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Author: OmarKarindu

Aug 24th 2011 at 10:52:41 PM

Vigilantism is the only crime that receives attention: to modify an earlier suggestion, perhaps Vigilantism Is The Only Crime? Or perhaps Hero Specific or Hero Focused Law Enforcement?

Comic Books
* Justified in several GarthEnnis stories about ThePunisher, where gangsters pay off the police or blackmail politicians to ignore them and focus on catching the AntiHero Frank Castle. Also subverted in that most of the police actually side with the vigilante and don't exactly work overtime trying to catch him.
* Zig-zagged during ''MarvelCivilWar'': some comics had the "Cape Killers" ignoring actual villains to go after heroes violating the SuperRegistrationAct, while the main series and some other comics claimed that the heightened presence of both registered and unregistered heroes was causing a record roundup of supervillains. The fact that villains joined both sides probably confused matters even further.

Film
* Justified in TheFilmOfTheBook ''Kiss Me Deadly'', where the police go after MikeHammer and ignore the true villains because Hammer is unwittingly icomplicating matters related to [[spoiler: a miniature A-bomb]]...and because the police hate him [[JerkAss with good reason]].

Western Animation
* The rest of the Metro City police only turn up at the end of the episode, except for the two or three shows where InspectorGadget is framed; then the entire department turns up to arrest Gadget himself.

Video Games
* In ''{{Earthbound}}'' the Onett Police do nothing about local gang the Sharks, but they  zealously oppose Ness after he defeats the Sharks by arresting him under false pretenses and forcing him into a MookChivalry battle.