage to work together to stop both the terrorists and some Atlantean invaders.
47** During ''ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm'', a team of Avengers are captured by the Kree military and brought to Hala. Almost immediately on setting foot there, a bunch of [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Accusers]] show up and demand to take custody. The soldiers and Ronan get so into their argument Sersei is able to use her powers to make it look like the Avengers have escaped.
48* Walker and Pilgrim in the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' often find their investigations turned over to the Feds. Naturally, this never stops them investigating anyway.
49* A police ally of the ComicBook/XMen once used this to save them when crooks-turned-feds Freedom Force attempt to arrest the mutant heroes. She insisted Freedom Force produce the documentation necessary to take the X-Men into custody (which they didn't have on them). This gave the X-Men time to flee the city.
50* The military equivalent showed up in Franchise/TheDCU when The Shield (an Army SuperSoldier) and Magog (Marine corporal turned emissary of one of the Old Gods) ended up on the same mission together. They spent just as much time sniping at each other's respective branches as they did fighting the main threat.
51* In ''Franchise/{{Batman}} Year 100'', Gotham City PD and the Federal Investigators clash over a murder. The GCPD thinks it should have jurisdiction as the murder happened in Gotham, the Feds because it was one of their men [[spoiler:and also because they committed the murder and are organizing a massive cover up]]. Batman knows he has jurisdiction because ''he's the'' '''''[[MemeticMutation Goddamn Batman]]''''' (see ''The Dark Knight'' film below).
52* In ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', tension exists between the Major Crimes Unit and the other squads. Some of the conflict is because the other squads tend to use the fact that the MCU has jurisdiction over cases with supervillains to lazily dump routine investigations on them by claiming that the case bears the hallmarks of a supervillain. The rest of the conflict comes from the fact that the MCU is the only consistently honest department in the [[BadCopIncompetentCop notoriously corrupt and incompetent GCPD]].
53* ''Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'' has a jurisdiction conflict between the ''Wehrmacht'' and ''Gestapo''. See, the crack commandos of the Rifle Brigade were caught on the streets of Berlin by Panzer ace Otto Flaschmann, who happened to be there on leave. However, Gestapo captain Venkschaft claims them as his prisoners, since Berlin is his home court. Seeing it as his collar, Flaschmann pulls strings with some powerful friends of his to get them turned over to him and sent to a cushy POW camp (instead of being tortured, interrogated, and executed). A furious Venkschaft accuses him of hunting for headlines. It's a moot point; they escape from custody almost immediately after being turned over to Flaschmann.
54* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons:'' As in the show (see Western Animation), in disasters Chief Wiggum and Mayor Quimby will argue over who's in charge, starting with the first issue.
55** When Krusty starts his own country, Krustopia, Springfield's police camp outside the compound and then proceed to do nothing. After a few weeks, federal agents show up and point out how useless the police have been. They take over, cut the power... and then join the police in sitting around.
56* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': When the FBI arrests a bunch of people as spies on the word of Paula von Gunther, who they claim to have broken (she's just using their naivety to get them to move her to another prison so she can escape and gave them a false list of names) they find themselves butting heads with the USAAF's military intelligence branch.
57* ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}, from the series of the same name, was a superhero team [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower under the direct control of the UN]]. It theoretically had global jurisdiction, but could only be allowed to operate if asked by either the UN Special Security Council or if the government of a specific country invoked "Code Perfect," declaring that there was a superhuman emergency within their borders.
58** During Creator/WarrenEllis's run on the book, the American government declared that they would no longer allow Stormwatch within the country unless specifically requested. This proved to be a problem when a bunch of rogue superhumans were about to tear apart a small Louisiana town, but the US refused to give Stormwatch permission to intervene. [[BaldOfAuthority Battalion]] got around this by [[spoiler:finding a French citizen who was visiting relatives in the town, calling up the French Premier, and asking ''him'' to invoke Code Perfect on behalf of his citizen.]]
59* The Creator/ECComics story "Four-Way Split" (''Tales From the Crypt #43'') centers on a man who owns an air freight business who murders his partner by tying him up and putting him inside the bomb bay of a plane, then dropping him so that he lands perfectly in the spot where four states meet. The states constantly squabble over which state should prosecute the guy, meaning the case would be tied up for years, possibly decades. This is EC Comics of course, so the guy gets his when his partner returns from the dead and subject him to four different execution methods.
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63* ''Fanfic/TakamachiNanohaOf2814'': When Chrono showed up on the scene he tried to assert himself as an official of the Time Space Administration Bureau but Nanoha, as the local offical of the Green Lantern Corps, put a quick end to that.
64* ''[[Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons Feathers and Fire]]'': A Republic fleet officer tells Atreus the captain of his caught smuggling can't be prosecuted because that guy was operating in Hutt space where the Republic has no authority.
65* In ''Fanfic/BadFutureCrusaders'', Equestria's forces consist of the regular guards, [[TheDreaded Captain Rumble]] and his [[EliteMooks elite Stormfront unit]], the Canterlot Criminal Investigation Department, the Royal Equestria Air Force, and Featherweight's changeling spy network. They are ''constantly'' bickering over who should handle what except for Featherweight, who only provides the other groups with Intel rather than actually acting.
66* In the fan-made video "Gunther vs [[spoiler:Paul]]", which is based off of the second hotel raid in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', Gunther is about to haul off [[spoiler:Paul]], after defeating him in hand-to-hand combat, but Majestic 12 agents show up just in time and order him away, causing him much frustration.
67* In ''Fanfic/ImGivingYouANightCall'': The murder of Sergeant Matthew Halsey puts in the investigation in the hands of both the police and the military much to Ed's ire, especially since the military liaison is his ex, who he's avoiding.
68* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' fics ''[[http://spiderkink.livejournal.com/1612.html?thread=467788 Extra Legs to Stand On]]'' and ''[[http://spiderkink.livejournal.com/1612.html?thread=515148#t515148 Ocelli]]'' show jurisdictional friction happening between the NYPD, the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA, and SHIELD due to the Lizard's actions counting as domestic terrorism.
69* In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'', there is quite a lot of it going on between the UN (investigating into Queen Chrysalis' crimes on behalf of the International Criminal Court) and the Equestrian crown (who take the matter ''very'' personally and thus take offence to the fact human investigators are roaming around Equestria to begin with).
70* The synopsis for the multi-fandom crossover [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9280076/1/Like-Broken-Glass "Like Broken Glass"]] openly says "a double murder turns into a jurisdictional nightmare." First, [[Series/Castle2009 Kate Beckett and Rick Castle]] investigate the murder of a Boston cop and a Navy officer. The cop happens to be a partner of [[Series/RizzoliAndIsles Jane Rizzoli]] which brings her and Maura Isles to town and demanding to take the lead. However, because the other victim was Navy, that brings in agents from Series/{{NCIS}} who want to take over. They track down a possible suspect only to find it's Series/NCISLosAngeles agent Kensi Blye on vacation. And ''then'', Kensi's partner, LAPD officer Deeks, shows up and poor Beckett is ready to smash her head against a wall.
71* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'': The [[TheOrder Royal Orders]], as Stannis' [[StateSec personal armies]], can supersede local law enforcement like the City Watch, much to the ire of the latter.
72* ''Fanfic/SpiderManAndPowerGirl'' features a sci-fi version of this when ComicBook/PowerGirl finds herself in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, as it's noted that her status as a dimensionally displaced alien means that S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department) and A.R.M.O.R. (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response Agency) could lay claim to being responsible for her. Abigail Brand explicitly states that she considers herself having "lost" for having gained responsibility for the situation, since Power Girl is "a walking administrative nightmare" given how she technically falls under the heading of both departments.
73* ''Fanfic/TheWeaverOption'':
74** Imperial Navy Admiral von Kisher arrived at Operation Pearl Harbor in full parade dress and immediately tried to pull rank and take charge of all naval assets. He only backed down when every Space Marine chapter present made it clear they would follow Naval Secretary Wolfgang instead. It's later speculated von Kisher was positioning himself to take the Navy's share of the massive bounties and rewards being racked up by the Operation.
75** Fenris is on the border of Segmentums Obscurus and Solar, which has resulted in a millennia-long feud in the Administratum over which side of the border it's on... because neither Segmentum's department wants to deal with the headache from having the Space Wolves in ''their'' region.
76*** When a Chaos ritual throws Fenris through the Warp, an Imperial officer notes that on the bright side this will end the feud. The Warmaster responds it might end up being worse: Fenris lands in a different Segmentum which wants it put back where it belongs, leading to a ''three-way'' Administratum struggle.
77* ''[[Fanfic/SixesAndSevens Agent Carter: Phantom Pain]]'': Peggy and Daniel do not take kindly to the idea of the FBI taking over investigating Thompson's murder. Chief Flynn doesn't give them any option, pointing out that the SSR is to be disbanded and likely rolled into the newly formed CIA.
78* ''Fanfic/AMothToAFlame'': Sasha's mother, [[MamaBear Amanda Waybright,]] is the Commander of the LAPD and very reluctantly works with [[BunnyEarsLawyer Mr. X]] during his investigation into [[spoiler:the Boonchuys and Plantars]], nearly coming into conflict with him over custody once they've been captured before coming to an agreement that [[spoiler:the LAPD gets custody of the Anne and her parents to question them on Sasha and Marcy's whereabouts for the past several months, while the FBI get the FrogMen to interrogate them on who they are]].
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82* In ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', the disagreements between LAPD's Sgt. O'Malley and SWAT leader Carl Mace cause many problems, as Mace threatens to undermine O'Malley's negotiations by trying to take down Chazz.
83* First played straight then subverted in ''Film/AlongCameASpider''. Alex Cross is brought in to investigate the kidnapping of a U.S. Senator's daughter from their exclusive, secured private school. The Secret Service representative is at first cagey and defensive about having a simple detective being brought in lead the case, but later approaches Cross and apologizes, says he thinks jurisdiction arguments are "a massive waste of time", then asks what he can do to help.
84* ''Film/AmericanMade'': When Barry Seal gets burned by his CIA handler, his property gets raided at the same time by the DEA, ATF and the Arkansas State Police. Nobody had any foreknowledge of the others raids and an argument breaks out over whose bust this is. And then everybody has a collective groan when the FBI shows up...
85* Inverted in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII'', in which Detective Billy Rosewood has been appointed DDOJSIOC (Deputy Director of Joint Special Inter Operational Command), responsible for coordinating the efforts of the various L.A. metro area law-enforcement agencies as needed. At one point he assembles a veritable army of different units and uniforms, including ''Baywatch'' lifeguards, to surround and secure a single suspicious van, which proves to be empty; he gets chewed out for it.
86* A fair deal of the conflict among the heroes in ''Film/BlackDog'' comes from the FBI agent and the ATF agent over who has jurisdiction in their investigation of a gun-smuggling operation.[[note]]In RealLife, it's the ATF, unequivocally. The FBI has no jurisdiction in gun-smuggling cases.[[/note]]
87* In ''Film/BloodWork'', the killer pursued by former FBI agent Terry [=McCaleb=] pulls this intentionally-he dumps a body on the exact boundary between two police forces to create a jurisdictional dispute and slow down their investigation.
88* ''Film/BonCopBadCop'' has the Quebec and Ontario police arguing over a dead body found lying on top of a highway sign indicating the precise location of the Quebec/Ontario border. And the reason they have to work together in the first place is to stop the RCMP (i.e. the Feds) from getting involved and stealing all the glory.
89-->'''Martin:''' His heart is in Québec.\
90'''David:''' Ya l'Ontario dans l'cul aussi! ''["He's got Ontario up his ass!"]''\
91'''Martin:''' What?\
92'''David:''' But his ass belongs to you.
93* Averted in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''. FBIAgent Smecker is called in to investigate a murder in Boston because the dead men were connected with TheMafiya. He shows up with DaChief, who tells the detectives in no uncertain terms that they are to fully cooperate with Smecker. Smecker turns out to be incredibly good at his job and shortly earns the respect of the police.
94* Subverted in ''Film/TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay''. [[spoiler:The Detectives are trying to prevent Special Agent Bloom from finding out they were involved in Don Yakavetta's killing. Bloom knows, and is actually on their side, but is just [[ItAmusedMe having fun fucking with them]].]]
95* ''Film/CatsAndDogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' has this as a minor plot point (while the organizations in question are not ''technically'' government arms, they act like it and actually ''refer'' to the issue as a jurisdiction problem): generally the cats' MEOWS and the dogs' DOG goes after threats from the ''other'' species, but in the Kitty Galore case MEOWS also claims jurisdiction on the logic that she's a RogueAgent of MEOWS. To sidestep the jurisdiction issue, the two organizations agree to work together.
96* The film adaptation of Stuart Woods' novel ''Film/{{Chiefs}}'' has a problem wherein the chief of the Delano City Police wants to investigate a suspected murderer -- except the suspect lives in Justin County, and Delano is in Mainbridge County.
97* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
98** Shown when Batman appears at a crime scene and asks Gordon for a couple minutes alone before his men come in and contaminate it. Gordon is happy to oblige, but his officers take offense.
99** Lau flies back to Hong Kong to escape prosecution in Gotham City, saying he's out of Dent's jurisdiction and confident that China won't extradite a national. The Joker retorts, in his warning about Batman to the mafia meeting, that Batman ''has'' no jurisdiction. Lo and behold, Batman comes a-knockin' on Lau's door.
100** Though the point is moot, Lau was mistaken. Hong Kong has a completely separate legal system from the rest of China and it has an [[http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_ind.nsf/e1bf50c09a33d3dc482564840019d2f4/9a61090f8a225bc14825655500235c91?OpenDocument an extradition agreement]] with the United States. Mainland China will not extradite its own citizens ([[http://english.gov.cn/laws/2005-09/22/content_68710.htm see Article 8(1) of Extradition Law of the People's Republic of China]]) but it will try its own citizens for overseas crimes, which can be a bad thing because China has the death penalty and some states don't.
101** Also, if Batman recovers Lau and brings him to Gotham police, he's acting as an agent of the police department and has to abide by all the same rules. Which is why the Gotham legal system insists that Lau just randomly decided to come back and was arrested. It's doubtful that would hold up in court.
102* ''Film/DeathLine'': When Inspector Calhoun starts investigating Manfred's disappearance, Stratton-Villiers from [=MI5=] turns up to tell him there is nothing to investigate. Inspector Calhoun is secretly delighted when the cleaners are murdered at Russell Square station, as murders are definitely police business, and that they occurred at the same location as Manfred's disappearance is a happy coincidence.
103* ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'': Suffice it to say that the NKVD and the Red Army do not like each other much. There is palpable glee in the army officer's voice when he arrives at NKVD headquarters and announces "The army is back in town".
104* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
105** Becomes a plot point in ''Film/DieHard'' because Hans Gruber knows the FBI's standard responses to a hostage situation, and was counting on them to take the case from the LAPD and follow their playbook, helping him crack a safe and cover his escape.
106** Averted in ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''. The NYPD Captain is ordering his men to search the schools and challenges the FBI Agent not to pull a jurisdictional stunt. The FBI Agent has kids in one of the threatened schools, and he's more than happy to help.
107* ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'': When police arrive on the scene of Frank's [[NeverSuicide "suicide,"]] Wintergreen tries to stop the coroner from touching the body because he has deduced that Frank was murdered, and he doesn't want the coroner messing up the evidence. The two of them get into a fight about whether the officer in charge has more authority than the coroner. When Sgt. Ryker breaks up the fight and then asks the coroner an innocuous question, the coroner is so worked up that he starts screaming at Ryker too, then asks the corpse, "Why did you have to shoot yourself in my jurisdiction?"
108* ''Film/EndOfWatch'': Officers Zavala and Taylor are told to step aside by DEA.
109* Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard runs afoul of this twice in ''Film/TheFugitive'' when chasing Dr. Richard Kimble.
110** In the first act, Sheriff Rollins, while investigating the crash of the prison bus and the train derailment that resulted, is '''sure''' that NoOneCouldSurviveThat and is ready to close the case when the Feds happen on the scene. When Gerard insists on making sure, he makes clear that he has the authority to take jurisdiction. Somewhat reluctant, Rollins turns over ''all'' aspects of the investigation to them so that they won't receive complaints from the locals. Their attitude towards the case (and by extension the Feds) pulls a complete 180 when evidence is found that the eponymous fugitive is NotQuiteDead, which causes the U.S. Marshals and the Illinois State Police to successfully work together.
111** In the final act, there's a disagreement between Gerard and the Chicago Police Department. First, he questions their conclusion that "Kimble killed his wife for the money", and soon starts finding evidence proving Kimble's innocence. Later, after Dr. Kimble is believed to have shot a police officer on the 'L' (which was actually Sykes, who Kimble was able to disarm): the CPD wants to kill him, and Gerard and his team want to take him alive. The blood is so bad that Gerard actually gets pinned down by sniper fire from a police chopper while chasing Kimble on the roof of the hotel.
112* ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' has tension between the auto theft unit and the homicide unit of the LAPD about the BigBad, who is wanted by both of them. You'd think that being part of the same police department after the same man they'd find it easier to work together to bring him in and simply increase his charge sheet (and thus the likelihood of him being convicted for something), but apparently not. It ''could'' be TruthInTelevision when there's a limited budget and both departments are trying to impress DaChief.
113* ''Film/HaloNightfall'' features tension between the Sedran Colonial Guard and Jameson Locke's team from the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence. ONI, particularly [[{{Jerkass}} Horrigan]], consider the Sedrans backward hicks [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions who still believe in Valhalla]], and notes that their tech is at least 200 years behind current UNSC standard. The Sedrans, meanwhile, are suspicious of the UNSC's motives: yes, they did beat the Covenant and save humanity, but in the wider ExpandedUniverse of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', they've basically turned into a military dictatorship.
114* Mullins and Asburn in ''Film/TheHeat'', at first. Also, the DEA.
115* ''Film/TheHighwaymen'': Hamer and Gault are technically only allowed to investigate crimes within the State of Texas and run into a smarmy FBI agent several times. At one point, when they're told to turn back by a roadblock for crossing state lines, Hamer decides to ignore it.
116* A particularly absurd example occurs in ''Film/{{Hitman}}'', between InterpolSpecialAgent Mike Whittier and the Russian FSB. Not only does the real Interpol have no jurisdiction over ''any'' crimes,[[note]]its RealLife purpose is maintaining crime databases and facilitating information sharing between member law enforcement agencies[[/note]] the investigation they are fighting over is [[spoiler:the attempted assassination of the Russian President -- ''in Russia'']]!
117* ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' has a Federal Wildlife Marshall who shows up at a diamond heist claiming jurisdiction because the criminals also arranged for the animals in an animal testing facility next door to be released at the same time. The local cops resent this... less because of the jurisdiction issue, and more because he's a complete idiot.
118* Averted in ''Film/JudasKiss''. Detective Friedman and Agent Hawkins are old friends, and approach the shared case (the kidnapping is federal, the homicide is local) like mature adults. It helps that Friedman didn't want the case in the first place, and is getting more push back from his own police force than from the feds. Hawkins, who is removed from the local politics, uses her status to help Friedman, such as securing a crime scene before a DirtyCop can tamper with it.
119* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
120** In ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', the World Security Council berates Nick Fury for handing over Loki to Thor to "face Asgardian justice" instead of letting him be tried on Earth as a war criminal. Fury replies by saying that he didn't ''give'' Loki to Thor, he just didn't see fit to start an argument with a demi-god over the matter.
121** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' reveals that during the above movie itself, Alexander Pierce, the U.S. Secretary of Defense [[spoiler:and a major operative of HYDRA]], wanted Loki and the Tesseract, since Loki should answer to the US Government and its people, rather than Odin, and the fact that the Tesseract itself has been S.H.I.E.L.D. property for 70 years. Unlike Nick Fury, he had the Pokeballs to start an argument with a demi-god over the matter. However, [[ForegoneConclusion Loki and the Tesseract still have to go to Asgard regardless of Pierce's intervention]].
122* This happens in the opening of ''Film/TheMatrix'' when Agent Smith, Agent Brown, and Agent Jones drive up to the Heart 'O the City Hotel where they've dispatched the police to capture Trinity. In the simulated world that the Matrix has created, blue pills see the Agents as the equivalent of the FBI.
123-->'''Agent Smith:''' Lieutenant.\
124'''Lieutenant:''' Oh, shit.\
125'''Agent Smith:''' Lieutenant, you were given specific orders.\
126'''Lieutenant:''' Hey, I'm just doing my job. If you give me that "juris-my-dick-tion" crap, you can cram it up your ass.\
127'''Agent Smith:''' The orders were for your protection.\
128'''Lieutenant:''' ''[laughs]'' I think we can handle ''one'' little girl. ''[Smith ignores him and starts walking towards the building]'' I sent two units! They're bringing her down now.\
129'''Agent Smith:''' No, lieutenant. [[PreemptiveDeclaration Your men are already dead]]. ''[inside, as the one police officer prepares to put the handcuffs on Trinity, she attacks him and his comrades, knocking out or killing them]''
130* ''Film/MulhollandFalls'':
131** The LAPD detectives' investigation leads them onto restricted military areas. When they're inevitably arrested by the [=MPs=] for trespassing, the Colonel points out that they're out of their jurisdiction.
132** When the detectives' investigation starts to uncover a high-level conspiracy within the U.S. military, an FBIAgent is sent to Los Angeles in a slimy attempt to intimidate the local cops. This falls flat on its face when Hoover (the main character -- an LAPD homicide detective, not the FBI director of the same name) and the Chief immediately call it out for what it is, and Hoover later ambushes the FBI agent to beat him up. Then he drags the guy out of the federal building they're in and points to a line on the floor to tell him where his jurisdiction ends.
133* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' has crimes committed by Constantine and Dominic being investigated by Sam the Eagle (who is shown to be part of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}) and Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon. They get very little done until the end of the movie due to a "[[CompensatingForSomething mine is bigger than yours]]" RunningGag and because the Interpol agent is a JokeCharacter who is constantly on breaks for the purpose of [[TakeThat poking fun]] at French workers' entitlements.
134* In ''Film/MurderAt1600'', Washington D.C. police homicide detective Harlan Regis investigates the murder of a secretary at the White House. He has all kinds of Jurisdiction Friction with the Secret Service (which guards the White House). This is also a case of poor research because any murders on Federal property (like the White House) are handled by the FBI.
135* In ''Film/TheNegotiator'', Danny Roman is a Chicago Police Department officer who, believing himself wrongly accused of murder, has taken hostages in police headquarters, but the building itself is owned by the Federal Government. The FBI agents agree to let the local authorities handle the situation temporarily, but then later take over. When Roman escapes the building, the local police take over again, because he is now at large in the city, which is not Federal jurisdiction. (Realistically, the Feds would still have jurisdiction because he was still a suspect in a crime committed on Federal property.)
136* ''Film/{{Parkland}}'' shows a small brawl between the Secret Service, who want to take UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's body back to Washington, and the Dallas police, who insist that Texas law requires him to stay in the state.
137* ''Film/APerfectWorld'': Texas Ranger Red Garnett, who's trying to track down escaped convict Butch Haynes, finds himself at odds with FBI Agent Bobby Lee, who is perfectly willing to shoot Butch while Garnett, who has a history with Butch, wants him alive. Garnett also clashes late in the movie with the local sheriff after they've cornered Butch, as well as with criminologist Sally Gerber, who's along with Garnett and Agent Lee (though she and Garnett eventually become an example of TeethClenchedTeamwork).
138* ''Film/PointOfOrigin'': BasedOnATrueStory about John L. Orr, a fire investigator who was also a serial arsonist.
139** The District Attorney wants to brings in the feds but Orr claims that the ATF is just a bunch of bureaucrats disguised as bomb experts and that HE works better alone.
140** Lang, Orr's former partner, accuses his colleague Camello of siding with the ATF "against one of us" for insisting they follow ATF protocol and put Orr under surveillance. Camello retorts that if Orr is the arsonist indeed, "he is not 'one of us'."
141* ''Film/Predator2'': During the first half of the movie, Lieutenant Harrigan of the LAPD has an ongoing feud with Peter Keyes of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) over the investigation of a war between Los Angeles drug gangs. [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot It turns out to be worse than that]]: Keyes is actually a Federal agent hunting for an extraterrestrial killer.
142* Averted in ''Film/ThePresidio''. The Officer's Club at the Presidio is broken into, and an investigating military cop is shot on the scene. During the [[HotPursuit ensuing chase]], which spills out into the city of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, the SFPD take over, and two officers are killed when one of them is shot and their car crashes [[MadeOfExplodium and explodes]]. The SFPD and the Military Police decide to work together to solve the case, although it turns out the installation Provost Marshal and the police inspector assigned to work together on the case have a history with each other, and do ''not'' get along.
143* In ''Film/TheSiege'', the FBI agent investigating a terrorist incident actually arrests the U.S. General whom Congress has appointed to head the handling of that incident. The soldiers supporting the general back down in the face of the FBI, showing the supremacy of the civilian arm.
144* This C.B. radio exchange early in ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'':
145-->'''Justice:''' This is Sheriff Buford T. Justice. I'm in pursuit of a black Trans Am. He's all mine, so stay out of the way.\
146'''Branford:''' This is Lt. Branford of Desha County, Arkansas; we are appraised of the situation and are taking corrective measures. Did you say "Sheriff"?\
147'''Justice:''' '''''That's a big 10-4! Sheriff Buford T. Justice of Texas!'''''\
148'''Branford:''' Texas? You realize that you are out of your jurisdiction. I suggest you let my department handle the situation.\
149'''Justice:''' That's very comforting, son, but I'm in a high-speed pursuit. Don't you hear good?\
150'''Branford:''' I hear perfectly. The fact that you are a sheriff is not germane to the situation.\
151'''Justice:''' [[{{Malaproper}} The Goddamn Germans]] got nothin' to do with it!
152* In ''Film/SuperTroopers'', the Spurbury Police Department and the Vermont Highway Patrol continually clash over jurisdiction, even leading to an out-and-out brawl at a murder scene. There is a justification beyond general {{Jerkass}}ery, though: the state doesn't have the money to maintain a separate Highway Patrol station, so the "troopers" need to get big crimes on their record to justify their existence. [[spoiler:This ends up getting resolved when the Highway Patrolmen expose the massive amounts of corruption in the Police Department... and then, when the Highway Patrol station is shut down, they simply join the police department to replace the disgraced officers.]]
153* Mysteriously avoided in ''Film/TakingLives'', in which the Sûreté du Québec swoop down in helicopters in front of a train station in Moncton, New Brunswick (somehow managing to get there from Quebec in 20 minutes).
154* ''Film/ToCatchAKiller2023'': Played with. The FBI and BPD cooperate very well in the manhunt, but intra-agency friction between different FBI departments creates more than a few messes. Lammark in particular feuds a lot with his counterpart in the D.C. counterterrorism unit.
155* In ''Film/TrustNo1'', Officer Doug Bradley is forced to hand his case over to the FBI and the NSA, both of whom are in on a vast conspiracy.
156* Although mostly averted in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' (see below), played pretty straight in TheMovie, ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'', in the run-in between FBI Special Agent Chet Desmond and the startlingly corrupt Deer Meadows Sheriff's Office. Desmond ends up beating up all the local cops.
157* ''Film/{{Vacation}}'': Rusty and Debbie escape from being arrested for trying to have sex at Four Corners because the park rangers are too busy arguing among themselves over which one has the authority to arrest them.
158* PlayedForLaughs, and also {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''Film/Vengeance2022''. Ben speaks to '''four''' separate law enforcement agencies in the area, and all four tend to shift responsibility of "the Afterparty" to another agency because it's in a spot where the jurisdictions overlap. Ben later discovers that [[spoiler:Quinten has been [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] this overlap so that none of the agencies actually investigate the Afterparty, specifically the people who die there]].
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162* In the book ''Darkly Dreaming Literature/{{Dexter}}'', the Miami Metro PD gets into a jurisdictional tangle when the Ice Truck Killer, who they're investigating, leaves a body in an area under a rival district's jurisdiction.
163* Happens in Literature/TheDresdenFiles book ''Literature/FoolMoon'', where three FBI agents are investigating a string of murders caused by a werewolf. The Jurisdiction Friction is so bad, they almost come to violence against Murphy while investigating a crime scene. [[spoiler: This is because they are the werewolves themselves, in particular demonic-influenced ones, and gradually losing their human minds to the Beast. The fact that they're the guilty parties, having set up [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent another type of werewolf]] to lose control of his curse and attack a Mob head who's escaped justice, doesn't help.]]
164* This is addressed in several Creator/VinceFlynn books, most notably ''Literature/TransferOfPower''. Of course, the different Agencies have it a bit easier than most examples, because their heads know each other personally, but there is still an acknowledged interagency rivalry and pride.
165* In ''Literature/GorkyPark'' the friction between the militia (police) and the KGB was quite apparent. It becomes a plot point when Renko, chief investigator for the Militsiya, wonders why the KGB hasn't taken the case away from him.
166* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
167** There's serious friction between the Night Watch (once a band of incompetents, now a semi-serious police force) and the Day Watch (basically a gang with badges) in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', especially when Night Watch officers discover a body during the hours of daylight. There is also a jurisdiction question when a crime has been committed on guild territory since guilds are supposed to have jurisdiction over their members and the Watch can't take on the whole Assassins' Guild at once (although the Beggars' and Fools' Guilds are more accommodating). In the later books, Commander Vimes and the City Watch are respected and feared enough that Guilds will cede jurisdiction. It helps that he's the Assassins' Guild's landlord.
168** In ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes is in the Shires, where he has a certain amount of authority as a local landowner but is explicitly not part of the (self-appointed) local law-enforcement hierarchy at all. But as far as Vimes is concerned, murder is a universal crime and that's all the jurisdiction he needs. [[spoiler: Subverted in the finale. While city authorities had traditionally left the Shires to their own devices, as Commander of the Watch he absolutely does have legal authority and the Magistrates are completely illegitimate. The Watch moves in in force and takes control of the situation once this becomes clear.]]
169** In ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', Vimes is quite frustrated with the fact that his authority is null and void in {{Uberwald}}, where most of the book takes place, with the local watch being unhelpful at best. [[spoiler:However, during the climax, Wolfgang, one of the book's [[BigBadDuumvirate two Big Bads]], makes the fatal mistake of committing a murder on the grounds of the Ankh-Morpork embassy, i.e. ''in Ankh-Morpork'', where Vimes ''does'' have authority and happily invokes HotPursuit to chase the mad werewolf down.]]
170* In the novel ''Literature/PyramidPower'', the Pyramid Security Agency runs roughshod over every other government agency that had anything they wanted due to their charter giving them authority over just about everything that can be associated with the alien pyramid that landed in Chicago. But one agency wasn't on the list of people they could overrule -- the Fish and Wildlife Service -- which brought charges against them for illegal actions against an endangered species -- the sphinx and dragons that came out of the pyramid. Who then requested assistance in dealing with the violators from some of the agencies that the [=PSA=] had been pushing around -- which included a regiment of paratroopers.
171* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
172** In ''[[Literature/StarWarsAllegiance Allegiance]]'', Mara Jade, Darth Vader, and the [[StateSec Imperial Security Bureau]] all have their own different tasks, but there's one duty they all have in common: finding traitors and killing them. They don't get along. Vader is paranoid that Mara is being trained to replace him, Mara [[InterserviceRivalry wishes he'd stop]], and ''neither'' of them [[EvenEvilHasStandards like the ISB]]. Both clash with Mara; the ISB tries to have her killed when she nears a truth they don't want her knowing, and Vader outright tries to murder her when he thinks she's after his target (Princess Leia).
173** Creator/MattStover's novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' describes an argument between Anakin Skywalker and the Jedi Council over who commands the Grand Army of the Republic after Palpatine is given oversight of the Jedi Council. When argument breaks out after Anakin clarifies that with his new powers, Palpatine is now Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Yoda states "Pointless it is, to squabble over jurisdiction." [[spoiler:Yoda couldn't be more wrong--Palpatine's gaining direct control over the clones is exactly what allows him to order them to execute Order 66, the order that wipes out almost all of the Jedi.]]
174* In the Creator/TomClancy novel ''[[Literature/JackRyan Executive Orders]]'', one of Jack Ryan's first acts as president is to settle a turf dispute. The Boeing 747 crash into the US Capitol building left the NTSA (responsible for investigating airplane crashes), the Secret Service (the President was killed), and the FBI (terrorism, assault on a Federal building) ''and'' the Washington DC police department (murder) all with claim to the investigation. Ryan orders the FBI to take the lead, as it's bigger and has more resources, with the Secret Service a close second.
175* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Lannister soldiers arrive with an arrest warrant for Gendry, who has joined the Night's Watch. Yoren asserts that recruits of the Night's Watch are immune from arrest, but the Lannister men refuse to back down, resulting in a fight.
176* In ''The Duggars: 20 and Counting'', Michelle discusses how her children have sometimes given her lip because she's made them clean up messes she found on the spot, even though they're part of another child's jurisdiction (read: chore domain). Basically, she gets to overrule them because she's mom.
177* Appears frequently in the ''Literature/LeaphornAndChee'' series by Creator/TonyHillerman, about two detectives on the Navajo Tribal Police. Homicides committed on Indian Reservations are FBI jurisdiction, which often leads to conflict between the Navajo detectives and the FBI agents. Individual agents such as Kennedy may be decent people, but the FBI as a whole is portrayed as an inept bureaucracy.
178* With FBI agents pulled to Florida from all over the country, in ''[[Literature/PaladinOfShadows A Deeper Blue]]'', to deal with a possible terrorist attack [[spoiler:using VX nerve gas]], those from New York run into trouble "interfacing" with Lake County deputies, who hold a rather low opinion of the FBI in general due to previous conflicts, and an FBI motto that seems to the locals to be "Ready, Fire, Aim."
179* ''Literature/TheApprenticeRogue'': Artamos is part of the Order of Black Knights, which is tantamount to the kingdom's Black Ops. The mission that forms the plot is Artamos' responsibility so he has to enforce his authority over the plate mail knights from both his own kingdom and his charge's kingdom; both of them think they should be in charge.
180* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' there is a rivalry between Imp Sec and local police, as well as the normal military police. This takes on a nationalistic component in Komarr which is a conquered planet and still resentful. There is also a rivalry between Imp Sec and Ops within the Barryaran service, however, that is more InterserviceRivalry.
181* This happens in ''Hen of the Baskervilles'' from the ''Literature/MegLangslowMysteries'' when a body ends up splayed across the county line of Caerphilly County and Clay County. Clay County is very much unequipped to do a proper investigation of the murder but wants jurisdiction anyway. Meg and the Caerphilly County police chief manage to convince them to give Clay County to give the case to them by insinuating that the cost of the investigation will be astronomical, though Clay County still insists on having one of their people on the case as an observer, who turns out to be an interfering idiot. [[spoiler:The twist in this case is that he's not simply an interfering idiot, he also happens to be the murderer.]]
182* Averted in Charlotte [=MacLeod=]'s novel ''Vane Pursuit'', in which various (but connected) crimes are committed in a variety of locations separated by hundreds of miles, and the law enforcement personnel are all happy to cooperate with each other and agree to let their superiors sort out who will actually have jurisdiction.
183* In Creator/ElleryQueen's novel ''The Glass Village'', jurisdiction friction is the main point of the story. Residents of a small town fear that the stranger they blame for the murder of a local woman will "get away with it" if he's prosecuted by the state. To avoid a lynching, [[spoiler:the stranger is tried by the local townsfolk with the assistance of a judge who deliberately does everything incorrectly so that the verdict will be overturned on appeal and he can have a fair trial after tensions have eased.]]
184* The FBI is mentioned several times in ''[[Literature/BlackTideRising Under a Graveyard Sky]]'' as making it difficult to track down the virus turning people into {{Technically Living Zombie}}s, as the microbiology experts supposed to be assisting them are also the primary suspects, and the FBI's concern is more "find the guilty party" than "stop the virus". CDC staffers are particularly hostile to the FBI, thanks to how they reacted to previous events like the anthrax attack shortly after [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the September 11, 2001 attack]].
185* Ragnarok, the first book in ''Literature/TheEchoCaseFiles'', utilises the classic 'feds versus local cops', in which the fed protagonists can technically steamroller through anything the local cops try and put in their way, but (initially at least) try and play nicely with them, to avoid making enemies.
186* The fourth ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' book, "Broken Homes", puts a spin on this. Peter states that unlike in television, friction occurs when other branches or services ''won't'' take over a murder or unusual case. Turns out murder investigations are really complicated, generate a huge amount of paperwork, use up all of the manpower budget ''and'' forensics budget, and are generally a pain in the arse all around (and that is just the mundane ones). Most Chief Inspectors are desperate to get that sort of headache off their budget.
187* Happens in Literature/TheSnowQueenSeries. On the planet Tiamat, only off-worlders are subject to the star-spanning Hegemony's legal system; any Tiamatans caught in crime must be turned over to the Snow Queen's justice. Unless it's a crime that would affect her or her plans, Queen Arienrhod usually simply releases the perpetrators. Thus, criminal enterprises on the planet generally need only use a Tiamatan front man or front woman to avoid prosecution. This is an endless source of frustration to Hegemonic Police Commander Jerusha [=PalaThion=] and her force.
188* In Jeramey Kraatz's ''Literature/TheCloakSociety'', offstage, and downplayed, because no one really wanted to be in charge of investigating the Rangers' disappearance. Later, [[spoiler:the New Rangers' Deputies arrogate authority, and the police don't like it. The heroes reveal themselves to the police commissioner precisely because they are sure this will cause the police to support them as soon as they get evidence.]]
189* In the thriller ''Maxwell's Train''', a group of terrorists hijacks a train out of New York City. They managed to bring it over the border into Canada to attach it to another hijacked train in Toronto. The book openly notes how the common citizen would assume that "after so many hours, the combined forces of American and Canadian authorities would have stopped this." In reality, the terrorist leader knew the clashing of the FBI, state police, railroad officials and even the CIA would cause a massive amount of red tape to slow things down. Bringing the train to Canada just increased that as the Canadian authorities were totally unaware of this hijacking in the first place so had no idea this linking of trains would happen. The terrorist leader herself notes how this entire friction was key to her whole plan working.
190* In the ''Literature/JoePickett'' novels, Joe--a game warden--frequently clashes with the local sheriff over jurisdictional issues. And matters get worse when other agencies get involved. ''Winterkill'' features a jurisdictional nightmare involving not only Joe and the sheriff, but the state police, the FBI, the Forestry Service, and the National Parks Service.
191* In ''Literature/TheCrownerJohnMysteries'' (set in medieval Exeter), there is constant tension between the coroner Sir John de Wolfe and his brother-in-law the Sheriff over who actually has jurisdiction over a particular crime. It gets worse when the crime involves the Church, and so might fall under the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court.
192* In ''The Golem's Eye'' from ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'', Internal Affairs under John Mandrake (Nathaniel) is given leave to investigate and put to stop both the golem affair and [[LaResistance the Resistance]], but the police chief Henry Duvall takes every opportunity he can to push for more power for his department and to try to make Internal Affairs look bad so that he can gain power over the cases. Oh, and [[spoiler:Duvall is one of the masterminds of the golem plot.]]
193* In ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'', the Quezon City police, in addition to being generally [[PoliceAreUseless useless]] at their work, can be very territorial, especially against higher authorities like the National Bureau of Investigation. According to one NBI official:
194-->'''Ading''': The QC boys get very annoyed when anyone steps on their turf.
195* The ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations'' novels feature friction between the various TimePolice agencies seen in the franchise. It doesn't help that they have very different methods (as far as the DTI are concerned, uptime groups like the 31st century's Time Agency are breaking the Temporal Prime Directive by even showing up in the 24th century) and that the uptime organisations aren't even sure they all come from the same future, and that one agency's "maintaining the true timeline" isn't another's "recklessly altering history".
196* In the Franchise/StarTrek ExpandedUniverse novel ''Crisis on Centaurus'', a hate group has detonated an {{Antimatter}} bomb, blowing up the eponymous Federation planet’s capital. Kirk and the Enterprise are dispatched to bring in the terrorists, which they do, but then Kirk has to defend said terrorists against the local authorities, who want them dead rather than arrested.
197* Subverted in ''Literature/ReginasSong''. One of the Seattle Slasher killings is on a Navy base, so the police aren't allowed on the scene. However, while this looks like it might be a problem, the Navy send everything they find to the police, and their autopsy leads to a major break in the case.
198* ''Crossfire'', the first ''Literature/ShiraCalpurnia'' novel, illustrates how complex law enforcement can be in the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' universe. Shira is a senior member of the Adeptus Arbites who survives an assassination attempt by a cybernetically enhanced psyker shortly after her arrival on Hydraphur. She immediately starts an investigation. However, the attack took place at the beginning of a lengthy vigil leading up to a major religious festival, with various strictures enforced by the [[AmazonBrigade Battle Sisters]] attached to the local cathedral that she must abide by or receive dispensations from. The Imperial Navy jealously protects its perogatives in the highly fortified system when Shira's investigation leads off-planet. In addition, the year's Master of the Vigil is throwing his weight around and the Inquisition takes an interest in the psyker. The Monocrat, Hydraphur's civilian governor, is the only major authority ''not'' seen openly intervening in the case.
199* In Literature/Timeline191, this is the reason reluctant rebel Scipio flees from South Carolina to Georgia after the Marxist uprising is crushed. Because the Confederacy places heavy emphasis on state's rights, there is less cooperation between the Confederate states in law enforcement matters. Georgia is too busy tracking down its own black Marxists to worry about fugitives from another state, so any warrants from South Carolina don't carry a lot of weight, and Anne Colleton (his former boss and primary pursuer) doesn't have as many social contacts in Georgia with whom she can pull strings to expedite the issue.
200* In ''Literature/TriggerWarning'', Chief [=McRainey=] grows frustrated with Agent Vega, the arrogant Homeland Security operative handling the hostage situation. Vega also accuses the FBI's Agent Graham of acting in bad faith, believing he wants his department to get all the credit for dealing with the incident.
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204* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' universe the two U.S. government anti-supervillain agencies PRIMUS and SAT have been known to squabble over who's in charge of investigating or dealing with supercrimes. Likewise, conservative elements in the U.S government resented the way UNTIL charged around the U.S. and created SAT specifically so the U.S. could handle its own super-problems.
205* The fantasy world of ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Banestorm'' has an unusual take on this with the city of Tredroy, which is part of a Sunni caliphate, a Shi'ite sultanate, and a Christian principality simultaneously. Intersectional disputes between the three different legal systems have to be very carefully negotiated.
206* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'':
207** Used to great effect by the shadowrunners. The very basis of the setting's MegaCorp system is that corporations of a certain size are granted extraterritoriality over their possessions, with private security to enforce corporate laws which may or may not match up with the local government's version. A sufficiently daring shadowrunner can commit a run in a government area and escape into a corporate zone, or vice versa, where the opposing police force cannot pursue him. Tensions between public and corporate police forces are high enough that extradition is rarely an issue; between opposing corporations, even more so. Just be careful not to get caught: Private security tends not to be overly concerned with such trivialities like the Geneva Convention, and the poor unlucky runner might find himself the recipient of some creative product testing rather than a nice safe prison term.
208** ''The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America''. In Washington D.C. there's considerable conflict over jurisdiction between the [=FedPol=] (Federal Police) and the FDC (Federal District of Columbia) National Guard.
209* [[SpaceMarines Space Marine]] chapters in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe can be notorious for this. The Space Wolves and Dark Angels chapters, rivals for the past 10,000 years owing to a fistfight between Leman Russ and Lion El'Johnson during the Legion days before the reforms in the aftermath of the ''Literature/{{Horus Heresy}}'', have actually fought wars with each other over jurisdictional grievances.
210** This is cranked up yet another notch when the Inquisition gets involved. Members of the Inquisition technically only answer to each other and the Emperor, and can call upon the aid of any Imperial citizen, from a janitor to a High Lord of Terra. However, fleet units, planetary governors and armies of the Imperial Guard sometimes take exception to the Inquisitor's edicts and have enough political clout and firepower to make an Inquisitor's day miserable. Space Marine chapters technically don't answer to the Inquisition and can tell an Inquisitor to piss off, but doing this is inviting an Inquisitorial proceeding as to ''why'', and Inquisitors have enough personal and institutional power that even large chapters are leery about doing so without ''very'' compelling reasons (or they just kill the Inquisitor [[UnfriendlyFire in the middle of a chaotic battle]] and claim to have not seen them since communication was lost). This is cranked up '''ANOTHER''' notch when two Inquisitors start butting heads.
211** It gets better (well, worse): The Inquisition is divided into several orders, with the chief ones being the Ordo Xenos (deals with aliens), Ordo Hereticus (deals with heretics), and the Ordo Malleus (deals with daemons). Each faction tends to look down on the others as getting in the way of dealing with the major threat or not doing enough against it, of using unsanctioned weapons, of being at greater risk of corruption by the enemy...
212** One of the main divides in the Inquisition are the Puritans and Radicals: The Puritans are those who mostly use faith and tried-and-tested methods against Chaos and Xenos, the Radicals are willing to use {{Dangerous Forbidden Technique}}s, possessed weapons and daemonhosts to use Chaos against itself at the risk of falling to Chaos themselves or use Xenotechnology, alien mercenaries or other non-human assets (curiously, most Radicals are in fact older Inquisitors who feel traditional methods aren't doing enough).
213*** Puritans and Radicals have subfactions. The most extreme Puritans are the Monodominants who are the stereotypical frothing at the mouth fanatics who don't accepts any degree of deviation. The most extreme Radicals are the Xanthites, the most desperate followers of which do most of the [[EvilIsNotAToy fall to Chaos while trying to use it thing]], a Xanthite sub-sub faction (the Phaenonites) have outright betrayed the Imperium after deciding to take over mankind as the only option and were wiped out save a handful of survivors who kept it secret. The worst are probably the Oblationists, who are Xanthites who hypocritically enforce Monodominant beliefs on others, only believing those who took the Oath of Oblation being worthy of damning themselves for the good of mankind.
214** Some systems also have their own branches of the [[ThePoliticalOfficer Commissariat]] in charge of the local Planetary Defense Forces. The friction happens when the Imperial Guard has to defend those systems because the local commissars tend to punish IG members, which is overstepping their bounds as far as commissars in the main branch are concerned. The local commissars have a tendency to get shot by the members of the main Commissariat, due to the fact that local commissars are only called that out of convenience and enforce the planetary governments will on the local military, and the actual Commissars enforce the Emperor's will on the galactic military and certainly don't like glorified bouncers overstepping their station.
215** It gets more interesting on the law front, as the Ecclesiarchy has its own courts which are wholly independent of civil law; the [[{{Expy}} Adeptus]] [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Arbites]] have jurisdiction over all Imperial crimes (plus general law enforcement on some worlds directly administered by the Imperium rather than local governor), and only have to defer to the Inquisition, so there have been numerous occasions when they have clashed with the Ecclesiastical courts, or even the Commissariat (on at least one occasion, the Arbites have arrested an entire Imperial Navy task force, and on another, commandeered a cruiser in the middle of a contested warzone to provide the muscle to arrest an Imperial Planetary Governor). The relations between the Arbites and planetary law enforcement (names vary but they are generally referred to as Enforcers) are more complicated: The former handles crimes against Imperial institutions or violations of the Lex Imperialis, while Enforcers deal with planetary law and serve as the Planetary Governor's way of controlling the civilian population. The Enforcers don't like the Arbites getting involved unless necessary due to possible collateral damage and fear them, while the Arbites in turn treat them as incompetent bullies playing at glorified mall security at best to corrupt or even heretical at worst (to the Enforcers discredit, they are more susceptible to [[TheCorruption Chaos]] corruption or just regular old DirtyCop behaviour far more than the religiously fanatical Arbitrators). They do cooperate however, and the most stable planets have the Arbites oversee the Enforcers to produce better quality police, excepting the aforementioned case of critical planets being fully staffed by Arbitrators at all levels of law enforcement.
216*** To make matters even more fun, the Adeptus Mechanicus has its own laws and enforcers, and its members technically aren't even normal citizens (they are still Imperial citizens, but unlike the majority they are not controlled by the [[VastBureaucracy Administratum]] but the Fabricator General of Mars sits with the Master of the Administratum and others in the High Lords of Terra), but members of an allied semi-subordinate semi-sovereign CargoCult polity that has monopolies on technology in the Imperium (any planetary government or privately owned franchises either produce under licence from the Mechanicus or make inferior local designs), meaning trying to pin a crime on them is really tricky. Oh, and the exact set of laws that apply in any situation depend upon whose territory it is.
217** And the worst is this is all entirely deliberate: the last time a single man controlled every branch of Imperial power, it led to the Age of Apostasy.
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221* In ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', an FBI agent called Nightingale assumes control of the Sheriff's Office and the Washington State Rangers of Bright Falls, Washington in order to capture the eponymous protagonist. However, it soon turns out that Nightingale is a TriggerHappy drunkard, who tries to shoot and kill an unarmed Wake and instead nearly injures innocent bystanders on ''two separate occasions''. The local sheriff, Sarah Breaker, calls him out on this, and it turns out that Nightingale is suspended, and is trying to capture Wake on his own accord and without any legal backing in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, as he thinks Wake is responsible for the death of his former partner. He is wrong, if only slightly.
222* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' closely follows the example set by ''Series/TwinPeaks'' when FBI agent Francis York Morgan rolls into a small town to investigate a murder. Friction occurs between himself and the local authorities (though mostly Sheriff [[IOwnThisTown George Woodman]], as the deputy sheriffs Emily and Thomas both warm up to York pretty quickly) until York reveals the murder is part of a much larger case and completely takes control of the case. [[spoiler:Granted, it certainly doesn't help that George ''is'' the culprit, with Thomas as a knowing accomplice.]]
223* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium''. Precincts 41 and 57 of the Revachol Citizens' Militia have disputed for some time over who has jurisdiction over the district of Martinaise; as a result, neither precinct responds to crimes in the area often. The murder that starts the plot compels both districts to send an officer of theirs to investigate: Kim Kitsuragi from the 57th, and [[PlayerCharacter the Detective]] from the 41st. Kim, for his part, has no interest in a "pissing contest" - he just wants to do his job, and cooperates with the Detective's investigation as his partner.
224* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has an army that is split into two divisions: the anti-Pulse force, PSICOM (Public Security and Intelligence Command) and the ground-level Guardian Corps. The Purge that is central to the game's events is orchestrated by PSICOM, but when things go wrong, they cover it up from the Guardian Corps. Then when that doesn't work out, they enlist the Guardian Corps' help, but the Corps. gets upset when a PSICOM commander starts giving orders in a village that has traditionally been protected by the Guardian Corps.
225* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series, Spectres are an elite Council Agents granted ''absolute'' authority in Citadel Space. Various law-enforcement agencies are told to simply look the other way whenever Spectres arrive on the scene, much to their annoyance.
226** Noveria is ''not'' legally in Council Space, and while Spectres (by agreement) are allowed to go armed and investigate there, any attempt to assert their authority will be buried in paperwork. Meanwhile, the first part of the arc set there involves an InternalAffairs agent for Noveria's Executive Board trying to get evidence on the local administrator, while [[LawEnforcementInc Elanus Risk Control]] mercenaries are under orders from said administrator to burn the relevant evidence. Shepard solves the jurisdictional dispute by right of superior firepower, and can support either Internal Affairs, the administrator, or neither.
227** Asari Justicars are fully committed to upholding an ancient and strict Code that allows for no leniency. Asari law enforcement is obligated to stand aside if one shows up but gets very worried as there's a good chance that anyone involved in a crime, no matter how small, will end up dead very soon, which tends to be a diplomatic nightmare when the person in question is anything other than another asari. On Ilium, meanwhile, the local authorities have to arrest a justicar who's on a mission to enforce off-world laws, while the justicar is obligated to fight her way free after one day. In fact, the Justicars are one of the two groups that were used as a basis for the Spectres.
228* In ''VideoGame/TheXFilesGame'', the player character can meet the town's detective that is on scene for a crime investigation. The detective will hate your guts and if you decide to push it further by being a bigger jerk ass over how the investigation belongs to the FBI, [[NonStandardGameOver you will get fired]].
229* In the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' subseries, whether due to Interpol involvement, foreign national issues or simple prosecutor substitution, Edgeworth cannot seem to get through a single case without someone else claiming jurisdiction over the crime scene and demanding that he leave. Given his unending quest for the truth, this rarely stops him.
230* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' references jurisdiction issues quite a bit since Team Rainbow often needs to be first called upon by the government that needs them. In the case of the fifth game, Rainbow Six Vegas, a "jurisdictional pissing match" between local law enforcement, FBI, and the military means to a slow response to the terrorist attack in Las Vegas. However, the government allows Rainbow to help because they have a team in place lead by a former Delta Force operative (the player character). The FBI and SWAT are later shown to be glad for the help.
231* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has a rivalry between the "FIB" and "IAA" ([[{{Expy}} expies]] of the FBI and CIA, respectively) take up a good portion of the single-player plot. It is far more extreme than any such inter-agency rivalry in real life (we hope), stopping just short of outright warfare between the agencies.
232* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'':
233** In theory, Liberl's army and the bracer guild cooperate with each other. Underneath the surface, however, there's a lot of disputes. Your two main characters, Joshua and Estelle, learn this firsthand when investigating the missing airline their father Cassius Bright was on and discover from the Bose Bracer Guild that the military is maintaining a public information blackout, and that includes the Bracer Guild. Furthermore, bracers are being prevented from entering the areas the army is investigating.
234--->'''Joshua:''' So pretty much what you're saying is that it's a bunch of jurisdictional disputes, right?
235** Jurisdiction friction even happens within the ranks of the Bracer Guild itself. If a senior bracer wishes to take control of an investigation that was being handled by junior bracers, they can do so at will, and there's not much the junior bracers can do about it, no matter how much they may dislike it.
236* One of the later Imperial Legion quests in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' involves an Imperial soldier accused of murder; you must escort him to the Imperial town of Ebonheart to ensure that he will be tried in an Imperial court rather than a Dunmer court.
237* The Arc police forces in ''VideoGame/AstralChain'' hate it when Neuron show up to an investigation, since they take over the case with no ceremony and it always seems to end with them linking it to a gate incident, cutting off the [[WasOnceAMan Aberrations]], and taking all the glory. There's not exactly anyone they can complain to either as Neuron is nominally part of the police force themselves. In truth, if Neuron show up it's because a Chimera is expected, the existence of which is classified - being InvisibleToNormals and immune to conventional weapons is bad enough without their existence causing mass panic. The problems with this are shown during the first investigation, as two PO'ed cops refuse to say much of anything; eavesdropping reveals witnesses reported large, shadowy hands dragging people through gates, which they dismissed as hysteria and therefore didn't report, but is vital information to Neuron.
238* Averted in ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad''. Commissioner Maloof ([[DaChief head of 31PD]]) chimes in when you select your first optional mission, saying she's glad to have the help and will send anything that needs doing the squad's way, and take the heat if things get political -- [[VetinariJobSecurity they can't afford to fire her]] in the middle of a crisis.
239* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoQuest'': Intral City has a special police unit called "spacetime patrol" that ''will'' raise a stink when private detectives and their agencies overstep their legal boundaries, by, for example, time traveling within Intral's city limits or attempting rescue operations from within spacetime rifts.
240* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Temenos's story has him, as inquisitor, frequently butting heads with the Sacred Guard.
241* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': If you're playing as a human commoner, one personal story chapter involves the Ministry Guard (legally, limited to security for Krytan ministers and nobles) trying to horn in on Seraph criminal investigations among commoners.
242* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': The general plot of the game involves the Master Detectives solving cases while acting in opposition against the Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers, with the detectives trying to uncover the truth and the Peacekeepers trying to hide it. [[spoiler:Of course, this is what [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] wanted the detectives to do in the first place.]]
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246* ''WebAnimation/FiftyWaysToDieInMinecraft'' Christmas Edition: Death 49: [=SnakeTheJaik=] gets caught hiding magma blocks under snow to prank people, and [[TheKrampus Krampus]] prepares to punish him. But then, Knecht Ruprecht and Père Fouettard show up and also claim the right to punish him. The three of them start arguing, which gives [=SnakeTheJaik=] enough time to place magma blocks under each of them.
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250* In ''Webcomic/BlueYonder'', [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1404300/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-47 two sets of superheroes are indignant over the notion of the other being the ones to help Jared.]]
251* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' addresses this [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1902 in a way only a Superpowers-based comic can.]] Maxima explains that ARCHON has been set up to deal with "atypical threats" (both criminals with superpowers and disasters where superpowers would be helpful), and that as a federal agency, they'll be able to take over investigations from pretty much everyone else. She thinks this is the best solution, even though "human ego being what it is," obviously other departments are going to be annoyed at this. Once video of the first superpowered brawl gets out, it turns out that she might have been underestimating the human survival instinct.
252-->'''FBI Agent:''' And here is where [[EarAche her eardrums burst]].\
253'''DHS Agent:''' Is that chick made out of lightning?\
254'''FBI Agent:''' Doesn't keep her eardrums from exploding.\
255'''CIA Agent:''' Look! That other broad one-armed a parking bumper at her!\
256'''ATF Agent:''' You know [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I have some vacation time I can't roll over...]]
257* The two space authorities of ''Webcomic/{{Galaxion}}'', [[SpaceNavy IP]] and [[MildlyMilitary TerSA]] do not get along. At all.
258* Comes up in the first volume of ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'': The Chicago PD are investigating what's either a series of animal attacks or the work of a SerialKiller who thinks they're a werewolf when the FBI show up claiming jurisdiction as the CPD's main person-of-interest in the case is a suspect in two very similar murders, one of which took place on federal land. Victim and alleged perpetrator were both at least ''technically'' active-duty Army personnel, although the suspect was on long-term medical leave with suspected PTSD, so presumably the FBI came out on top of a previous jurisdictional squabble with the Military Police. The agent in charge doesn't endear himself to the CPD detectives working the case, mostly because he's rather evasive about certain relevant information, but settle their differences and come to a working agreement. Then things take a turn for the weird... [[spoiler:What the FBI are really investigating is some kind of SuperSoldier black-project GoneHorriblyWrong, and the suspect really ''is'' a werewolf.]]
259* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Admiral Manyara Emm of UNS Intelligence [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-04-27 butts head]] with General Bala-Amin of Sol system Entry and Traffic control.
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263* ''Website/TheOnion'' parodies this in their article: [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/local_authorities_more_than "Local Authorities More Than Happy To Let FBI Take Over."]]
264* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
265** In the story "Loose Cannons", a five-way battle took place between the M-SOC (Metahuman Special Operations Command), the MCO (Mutant Commission Office), some unnamed jerks in power armor, the [=KoP=] (Knights Of Purity), and some superpowered teenagers. The M-SOC, the MCO and the [=KoP=] were "arguing" jurisdiction over arresting the teenagers.
266** Also gets lampshaded a few times regarding superhero teams and their relations with each other, local police, and federal authorities. For example, in Los Angeles, the superteams have an agreement that they won't jump into a fight (which they weren't already immediately present for, that is) until the authorities request them to get involved, and that they [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham don't poach other teams' fights]] unless [[GondorCallsForAid the other team asks for help]]. This leads to an amusing scene in "Silent Nacht" where the members of one superhero team watch live footage of a rival team getting trounced while munching popcorn and [[{{MST}} critiquing the other team's performance]].
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270* A minor one occurs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' in which Timmy [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishes]] to be the [[LiteralGenie most wanted kid]] in the world. This prompts the Dimmsdale Police Department at his house, then the FBI helicopters arrive a few seconds later. One of the police officers then shouts: "Hey, we were here first!"
271* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS15E6HotShots Hot Shots]]", Joe Swanson of the Quahog Police Department gets into an argument with a state police officer over jurisdiction in the town after it's put under quarantine, who then argues with an FBI official over the matter. As all three of them are wheelchair-bound and are on the road, a crossing guard tells them that he has jurisdiction over all of them.
272* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS4E14HighAnxiety High Anxiety]]", a murder case in Arlen is investigated by both a County Sheriff and a Texas Ranger who constantly bicker and criticize each other's investigation methods.
273* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
274** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbElementaryMyDearStacy Elementary, My Dear Stacy]]", Perry is forced to work alongside the Franchise/JamesBond-expy/parody agent Double 0-0 because both OWCA and the British Secret Service claim jurisdiction over stopping Doofenshmirtz while he is on British soil.
275** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSidetracked Sidetracked]]", Perry has to work with agent Lyla Lollibery of COWCA (The Canadian Organization Without a Cool Acronym) to stop one of Doof's schemes on a train that runs along the border between the United States and Canada, due to the fact that each organization only has jurisdiction on one side of the train.
276* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
277** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]" has Police Chief Wiggum and Mayor Quimby arguing about which of them is in charge of handling the out-of-control monorail situation. In the end, neither of them does anything about the monorail because they're too busy reading the town charter to see who really ''is'' in charge of the situation (and getting [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted when Wiggum notices that he's entitled to "comely lasses"]]).
278** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E18CatchEmIfYouCan Catch 'Em If You Can]]", when Homer and Marge need to be rescued from Niagara Falls, American and Canadian Coast Guard captains argue over who has the authority to do the rescuing.
279** Subverted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E22TheBobNextDoor The Bob Next Door]]", in which Sideshow Bob's plan to murder Bart without legal consequences involves the murder taking place in "Five Corners", the point where five US states meet (he would stand in one state, shoot the gun in the second, the bullet would pass through the third, hit Bart in the fourth, and he would die in the fifth, Bob reasoning that no single act is against any law in any state). Chief Wiggum arrives to arrest him at the last minute, so Bob steps into another state where the Springfield PD has no jurisdiction. It's then revealed that Wiggum contacted the police of the other four states, and each is waiting in their respective jurisdictions, and amicably work together to bring him in.
280* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
281** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E6LilCrimeStoppers Lil' Crime Stoppers]]", the boys are [[CowboysAndIndians playing detective agency]] and have their game taken over by a bunch of kids playing FBI. Later, real cops are taken over by the real FBI in exactly the same fashion.
282** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E4TheSnuke The Snuke]]", which parodies ''Series/TwentyFour'', Kyle's attempt to track down a terrorist cell through social networking websites is taken over in sequence by Homeland Security, the FBI, the ATF, the Secret Service, and the NSA, all within less than two minutes. Kyle then takes it back [[BavarianFireDrill by just saying so]].
283--->'''NSA Agent:''' All right, we're in charge now!\
284'''Kyle:''' ''[pause]'' Not any more, you're not.\
285'''NSA Agent:''' Oh, snap.
286* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS4E10OldFriendsNewPlanets Old Friends, New Planets]]", Admiral Vassery tells Captain Freeman to not get involved in Nova Fleet despite her daughter Beckett Mariner being held against her will there. This is because Nova Fleet is comprised of various other races -- Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, Cardassians, Bynars, etc. -- and they do ''not'' need a diplomatic incident. [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Freeman and the crew ignore orders and mount a rescue]]. However, because Mariner's attempt to escape didn't lead to any deaths and Freeman's actions lead to opening talks with the Orions, [[DisobeyedOrdersNotPunished Freeman is let off the hook]].
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290* Real-life example: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege The Waco Siege in 1993,]] the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) tried to raid a compound, and made a complete mess of things. The FBI steps in, takes over, brings in ''[[TankGoodness a friggin' tank]]'', and makes an even BIGGER mess of things. The two agencies have been at odds ever since.
291* Considering the multiple law enforcement agencies and the occasional shift of control (control of the drug unit is shifted from department X to department Y), this is certainly a reality in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, between the ATF, DHS, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and more.
292* The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office was formed as a compromise between the U.S. Air Force and CIA, who were fighting for funding for their respective spy satellites
293* Margaret Garner, when cornered by slave catchers, [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled killed her children rather than let slavers take them back with her]]. This produced a legal discussion as to whether the Federal Fugitive Slave Act trumped mere state murder charges. It did, so she had to flee.
294* In countries that have a gendarmerie (regular soldiers trained as cops who enforce the law among the civilian population) there is often a rivalry between the gendarmerie and the local police.
295** Particularly bad in Italy, where there are EIGHT different police forces. Things are regulated this way:
296*** If it happens in a fire (especially if the fire ''is'' the crime), the ''Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco'' (the ''firefighters'') have jurisdiction.
297*** The ''Carabinieri'' (gendarmerie and military police) have jurisdiction if the perpetrator is a member of the armed forces or the crime involves organized crime, terrorism (they have an anti-terrorism branch for this), crimes at sea, crimes against the environment or happening in national parks and forests (these were actually under the jurisdiction of the State Forestry Corps, but it was completely absorbed by the ''Carabinieri'' in 2017), drugs or ''[[SeriousBusiness food sophistication]]'', or there's just need for serious firepower (they're part of the armed forces, after all, their standard equipment includes assault rifles and ''[[MoreDakka squad automatic weapons]]'', and if things go south they also have larger machine guns and sniper rifles).
298*** The ''Polizia di Stato'' has jurisdiction over crimes happening in cities and those involving highways (there's a special branch for this), railways (another special branch), mails and internet (a third special branch), airways (special branch), organized crime (special branch), drugs (special branch), and preventing any kind of crime ([[OverlyLongGag another special branch]]).
299*** The ''Guardia di Finanza'' has jurisdiction on financial, tax, terrorism and drug-related crimes, doubles as custom guards and military police, and may intervene when there's need of larger firepower than the ''Carabinieri'' can muster (after all, the ''Carabinieri'' don't have grenade launchers and hand grenades, while the ''Guardia di Finanza'' does).
300*** The ''Guardia Costiera'' has jurisdiction on crimes at sea, assuming the State Police, the ''Guardia di Finanza'', the ''Carabinieri'' or the ''Italian Navy'' don't get there first (Italy has a ''lot'' of coastlines, and the Coast Guard needs any help they can get).
301*** The ''Polizia Penitenziaria'' deals with crimes happening in jails and escorts convicts whenever they are to get out of the prison before their sentence expires (if they need to go to the hospital or to testify).
302*** ''Polizia Provinciale'' and ''Polizia Municipale'' deal with minor crimes happening in towns and provinces; minor crimes in general are dealt with by whoever gets there first.
303*** Finally, since 2008, ''Italian Army soldiers'' can double as police officers if they happen on a crime or are needed for crowd control, at least until other police forces arrive and take over. They also regularly patrol certain areas of major cities such as Milan and Rome
304** To mitigate the problem, efforts against drugs and organized crime (that are jurisdiction of the ''Carabinieri'' and the ''Polizia di Stato'' and tend to involve also the ''Guardia di Finanza'') are coordinated by the ''Direzione Centrale per i Servizi Antidroga'' (Central Directorate for Anti-Drugs Services) and the ''Direzione Investigativa Antimafia'' (Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate) respectively.
305** France and Turkey have significantly more stable relations between police and gendarmerie. France has clearly distinct lines as to where and under what circumstances the Gendarmerie Nationale and the Police Nationale operate. Turkey does the exact same with clear operational areas and circumstances, and both are directly under the control of the Interior Ministry so high command holds control over both. In both countries, certain elements of the Gendarmerie come under military control under certain circumstances and local police are always subordinate to national police. Also, Turkish Gendarmerie units not under Land Forces command are strictly civilian police, all military crimes are investigated with by the military provost and discipline office.
306* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez Richard Ramirez]] (also known as the Night Stalker) avoided capture because of exactly this.
307* In British Policing (at least, say 90% of the time), whether this is any uncertainty whatsoever, the bickering will be over why one's own force shouldn't be responsible for an investigation. This shouldn't be complicated because jurisdiction in Great Britain is very simple on paper -- the force which polices the area where the crime happened investigates -- but it never works that way in practice. Where there are no cross-border issues, it becomes a question of which squad or team within the individual force gets lumbered with the responsibility -- and then it gets ugly. The exception to this is any incident involving armed forces personnel, because they're subject to military law and are supposed to be handed over to the military police... unless civilians were involved, in which case it gets complicated. For example, the submarine HMS ''Astute'' was paying a goodwill visit to the city of Southampton when one of the posted sentries suffered some sort of mental breakdown (as it turned out, he had been on a 48-hour drinking binge and had had over 20 pints of cider and beer, plus other drinks) and opened fire in the control room, killing one officer and wounding another. The perpetrator and his victims were all Royal Navy personnel, but the ship was in a civilian port rather than a Royal Dockyard and when the shooting occurred, several members of the city council were in the compartment whilst being given a tour of the non-classified areas. Figuring out whose jurisdiction ''that'' falls under will probably take much longer than the actual trial. In fact, it took less time than feared since Ryan Donovan, the shooter, was convicted in 2011, the same year as the crime, to life by a civilian court, the option of a military trial being also available.
308* This trope is a fact of life in countries with a federal political system, including Canada and the United States. Different levels of government are continually squabbling over who has jurisdiction in any given sphere, arguing over money and agitating against perceived "unfair" treatment from each other. In some cases, this is deliberately encouraged -- one reason the United States chose a federal system dividing power between the federal and state governments was to prevent either one from becoming too much of a threat to individual liberty.
309** Canada initially started with a stronger federal government after seeing how American federalism was a factor in the Civil War, but a series of well-argued court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries gradually transferred more powers to the provinces at the federal government's expense.
310* This trope, influenced by national politics, helped trip up efforts to stop a major crime war in 1990s Quebec. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_War Quebec Biker War]] was a MobWar between the Hells Angels (with support from the Rizzuto family of mobsters) and the Rock Machine, a splinter group of bikers that began operation in the 1980s (with support from various other biker groups that were united to get rid of the Hells Angels). After a car bomb set by some of the bikers accidentally killed a child, the RCMP teamed up with the Quebec provincial police and the Montreal city police to try and bring an end to things. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_War#Operation_Carcajou The result was a complete failure to actually stop the bikers or anyone else]] -- thanks to the Quebec separatist movement being at its' apex, relations between the RCMP and the Quebec authorities were never good (as there were repeated disputes over the lack of a law like the US' RICO Act that could be used to stop the criminals), while the detectives spent more time feuding with one another and taking advantage of being on such a high-profile assignment; as a result, the war dragged on for several more years.
311* A strange subversion of this exists in the West Bank/Palestinian Territory, as Israeli citizens (regardless of race or religion) fall under Israeli law, while the Palestinians who are not citizens are under martial law, especially in zones B and C. Things are kept so separate that if an Israeli soldier actually witnesses a citizen commit a crime against a Palestinian in the territory, that soldier cannot arrest the citizen but must call the police.[[note]]Even if the soldier is inclined to do so, which is a moot point. For a practical beither, neither the IDF nor the police cares about crimes committed against Palestinians.[[/note]]
312* The manhunt for John Dillinger in 1933-1934 was one of the earliest cases of friction between the FBI and local law enforcement. The FBI was a relatively new and untested agency that wasn't taken seriously by all, local officers disparagingly called the FBI agents "college boys".
313** After Dillinger broke his colleagues out of the Michigan City penitentiary in the fall of 1933, the Indiana State Police petitioned the FBI for help pursuing him but were rebuffed, leaving the ISP and Chicago Police Department to track Dillinger down.
314** In November of 1933, they picked up his tail but a disagreement over whether to capture Dillinger by himself or with the rest of the gang led to a dramatic car chase allowing Dillinger to flee.
315** In April of 1934, after Dillinger, his girlfriend Billie Frechette, and Homer Van Meter evaded an FBI raid in St. Paul that included officers from the notoriously corrupt local police, J. Edgar Hoover issued memos forbidding local police from participating in FBI raids.
316** This came back to haunt the FBI later the same month at Little Bohemia Lodge, after they failed to notify local officials of a capture attempt on the Dillinger gang. Combined with them not spot-checking the entire area around the lodge, a firefight broke out, an innocent bystander was killed and his friends wounded when they were mistaken for associates by the FBI, and one agent was murdered and had his car stolen by Baby Face Nelson.
317** Finally, In July, the agents had a tip on his whereabouts in Chicago and sparingly notified the local police agencies of their intention to make another arrest. This was fortunate, as the agents staking out Dillinger's suspected location were reported as potential robbers by a concerned citizen. A final shootout ensued and Dillinger was killed.
318* In the pursuit of another 1930s criminal, Alvin Karpis, both the FBI and the federal postal inspectors claimed jurisdiction, with the postal inspectors one step ahead of the FBI for most of 1935.
319* Very sadly, "the Wall", a bureaucratic device designed, supposedly, to facilitate co-operation between the FBI and the CIA was largely responsible for the failure of U.S. authorities to stop the 9/11 attacks. In (highly simplified) essence, the CIA was massively anal about secrecy and viewed telling the FBI anything as a security risk, and the FBI was massively anal about chain of evidence and viewed telling the CIA anything as compromising some future prosecution (other issues included the CIA not being able to share documents without them being declassified, and that federal law didn't allow for the FBI's counter-intelligence department to work with the CIA). Indeed, the FBI didn't even know the hijackers were in America until a few days before the attacks, and even then, this was only because a CIA officer accidentally copied an FBI agent into a round robin email. Trying to prevent this from happening again is why the Department of Homeland Security was created, and was one of the purposes of the Patriot Act.
320* Inside Washington, D.C., what police department is responsible for a crime depends on location, time of day, the phase of the moon, and the condition of the president's dog. There is the D.C. police, there's the Secret Service, Capitol Police, FBI Police (really), Smithsonian police, National Cathedral police, various college police forces, and way too many Federal agencies trying to secure their own various headquarters... here's a handy [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_District_of_Columbia list of them all]]. Just remember to keep away from the [[LaserSight little red dots]].
321** Applies to the Washington D.C. metro area as a whole, with Virginia and Maryland surrounding and only a stone's throw away from the District of Columbia. Not to mention numerous local, state and federal facilities scattered throughout the neighboring counties.
322* Having two anti-virus softwares on your computer at once can cause a digital version of this. AV software tends to have to do things like read the contents of random files, monitor access to critical system files, and generally interpose itself between applications and the system, which is something that a lot of ''viruses'' do. As such, it's not too uncommon for them to label the other a virus, and attempt to delete each other.
323** This also counts as a LogicBomb in certain scenarios: One will intercept a data transfer to check it for potential threats, then send it on. The other will see this transfer, intercept it, and send it on. The other will see this transfer, intercept it, and send it on. The other will see this transfer, intercept it... This is why some Antiviruses try to detect if it's the sole antivirus on the system, and bitch about it if it isn't. Due to a misconception spread by some "computer experts" back in the '90s, there were a handful of users who were convinced that it's beneficial to have multiple antiviruses on the same machine. After all, two heads are better than one (except in this case).
324* A version of this can happen if you're trying to perform a given task on your computer (say, opening a PDF file) and you don't have a program assigned to perform said task by default. If that's the case, you'll have your computer asking you which of your capable programs you want to perform the task every time you want it done.
325* Many of UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}'s current issues stem from its French and Dutch/Flemish-speaking communities and public servants operating in silos, from the comical (the Fries Revolution and strip protests) to the tragic (security lapses with the 2016 Brussels bombings).
326* Any society where the population is divided into several camps can fall victim to this trope.
327** During the Middle Ages, the jurisdiction depended on the personal status of the party [=and/or=] the place where the action took place. These jurisdictions were the feudal justice, Church justice, City justice, and the nascing Royal justice. For example, a cleric might expect to be tried in a Church court applying Canon law, a peasant might be tried by his lord while burghers might be tried by their city. Furthermore, there were matter-related jurisdictions, such as treason being tried by Royal justice while heresy and marriage-related cases being tried by Church ones.
328** Until 1746, Scotland had [[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095932563 heritable jurisdictions.]]
329** In England, legal tricks like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Middlesex Bill of Middlesex]] allowed the Court of King's Bench to hear cases that would normally be in the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas.
330* [[https://www.businessinsider.com/what-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-being-an-fbi-agent-2016-7#myth-the-fbi-doesnt-play-well-with-others-1 This Business Insider article]] discredits the trope (in fact, referencing this very article to do so), saying that the ''expectation'' of the trope [[LifeImitatesArt actually causes it]], as local authorities may mistakenly think the FBI behave the way they've seen in film and television.
331* In June 2022 in the town of Hiawassee, Georgia, just south of the Georgia-North Carolina state line, a Hiawassee police sergeant pulls over a driver for speeding. Just after the city cop gives the driver their citation, the Towns County Sheriff shows up and start questioning the driver. The two law enforcement officers then get into a heated argument over who had jurisdiction for the stop, with both officers ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M4SCvbudCE threatening to arrest one another.]]'' The Towns County Sheriff has a reputation of [[https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/towns-county-sheriff-accusations-hiawassee/85-5d1b807a-a99f-4eeb-b769-a0d1f50c028b antagonizing the Hiawassee PD.]]
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