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Author: Tzintzuntzan

Nov 24th 2013 at 1:47:14 PM

{{HomicideLifeOnTheStreet}} did this at least twice, with the same twist both times: the cop killer is himself killed shortly afterward, and the unlucky detective assigned to the case finds that nobody cares about justice for a dead cop killer.

-- The first time, the episode "End Game" has a racist SmugSnake (played by SteveBuscemi) get away with cop killing and practically brag about it -- only to be shot dead in the last few minutes. In the follow up, "Law and Disorder," the detective assigned to solve Buscemi's murder has to admit defeat because no cop will help him.

-- In "Justice Part One"/"Justice Part Two," a cop killer is acquitted in court and murdered shortly thereafter. The dead cop's son(played by BruceCampbell)is suspect number one, but nobody can figure out the evidence trail until one of the detectives casually mentions that Campbell owns a derringer. DaChief explains that when he was a junior policeman, the Baltimore police always executed cop killers without trial, and usually did it with a derringer (which was easy to dispose of, and couldn't be traced back to the department).