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7	->'''FBI Agent Norman Jayden:''' Blake, you are an unbalanced, psychopathic asshole!\
8	'''Lieutenant Carter Blake:''' I'll take that as a compliment.
9	-->-- ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''
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11	The room is small. Help is far away, on the other side of many locked doors. Your arm is chained to the table, and a Rabid Cop is [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique spraying spittle into your face]], in a way that convinces you that he has completely ''lost his mind.''
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13	All he wants you to do is admit that everything UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler did was your idea. Sounds good to you. What do you have to sign to get ''away'' from this maniac?
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15	The Rabid Cop might be [[DirtyCop casually dirty]], or [[BigotWithABadge openly bigoted]], or [[KnightTemplar overbearingly self-righteous]], or any combination of the above, but they will all have two things in common: a reckless disregard for civil rights, and [[InspectorJavert an unwavering conviction that any person they've identified as "the perp" actually is a perp (regardless of any contradicting evidence) and deserves to suffer]]. In a GoodCopBadCop routine, they usually take the "Bad Cop" ball and run clear out of the stadium with it, and they're likely to enjoy using TortureForFunAndInformation.
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17	Compare and contrast with the (presumedly) more sympathetic CowboyCop. Not actually a cop, but possessing many of the same attributes, is the SchlubbyScummySecurityGuard. See also PoliceBrutality and TheBadGuysAreCops for when this guy goes too far. KillerCop is when they skip the violence and go to straight-up murder.
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20	!!Examples:
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25	* John "Sleepy" Estes, the titular ''Manga/MadBull34'', who currently graces the page with the picture on top. He doesn't do PoliceBrutality -- he does Police ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Overkill]]'' (like carrying ''about a dozen hand grenades strapped like a loincloth under his pants'', just in case).
26	* Pretty much all of the protagonists in ''Anime/AngelCop'', with the titular Angel standing out.
27	* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' features a crazy traffic police officer named Yoko Wakana as a RecurringCharacter. On her first appearance, she relentlessly chases Sousuke and Kaname when they're escaping on a bike, and ends up trashing her patrol car. Later, she drags Kaname into helping her catch a stalker by threatening to arrest her, and mistakes Sousuke (disguised as Bonta-kun) for said stalker and gets into a shootout with him.
28	* ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'': Hibari Ginza casually brutalizes suspects [[SelfDefenseRuse while claiming "self-defense"]], no matter how absurdly implausible her claims are (in one scene she does this while inside of a room full of fellow cops).
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32	* Gotham City Police Detective Harvey Bullock from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' dips into this quite a bit--which makes it [[{{Hypocrite}} very strange that he also often scolds Batman for being a vigilante]]. Of course, this varies DependingOnTheAuthor; also, it could be that Bullock just resents Batman for making the police look incompetent. Also DependingOnTheWriter, ''Batman'' is seen as this to the rest of the superhero community, performing HighAltitudeInterrogation like nobody's business among other borderline-sociopathic steps to keep [[WretchedHive Gotham's]] crime in check.
33	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
34	** Perhaps [[ExaggeratedTrope the ultimate example]] is Judge Dredd's nemesis, Judge Death. He starts off his time in his reality's judge force, which was pretty bad to begin with and had rabid cops out the wazoo, [[HangingJudge executing perps for minor crimes]] (untied shoelaces, breach of noise regulations, loitering...). ''And he only gets worse''. Eventually, he reasons that all crime is committed by the living, [[AllCrimesAreEqual therefore life is a crime]]. Cue his willing transformation into an undead killing machine, the extermination of his world's entire population, and his attempts to do the same to Dredd's universe.
35	** Oddly enough, even when they have the actual capacity to be JudgeJuryAndExecutioner, this is subverted by the Mega-City One Judges and ''especially'' Dredd--like any actual real police force, they frown greatly on members using excessive force without due justification and even so much as a single baton strike too many can put them in a whole heap of trouble with [[InternalAffairs the SJS]], if not worse. Of course, that's not to say Justice Department doesn't have any bad eggs. The likes of Judge Manners, who sodomises a juve with his daystick, or Judge Kruger, whose preference for using his daystick is so ingrained into him, he plants drugs on an innocent woman he beat to death, are rife within the department.
36	** Played straight in the ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'' continuity by Judge Dredd himself. Since everything is BloodierAndGorier, Dredd is far more violent and callous, with his methods of dispensing justice verging into the unfunny side of DisproportionateRetribution.
37	* Marvel's ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'' has a [[AlternateSelf version]] of [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] who is a detective in the NYPD. His idea of interrogating suspects involves a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and he only grows more and more ruthless in his pursuit of Spider-Woman over the death of Peter Parker. His tenure as a cop comes to an end when he uses high-tech weaponry and endangers dozens of lives in his pursuit of "justice".
38	* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Even the Basin City cops who aren't [[DirtyCop actively corrupt]] or [[TheBadGuysAreCops on the payroll of the bad guys]] are usually pretty violent. For example, Lt. Liebowitz is perfectly fine with beating Hartigan right back into a coma in order to get a phony confession from him (Hartigan still refuses), and he deals with the Colonel by just shooting him in the face, though that guy ''really'' had it coming.
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42	* Richard Chance, in ''Film/ToLiveAndDieInLA'', is an already hot-headed Secret Service agent who goes off the rails after his partner gets killed. He's brash with authority figures, doesn't like it when the rules get in the way of his plans, takes evidence without following protocol, and resorts to ''blackmail and armed robbery'' to further his investigation. His antics [[spoiler:lead to the accidental death of an undercover FBI agent and his own killing]]. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Vukovitch]] follows in his footsteps.
43	* Terence [=McDonagh=]'s partner, Stevie Pruit, is one of these in ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans''. And [=McDonagh=] starts to turn into one himself as his addictions spiral out of control.
44	* Shannon Mullins in ''Film/TheHeat'' is a rare female example.
45	* Dennis Peck from ''Internal Affairs'' ...see Alonzo.
46	* Officer Mooney in ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' has to be almost physically restrained from beating up a couple of punks brought in for public drunkenness. He later takes a flashlight to the head of one of the klowns, which turns out to be [[MuggingTheMonster not such a hot idea]]. (Of course, Mooney ''is'' an elderly man, so [[BoisterousWeakling he comes across as more of a jerk than a genuine bully]].)
47	* Bud White of ''Film/LAConfidential'' is a heroic version, though he does frighten the officer playing 'bad cop' as well as the suspect at one time.
48	* Detective Park Doo-man and Detective Cho Yong-koo from ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'' both brutally try to beat and torture confessions out of their suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Detective Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation, [[spoiler: but by the end of the movie, is driven to becoming almost as bad as them.]]
49	* ''Film/Narc2002'':
50	** Henry Oak, who happens to be a narcotic police officer with a case of PoliceBrutality against the criminals he's facing against.
51	** Nick Tellis himself is not far off from being a violent cop too. The reason why he was kicked out of the police force was because he shot a drug dealer holding a child hostage, resulting in one of his bullets hitting a pregnant woman.
52	* [[Creator/TakeshiKitano Detective Azuma]], the titular ''Film/ViolentCop'' [[note]]The movie is also Kitano's directorial debut [[/note]] is more of a VigilanteMan than an actual policeman. Azuma operates on a BlueAndOrangeMorality and upholds it with extreme violence regardless of the law. His MO is to simply terrify local hoodlums into turning themselves in before he beats them to death. His colleagues treat him with a mix of disgust and admiration. Unsurprisingly, this approach works well against local JapaneseDelinquents but is completely useless against well-organized and connected crime syndicates who have most of his department on the take. [[spoiler: Most humiliatingly, Kikuchi, Azuma's rookie partner who spent most of the movie being bullied by him, eventually lashes out by betraying Azuma to the mob and becoming a full-blown DirtyCop after his death.]]
53	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''
54	** David Tapp in the [[Film/SawI first movie]]. His recklessness nearly kills one of Jigsaw's victims, gets his partner shot by multiple shotguns at once, gets his ''own'' throat cut, nearly killing him, and gets him dismissed from the force. And that is just [[{{Flashback}} backstory]]. By the time the events in the movie proper start, he is a broken shell of a man in a fetid bedsit across from the house of the guy he thinks is the killer. It is arguably creepier than any of Jigsaw's actual traps.
55	** Detective Eric Matthews in the [[Film/SawII second movie]]. As the movie progresses, it's revealed that he has a very nasty record of violence towards suspects, and in several cases planted evidence to gain a conviction. And after spending most of the film watching his son trapped in a house with the victims of said evidence-planting, he resorts to thrashing the living daylights out of Jigsaw for the location of the house, [[spoiler:which turns out to be a trap set up specifically for Matthews.]]
56	** Zeke Banks from ''Film/Spiral2021''. Despite describing himself as the only good cop in the department, at the midpoint of the movie he breaks a man's leg, pours alcohol on it and hits the bone where it's sticking out of the leg. He's also an all-round asshole to people he's not beating up, like his ex wife and by extension, women in general.
57	* Although he isn't in the circumstance described above, Alonzo Harris from the film ''Film/TrainingDay'' is the embodiment of this trope. He isn't insane though, just a [[TheSociopath sociopath]].
58	* ''Film/Transformers2007'': {{Invoked\|Trope}} with Barricade, who isn't a cop on account of being an alien TransformingMecha, but transforms into a police car and has a ''violent'' means of chasing down and interrogating Sam Witwicky for [[MacGuffin his grandfather's glasses]]:
59	--> '''Barricade:''' ARE YOU USERNAME '[=LADIESMAN217=]'?!?!
60	* Agent David Kujan pulls this on Verbal Kint a couple of times in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''.
61	--> '''Verbal Kint:''' The DA gave me immunity.\
62	'''Dave Kujan:''' Not from me. You get no immunity from me, you piece of shit!
63	* Bad Cop in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''. His EstablishingCharacterMoment includes Good Cop giving Emmett a glass of water (after getting battered by B.C.) only for Bad Cop to instantly swat it away barking out "too late!" and carrying out his interrogation, and he uses absurd amounts of overkill to try to stop him from getting to the Kragle.
64	* In ''Film/CaptainThunderbolt,'' Sgt Mannix is a cop of the KnightTemplar variety.
65	* In ''Film/SavagesCrossing'', Chris moonlights as a bounty hunter. He subdues the serial killer by bashing his head repeatedly on the door, dunking him in a toilet bowl, and stuffing a gun barrel in Phil's mouth when he is handcuffed and unable to defend himself
66	* The secondary antagonists of ''Film/TheCandyTangerineMan'' are a pair of racist cops who are willing to [[spoiler:assault and rape a teenage girl]] in order to catch the Baron.
67	* One of the titular players in ''Film/TheReplacements2000'' is a SWAT officer in his day job. On the football field, he's notably the guy always playing at maximum intensity, and perhaps with a touch of insanity... even in a no-contact practice. While his status as a cop isn't often mentioned, the one scene where we do see him at his day job (on a SWAT raid) shows he's just as intense off the field.
68	-->'''Coach [=McGinty=]''': I hope he doesn't kill someone.
69	* ''Film/{{Airheads}}'' gives us LAPD SWAT leader Carl Mace, whose only idea of dealing with a bunch of hostage takers is "kill them all" and constantly manipulates things so he will be allowed to storm the building or the hostage takers will exit and he can shoot them, even sneaking a ''sub-machine gun'' to an office clerk that got stuck sneaking around a la ''Film/DieHard'' so he can shoot them (and it's not unsubtly implied that he was already pretty angry before but then totally lost it when he found out that his wife was having an affair).
70	* ''Film/MulhollandFalls'': Hoover and his crew deal with organized crime in 1950s L.A. through extralegal means with the unofficial consent of the chief. Methods include arresting mob guys at parties and driving out to the hills to throw them off a cliff, or overdosing one of them on cocaine.
71	* [[NaughtyNarcs Corrupt DEA]] agent Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional'' not only [[FamilyExtermination kills an entire family]] but also uses his position to have a foothold in the drug trade and has ties to organized crime syndicates no less.
72	* Mark from ''Film/WhereTheSidewalkEnds''. This gets him into big trouble when he accidentally kills a suspect.
73	* The titular ''Film/DirtyHarry'' Callahan tap-dances between being this and being a CowboyCop. He can be pretty damn brutal to crooks (to the point that when he's accused of PoliceBrutality by the Scorpio Killer in the first film, he points out that it's obvious the Killer is trying to set him up--because if it had actually been him, the Killer wouldn't have even been able to ''walk'' afterwards) he still tries to at least follow the rules for police combat encounters.
74	* The second film, ''Film/MagnumForce'', has a whole group of these as a DeliberatelyBadExample. They start the film by going after criminals that have gotten OffOnATechnicality, but they perform their exterminations with an absolute disregard for collateral damage (even killing fellow cops that get in the way), and Harry asks them on the denouement what will happen when they eventually become bold enough [[DisproportionateRetribution to start shooting anybody they can classify as "criminal", even jaywalkers and owners of really messy dogs]], with the answer given to him being "we will do as we please".
75	* ''Film/KingOfNewYork'': Gilley and Flanigan decide to go after Frank White and his gang guns blazing after the legal system fails them. [[spoiler:This results in both of them dying violently in a CycleOfRevenge.]]
76	* ''Film/{{Identity}}'': Officer Samuel Rhodes. At first he's a bit of a reserved authority figure, but he becomes increasingly violent as people keep dying at the motel at the hands of a mysterious killer, eventually vowing to get through the night by gathering everyone in one room and threatening to shoot anyone who tries to leave. [[spoiler:Although, it's later revealed that he's not really a cop but a criminal posing as one.]]
77	* ''Film/{{Detroit}}'' dramatizes the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Motel_incident Algiers Motel incident]] during the 1967 Detroit riots. Responding to apparent sniper fire from the direction of the Algiers motel, a group of Detroit cops (with some reluctant support from State Police and National Guard) begin brutalizing the tenants in breathtakingly illegal ways in an attempt to identify the shooter and recover the gun. It ultimately results in several needless deaths.
78	* In ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'', Commissaire Sauveur Cristini is completely out of control. In one scene, he throws a baby across a room and [[PistolWhipping pistol whips]] the mother when she tries to go after her son.
79	* Little Bill, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' is a small-town sheriff, formerly outlaw, who abuses his authority as an excuse to [[PoliceBrutality let out his outlaw side on the people he technically arrests]]. This culminates in [[spoiler:torturing an (innocent) man to death and then [[DeadGuyOnDisplay propping up his corpse outside the town saloon as a warning]]. Which turns out to be his undoing when the man's friend, another former outlaw who is even more AxCrazy than Bill is, comes knocking.]]
80	* ''Film/ExitWounds'': Orin Boyd's violent antics and disregard for orders have caused his superiors no small amount of headaches. It's mentioned in one scene that he once beat up a suspect with a living cat. Boyd's temper is bad enough that his new captain orders him to take anger management classes.
81	* The short film ''Film/TwoDistantStrangers'' revolves around a man being trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop that always ends with him being murdered by a violence-prone cop named Officer Merk. To make things worse, the protagonist discovers in the next-to-last loop [[NoEnding that we see]] that Merk knows he's in a time loop as well and is exploiting it to kill the protagonist again and again for kicks.
82	* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': Ex-cop Akikazu beats up everybody who stands in his way and is very easy to set off. But is also beaten up several times.
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86	* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Desperation}}'': Collie Entragian, who casually inserts the words "I'm going to kill you" into the Miranda rights he reads, and then proceeds to shoot and kill Peter Carver right in front of his wife Ellen. He turns out to be [[spoiler:possessed by the AncientEvil known as Tak]].
87	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
88	** THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!. Vimes does whatever he can to not turn into one, to the point that he [[spoiler: actually has a Vimes-esque entity in his mind to prevent him from succumbing to the darkness.]]
89	--->"Who watches the watchman? I do."
90	** Sergeant Detritus has three questions for suspects, usually delivered [[NoIndoorVoice at some volume]]: ‘Did you do it?’, ‘Are you sure it wasn’t you what done it?’ and ‘It was you what done it, wasn't it?’. Fortunately, he's easily derailed into giving up by cunning tactics such as simple denial.
91	* Averted in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Changes''. Rudolph tries his best to play the Bad Cop, but all his desk-pounding and spittle-flecked screaming manages to do is cause Harry to crack up and the other interrogator ends up ordering him out of the room. It probably helps that Harry has seen Rudolph ''freak out'' whenever confronted with the sort of thing he deals with all the time.
92	* Captain Zuccho from ''Literature/{{Incompetence}}'' has a HairTriggerTemper, to put it lightly. Asking him to calm down will result in him randomly ''shooting at the pavement''. Reputedly, he is on Prozac, but it doesn't seem to be helping.
93	* In the Creator/DaleBrown book ''A Time for Patriots'', a group of FBI agents are so desperate to find a scapegoat for the WesternTerrorists' dirty bomb attack they failed to stop that they go after Patrick [=McLanahan=] and his son.
94	* In the Mario Puzo novel from which ''Film/TheGodfather'' trilogy was mined, Albert Neri starts as a prime example of one of these. [[KillerCop Then he gets worse.]]
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98	* Ray has moments like this in ''Series/BreakoutKings'', including threatening to burn a suspect's genitals with a cigarette lighter.
99	* ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'':
100	** The aptly named Detective Slaughter, a one-episode character played by Creator/AdamBaldwin.
101	** Kate Beckett herself was this at various points, usually when the case involved her mother's death. After [[spoiler: she is shot by a sniper]] she becomes this way when investigating that case as well as anything that reminds her of it. And when, in the first episode of season 7, she interrogates a low-level thug who she believes [[spoiler: knows who kidnapped Castle - and she isn't sure whether he's still alive, but believes that ''he'' knows - ]] she appears completely willing to break as many of the guy's fingers as is necessary to get him to talk. You do ''not'' get between Beckett and the people she loves.
102	* Jimmy Beck in ''{{Series/Cracker}}'', once causing his superior officer to say 'I don't know what you did to him, but you scared the hell out of me.'
103	* ''Series/CSIMiami'': From a comparative and statistical point of view (broken down in [[ClickHello people he personally threatened to hurt if they didn't stand down]], who [[KarmicDeath accidentally died]] when he tried to bring them in (and a couple he ''actually'' allowed to die), who he killed personally in self-defense, who he hurt when they hit his BerserkButton and/or threatened in various ways), Horatio Caine was an example of this trope among the leaders of the CSI teams (Grissom, Taylor, et al).
104	* ''{{Series/CSI}}'':
105	** Mac Taylor does get his moment, though, in the crossover episode where his girlfriend is kidnapped. Mac is pretty much raging by the time they can question one of the guys involved and yells and slams his hands down on the table. He gets told that Christine never made it to Vegas and is being held in New York. Several of the interrogations in the ''{{Series/CSI NY}}'' half of the story are quite intense as well.
106	** ''[=CSI=]'' also provides us an InUniverse {{Flanderization}} example on the episode ''"Lab Rats"'', with the [[RPGEpisode prototype-tabletop-game]][[ShowWithinAShow -within-a-show]] having Detective Brass as a man who [[DissonantSerenity nonchalantly]] uses violence against those who don't answer his questions or resists arrest. Various other episodes throughout all of the franchise's shows also provide examples of cases where a cop losing control and brutalizing a suspect makes things harder for the investigation.
107	* John Walker from ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' proves to be a unique example in episode three when he assaults a civilian who he knows helped the people he’s looking for. [[spoiler: He also brutally murders an unarmed man, who while a terrorist, was begging for his life and wasn’t responsible for his friend Lemar‘s (accidental) death.]]
108	* Before Andy Sipowicz, there was Mick Belker on ''Series/HillStreetBlues''. Dude even barked and growled like a rabid dog. Bit people on a regular basis. "You gonna tell me what I want to know or am I gonna have to show you my ass!" Unusually for this trope, Belker is actually a surprisingly nice guy despite having a short fuse and a bit of a NapoleonComplex; he invariably treats victims of crime with compassion and respect, and goes to great lengths to look after his elderly parents.
109	* Detective Tim Bayliss from ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' deconstructs this trope. Bayliss is mostly a nice guy, but he has deep-seated emotional problems stemming from an abusive childhood that lead to frequent outbursts of violence and he occasionally assaults suspects if they've pushed his BerserkButton by harming children. He even nearly burns a man’s face against a hot pipe under the suspicion that he ''might'' have killed a child. [[spoiler:He eventually snaps altogether in the series finale and murders a SerialKiller who had got OffOnATechnicality.]]
110	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The last woman Ted dated before meeting The Mother was a woman named Jeanette, an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush who Ted eventually learns is a police officer with several PoliceBrutality citations. Ted only learns what Jeanette does for a living after he dumps her and she [[WomanScorned locks herself in his bedroom to destroy his stuff]]. He tries to call the police, only for Jeanette to intercept the call and cheerfully tell the dispatcher she'll deal with it.
111	* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
112	** Elliot Stabler can be a ''very'' violent person during his interrogations, especially when ItsPersonal or, as the father of four children, he comes up against anybody who WouldHurtAChild. Elliot can reach a boiling point so hot that multiple people have to come physically restrain him. No wonder he and IAB were so well-acquainted. Many theorized the series would not end until he actually killed someone, ending his massive fall from grace... and ironically, he did end up off the show due to a killing in the precinct, although it was A) a 'clean' (wholly justified) shoot of someone that was shooting up the holding cell, and B) happened to be a 14-year-old girl he was wholly sympathetic with. He couldn't take the guilt and handed in his resignation letter shortly afterward.
113	** The cop in the (ironically named) episode "Unstable" made Elliot seem calm and normal by comparison.
114	** Dana Lewis is also an example of this. Though she did have a running gag where in every episode she was featured Elliot would end up being hurt in some way, the episode "Penetration" ends with her chasing down her rapist and cornering him in a warehouse with her gun drawn, and she actually tries to shoot the guy. The episode "Secrets Exhumed" ends up with her being arrested and thrown in prison for 25 years when it's revealed that long ago she killed her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend out of jealousy and spite, and [[TheAtoner spent the next few decades as a cop trying to redeem herself and do good for society.]]
115	* ''Most'' of the 1973 detectives in ''Series/{{Life On Mars\|2006}}'' are rabid by today's standards, especially in contrast to 2006 transplant Sam, but Gene Hunt deserves a special mention, here.
116	* Played for laughs in a courtroom sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Police Constable Pan Am is called to the witness box and immediately starts smacking everybody around with his baton. His testimony, which he reads straight out of his notebook, clearly indicates that he and other officers beat a confession out of the defendant.
117	* The retired detectives of ''Series/NewTricks'' have slightly CowboyCop attitudes compared to modern police methods and standards. So they see nothing wrong with creating a fake Rabid Cop scenario where the interrogator gets so insanely angry that he shoots the suspect's public defender lawyer. The 'lawyer' is another retired cop and the gun is a starter pistol. And occasionally they find themselves working alongside a real Rabid Cop, such as Frank Patterson in "The Fourth Man".
118	* Andy Sipowicz from ''Series/NYPDBlue'' is the TropeCodifier a lot of us remember. While he's toned things down over the years, you definitely do not want to talk back to him if you're in the interrogation room with him.
119	* ''Series/TheShield'' is about the Strike Team committing a lot of police misconduct in the name of stopping gangs and enriching themselves. Vic Mackey in particular counts as such. While he is a proponent of the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, Vic only rarely turns into the rabid cop - usually, his menacing is done with a cold and calculating air. Shane, on the other hand...
120	* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', also created by Creator/KurtSutter, has Lee Toric, a former U.S. Marshal, and ATF Agent June Stahl
121	* Jack Regan of ''Series/TheSweeney'' got rabid at times, too.
122	* Peter Boyd of ''Series/WakingTheDead'' tends to get EXTREMELY SHOUTY and verges on violent at times, though usually one of his team is watching through one-way glass and bursts in to stop him.
123	* Colin Mochrie played a parody of one on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' in a game called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLKLcQ5XF4 Good Cop, Bad Cop]].
124	* Jack Malone of ''Series/WithoutATrace'' can be pretty worked up and he will do anything to get information on those poor missing people.
125	* Several police on ''Series/TheWire'', but the standout examples are Anthony Colicchio, who attacks a teacher when said teacher asks him to move his police car that's blocking the street, and Eddie Walker, who breaks the fingers of a preteen carjacker because the kid's joyride (and collisions with parked cars) gave him additional paperwork to fill out. Of the main cast, Herc is the most brutal and easily provoked, and in the Homicide unit, Vernon Holly is fast to turn to violence.
126	* ''Series/{{Copper}}'': If you trigger Corcoran's BerserkButton, he will not hesitate to unleash a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on a chained prisoner.
127	* Sergeant Hank Voight of ''Series/ChicagoPD'' is normally extremely brutal, but controlled and calculating in his use of violence. When he gets properly pissed, however, his colleagues know to simply go along with the mayhem rather than try and do anything to stop him.
128	* On ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', after most of the corrections officers at Litchfield quit their jobs shortly after Litchfield was privatized, the MegaCorp that now owned the prison suggested hiring veterans in their place. Great, except these were {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s, many of whom would become easily frustrated with inmates, and failed to differentiate between their jobs as soldiers and their current jobs as corrections officers at a ''minimum-security'' prison.
129	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2019'': In the episode ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZone2019S1E3Replay Replay]]'', a MamaBear goes through a GroundhogDayLoop again and again doing anything she can to try to prevent her teenage son from being [[PoliceBrutality shot dead]] by a cop who draws the very second the kid does anything [[ShootHimHeHasaWallet that even vaguely resembles hostility]]. By the time the final loop happens, she is sure that the only reason the officer has to [[ImplacableMan chase them down no matter what she tries]] is the fact that they [[BigotWithABadge exist and are black]].
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133	* Agent Robert Nightingale in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' is a ruthless federal agent pursuing the main character. Though the source for his violent behavior is found in [[AllThereInTheManual his back story]].
134	* Lt. Carter Blake in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is a psychopathic police officer with immunity from the local precinct (why, nobody knows) who prefers beating a suspect rather than extracting any information, has no problem with breaking the law in order to investigate, and will have no qualms about killing. Initially, he's rather reserved to just beating suspects, and then he roughs up a psychologist who has done absolutely nothing. And then does everything in his power to assure those affiliated with the investigation that [[PapaWolf Ethan Mars]] is the Origami Killer. [[TheProfiler The FBI agent attached to the investigation, Norman Jayden]], isn't convinced, and the two have a very rough rivalry. If Ethan is arrested, then it leads to a [[MoralEventHorizon scene where Blake will mercilessly beat Ethan into unconsciousness]]. Jayden can intervene and punch Blake, which will prompt him to hold Jayden at gunpoint, waiting for the perfect opportunity to kill him. It doesn't stop there, either. One possibility at the end of the game has Blake [[spoiler:ordering his squad of officers to gun down Ethan who had finally reunited with Shaun, his ten-year-old son, after having gone to incredible lengths to save him from drowning in the warehouse's well, all while the aforementioned son watches in horror as his beloved father's body falls to the ground, lifeless. All because Blake refused to believe anyone, but Ethan could be the Origami Killer and the instant the obviously unarmed man clutches his left hip in agony instead of keeping his hands up, Blake gives the order to shoot]]. Needless to say, Blake is by far the most hated character in the game, even the actual killer doesn't come close. The worst part? In any good ending [[KarmaHoudini he gets away with everything]].
135	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': As a Spectre, Saren Arterius is essentially a Council [[SpacePolice space cop]] with no strings attached, and he plays it to the hilt -- making frequent usage of the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, pursuing his own ambitions on the side, and pinning the collateral damage on people he doesn't like. He's the same sadistic, racist government law officer we've seen in many other works, just relocated to a sci-fi setting -- and this was what he was like ''before'' he went JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
136	* A good way to lose in ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'', acting like the aforementioned Carter Blake above will not be tolerated in the force.
137	* A good number of Templars in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' are a little overzealous in attempting to contain the threat that mages pose. There are plenty of reasons to fear mages, but many Templars are willing to paint every mage with the worst brush and take the worst measures to make sure they don't stay a threat. By ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', most of the order becomes this when they go rogue from [[TheChurch the Chantry]] in order to put down the mage rebellion by any means necessary.
138	* Manny Pardo from ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' starts off as a mere CowboyCop with little regard for protocol, but as the game progresses, he starts to show more {{Jerkass}} tendencies. He becomes a full-on Rabid Cop when he [[spoiler:executes an unarmed and surrendering Tony]]. It's also hinted that he's [[spoiler:the Miami Mutilator]].
139	* The Mercykillers in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' are already an entire faction of Judge Dredd-like {{Knight Templar}}s, but Vhailor is well-known for being extreme even by Mercykiller standards. Things like mercy and compassion mean absolutely nothing to him in his pursuit of justice.
140	* Three law enforcement specialists in ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' fit the bill.
141	** The [[MightyGlacier Bulldozer]] is a cop clad in nigh-impenetrable armor and is dead set on ruining your whole day.
142	--->''"Watch me CRUSH THIS GUY!"\
143	"Stay alive, SO I CAN KILL YOU MYSELF!"\
144	"You are so FUCKED!"''
145	** The [[GlassCannon Cloaker]] is a psychotic law enforcer, capable of taking down a player with one DivingKick attack and issuing a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with their baton.
146	--->''"All right, the safe word is 'PoliceBrutality'!"\
147	"We call this a difficulty tweak!"\
148	"[[BreakingTheFourthWall Now go to the forums and cry like the little bitch you are!]]"''
149	** The [[PsychoElectro Taser]] is a trigger-happy cop armed with a StaticStunGun, and is more than willing to zap any unfortunate criminals in his way.
150	--->''"Taser gun set to 'almost kill'!"\
151	"Rubber diaper, anyone?"\
152	"Shock treatment prescribed!"''
153	* Tsurugi Kinjo of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaAnother'' doesn't start off as one, but quickly [[SanitySlippage snaps under the pressure of the Killing Game]]. He starts off endorsing the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath executions]] of murderers, then proposes [[BetrayalByInaction abandoning those unwilling to follow his increasingly draconian rules]], and eventually escalates into telling another one of his classmates [[SuicideDare to kill herself]]. Predictably, everyone else begins [[HatedByAll hating his guts]].
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157	* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'': Strictly PlayedForLaughs, as the eponymous policeman doesn't hesitate to [[OffWithHisHead chop off the heads]] of everyone known to be a Bad Guy.
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161	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': The average Enforcer is very quick to commit violence against the people of the {{Undercity}}. The assumption is that everyone down there is a criminal. If you run from the Enforcers up in topside Piltover they try to capture you with BattleBolas, down in the [[{{Prequel}} future Zaun]] they start drawing their pistols.
162	* The titular character from the Creator/AdultSwim show ''WesternAnimation/AssyMcGee'' is an extremely violent parody of this trope (and a HeroicComedicSociopath) despite being, as his name suggests, a pair of ass cheeks. He was perpetually intoxicated, told to hand in his badge and gun at least once an episode, and other offenses too numerous to list here.
163	* Lock-Up from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' is a sympathetic case, though he isn't technically a cop.
164	* This is parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' where a Rabid Cop violently accuses and assaults ButtMonkey Tom [=DuBois=] for a crime that he obviously didn't commit before being forced out by the nice cop. He then rushed in 5 seconds later to assault Tom again.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' gives us their take on the NYCPD and the inexplicability of FamilyFriendlyFirearms at the same time. Doppelganger!Tony has just shot at unarmed people at a party with a laser gun and rushed off. The real Tony Stark is taken in for questioning, and one of the officers is like this, complete with banging on the table and yelling, "Did your friends give you the lasers?!"
166	* The Springfield Police Department is sometimes depicted this way on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. (To the tune of "Bad Boys" from ''Series/{{COPS}}'': "Whether in a car or on a horse, we don't mind using excessive force!") Definitely describes Rainer Wolfcastle's character in the [[ShowWithinAShow [=McBain=] movies]].
167	* Rancid Rabbit from ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' in any episode where he is [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands a police officer]].
168	* The Angry Cop from ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily'' episode "Gerold's Way of The Highway".
169	* Adult Swim did this twice with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Harvey Birdman\|AttorneyAtLaw}}'' episode "Bootie Noir" and the ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop'' episode "I Saw Stroker Killing SantaClaus".
170	* Chief Kevlar from ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'', who has serious emotional issues, NoIndoorVoice, and believes AllCrimesAreEqual. He also really hates Atomic Puppet for their vigilantism.
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