Suggestion: Hollywood Police Driving Academy

What, Hollywood Police Driving Academy has no image? How come?

Well, the very first thing that comes to my mind is The Blues Brothers:

[1]◊, [2]◊, [3]◊, just for a start.

edited 3rd Sep '13 1:34:59 PM by StFan

These are all good. I'm leaning towards 3, but I'd need to see it at wiki size first.

Having a lot of difficulty telling this trope apart from Lemming Cops.

2 > either 1 or 3...a cleaner version of 1 and I'd take it over 3. That said, makes a fair point; these tropes seem to be a little too close to each other.

Yes, they are too close. Possible TRS for merge.

There was a thread on this already: [1].

A very short thread... I think HPDA pretty much includes Lemmings as a subtrope (what do you call that, "supertrope"...?), at best i'd say that while Lemming Cop Can't happen at all without HPDA, HPDA can happen without resulting in lemming, so lemming it barely qualifyes as subtrope. If noting we could look up an image for HPDA that reflects more of that trope (damaging the surrondings, reckless driving), or leave it pictureless as it is now, and use 1.2 for Lemming Cops.

edited 4th Sep '13 4:03:44 AM by plenum

It a sheriff, there's even a sheriff star on the car door.

Made a cropped version. The star is clearer and it might even be possible to read the "SHERIFF".

edited 4th Sep '13 6:41:08 AM by m8e

Doesn't look like a cop. I mean, I know it is due to Fan Myopia, but I can't expect someone who isn't familiar with the source material to think that the brownish-looking car with an indistinct door decal being driven by a man in a white suit is a police vehicle.

And yeah, it's listed as a subtrope, except their descriptions cover the exact same specific examples. Both descriptions talk of cops hitting fruit carts, going off drawbridges, driving off cliffs, and mentions that no trained (or hell, untrained) person would fail so hard. The only tangible difference between the two is that the supertrope is about "cops are bad drivers" and the subtrope is "cops are bad drivers when chasing someone" which... well, is pretty much the only time it seems to apply.

The only difference is that HPDA has a MUCH worse description and example section. Seriously, HPDA is almost entirely ZC Es.

edited 4th Sep '13 6:16:21 AM by Larkmarn

I had to lean in close to see the sherriff decal on the car door...not a good option, although it and any others that don't work out could work for Image Links.

1.2 it has the word police clearly visible.

1.2 is good. 1.3 is a close second.

Lemming Cops is more sister trope than subtrope to HPDA. HPDA is cops that are bad drivers, while lemmings are cops that don't care about anyone's safety while chasing someone. They often overlap, but can occur separately as well. Particularly in video games, the lemmings often drive very well (or as good as any AI drivers in the game do) and require serious effort on the player's part to make them crash. Their behavior caused by Spiteful A.I., not bad driving.

Speaking of, Lemming Cops could use a better image too. The current doesn't even show them chasing anyone.

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