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Genres:

• Androids and Detectives
• Bewildering Punishment
• Buddy Cop Show
• The Caper
• Cop Show
• Crime Reconstruction
• Crime Time Soap
• Criminal Procedural
• Detective Drama
• Double Caper
• Forensic Drama
• Mystery Fiction
• Law Procedural
• Little Old Lady Investigates
• Police Procedural

Tropes:

• Absence of Evidence
• Accidental Kidnapping
• Accomplice by Inaction
• Acquitted Too Late
• After Action, Villain Analysis
• All Crimes Are Equal
• Alone with the Psycho
• Always Gets His Man
• Amateur Sleuth
• Ambulance Chaser
• Amoral Attorney
• Armed Blag
• Arrested for Heroism
• Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
• Artistic License - Law
• Asshole Victim
• Atonement Detective
• Audit Threat
• Autopsy Snack Time
• Bank Robbery
• Be as Unhelpful as Possible
• Because I'm Good At It
• Beneath Suspicion
• Better Manhandle The Murder Weapon
• Big Secret
• Big Store
• Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word
• Black Market
• Blatant Burglar
• Bluffing the Murderer
• Body In A Breadbox
• The Corpse Stops Here
• The Boxing Episode
• The Butler Did It
• By-the-Book Cop
• Calling Card
• Caper Rationalization
• The Cavalry Arrives Late
• Chalk Outline
• Clear My Name
• Clear Their Name
• Clue Evidence And A Smoking Gun
• Clueless Detective
• Clueless Mystery
• Coat Full of Contraband
• Cold Reading
• Colliding Criminal Conspiracies
• Comatose Canary
• Come to Gawk
• Common Nonsense Jury
• The Con
• Confess to a Lesser Crime
• Condemned Contestant
• Con Men Hate Guns
• Connect the Deaths
• Consulting a Convicted Killer
• Contract on the Hitman
• The Convenient Store Next Door
• Conviction by Contradiction
• Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
• Convicted By Public Opinion
• Le Cops Sportif
• Cop And Scientist
• Corruption by a Minor
• Corruption of a Minor
• Coincidental Dodge
• Cowboy Cop
• Crime After Crime
• The Crime Job
• Crime Of Self Defense
• Criminal Mind Games
• Crusading Lawyer
• Cuffs Off Rub Wrists
• Cut And Paste Note
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Da Chief
• Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster
• Dead Man's Chest
• Dead Person Impersonation
• Death By Falling Over
• Death in the Clouds
• Destroy The Evidence
• Detective Mole
• Detective Patsy
• Diabolical Mastermind
• Dirty Cop
• Dirty Harriet
• Disposing Of A Body
  • Fed To Pigs
• Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off
• Don't Tell Mama
• Donut Mess with a Cop
• Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help
• Dying Clue
• Eat The Evidence
• Emancipated Child
• Empty Cop Threat
• Eureka Moment
• Everyone Is a Suspect
• Evidence Scavenger Hunt
• Evil Plan
• Exalted Torturer
• The Exotic Detective
• Exposition Victim
• Facial Composite Failure: When not Played for Laughs
• Fair Cop
• Fall Guy
• False Confession
• Faked Kidnapping
• Faking And Entering
• Fatal Attraction
• Felony Murder
• Fiery Cover Up
• Finger in the Mail
• Finger Licking Poison
• Fingertip Drug Analysis
• Flash Mob Coverup
• Flashed Badge Hijack
• A Fool for a Client
• Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
• Forensic Accounting
• Frameup
• Friend on the Force
• Found the Killer, Lost the Murderer
• Gentleman Detective
• Give Me Back My Wallet
• Going by the Matchbook
• Good Cop/Bad Cop
• Good Lawyers, Good Clients
• Grave Robbing
• Great Detective
• Guilt By Coincidence
• Guilt Ridden Accomplice
• Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
• Hand of Death
• Handy Cuffs
• Hanging Judge
• Hardboiled Detective
• He Knows Too Much
• Hello, Attorney! (aka Legally Fruity)
• Hidden Wire
• Hollywood Law
• Hollywood Police Driving Academy
• Identification By Dental Records
• I Fought the Law and the Law Won
• Impersonating an Officer
• Important Character Important Evidence
• Incriminating Indifference
• The Informant
• Infraction Distraction
• Inkblot Test
• Insanity Defense
• Insignia Rip Off Ritual
• Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
• Insurance Fraud
• Internal Affairs
• Interrogating the Dead
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• It's for a Book
• It Was Here, I Swear
• I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
• Jack the Ripoff
• Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
• Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
• The Judge
• Jurisdiction Friction
• Just Got Out Of Jail
• Just One Little Mistake
• Just Partners
• Justice By Other Legal Means
• Justified Criminal
• Kangaroo Court
• The Ketchup Test
• The Killer Becomes the Killed
• The Killer Was Left-Handed
• The Kindnapper
• Last Minute Reprieve
• Leave No Witnesses
  • Manslaughter Provocation (aka Driven To Murder)
• Let Me at Him!
• Let Off by the Detective
• Locked Room Mystery
• Luxury Prison Suite
• Mafia Princess
• Magical Database
• Magician Detective
• Make an Example of Them
• Make It Look Like An Accident
• Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
• Might As Well Not Be In Prison At All
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
• Miranda Rights
• More Criminals Than Targets
• Motive Misidentification
• Miscarriage of Justice
• Mistaken Confession
• The Mob Boss Is Scarier
• Mob War
• Motive Rant
• Mugging the Monster
• Murderer P.O.V.
• My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
• Necro Cam
• Noble Bigot with a Badge
• Nonviolent Initial Confrontation
• No Tell Motel
• Not Me This Time
• Not Proven
• Obstructive Vigilantism
• Occult Law Firm
• Off on a Technicality
• Off The Record
• Old Cop, Young Cop
• Ominously Open Door
• One Last Job
• One Phone Call
• Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
• The Pardon
• The Peeping Tom
• Penal Colony
• The Penance
• The Perfect Crime
• Perfect Poison
• Perp and Weapon
• Perp Walk
• Phone In Detective
• Phone Trace Race
• Photo Psychic
• Pinkerton Detective
• Play Along Prisoner
• Plea Bargain
• Please Kill Me If It Suits You
• Plethora Of Mistakes
• Police Brutality
• Police Code For Everything
• Police Lineup
• Pregnant Hostage
• Prison Episode
• Prisons Are Gymnasiums
• Private Detective
• Private Eye Monologue
• The Profiler
• Profiling
• Public Execution
• Pull the Thread
• Punishment Box
• The Punishment Is The Crime
• Rabid Cop
• Rape and Revenge
• The Rat
• Reading Your Rights
• Real Estate Scam
• Rear Window Investigation
• Rear Window Witness
• Regularly Scheduled Evil
• Retirony
• Returning to the Scene
• Rewind, Replay, Repeat
• Rogue Juror
• Safecracking
• Saying Too Much
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!
• Screw The Rules Its The Apocalypse
• Selective Squeamishness Suppression
• Self Restraint
• Serial Killings Specific Target
• The Sheriff
• Shipped in Shackles
• Shouldn't You Stop Stealing?
• Subculture Of The Week
• Sliding Scale Of Law Enforcement
• Smith Of The Yard
• Smoking Gun Control
• Snuff Film
• Society Is to Blame
• Spotting The Thread
• Spousal Privilege
• Stalker Shrine
• Statute of Limitations
• Stealing From The Hotel
• Steal The Surroundings
• Stepping Out For A Quick Cup Of Coffee
• Sticky Fingers
• Stock Punishment
• Strangers On A Train Plot Murder
• Subculture Of The Week
• Suicide, Not Murder
• The Summation
• Summation Gathering
• Super Cop
• Sus Law
• Suspect Is Hatless
• Suspect Existence Failure
• Suspicious Spending
• Suspiciously Idle Officers
• Swiss Bank Account
• Sympathetic Criminal
• Sympathetic Murderer
• Tag Along Actor
• Taking the Heat
• Take Me Out At The Ball Game
• A Taste of the Lash
• Ten Little Murder Victims
• That One Case
• Theme Serial Killer
• There Are No Police
• There Is No Higher Court
• There Should Be a Law
• Tort Reform
• Throwing The Fight
• Time Delayed Death
• To Know Him I Must Become Him
• Trading Bars for Stripes
• Train Job
• True Crime
• Turn In Your Badge
• Undercover Cop Reveal
• Unintentionally Notorious Crime
• Unishment
• Unknown Assailant
• The Unsolved Mystery
• Urban Legends
• Useless Security Camera
• US Marshal
• Vigilante Execution
• Vigilante Man
• Villain By Proxy Fallacy
• Vomiting Cop
• Wanted Poster
• Win Your Freedom
• White Collar Crime
• Who Watches the Watchmen
• Widely Spaced Jail Bars
• Witness Protection
• Working on the Chain Gang
• Writing Indentation Clue
• Wrongful Accusation Insurance
• You Didn't Ask
• You Do Not Have To Say Anything
• You Get Me Coffee
• You Have 48 Hours
• You Meddling Kids