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* BatmanGambit: Pulls an impressive one on [[SmugSnake Sean Taylor]], he prods him into staying, knowing that he won't be able to resist the opportunity to show off and tear Dutch down, he even takes a bunch of verbal and emotional abuse in order to catch him. The plan works, earning Dutch some respect from the rest of The Barn.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Gilroy never pretends to be anything other than a crooked Assistant Chief of Police, and taunts Vic on how he's no better than he is.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He doesn't seem to understand why Vic would balk at his real estate scam.
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* TheAntiNihilist: Dutch has a dim view of humankind in general, but he sincerely believes in justice and wants to see it done, [[KnightInSourArmor because it's the right thing to do]].
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* TokenGoodCop: She tries to finish important cases without ''ever'', breaking the law. Meanwhile, the Strike Team (save short-term member Kevin) is hopelessly brutal and corrupt, the police administrators are cold-blooded politicos or {{Knight Templar}}s, most of the other detectives and uniformed cops are bigots, thugs, or jerks, and even some of the other clean and generally honest, professional and/or community-minded cops like Dutch, Tina, Julien, and Danny can occasionally fall into using excessive force or making PoliticallyIncorrectHero comments.
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* TokenGoodCop: She tries to finish important cases without ''ever'', breaking the law. Meanwhile, the Strike Team (save short-term member Kevin) is hopelessly brutal and corrupt, the police administrators are cold-blooded politicos or {{Knight Templar}}s, most of the other detectives and uniformed cops are bigots, thugs, or jerks, and even some of the other clean and generally honest, professional and/or community-minded cops like Dutch, Tina, Julien, and Danny can occasionally fall into using excessive force or making PoliticallyIncorrectHero comments.
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* TokenGoodCop: She tries to finish important cases without ''ever'', breaking the law. Meanwhile, the Strike Team (save short-term member Kevin) is hopelessly brutal and corrupt, the police administrators are cold-blooded politicos or {{Knight Templar}}s, most of the other detectives and uniformed cops are bigots, thugs, or jerks, and even some of the other clean and generally honest, professional and/or community-minded cops like Dutch, Tina, Julien, and Danny can occasionally fall into using excessive force or making PoliticallyIncorrectHero comments.
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* AntiHero: She's nowhere near as corrupt as the Strike Team and tends to be a ByTheBookCop, but she's willing to turn a blind eye to them because they get results.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She hated Armadillo as much as anyone and acknowledges he's a monster, [[spoiler:but she's outraged when he's killed in custody due to the Strike Team's actions because it was still ''murder''.]]
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* AntiHero: In a different vein than most of the cast. Dutch is probably the cleanest of the main cast legally and morally speaking, but he does do a few objectionable things and he's rather arrogant and snide.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Barn was formerly As a repossessed church. church, The Barn retains most of its original design, which definitely was never intended to be a police house. The majority of the corridors leading to the interrogation rooms zigzag which blocks most of the view, while the columns on the ground floor make the desk section feel claustrophobic and disorienting.
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* FailureHero: Unlike most cop shows, the series doesn't shy away from showing how throughly ineffectual the Barn is in helping most of its district especially the citizens.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He realizes what a mistake he's made by allying with Vic after [[spoiler:Shane and Lem have Armadillo killed in his cell]]. It unfortunately becomes an IgnoredEpiphany as he continues to protect Vic so he can keep his Jon.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He realizes what a mistake he's made by allying with Vic after [[spoiler:Shane and Lem have Armadillo killed in his cell]]. It unfortunately becomes an IgnoredEpiphany as he continues to protect Vic so he can keep mantain his Jon.reputation and ascend to higher positions.
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[[folder:Lanie Kellis]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LucindaJenney
->''"When I ask for something I ask politely because that's my nature, but when you make me ask a second time I lose my patience....The people I work for want answers. They expect me to get them. I have the power to recommend changes, get people fired, even shut down this entire building if it's warranted! Do you understand what I'm saying detective!?"''
A civilian auditor appointed by the City Council to supervise the Barn's activities following the events of Season 1. She and Armadillo Quintero serve as the [[BigBadEnsemble main antagonists]] of Season 2.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LucindaJenney
->''"When I ask for something I ask politely because that's my nature, but when you make me ask a second time I lose my patience....The people I work for want answers. They expect me to get them. I have the power to recommend changes, get people fired, even shut down this entire building if it's warranted! Do you understand what I'm saying detective!?"''
A civilian auditor appointed by the City Council to supervise the Barn's activities following the events of Season 1. She and Armadillo Quintero serve as the [[BigBadEnsemble main antagonists]] of Season 2.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. She commits some pretty heinous actions just for the sake of scoring points with her superiors in the City Council.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of Season 2 alongside Armadillo Quintero. Throughout the season, the Barn is compelled to maneuver around her intrusive supervision while carrying out its law enforcement duties before ultimately weathering the fallout from her overly damning report after it's leaked to the press.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When first introduced, she acts very polite and respectful towards the police officers of the Barn. However, she quickly turns nasty and overbearing when they are less than prompt in providing her with the information she requests.
* DrunkWithPower: Upon being appointed by the L.A. City Council to supervise the Barn's activities, she becomes a petty tyrant who routinely coerces law enforcement officers into giving her their unwavering attention and obedience even when they are engaged in vital police work and threatens to use her authority to ruin their livelihoods if they don't.
* HeroAntagonist: Downplayed. Kellis is a {{Jerkass}} and an ObstructiveBureaucrat clearly drunk on her own authority, but she's largely motivated by her realizatiom that the Strike Team are corrupt and Aceveda is aiding them and her desire to expose them.
* JerkAss: When she drops the [[FauxAffablyEvil "polite civil servant" routine]], she is insufferably arrogant and condescending towards those around her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As she points out, while her report ignores a lot of the competence of the Barn's staff, the Strike Team are prone to PoliceBrutality and Aceveda's given them free rein to go hog wild and kept Claudette LockedOutOfTheLoop when she tried raising her concerns about them multiple times, ultimately resulting in them orchestrating [[spoiler:Armadillo's death in custody]]. While her report jeopardizes the staff's livelihoods, she's still not ''wrong'' in her assessment.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She never does personally atone for the harm she does to the Barn.]]
* LawfulStupid: Shows shades of this. She's more concerned with minor infractions and following the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She expects all officers to halt all their work until complying with her "requests" ('''even''' when citizens' lives are at stake) and inserts herself into '''''EVERY''''' aspect of Farmington's police business merely for the sake of digging up dirt on Aceveda.
* PrinciplesZealot: As far as PR is concerned.
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[[folder:Jon Kavanaugh]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ForestWhitaker
->''"Why is it that the guy with the conscience always gets caught holding the bag? And we don't ever want that guy, do we? We want the guy that put him into motion."''
An IAD officer who goes after Vic Mackey and the Strike Team.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of Season 2 alongside Armadillo Quintero. Throughout the season, the Barn is compelled to maneuver around her intrusive supervision while carrying out its law enforcement duties before ultimately weathering the fallout from her overly damning report after it's leaked to the press.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When first introduced, she acts very polite and respectful towards the police officers of the Barn. However, she quickly turns nasty and overbearing when they are less than prompt in providing her with the information she requests.
* DrunkWithPower: Upon being appointed by the L.A. City Council to supervise the Barn's activities, she becomes a petty tyrant who routinely coerces law enforcement officers into giving her their unwavering attention and obedience even when they are engaged in vital police work and threatens to use her authority to ruin their livelihoods if they don't.
* HeroAntagonist: Downplayed. Kellis is a {{Jerkass}} and an ObstructiveBureaucrat clearly drunk on her own authority, but she's largely motivated by her realizatiom that the Strike Team are corrupt and Aceveda is aiding them and her desire to expose them.
* JerkAss: When she drops the [[FauxAffablyEvil "polite civil servant" routine]], she is insufferably arrogant and condescending towards those around her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As she points out, while her report ignores a lot of the competence of the Barn's staff, the Strike Team are prone to PoliceBrutality and Aceveda's given them free rein to go hog wild and kept Claudette LockedOutOfTheLoop when she tried raising her concerns about them multiple times, ultimately resulting in them orchestrating [[spoiler:Armadillo's death in custody]]. While her report jeopardizes the staff's livelihoods, she's still not ''wrong'' in her assessment.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She never does personally atone for the harm she does to the Barn.]]
* LawfulStupid: Shows shades of this. She's more concerned with minor infractions and following the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She expects all officers to halt all their work until complying with her "requests" ('''even''' when citizens' lives are at stake) and inserts herself into '''''EVERY''''' aspect of Farmington's police business merely for the sake of digging up dirt on Aceveda.
* PrinciplesZealot: As far as PR is concerned.
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[[folder:Jon Kavanaugh]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ForestWhitaker
->''"Why is it that the guy with the conscience always gets caught holding the bag? And we don't ever want that guy, do we? We want the guy that put him into motion."''
An IAD officer who goes after Vic Mackey and the Strike Team.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. She commits some pretty heinous actions just TheAlcoholic: Has been flagged for the sake of scoring points with her superiors in the City Council.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of Season 2 alongside Armadillo Quintero. Throughout the season, the Barn is compelled to maneuver around her intrusive supervision while carrying out its law enforcement duties beforefive [=DUIs=], but promptly buries them. [[spoiler:He ultimately weathering the fallout from her overly damning report after it's leaked to the press.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When first introduced, she acts very polite and respectful towards the police officersends up dying of the Barn. However, she quickly turns nasty and overbearing when they are less than prompt in providing her with the information she requests.
* DrunkWithPower: Upon being appointed by the L.A. City Council to supervise the Barn's activities, she becomes a petty tyrant who routinely coerces law enforcement officers into giving her their unwavering attention and obedience even when they are engaged in vital police work and threatens to use her authority to ruin their livelihoods if they don't.
* HeroAntagonist: Downplayed. Kellis is a {{Jerkass}} and an ObstructiveBureaucrat clearly drunk on her own authority, but she's largely motivated by her realizatiom that the Strike Team are corrupt and Aceveda is aiding them and her desire to expose them.
* JerkAss: When she drops the [[FauxAffablyEvil "polite civil servant" routine]], she is insufferably arrogant and condescending towards those around her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As she points out, while her report ignores a lot of the competence of the Barn's staff, the Strike Team are prone to PoliceBrutality and Aceveda's given them free rein to go hog wild and kept Claudette LockedOutOfTheLoop when she tried raising her concerns about them multiple times, ultimately resulting in them orchestrating [[spoiler:Armadillo's death in custody]]. While her report jeopardizes the staff's livelihoods, she's still not ''wrong'' in her assessment.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She never does personally atone for the harm she does to the Barn.cirrhosis.]]
*LawfulStupid: Shows shades ArcVillain: At the end of this. She's more concerned with minor infractions Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked andfollowing pathetic that not even his wife cares after he dies. The only person who's moved by this is Vic.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in theletter morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled out of thelaw rather than country by a coyote in Season 2, his next appearance in Season 4 has him show up as a corpse, having died of cirrhosis.]]
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of thespirit of it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She expects all officersfirst season having to halt all their work until complying with her "requests" ('''even''' when citizens' lives are at stake) desperately cover up Vic's actions and inserts herself generally coming off as a NervousWreck. While his EvilPlan makes him into '''''EVERY''''' aspect a threat at the end of Farmington's the season, his failure destroys his life in spectacular fashion and he spends his last appearance having a drunken meltdown.
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
* DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased policebusiness merely effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by thesake DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of digging his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy updirt on Aceveda.the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda and Vic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
*PrinciplesZealot: As far as PR is concerned.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when he reappears in "Coyotes".
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[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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->'''Played By:'''Creator/ForestWhitaker
->''"Why is it that the guy with the conscience always gets caught holding the bag? And we don't ever want that guy, do we? We want the guy that put him into motion."''
Creator/CatherineDent
AnIAD LAPD officer who goes after working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey and the Strike Team.Mackey.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of Season 2 alongside Armadillo Quintero. Throughout the season, the Barn is compelled to maneuver around her intrusive supervision while carrying out its law enforcement duties before
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When first introduced, she acts very polite and respectful towards the police officers
* DrunkWithPower: Upon being appointed by the L.A. City Council to supervise the Barn's activities, she becomes a petty tyrant who routinely coerces law enforcement officers into giving her their unwavering attention and obedience even when they are engaged in vital police work and threatens to use her authority to ruin their livelihoods if they don't.
* HeroAntagonist: Downplayed. Kellis is a {{Jerkass}} and an ObstructiveBureaucrat clearly drunk on her own authority, but she's largely motivated by her realizatiom that the Strike Team are corrupt and Aceveda is aiding them and her desire to expose them.
* JerkAss: When she drops the [[FauxAffablyEvil "polite civil servant" routine]], she is insufferably arrogant and condescending towards those around her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As she points out, while her report ignores a lot of the competence of the Barn's staff, the Strike Team are prone to PoliceBrutality and Aceveda's given them free rein to go hog wild and kept Claudette LockedOutOfTheLoop when she tried raising her concerns about them multiple times, ultimately resulting in them orchestrating [[spoiler:Armadillo's death in custody]]. While her report jeopardizes the staff's livelihoods, she's still not ''wrong'' in her assessment.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She never does personally atone for the harm she does to the Barn.
*
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled out of the
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She expects all officers
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
* DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda and Vic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
*
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[[folder:Jon Kavanaugh]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when he reappears in "Coyotes".
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!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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->''"Why is it that the guy with the conscience always gets caught holding the bag? And we don't ever want that guy, do we? We want the guy that put him into motion."''
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* AntiVillain: Type III. Forest Whitaker name checked this trope in at least one interview.
* ArchEnemy: To the Strike Team, especially Mackey.
* BerserkButton: Watching his meticulously crafted plans end in failure and anything involving his ex-wife, Claudia.
* BigBad: Of Season 5. He starts off the season as an arrogant but [[HeroAntagonist principled officer trying to bring a thoroughly crooked cop like Vic to justice]]. It's the [[WellIntentionedExtremist means he resorts to in pursuit of this end that ultimately lead him to become an outright villain]].
* ByTheBookCop: Initially; he refused to bend the rules for his partner or even his ex-wife.
* DrivenToMadness: Attempting to take down Vic and the Strike Team takes a toll on his sanity and morality, and eventually becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad as bad as they are]], but he eventually [[HeelRealization realizes]] this and decides to face justice for his crimes.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some of his theories about the Strike Team’s crimes are only a few degrees off. In particular, he concludes that [[spoiler: Lem wasn’t hit by the Salvadorans, but by Vic because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much]]. He’s almost correct, only it was Shane who killed Lem, not Vic.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Became corrupt when he tried to take down Vic.]]
* FatalFlaw: His obsessiveness and intense drive to win at all costs is ultimately what dooms him. He stoops to similar lows as Vic in order to get what he wants. But unlike Vic, he [[HeelRealization realizes]] what he's done and ultimately decides to face justice for his crimes.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. As much as they are enemies, they are both alike. They are both very driven to do what they think is right, and stoop to dirty tactics in order to get what they want, and both are eventually screwed over because of their obsession with their work. The difference is that Kavanaugh [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is becoming no better than Vic, and turns himself in while keeping his dignity intact, while Vic [[spoiler: gets Shane to kill his pregnant wife, son, and himself]], [[spoiler: sells Ronnie out to save his own ass]], and loses everyone and everything that he cares about.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he is genuinely committed to bringing down crooked cops like Vic Mackey, he is also arrogant, vindictive, and obsessed with winning at all costs. [[spoiler: It is these qualities that ultimately drive him to [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] just for the sake of "beating" Mackey.]]
* GracefulLoser: He loses his private war with Mackey, but is able to hold his head high after turning himself in. When Mackey visits him in jail, he's at peace, intending to serve his time and rebuild his life, confident that karma will take care of Vic eventually.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Realizes just how far he's fallen and decides to confess to his crimes.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: After being outmaneuvered one too many times by Vic Mackey, he resorts to targeting the Strike Team's family members and conspiring with murderous thugs like Antwon Mitchell to bring Vic down.]]
* HeroAntagonist: The ''Hero'' part gets muddled as the season goes on.
* InternalAffairs: He's a lieutenant who works for IAD.
* ItsPersonal: What starts as a professional case to bust the Strike Team for corruption soon spirals into a private war between him and Vic Mackey, especially after Vic has sex with his ex-wife.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an unpleasant and manipulative bully at the best of times and his time trying to bring down the Strike Team brings out his worst qualities. Nonetheless, he is absolutely correct that Vic is a reprehensible excuse for a police officer and that it's disgraceful that he has been allowed to get away with all of his various crimes, including murdering other cops.
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Realising he can't bring in Mackey without breaking the law himself, he calls it quits and confesses to planting evidence and intimidating a witness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He certainly tries, but often times his machinations fall short and he has to resort to intimidation or threats.
* MarriedToTheJob: His ex-wife explicitly describes him as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing what he's done to Emolia, and realizing how many moral compromises he's made trying to bring in Vic and the Strike Team give him a full on HeelRealization, leading him to confess his crimes to Claudette.
* RulesLawyer: Comes with being an IAD officer.
* SanitySlippage: He becomes more and more unhinged as he becomes more obsessed with nailing the Strike Team.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has the ear of the Chief of Police, so he can get away with things no other IAD investigator could.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kavanaugh is zealously committed to bringing corrupt cops to justice [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary.]] Indeed, the one thing that keeps him sympathetic is that he's ''completely'' correct about Vic and co.
* WorthyOpponent: Although he hates Vic and the Strike Team by extension for their continued allegiance, Kavanaugh does exhibit some respect for both Ronnie and Lem. Praising the former for how capably and thoroughly he has covered his tracks, Kavanaugh even encourages Ronnie to get out of the Team's grasp while he can, pointing out that their recklessness will land him in trouble he's too clever to get entangled in. In the case of the latter, he eventually expresses sincere regret over how much misfortune his investigation into the Strike Team has caused Lem, and [[spoiler: following his death, he explicitly calls out Vic for corrupting him]].
* ArchEnemy: To the Strike Team, especially Mackey.
* BerserkButton: Watching his meticulously crafted plans end in failure and anything involving his ex-wife, Claudia.
* BigBad: Of Season 5. He starts off the season as an arrogant but [[HeroAntagonist principled officer trying to bring a thoroughly crooked cop like Vic to justice]]. It's the [[WellIntentionedExtremist means he resorts to in pursuit of this end that ultimately lead him to become an outright villain]].
* ByTheBookCop: Initially; he refused to bend the rules for his partner or even his ex-wife.
* DrivenToMadness: Attempting to take down Vic and the Strike Team takes a toll on his sanity and morality, and eventually becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad as bad as they are]], but he eventually [[HeelRealization realizes]] this and decides to face justice for his crimes.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some of his theories about the Strike Team’s crimes are only a few degrees off. In particular, he concludes that [[spoiler: Lem wasn’t hit by the Salvadorans, but by Vic because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much]]. He’s almost correct, only it was Shane who killed Lem, not Vic.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Became corrupt when he tried to take down Vic.]]
* FatalFlaw: His obsessiveness and intense drive to win at all costs is ultimately what dooms him. He stoops to similar lows as Vic in order to get what he wants. But unlike Vic, he [[HeelRealization realizes]] what he's done and ultimately decides to face justice for his crimes.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. As much as they are enemies, they are both alike. They are both very driven to do what they think is right, and stoop to dirty tactics in order to get what they want, and both are eventually screwed over because of their obsession with their work. The difference is that Kavanaugh [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is becoming no better than Vic, and turns himself in while keeping his dignity intact, while Vic [[spoiler: gets Shane to kill his pregnant wife, son, and himself]], [[spoiler: sells Ronnie out to save his own ass]], and loses everyone and everything that he cares about.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he is genuinely committed to bringing down crooked cops like Vic Mackey, he is also arrogant, vindictive, and obsessed with winning at all costs. [[spoiler: It is these qualities that ultimately drive him to [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] just for the sake of "beating" Mackey.]]
* GracefulLoser: He loses his private war with Mackey, but is able to hold his head high after turning himself in. When Mackey visits him in jail, he's at peace, intending to serve his time and rebuild his life, confident that karma will take care of Vic eventually.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Realizes just how far he's fallen and decides to confess to his crimes.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: After being outmaneuvered one too many times by Vic Mackey, he resorts to targeting the Strike Team's family members and conspiring with murderous thugs like Antwon Mitchell to bring Vic down.]]
* HeroAntagonist: The ''Hero'' part gets muddled as the season goes on.
* InternalAffairs: He's a lieutenant who works for IAD.
* ItsPersonal: What starts as a professional case to bust the Strike Team for corruption soon spirals into a private war between him and Vic Mackey, especially after Vic has sex with his ex-wife.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an unpleasant and manipulative bully at the best of times and his time trying to bring down the Strike Team brings out his worst qualities. Nonetheless, he is absolutely correct that Vic is a reprehensible excuse for a police officer and that it's disgraceful that he has been allowed to get away with all of his various crimes, including murdering other cops.
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Realising he can't bring in Mackey without breaking the law himself, he calls it quits and confesses to planting evidence and intimidating a witness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He certainly tries, but often times his machinations fall short and he has to resort to intimidation or threats.
* MarriedToTheJob: His ex-wife explicitly describes him as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing what he's done to Emolia, and realizing how many moral compromises he's made trying to bring in Vic and the Strike Team give him a full on HeelRealization, leading him to confess his crimes to Claudette.
* RulesLawyer: Comes with being an IAD officer.
* SanitySlippage: He becomes more and more unhinged as he becomes more obsessed with nailing the Strike Team.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has the ear of the Chief of Police, so he can get away with things no other IAD investigator could.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kavanaugh is zealously committed to bringing corrupt cops to justice [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary.]] Indeed, the one thing that keeps him sympathetic is that he's ''completely'' correct about Vic and co.
* WorthyOpponent: Although he hates Vic and the Strike Team by extension for their continued allegiance, Kavanaugh does exhibit some respect for both Ronnie and Lem. Praising the former for how capably and thoroughly he has covered his tracks, Kavanaugh even encourages Ronnie to get out of the Team's grasp while he can, pointing out that their recklessness will land him in trouble he's too clever to get entangled in. In the case of the latter, he eventually expresses sincere regret over how much misfortune his investigation into the Strike Team has caused Lem, and [[spoiler: following his death, he explicitly calls out Vic for corrupting him]].
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* AntiVillain: Type III. Forest Whitaker name checked ActionGirl: It's sort of requirement when fighting street crime as an LAPD officer.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of thistrope in at least one interview.
* ArchEnemy: Towhen she mentors Julien for the Strike Team, first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especiallyMackey.
when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
*BerserkButton: Watching his meticulously crafted plans end in failure JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and anything involving his ex-wife, Claudia.
* BigBad: Of Season 5. He starts off the season as an arrogantis harsh on rookie cops, but [[HeroAntagonist principled officer trying she's repeatedly shown to bring be a thoroughly crooked cop like Vic to justice]]. It's the [[WellIntentionedExtremist means he resorts to in pursuit of this end that ultimately lead him to become an outright villain]].
* ByTheBookCop: Initially; he refused to bend the rules for his partner or even his ex-wife.
* DrivenToMadness: Attempting to take down Vic and the Strike Team takes a toll on his sanity and morality, and eventually becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad as bad as they are]], but he eventually [[HeelRealization realizes]] this and decides to face justice for his crimes.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some of his theories about the Strike Team’s crimes are only a few degrees off. In particular, he concludes that [[spoiler: Lem wasn’t hit by the Salvadorans, but by Vic because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much]]. He’sfairly nice person is almost correct, only it was Shane who killed Lem, not Vic.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Became corrupt when he tried to take down Vic.]]
* FatalFlaw: His obsessivenessalways kind and intense drive understanding to win at all costs is ultimately what dooms him. He stoops to similar lows her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as Vic it results in order to get what he wants. But unlike Vic, he [[HeelRealization realizes]] what he's done and ultimately decides to face justice for his crimes.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. As much as they are enemies, they are both alike. They are both very driven to do what they think is right, and stoop to dirty tactics in order to get what they want, and both are eventually screwed over because of their obsession with their work. The difference is that Kavanaugh [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is becoming no better than Vic, and turns himself in while keeping his dignity intact, while Vic [[spoiler: gets Shane to kill his pregnant wife, son, and himself]], [[spoiler: sells Ronnie out to save his own ass]], and loses everyone and everything that he cares about.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he is genuinely committed to bringing down crooked cops like Vic Mackey, he is also arrogant, vindictive, and obsessed with winning at all costs. [[spoiler: It is these qualities that ultimately drive him to [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] just for the sake of "beating" Mackey.]]
* GracefulLoser: He loses his private war with Mackey, but is able to hold his head high afterher turning himself in. When Mackey visits him in jail, he's at peace, intending a blind eye to serve his time and rebuild his life, confident that karma will take care of Vic eventually.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Realizes just how far he's fallen and decides to confess to his crimes.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: After being outmaneuvered one too many times by Vic Mackey, he resorts to targetingthe Strike Team's family members and conspiring with murderous thugs like Antwon Mitchell to bring Vic down.]]
corruption.
*HeroAntagonist: The ''Hero'' part gets muddled as PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the season goes on.
* InternalAffairs: He's a lieutenant who works for IAD.
* ItsPersonal: What starts as a professional case to bust the Strike Team for corruption soon spirals into a private war between him and Vic Mackey, especiallyman after Vic has sex he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with his ex-wife.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an unpleasant and manipulative bully ata lawsuit by the best of times and his time trying to bring down man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was theStrike Team brings out his worst qualities. Nonetheless, he is absolutely correct only co-worker to know that Vic is a reprehensible excuse for a police officer and that it's disgraceful that he has been allowed to get away with all of his various crimes, including murdering Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects othercops.
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Realising he can't bring in Mackey without breaking the law himself, he calls it quits and confesses to planting evidence and intimidating a witness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He certainly tries, but often times his machinations fall short and he has to resort to intimidation or threats.
* MarriedToTheJob: His ex-wife explicitly describes him as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing what he's done to Emolia, and realizing how many moral compromises he's made trying to bring in Vic and the Strike Team give him a full on HeelRealization, leading him to confess his crimes to Claudette.
* RulesLawyer: Comes with being an IAD officer.
* SanitySlippage: He becomes more and more unhinged as he becomes more obsessed with nailing the Strike Team.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has the ear of the Chief of Police, so he can get away with things no other IAD investigator could.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kavanaugh is zealously committed to bringing corruptcops to justice [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary.]] Indeed, the one thing that keeps him sympathetic is that he's ''completely'' correct about Vic and co.
* WorthyOpponent: Although he hates Vic and the Strike Team by extension foreven when their continued allegiance, Kavanaugh does exhibit some respect for both Ronnie and Lem. Praising the former for how capably and thoroughly he has covered his tracks, Kavanaugh even encourages Ronnie to get out of the Team's grasp while he can, pointing out that their recklessness will land him in trouble he's too clever to get entangled in. In the case of the latter, he eventually expresses sincere regret over how much misfortune his investigation into the Strike Team has caused Lem, and [[spoiler: following his death, he explicitly calls out Vic for corrupting him]].
behavior is unethical.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this
* ArchEnemy: To
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially
*
* BigBad: Of Season 5. He starts off the season as an arrogant
* ByTheBookCop: Initially; he refused to bend the rules for his partner or even his ex-wife.
* DrivenToMadness: Attempting to take down Vic and the Strike Team takes a toll on his sanity and morality, and eventually becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad as bad as they are]], but he eventually [[HeelRealization realizes]] this and decides to face justice for his crimes.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some of his theories about the Strike Team’s crimes are only a few degrees off. In particular, he concludes that [[spoiler: Lem wasn’t hit by the Salvadorans, but by Vic because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much]]. He’s
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Became corrupt when he tried to take down Vic.]]
* FatalFlaw: His obsessiveness
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. As much as they are enemies, they are both alike. They are both very driven to do what they think is right, and stoop to dirty tactics in order to get what they want, and both are eventually screwed over because of their obsession with their work. The difference is that Kavanaugh [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is becoming no better than Vic, and turns himself in while keeping his dignity intact, while Vic [[spoiler: gets Shane to kill his pregnant wife, son, and himself]], [[spoiler: sells Ronnie out to save his own ass]], and loses everyone and everything that he cares about.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he is genuinely committed to bringing down crooked cops like Vic Mackey, he is also arrogant, vindictive, and obsessed with winning at all costs. [[spoiler: It is these qualities that ultimately drive him to [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] just for the sake of "beating" Mackey.]]
* GracefulLoser: He loses his private war with Mackey, but is able to hold his head high after
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Realizes just how far he's fallen and decides to confess to his crimes.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: After being outmaneuvered one too many times by Vic Mackey, he resorts to targeting
*
* InternalAffairs: He's a lieutenant who works for IAD.
* ItsPersonal: What starts as a professional case to bust the Strike Team for corruption soon spirals into a private war between him and Vic Mackey, especially
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an unpleasant and manipulative bully at
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Realising he can't bring in Mackey without breaking the law himself, he calls it quits and confesses to planting evidence and intimidating a witness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He certainly tries, but often times his machinations fall short and he has to resort to intimidation or threats.
* MarriedToTheJob: His ex-wife explicitly describes him as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing what he's done to Emolia, and realizing how many moral compromises he's made trying to bring in Vic and the Strike Team give him a full on HeelRealization, leading him to confess his crimes to Claudette.
* RulesLawyer: Comes with being an IAD officer.
* SanitySlippage: He becomes more and more unhinged as he becomes more obsessed with nailing the Strike Team.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has the ear of the Chief of Police, so he can get away with things no other IAD investigator could.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kavanaugh is zealously committed to bringing corrupt
* WorthyOpponent: Although he hates Vic and the Strike Team by extension for
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[[folder:Benjamin "Ben" Gilroy]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnDiehl
The Assistant Chief of Police, Vic's political muscle within the department, and the man who created the Barn and formed the Strike Team.
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[[caption-width-right:270: ''"Don't act like you're better than me. What things have you done? What've you done, then covered those things up?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnDiehl
The Assistant Chief of Police, Vic's political muscle within the department, and the man who created the Barn and formed the Strike Team.
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Went knocking, half the people weren't answering their door, the other half were sleeping."'']]
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* TheAlcoholic: Has been flagged for five [=DUIs=], but promptly buries them. [[spoiler:He ultimately ends up dying of cirrhosis.]]
* ArcVillain: At the end of Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and pathetic that not even his wife cares after he dies. The only person who's moved by this is Vic.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled out of the country by a coyote in Season 2, his next appearance in Season 4 has him show up as a corpse, having died of cirrhosis.]]
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the first season having to desperately cover up Vic's actions and generally coming off as a NervousWreck. While his EvilPlan makes him into a threat at the end of the season, his failure destroys his life in spectacular fashion and he spends his last appearance having a drunken meltdown.
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
* DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda and Vic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
* VillainousFriendship: He was close with Vic for many years and provided him with protection for his crimes. He also seeems honestly apologetitc about having to rescind that protection. Vic for his part decides to help Gilroy escape his hit and run charge even after Gilroy abandoned him. This likely plays a part in Vic deciding to spare his life at the end of season 1 and Shane even says they should just kill Ben when Vic smuggles him out of the country in season 2.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when he reappears in "Coyotes".
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[[folder:Frances Housely]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AprilGrace
An IAD officer assigned to investigate Terry Crowley's death. She later returns to investigate Julian's testimony of having seen the Strike Team stealing drugs from a crime scene.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After serving as the main recurring IAD throughout Season 1, she disappears for the rest of the series.
* FailureHero: Both times she appears, she fails to successfully charge the Strike Team with corruption.
* FlatCharacter: She doesn't get much personality outside of being an IAD.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She comes to the conclusion that Vic had nothing to do with Terry's death and lets him off without charges.
* ArcVillain: At the end of Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and pathetic that not even his wife cares after he dies. The only person who's moved by this is Vic.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled out of the country by a coyote in Season 2, his next appearance in Season 4 has him show up as a corpse, having died of cirrhosis.]]
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the first season having to desperately cover up Vic's actions and generally coming off as a NervousWreck. While his EvilPlan makes him into a threat at the end of the season, his failure destroys his life in spectacular fashion and he spends his last appearance having a drunken meltdown.
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
* DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda and Vic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
* VillainousFriendship: He was close with Vic for many years and provided him with protection for his crimes. He also seeems honestly apologetitc about having to rescind that protection. Vic for his part decides to help Gilroy escape his hit and run charge even after Gilroy abandoned him. This likely plays a part in Vic deciding to spare his life at the end of season 1 and Shane even says they should just kill Ben when Vic smuggles him out of the country in season 2.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when he reappears in "Coyotes".
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[[folder:Frances Housely]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AprilGrace
An IAD officer assigned to investigate Terry Crowley's death. She later returns to investigate Julian's testimony of having seen the Strike Team stealing drugs from a crime scene.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After serving as the main recurring IAD throughout Season 1, she disappears for the rest of the series.
* FailureHero: Both times she appears, she fails to successfully charge the Strike Team with corruption.
* FlatCharacter: She doesn't get much personality outside of being an IAD.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She comes to the conclusion that Vic had nothing to do with Terry's death and lets him off without charges.
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* TheAlcoholic: Has been flagged for five [=DUIs=], but promptly buries them. [[spoiler:He ultimately ends up dying of cirrhosis.]]
* ArcVillain: At the end of Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and pathetic that not evenArmoredClosetGay: He keeps his wife cares after he dies. The only person who's moved by this is Vic.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggledsexuality hidden both out of the country by a coyote in Season 2, self-hatred and fear of how his next appearance in Season 4 has co-workers would react. A series of traumas just leads to him show up as a corpse, having died of cirrhosis.]]
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the first season having to desperately cover up Vic's actions and generally coming off as a NervousWreck. Whiledoubling further down on his EvilPlan makes denial, leaving him into a threat at the end of the season, his failure destroys his life in spectacular fashion and he spends his last appearance having a drunken meltdown.
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvementlocked in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
loveless marriage.
*DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: ThroughoutAudienceSurrogate: In the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes offJulien's status as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not rookie allows much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in the internal workings of the Barn and Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda whole to be established.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Often. The best example is when he is up in arms after a church is searched, even though it turned out to be a front for heroin distribution.
* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny andVic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.Julien will kick your ass.
*VillainousFriendship: He ByTheBookCop: Being a zealous Christian, this was close to be expected. He is scrupulously by the book, which causes friction with both Danny and Vic for many years since his honest reporting on their conduct puts their jobs at risk.
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" andprovided him with protection for his crimes. marries a woman. He also seeems honestly apologetitc about having to rescind that protection. Vic for his part decides to help Gilroy escape his hit is still married and run charge even after Gilroy abandoned him. This likely plays a part in Vic deciding to spare his life closeted at the end of season 1 and Shane even says they should just kill Ben when Vic smuggles him out of the country in season 2.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] whenshow, though he reappears in "Coyotes".
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[[folder:Frances Housely]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AprilGrace
An IAD officer assigned to investigate Terry Crowley's death. She later returns to investigate Julian's testimony of having seen the Strike Team stealing drugs from a crime scene.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After serving as the main recurring IAD throughout Season 1, she disappears for the rest of the series.does not seem happy.
*FailureHero: Both times she appears, she fails {{Gayngst}}: And ''how''! His homosexuality placed him at great odds with his devout Christian beliefs, even to successfully charge the point that he chose not to wear his vest to a bust, hoping the perp would kill him.
* TheHeart: He tends to be the most moral member of the Barn and the one who actually cares about the welfare of Farmington's residents in contrast to Vic and Rawling's KnightTemplar "ends justify the means"-mentality and Aceveda's political spinelessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though he knows it would make him a pariah to the department, he rats on Mackey and the Strike Team for stealing drugs from a crime scene.
* NaiveNewcomer: Julien is initially unaware of a lot of the internal politics at the Barn and is disgusted at a lot of the LAPD's double standards, mainly the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence blue wall of silence]].
* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show after he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent withcorruption.
* FlatCharacter: She doesn't get much personality outside of being an IAD.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She comes to the conclusiona transgender prostitute and it's outright stated that Vic had nothing to do with Terry's death and lets him off without charges.it was because of his own homosexuality.
* ArcVillain: At the end of Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and pathetic that not even
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the first season having to desperately cover up Vic's actions and generally coming off as a NervousWreck. While
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement
*
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Often. The best example is when he is up in arms after a church is searched, even though it turned out to be a front for heroin distribution.
* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny and
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
*
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" and
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frances Housely]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AprilGrace
An IAD officer assigned to investigate Terry Crowley's death. She later returns to investigate Julian's testimony of having seen the Strike Team stealing drugs from a crime scene.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After serving as the main recurring IAD throughout Season 1, she disappears for the rest of the series.
*
* TheHeart: He tends to be the most moral member of the Barn and the one who actually cares about the welfare of Farmington's residents in contrast to Vic and Rawling's KnightTemplar "ends justify the means"-mentality and Aceveda's political spinelessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though he knows it would make him a pariah to the department, he rats on Mackey and the Strike Team for stealing drugs from a crime scene.
* NaiveNewcomer: Julien is initially unaware of a lot of the internal politics at the Barn and is disgusted at a lot of the LAPD's double standards, mainly the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence blue wall of silence]].
* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show after he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent with
* FlatCharacter: She doesn't get much personality outside of being an IAD.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She comes to the conclusion
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/LanaParrilla
A corrupt LAPD accountant and Gilroy's lover who aids him in his real estate scam.
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/LanaParrilla
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* DragonInChief: To Gilroy. He is undeniably culpable in the real estate scam, but it's implied Sedona came up with the idea.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to making a plea deal with Aceveda, she's able to avoid prosecution and flees the country with most of her and Gilroy's money.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's able to play Gilroy like a fiddle, and gets off scot-free by making a plea deal with Aceveda since she knows that out of the two of them, taking down Gilroy would do far better for Aceveda's political career.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's implied to be ashamed of having betrayed Gilroy, hiding when he's hauled into the Barn in handcuffs so he won't know she sold him out. She still ultimately leaves town with most of their money, so it likely wound up being an IgnoredEpiphany.
* PutOnABus: She leaves town with most of her and Gilroy's money after the events of Season 1.
* TheStarscream: She turns on Gilroy and makes a plea deal with Aceveda in exchange for her freedom once it becomes clear their scheme is doomed.
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!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Welcome to the life."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CatherineDent
An LAPD officer working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to making a plea deal with Aceveda, she's able to avoid prosecution and flees the country with most of her and Gilroy's money.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's able to play Gilroy like a fiddle, and gets off scot-free by making a plea deal with Aceveda since she knows that out of the two of them, taking down Gilroy would do far better for Aceveda's political career.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's implied to be ashamed of having betrayed Gilroy, hiding when he's hauled into the Barn in handcuffs so he won't know she sold him out. She still ultimately leaves town with most of their money, so it likely wound up being an IgnoredEpiphany.
* PutOnABus: She leaves town with most of her and Gilroy's money after the events of Season 1.
* TheStarscream: She turns on Gilroy and makes a plea deal with Aceveda in exchange for her freedom once it becomes clear their scheme is doomed.
[[/folder]]
!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Welcome to the life."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CatherineDent
An LAPD officer working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey.
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%%* BreakTheHaughty
%%* DudeWheresMyRespect
*DragonInChief: To Gilroy. He is undeniably culpable in FairCop: Oh, so much.
%%* FakeGuestStar: In Seasons 5 and 6.
* HiddenDepths: Is not as vapid as she seems and capable of some good ideas out on thereal estate scam, but it's implied Sedona came up with the idea.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to making a plea deal with Aceveda, she's able to avoid prosecution and flees the country with most of her and Gilroy's money.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's able to play Gilroy like a fiddle, and gets off scot-free by making a plea deal with Aceveda since she knows that out of the two of them, taking down Gilroy would do far better for Aceveda's political career.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's implied to be ashamed of having betrayed Gilroy, hiding when he's hauled into the Barn in handcuffs so he won't know she sold him out. She still ultimately leaves town with most of their money, so it likely wound up being an IgnoredEpiphany.
* PutOnABus: She leaves town with most of her and Gilroy's money after the events of Season 1.
* TheStarscream: She turns on Gilroy and makes a plea deal with Aceveda in exchange for her freedom once it becomes clear their scheme is doomed.
[[/folder]]
!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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%%* MsFanservice
%%* NewMeat
%%* SpicyLatina
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tommy Hisk]]
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->'''Played By:'''Creator/CatherineDent
An LAPD officer working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey.Creator/MattGerald
Julien's new partner following Danny's brief termination.
%%* DudeWheresMyRespect
*
%%* FakeGuestStar: In Seasons 5 and 6.
* HiddenDepths: Is not as vapid as she seems and capable of some good ideas out on the
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to making a plea deal with Aceveda, she's able to avoid prosecution and flees the country with most of her and Gilroy's money.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's able to play Gilroy like a fiddle, and gets off scot-free by making a plea deal with Aceveda since she knows that out of the two of them, taking down Gilroy would do far better for Aceveda's political career.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's implied to be ashamed of having betrayed Gilroy, hiding when he's hauled into the Barn in handcuffs so he won't know she sold him out. She still ultimately leaves town with most of their money, so it likely wound up being an IgnoredEpiphany.
* PutOnABus: She leaves town with most of her and Gilroy's money after the events of Season 1.
* TheStarscream: She turns on Gilroy and makes a plea deal with Aceveda in exchange for her freedom once it becomes clear their scheme is doomed.
[[/folder]]
!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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%%* MsFanservice
%%* NewMeat
%%* SpicyLatina
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tommy Hisk]]
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->'''Played By:'''
An LAPD officer working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey.
Julien's new partner following Danny's brief termination.
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* ActionGirl: It's sort of requirement when fighting street crime as an LAPD officer.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this when she mentors Julien for the first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and is harsh on rookie cops, but she's repeatedly shown to be a fairly nice person is almost always kind and understanding to her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as it results in her turning a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the man after he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with a lawsuit by the man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the only co-worker to know that Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other cops even when their behavior is unethical.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this when she mentors Julien for the first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and is harsh on rookie cops, but she's repeatedly shown to be a fairly nice person is almost always kind and understanding to her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as it results in her turning a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the man after he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with a lawsuit by the man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the only co-worker to know that Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other cops even when their behavior is unethical.
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* ActionGirl: It's sort of requirement when fighting street crime as an LAPD officer.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this when she mentors Julien for the first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and is harsh on rookie cops, but she's repeatedly shown to be a fairly nice person is almost always kind and understanding to her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as it results in her turning a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the man after he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with a lawsuit by the man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the only co-worker to know that Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other cops even when their behavior is unethical.AntiVillain: Type II.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* DrivenToSuicide
%%* TooDumbToLive
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this when she mentors Julien for the first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and is harsh on rookie cops, but she's repeatedly shown to be a fairly nice person is almost always kind and understanding to her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as it results in her turning a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the man after he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with a lawsuit by the man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the only co-worker to know that Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other cops even when their behavior is unethical.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* DrivenToSuicide
%%* TooDumbToLive
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[[folder:Julien Lowe]]
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->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelJace
An LAPD officer working at the Barn under Danny Sofer's tutelage. He is a devoted Christian who is also struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Went knocking, half the people weren't answering their door, the other half were sleeping."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelJace
An LAPD officer working at the Barn under Danny Sofer's tutelage. He is a devoted Christian who is also struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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A virulently homophobic LAPD
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* ArmoredClosetGay: He keeps his sexuality hidden both out of self-hatred and fear of how his co-workers would react. A series of traumas just leads to him doubling further down on his denial, leaving him locked in a loveless marriage.
* AudienceSurrogate: In the first season, Julien's status as a rookie allows much of the internal workings of the Barn and Farmington as a whole to be established.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Often. The best example is when he is up in arms after a church is searched, even though it turned out to be a front for heroin distribution.
* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny and Julien will kick your ass.
* ByTheBookCop: Being a zealous Christian, this was to be expected. He is scrupulously by the book, which causes friction with both Danny and Vic since his honest reporting on their conduct puts their jobs at risk.
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" and marries a woman. He is still married and closeted at the end of the show, though he does not seem happy.
* {{Gayngst}}: And ''how''! His homosexuality placed him at great odds with his devout Christian beliefs, even to the point that he chose not to wear his vest to a bust, hoping the perp would kill him.
* TheHeart: He tends to be the most moral member of the Barn and the one who actually cares about the welfare of Farmington's residents in contrast to Vic and Rawling's KnightTemplar "ends justify the means"-mentality and Aceveda's political spinelessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though he knows it would make him a pariah to the department, he rats on Mackey and the Strike Team for stealing drugs from a crime scene.
* NaiveNewcomer: Julien is initially unaware of a lot of the internal politics at the Barn and is disgusted at a lot of the LAPD's double standards, mainly the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence blue wall of silence]].
* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show after he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent with a transgender prostitute and it's outright stated that it was because of his own homosexuality.
* AudienceSurrogate: In the first season, Julien's status as a rookie allows much of the internal workings of the Barn and Farmington as a whole to be established.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Often. The best example is when he is up in arms after a church is searched, even though it turned out to be a front for heroin distribution.
* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny and Julien will kick your ass.
* ByTheBookCop: Being a zealous Christian, this was to be expected. He is scrupulously by the book, which causes friction with both Danny and Vic since his honest reporting on their conduct puts their jobs at risk.
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" and marries a woman. He is still married and closeted at the end of the show, though he does not seem happy.
* {{Gayngst}}: And ''how''! His homosexuality placed him at great odds with his devout Christian beliefs, even to the point that he chose not to wear his vest to a bust, hoping the perp would kill him.
* TheHeart: He tends to be the most moral member of the Barn and the one who actually cares about the welfare of Farmington's residents in contrast to Vic and Rawling's KnightTemplar "ends justify the means"-mentality and Aceveda's political spinelessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though he knows it would make him a pariah to the department, he rats on Mackey and the Strike Team for stealing drugs from a crime scene.
* NaiveNewcomer: Julien is initially unaware of a lot of the internal politics at the Barn and is disgusted at a lot of the LAPD's double standards, mainly the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence blue wall of silence]].
* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show after he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent with a transgender prostitute and it's outright stated that it was because of his own homosexuality.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: He keeps CommutingOnABus: After being fired, he still reappears every now and then. First when Julien breaks his sexuality hidden both out of self-hatred arm as revenge, and fear of how his co-workers would react. A series of traumas just then as a private investigator that Vic hires.
* DirtyCop: He leadsto him doubling further down on his denial, leaving him locked Julian and Paul in savagely beating a loveless marriage.
* AudienceSurrogate: Intransgender woman for biting Danny, and later he and Paul do the first season, Julien's status as same to Julien after they're fired for harassing him.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's arookie allows massively homophobic, immature asshole who spends much of the internal workings of the Barn and Farmington as a whole to be established.
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* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny andLaserGuidedKarma: Julien will kick your ass.
* ByTheBookCop: Being a zealous Christian, this was to be expected. He is scrupulously by the book, which causes friction with both Danny and Vic sincebreaks his honest reporting on their conduct puts their jobs at risk.
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" and marries a woman. He is still married and closetedarm in retaliation for Ray beating him within an inch of his,life at the end of the show, though he does not seem happy.
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*{{Gayngst}}: And ''how''! His homosexuality placed him at great odds with his devout Christian beliefs, ManChild: Carlson acts more like a frat boy than a trained police officer, to an even to the point that he chose not to wear his vest to a bust, hoping the perp would kill him.
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* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the showafter he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, butfinding out he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
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* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent with a transgender prostitute
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A new recruit assigned to serve as Julien's partner. Her going from vain pretty girl to competent cop was a major storyline for the later seasons of the show.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He's just as much of a homophobic jerk as his partner and eagerly helps his harassment campaign against Julien.
* KarmaHoudini: Unlike Ray, he gets away scot-free for beating Julien.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's as homophobic as Ray and he's very willing to get violent against LGBTQU+ people.
* PutOnABus: He disappears from the series after being fired by Aceveda for his homophobia.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattGerald
Julien's new partner following Danny's brief termination.
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[[folder:Ray Carlson]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Matt Corboy
A virulently homophobic LAPD officer.
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* CommutingOnABus: After being fired, he still reappears every now and then. First when Julien breaks his arm as revenge, and then as a private investigator that Vic hires.
* DirtyCop: He leads Julian and Paul in savagely beating a transgender woman for biting Danny, and later he and Paul do the same to Julien after they're fired for harassing him.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a massively homophobic, immature asshole who spends much of his time harassing LGBTQU+ people.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Julien breaks his arm in retaliation for Ray beating him within an inch of his,life at the end of Season 2.
* ManChild: Carlson acts more like a frat boy than a trained police officer, to an even greater degree than Vic.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's massively homophobic, and leads a harassment campaign against Julien after finding out he's gay. When Ray and Paul are fired for it by Aceveda, they promptly subject Julien to a beating out of spite.
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[[folder:Paul Jackson]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/FrankGrillo
Ray Carlson's partner.
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* DirtyCop: He joins Ray and Julien's "blanket party" for a transgender woman, and later helps Ray inflict the same thing on Julien.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's just as much of a homophobic jerk as his partner and eagerly helps his harassment campaign against Julien.
* KarmaHoudini: Unlike Ray, he gets away scot-free for beating Julien.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's as homophobic as Ray and he's very willing to get violent against LGBTQU+ people.
* PutOnABus: He disappears from the series after being fired by Aceveda for his homophobia.
* SatelliteCharacter: He gets much less characterization than Ray, and mainly exists to serve as his right-hand.
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[[folder:In General]]
* DysfunctionJunction: No individual within the Barn is devoid of issues at best, which makes for a chaotic, barely sustained environment. That's without counting the many instances these problems have bled into their police-work, causing citizens in the area no end of grief.
* PunnyName: The nickname "The Barn" comes from its location in Farmington (Farm-Barn word association), its function (keeping the "animals" in control, as Farmington has effectively been declared a war zone in L.A.) and its architecture (a repossessed church, with its conversion into a police station making for a cramped, noisy and improvised aesthetic).
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!!Detectives
[[folder:Claudette Wyms]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's good to shake things up once in a while."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CCHPounder
Veteran detective partnered with Detective "Dutch" Wagenbach. Though positioned as the conscience of the Barn, she's more than willing to turn a blind eye to Vic's brutality and corruption...at least, at first.
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* ActionGirl: She doesn't get much chances to show it, but Claudette isn't afraid to fight when it comes down to it. Most notably, she takes down a serial rapist with a well-timed [[GroinAttack punch to the balls]].
* BigGood: Eventually becomes this from Season 6 onward.
* BlackBossLady: After being promoted in Season 6.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-flipped]] variant. She's very disapproving of her daughter's new boyfriend and constantly makes it clear. She even goes so far as to interrogate him at one point.
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. She was never fond of Vic in the first place, but she was more apathetically resigned to him as long as he seemed to only be bending the law. Once she realizes he's a full-blown DirtyCop, she dedicates herself to bringing him down.
* ByTheBookCop: She's one of the few officers in the Barn to never bend or break the law, and she tends to follow the law almost judiciously regardless of the consequences.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first season depicts Claudette as cynically resigned to the Strike Team's brutality and the LAPD and city government as a whole's corruption. From Season 2 onwards, she's staunchly against it and suffers from HonorBeforeReason.
* DaChief: Has shades of this after finally [[spoiler:becoming the captain]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Is especially biting in her final conversations with Vic.
* DeathGlare: Claudette is very good at expressing her contempt for people through nothing but a withering glare.
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}, specifically moral pride. She's one of the very few characters in the show to stick with her principles, but it causes her to suffer friction and tension between higher-ups in the LAPD and the justice system that prevent her from doing her job.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. She's just as brilliant, ruthless, and driven as he is, but she's also an honest cop who believes in justice.
* GoodIsNotNice: She's harsh, cold, and blunt, but an honest cop through and through dedicated to doing the right thing.
* TheHeart: Of the Dutch-Claudette partnership, she usually pursues a more emotional angle when it comes to dealing with victims and criminals. And for the Barn as a whole, as she's the one who tries the most consistently to follow the law.
* HonorBeforeReason: Her battle against the D.A.'s office.
* IAmTheNoun: "Don't lecture me about the struggle, son. I ''am'' the struggle."
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: She makes sure to let Vic know she's figured out his corruption, even if she can't prove it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Claudette is often cold, cynical, and self-righteous, but hardly a bad person. She's empathetic towards victims of violent crimes and goes out of her way to comfort them, and she tends the most moral member of the Barn.
* KnightInSourArmor: She starts off as doing her best to do the right thing, but cynically accepting to the Strike Team's casual brutality and the public's apathy and at times appreciation for it. She's eventually galvanized into action once the Strike Team [[spoiler:has Armadillo murdered in custody]].
* MamaBear: She is ''extremely'' particular about the men in her daughters' lives. One can argue she is also this to the rest of the Barn.
* NotSoAboveItAll: While generally cool-headed and professional, she does have her occasional moments when she drops it. Notably, the pilot episode implies that she was the one who put dog crap in Dutch's desk.
* OnlySaneMan: The single most down to earth and reasonable person in the Barn. Whereas everyone else is varying degrees of dysfunctional, Claudette is mainly concentrated on doing her job as efficiently as possible without letting her personal issues get in the way.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dutch. They're very close and deeply loyal to each other, but it's clearly platonic.
* RageBreakingPoint: Throughout the first two seasons, Claudette apathetically tolerates the Strike Team's behavior since she knows the public won't care about their methods and because she's under the belief they aren't seriously breaking the law. However, midway through Season 2 she gradually realizes Vic and the team are corrupt, which eventually causes her to snap when she realizes Aceveda's self-interested covering for them resulted in [[spoiler:Armadillo being murdered in custody]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She delivers a crisp but effective one to Vic in "Scar Tissue", letting him know she knows ''exactly'' what kind of man he is and what he's done.
--> '''Claudette:''', [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow We both know.]] What happened to Ronnie, that's on you. It's ''all'' on you.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:She has lupus, although she doesn't realize that it's become terminal until almost the end of the series.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: She willingly turns a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption, mainly due to them being fellow cops even if she doesn't entirely approve of Mackey's methods. She eventually turns in them when she realizes that Mackey is willing to outright break the law to get what he wants.
* TheStoic: Claudette is often calm and not much seems to faze her. Even being attacked by a serial rapist doesn't shake her up too much, albeit mostly because [[ActionGirl she took him out with a single punch.]]
* TranquilFury: When Claudette's angry, she tends to remain just as stoic as she normally is, but she absolutely makes it clear that she's mad as hell.
* TrueCompanions: With Dutch. They will ''always'' have each other's back, and while their partnership does go through rough patches they always make up.
* VitriolicBestBuds: [[RuleOfThree With Dutch]]. The two are deeply loyal to each other, but they won't hesitate to snark at each other.
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[[folder:Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JayKarnes
Detective and partner of Claudette. A brilliant, but socially inept detective who deals with unsavory bad guys. TheRival to Vic Mackey.
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* BadassBookworm: One of the more well-read detectives, and one of the street smart ones as well.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Just ask Sean Taylor. Dutch is a goofy, socially awkward ButtMonkey, but he's a brilliant detective who is an excellent profiler and is scarily good at interrogations.
* BoringButPractical: While Vic is more showy with his arrests, Dutch puts in the leg work in order to build cases and catch his suspects. It earns him some ridicule, but he proves to be good at his job.
* BreakTheHaughty: Vic views Dutch as an arrogant snob, and leads the Barn against him to deflate his ego. While Dutch is definitely egotistical, much of the bullying is unprovoked and he's such a dorky sadsack that it reads more as [[KickTheDog kicking him while he's down.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dutch is socially awkward, dorky, and the Barn's resident ButtMonkey, but he's still a brilliant cop who is ''very'' good at what he does.
* ButtMonkey: Things rarely go right for him. Even his partner and best friend can't help he a jerk to him at times.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Dutch is insecure, blunt, and arrogant, but his heart is in the right place and he's a genuinely good man.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Comes across as awkward and is socially inept, but is an excellent profiler and has a way with words when it comes to catching bad guys.
* DeadpanSnarker: It's the only way he keeps his sanity most of the time.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the quirky, arrogant GreatDetective frequently seen in {{Police Procedural}}s. In a hyper-masculine environment like the Barn, Dutch finds himself frequently bullied by his colleagues who appreciate brute force more than genuine investigative prowess and view Dutch's awkward personality as a personal slight. Meanwhile, his interest in solving crimes frequently takes the form of LackOfEmpathy to the victims.
* DefectiveDetective: Despite being a brilliant detective, his personal life is often a mess and he struggles with depression and mental instability.
* DoggedNiceGuy: While he goes on a few dates over the course of the series, all his attempts to actively pursue a woman's heart end up failing miserably.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: To say he deserved to have the only somewhat happy ending would be an understatement.
* {{Foil}}: To Shane. They're both detectives with off-putting personalities, a history with abusive parents, express bigoted views, and serve as TheLancer to their partner. However, Dutch is by-the-book and tries his best never to cross the line, while Shane is an out-and-out DirtyCop.
* FreudianExcuse: Dutch had a bad childhood with a cold, unloving father. It's heavily implied this ingrained his numerous insecurities and his desperate need to be respected by his colleagues.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While apologizing to Danny for publicly giving her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he initially starts to cite his terrible childhood only to dismiss it and calls himself out for trying to use it as an excuse.
* GuileHero: The man's brain and profiling skills are just some of the reasons he catches some of the smarter criminals on the show.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In a typical police procedural he'd be the quirky GreatDetective protagonist and Vic would be the DirtyCop BigBad. Dutch's stories do make up multiple subplots, but the focus for the most part is on the Strike Team's exploits.
* HeroicBSOD: Dutch is absolutely horrified after watching child porn as part of an interrogation, especially since [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he had previously been callous towards the victims' plight]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Dutch has a bad tendency to inadvertently come off as self-absorbed and callous to others because of his lack of social skills.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Dutch is fairly arrogant and tends to view himself as above his colleagues, but he's deeply insecure and has low self-esteem.
* ItsPersonal: Dutch's investigation into Sean Taylor becomes much more emotionally motivated after Taylor murders a young child prostitute.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dutch is arrogant, self-centered, blunt, and socially awkward, but he's got a good heart and is a very loyal friend.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Strangling the cat.]] Played less as a moment of establishing villainy, though, and more as a symptom of Dutch's mental turmoil at the time.
* KnightInSourArmor: Dutch is a paranoid cynic who constantly believes the worst in human nature, but he's still genuinely dedicated towards seeing justice done and works hard to make up for his own mistakes
--> '''Dutch:''' We're animals... nothing more. And ya know what? I'm learning to be OK with that.
* LackOfEmpathy: Dutch occasionally gets so into his hyper-fixation on serial killers that he forgets that people have actually been killed and that it isn't just a fun pastime for him.
* TheLancer: To Claudette after she becomes Chief.
* ManipulativeBastard: A rare heroic example given his penchant for getting criminal suspects to confess during interrogation either by appealing to their vanity or exploiting their insecurities.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "Cherrypoppers", he's clearly guilt-ridden once he realizes how much of a LackOfEmpathy he's been showing to "Sally Struthers", a child prostitute who was Sean Taylor's latest victim.
* NoRespectGuy: He's a brilliant detective well-versed in book smarts and street smarts, but he's constantly bullied and picked on by his colleagues, especially Mackey, who goes as far as leaving dog shit inside of his desk. Even Claudette sometimes get in on being a jerk to him.
* NoSocialSkills: Dutch struggles in social situations, often coming across as overly blunt and callous even when he's not trying to be or misreading social cues. He's also terrible at talking to women, and can rarely do so without stammering or stumbling over himself.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His wife was a alcoholic so Dutch got her involved with an AA program [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only for her to cheat on him with her sponsor]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Occasionally shows some bigoted tendencies, although these pop up often due to insensitiveness and exasperation rather than malice.
** When trying (and failing) to get information [[spoiler:on a package for Margos Dezerian]], he snaps and yells: "If I sound superior, it's because I'm American [[spoiler:and you're Greek".]]
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in season 4, as this gets him in trouble with Rawlings when he makes an islamophobic comment.
* TheProfiler: He fancies himself one and his theories ''do'' tend to be rather useful, as proven in season 1 when he carries on a lengthy interrogation with a serial killer.
* ProperlyParanoid: His mistrust of Vic is very, very justified. He's also frequently suspicious of everyone involved in whatever case he's investigating, which more often than not turns out to be right. It's whenever Dutch ''isn't'' paranoid that he winds up screwing up.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Claudette. The two are extremely close and always have the other's back, but they're clearly just friends.
* RageBreakingPoint: Things go wrong for him even moreso than usual throughout "Cherrypoppers". His work station is destroyed by a flood, he's forced to watch child porn as part of an interrogation, he loses seven hours worth of his investigation into a serial killer because of an idiot trying to prank his friend, and Aceveda decides to abruptly stop the manhunt Dutch was leading to catch said killer. When Danny asks him to help her study for her sergeant's exam after she had previously blown him off to go on a date with Vic, Dutch loses it and gives her a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** After Danny inadvertently pushes him past the RageBreakingPoint after a particularly bad day, Dutch loses it and gives her a vicious one,
--> '''Dutch:''' Sure. Why don't we do that right now? [[SarcasmMode I'll just drop my pissant serial killer thing just to help you study.]] [[ItsAllAboutMe Because what you want always comes first, doesn't it, Danny?]] Comes before me, comes before [[SuddenlyShouting EVERYBODY ELSE HERE!]] Even comes before a dead thirteen year-old girl who we're all supposed to forget about come tomorrow! [[SarcasmMode So grab your books! Let's find a nice quiet spot. We'll study for that test right now.]]
** He gives a cutting one to Sean Taylor.
--> '''Dutch:''' It's pathetic.\\
'''Sean Taylor:''' What is?\\
'''Dutch:''' How typical you are. Soon as you're caught, you try to be special.\\
'''Sean:''' I killed twenty-two people. Well, twenty-three if you wanna count the hunting accident back in Rockford. I'm special alright.\\
'''Dutch:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion If you're so special, how come]] [[IronicEcho a lowly civil servant]] [[ArmorPiercingQuestion like me just caught you?]]
* SecretKeeper: Keeps [[spoiler:Claudette's lupus]] secret from the rest of the Barn.
* SecretlySelfish: Dutch's investigation into Sean Taylor is initially motivated mostly by his desire to play out his fantasies of being an FBI agent than any desire to see justice done. This admittedly changes into genuine altruism after [[HeelRealization he realizes how callous he had been towards Taylor's victims]].
* ShelteredAristocrat: Downplayed. Dutch implicitly comes from a middle-upper class background, and while he's fairly street smart, he's oblivious to aspects of the job that are second hand to his colleagues (i.e. knowing Spanish, among other things).
* TheSmartGuy: He's much smarter than Vic and could easily take him down, which Vic is very aware of.
* TrueCompanions: With Claudette.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: His social ineptness means that the rest of the Barn often forget what a brilliant detective he is, best demonstrated during his handling of the Sean Taylor case.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Claudette. They'll always have each other's back, but the two are more than happy to playfully snark at each other.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He became a cop to impress his cold, distant father.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** When dealing with a rapist who won't confess but who he knows is guilty, Dutch decides at Vic's advice to plant evidence in his home to frame the man. However, as he drives away from planting it, he has a change of heart and grabs the evidence before anyone can see it.
** He nearly kisses Danny in "Scar Tissue" when she moves in for a kiss, with no one else around to see it. However, Dutch turns her down after a second so he can remain faithful to his girlfriend.
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[[folder:Steve Billings]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"I think a profiler would call that a pattern of shitting where you eat."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidMarciano
A veteran cop who is five years away from retiring and dead set on doing as little as possible until then, in order to ensure he sees the day of his retirement.
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* BerserkButton: Could rival even Vic's and Lem's love for kids. He doesn't like to see them harmed.
* BrilliantButLazy: He's a veteran detective with skills that rival Dutch. However, with only 5 years left before retirement, he's not particularly inclined to try very hard on cases.
%%* CasanovaWannabe
* CowboyCop: When he's roused to action, he thinks nothing of planting evidence to get his man.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Usually won't raise a finger to help, unless it's a case of child abuse, [[TheDeterminator in which case he will move heaven and earth to see that justice is done]].
* DirtyCoward: Oscillates between this and LovableCoward.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Does not take losing his temporary captaincy well during Season 5, claiming the lower crime stats are due to his leadership. However, Claudette points out the lower stats have more to do with less people calling 911 because of poor response times.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: His leadership style in Season 5 is to let Vic and the Strike Team have free reign around Farmington.
%%* HiddenDepths
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KickedUpstairs: Subverted. When the brass realize what a disaster he is as captain, they broom him right quick.
* LovableCoward: Oscillates between this and DirtyCoward.
* NeverMyFault: He is outraged that he might actually lose his job for filing a bogus lawsuit against the city.
* PlayingSick: After breaking up a fight between Vic and Kavanaugh and hitting his head on a desk, he sues the city for a laundry list of imaginary ailments related to the injury.
%%* PluckyComicRelief
* PointyHairedBoss: When he briefly became captain.
%%* ProfessionalSlacker
%%* TheSlacker
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!!Captains and Administration
[[folder:David Aceveda]]
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[[caption-width-right:315:''"Mackey's not a cop. He's UsefulNotes/AlCapone with a badge."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenitoMartinez
The politically ambitious police captain of the Barn and ultimately an influential member of the Los Angeles City Council. Despite being Vic Mackey's [[ArchEnemy archnemesis]] and by extension the [[HeroAntagonist main antagonist]] of Season 1, he and Mackey become begrudging allies in later seasons.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Starting around season 4, although he showed shades of this as far back as the pilot, willing to let Vic employ his brutal methods on a pedophile holding a little girl hostage, in order to get results.
* AntiHero: A {{pragmatic|Hero}} example in the first three seasons prior to becoming an outright villain. He wants the Strike Team taken down or at the very least to spout a damper on their rampant brutality, but he also wants to protect his political career and will make moral compromises to do so.
* BadassBureaucrat: Despite being a bureaucrat who primarily involves himself with public relations and soliciting support from LA power brokers, he is no less competent in the field than the police officers under his command.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He takes great pains to present himself as an altruistic public servant who adheres to the rule of law. As the story progresses, he is increasingly revealed to be a ruthless careerist who [[AmbitionIsEvil has no qualms manipulating others and abusing his authority to satisfy his lust for power]].
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:His rape midway through Season 3 throws most of his life into disarray. He eventually bounces back, and [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil hard]].]]
* DaChief: In the first three seasons. He's the head of the Barn, but spends most of his time struggling to bend Vic Mackey to his will.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially when Vic is the subject, Aceveda is prone to making sarcastic remarks.
%%* DrunkWithPower: From Season 4 onwards.
* EnemyMine: With Lanie Kellis monitoring the Barn for any sign of misconduct in Season 2, Aceveda makes a deal with Vic to put aside their mutual rivalry so long as Vic puts an end to his corrupt activities, hoping Vic's high statistics will help make Lanie back off.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While he does essentially give Vic carte blanche to go after Armadillo during their EnemyMine in Season 2, Aceveda draws the line at letting Vic actually break the law. He absolutely loses it when Vic illegally uses a teenager for a sting operation and temporarily takes him off the case.
* FairCop: Given his lofty political ambitions, he makes a point of supplementing his attractive appearance by being meticulously well-groomed and maintaining an impressive physique. This is acknowledged in-universe given that Vic Mackey often refers to him derisively as a [[PrettyBoy "pretty boy"]] publicity hound and the [[TheVamp vampish con-artist, Deena]] shamelessly flirts with him '''every''' time she sees him (albeit while trying to persuade him to reduce charges against her).
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. It ultimately serves as the catalyst for his [[FaceHeelTurn transformation into a villain]].
* AFatherToHisMen: During his tenure as Captain in the first 3 seasons. Despite being frequently condescending towards most of his employees and having no qualms using them as pawns to advance his interests, he exhibits genuine concern for his officers' well-being and goes to great lengths to look out for them.
* GoodIsNotNice: During the first 3 seasons before becoming corrupted by his ambition. While he genuinely wants to improve the quality of life for Farmington's population, he is also [[{{Pride}} vain]], calculating and a covert [[{{Sadist}} sexual sadist]].
* HappilyMarried: The Acevedas go through some serious problems, but they're still an example. However, given that [[LadyMacbeth his wife is just as ambitious and calculating as he is]], it's unclear after Season 3 what extent their relationship's longevity is due to their genuine affection for one another as opposed to political expediency.
* HeroAntagonist: In Season 1. While it is made apparent early on that he is [[GlorySeeker ambitious]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], his status as an antagonist arises solely from his [[VillainProtagonist opposition to the criminal practices of the series' corrupt protagonist, Vic Mackey]]. It is only in later seasons as he [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil increasingly aids and abets Vic's activities to advance his career that he ]]''[[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil truly]]''[[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil [= =]becomes villainous]].
* HumiliationConga: In Season 3 from "Mum" onwards.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He moralizes constantly about Mackey's corruption, yet he frequently allows him to engage in his brutal tactics if it benefits him.
** He frequently criticizes the often racist behavior of the officers under him even if he's willing to back them up, but during his brief time serving as a patrolman as part of a publicity stunt he takes a young black boy's bike under the assumption it was stolen. The kid rightfully calls him out on it when Aceveda returns it, and he's appropriately ashamed. He still decides to put off writing the report, however.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Even after realizing how terrible of an idea it was to ally with Vic, he still decides to keep covering for him while weathering the fallout of Lanie's report for the sake of keeping his job.
* InternalReformist: Subverted. He frequently spins himself as one at the beginning of the series to his constituents and his desire for internal reform motivates his pursuit of Mackey, but it becomes increasingly clear Aceveda cares about his optics more than genuine systemic reform.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Aceveda is an arrogant, hypocritical careerist, but he genuinely wants to improve life in Farmington and he is trying to put away a corrupt cop even if it's motivated more by his political ambitions than anything else.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When trying to get Lem to make a deal he tells him that if the positions were reversed Vic would not be so loyal. Ultimately Vic proves this correct when he throws Ronnie under the bus. He also offers to get the team's prison sentence reduced to 1 year which as he points out isn't too bad of a punishment when taking into account all the crimes the team has commited.
* KarmaHoudini: His reward for his role in passively (and sometimes actively) abetting Vic's crimes throughout the series? [[spoiler:He's almost certain to be the next mayor of L.A.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Aceveda is a cynical careerist who is very attuned to the shady tactics it takes to get ahead in politics, but he still tries to do the right thing most of the time even if much of it is done for optics as much as it is altruism. However, as the series goes on, he steadily prioritizes his ambitions over his own morality.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's no better than Vic in this department.
* MoralMyopia: For the first three seasons, he expresses a sincere desire to serve the public by cleaning up crime in Farmington and rooting out corruption within its police department. However, this doesn't stop him from [[ManipulativeBastard callously manipulating those around him]] to achieve this end nor prioritizing the interests of Farmington's Latino citizens over the rest of its population. By Season 4, he's pretty much discarded all pretense of morality in favor of advancing his own fortunes.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He realizes what a mistake he's made by allying with Vic after [[spoiler:Shane and Lem have Armadillo killed in his cell]]. It unfortunately becomes an IgnoredEpiphany as he continues to protect Vic so he can keep his Jon.
--> '''Aceveda:''' I've made a mistake.\\
'''Claudette:''' [[DeadpanSnarker You're just now realizing that?]]
* OutOfFocus: To varying degrees in Seasons 4, 5, and 6.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Inverted. Aceveda is competent in his role as Captain, but when he's forced to temporarily work a patrolman's beat as part of a publicity stunt he proves staggeringly out of his depth. He admittedly takes it in good humor.
* PragmaticHero: Aceveda is well-aware of when to pick his battles, and he frequently tries to dissuade the officers under him from pursuing investigations if they're draining too much time and manpower or are downright self-destructive. He's also perfectly willing to callously manipulate his employees if it can net him an advantage on Vic and Gilroy.
* RapeAsDrama: His rape and subsequent PTSD in Season 3 is portrayed gut-wrenchingly tragically, and continues to impact him throughout the series.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: A mild, comedic variant happens when he's supposed to write a report of the work he did while serving a patrolman's beat as part of a publicity stunt. Since it turned into a humiliating fiasco, Aceveda decides to put off making the mandatory end-of-the-day report to the Captain (I.e. himself).
--> '''Aceveda:''' I'll let myself slide.
* StrawmanPolitical: Aceveda is a TakeThat to politicians who spout liberal ideals only for the sake of votes. He frequently promotes ideas of police accountability and systemic reform, but never acts on the chance to actually enact them and allies with Vic whenever it proves useful for his ambitions. He's still portrayed as a complex and sympathetic figure, but his hypocrisy is depicted as one of his greatest character flaws.
* TautologicalTemplar: Increasingly so as he let his sense of ambitions get to his head.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He gains a big one in Season 4, when his mental problems and political position make him feel above everyone else.
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[[folder: Monica Rawling]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"A drug dealer uses a car to distribute drugs, we're gonna seize that vehicle. A gang sells crack out of their back room, we're gonna take that home."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/GlennClose
Replacement captain for the Farmington District after Aceveda left following his election to city council.
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* ArchEnemy: To Antwon Mitchell.
* BerserkButton: Negligent social workers.
* BigGood: Of Season 4.
%%* CoolOldLady
* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:She doesn't die, but she does sacrifice her career to win.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: She probably could have [[spoiler:kept her job]] if she had picked the Mitchell fight over the Social Services fight (or vice versa), but she just had to do both at the same time.
* KnightTemplar: A somewhat heroic version. Her pursuit of Carl and Scooby's killers leads her to take the leash off Vic, and even try a couple of extreme moves of her own.
* MamaBear: Protective of her fellow officers, especially after two of them are murdered on orders of Antwon Mitchell.
%%* NeverMessWithGranny
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appeared for one season, but [[spoiler:the IAD investigation she initiates ultimately destroys the Strike Team]].
%%* TeamMom
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Her seizure program rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, but she was putting money into the community.
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[[folder:Lanie Kellis]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LucindaJenney
->''"When I ask for something I ask politely because that's my nature, but when you make me ask a second time I lose my patience....The people I work for want answers. They expect me to get them. I have the power to recommend changes, get people fired, even shut down this entire building if it's warranted! Do you understand what I'm saying detective!?"''
A civilian auditor appointed by the City Council to supervise the Barn's activities following the events of Season 1. She and Armadillo Quintero serve as the [[BigBadEnsemble main antagonists]] of Season 2.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. She commits some pretty heinous actions just for the sake of scoring points with her superiors in the City Council.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of Season 2 alongside Armadillo Quintero. Throughout the season, the Barn is compelled to maneuver around her intrusive supervision while carrying out its law enforcement duties before ultimately weathering the fallout from her overly damning report after it's leaked to the press.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When first introduced, she acts very polite and respectful towards the police officers of the Barn. However, she quickly turns nasty and overbearing when they are less than prompt in providing her with the information she requests.
* DrunkWithPower: Upon being appointed by the L.A. City Council to supervise the Barn's activities, she becomes a petty tyrant who routinely coerces law enforcement officers into giving her their unwavering attention and obedience even when they are engaged in vital police work and threatens to use her authority to ruin their livelihoods if they don't.
* HeroAntagonist: Downplayed. Kellis is a {{Jerkass}} and an ObstructiveBureaucrat clearly drunk on her own authority, but she's largely motivated by her realizatiom that the Strike Team are corrupt and Aceveda is aiding them and her desire to expose them.
* JerkAss: When she drops the [[FauxAffablyEvil "polite civil servant" routine]], she is insufferably arrogant and condescending towards those around her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As she points out, while her report ignores a lot of the competence of the Barn's staff, the Strike Team are prone to PoliceBrutality and Aceveda's given them free rein to go hog wild and kept Claudette LockedOutOfTheLoop when she tried raising her concerns about them multiple times, ultimately resulting in them orchestrating [[spoiler:Armadillo's death in custody]]. While her report jeopardizes the staff's livelihoods, she's still not ''wrong'' in her assessment.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She never does personally atone for the harm she does to the Barn.]]
* LawfulStupid: Shows shades of this. She's more concerned with minor infractions and following the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She expects all officers to halt all their work until complying with her "requests" ('''even''' when citizens' lives are at stake) and inserts herself into '''''EVERY''''' aspect of Farmington's police business merely for the sake of digging up dirt on Aceveda.
* PrinciplesZealot: As far as PR is concerned.
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[[folder:Jon Kavanaugh]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ForestWhitaker
->''"Why is it that the guy with the conscience always gets caught holding the bag? And we don't ever want that guy, do we? We want the guy that put him into motion."''
An IAD officer who goes after Vic Mackey and the Strike Team.
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* AntiVillain: Type III. Forest Whitaker name checked this trope in at least one interview.
* ArchEnemy: To the Strike Team, especially Mackey.
* BerserkButton: Watching his meticulously crafted plans end in failure and anything involving his ex-wife, Claudia.
* BigBad: Of Season 5. He starts off the season as an arrogant but [[HeroAntagonist principled officer trying to bring a thoroughly crooked cop like Vic to justice]]. It's the [[WellIntentionedExtremist means he resorts to in pursuit of this end that ultimately lead him to become an outright villain]].
* ByTheBookCop: Initially; he refused to bend the rules for his partner or even his ex-wife.
* DrivenToMadness: Attempting to take down Vic and the Strike Team takes a toll on his sanity and morality, and eventually becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad as bad as they are]], but he eventually [[HeelRealization realizes]] this and decides to face justice for his crimes.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some of his theories about the Strike Team’s crimes are only a few degrees off. In particular, he concludes that [[spoiler: Lem wasn’t hit by the Salvadorans, but by Vic because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much]]. He’s almost correct, only it was Shane who killed Lem, not Vic.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Became corrupt when he tried to take down Vic.]]
* FatalFlaw: His obsessiveness and intense drive to win at all costs is ultimately what dooms him. He stoops to similar lows as Vic in order to get what he wants. But unlike Vic, he [[HeelRealization realizes]] what he's done and ultimately decides to face justice for his crimes.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. As much as they are enemies, they are both alike. They are both very driven to do what they think is right, and stoop to dirty tactics in order to get what they want, and both are eventually screwed over because of their obsession with their work. The difference is that Kavanaugh [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is becoming no better than Vic, and turns himself in while keeping his dignity intact, while Vic [[spoiler: gets Shane to kill his pregnant wife, son, and himself]], [[spoiler: sells Ronnie out to save his own ass]], and loses everyone and everything that he cares about.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he is genuinely committed to bringing down crooked cops like Vic Mackey, he is also arrogant, vindictive, and obsessed with winning at all costs. [[spoiler: It is these qualities that ultimately drive him to [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] just for the sake of "beating" Mackey.]]
* GracefulLoser: He loses his private war with Mackey, but is able to hold his head high after turning himself in. When Mackey visits him in jail, he's at peace, intending to serve his time and rebuild his life, confident that karma will take care of Vic eventually.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Realizes just how far he's fallen and decides to confess to his crimes.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: After being outmaneuvered one too many times by Vic Mackey, he resorts to targeting the Strike Team's family members and conspiring with murderous thugs like Antwon Mitchell to bring Vic down.]]
* HeroAntagonist: The ''Hero'' part gets muddled as the season goes on.
* InternalAffairs: He's a lieutenant who works for IAD.
* ItsPersonal: What starts as a professional case to bust the Strike Team for corruption soon spirals into a private war between him and Vic Mackey, especially after Vic has sex with his ex-wife.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an unpleasant and manipulative bully at the best of times and his time trying to bring down the Strike Team brings out his worst qualities. Nonetheless, he is absolutely correct that Vic is a reprehensible excuse for a police officer and that it's disgraceful that he has been allowed to get away with all of his various crimes, including murdering other cops.
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Realising he can't bring in Mackey without breaking the law himself, he calls it quits and confesses to planting evidence and intimidating a witness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He certainly tries, but often times his machinations fall short and he has to resort to intimidation or threats.
* MarriedToTheJob: His ex-wife explicitly describes him as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing what he's done to Emolia, and realizing how many moral compromises he's made trying to bring in Vic and the Strike Team give him a full on HeelRealization, leading him to confess his crimes to Claudette.
* RulesLawyer: Comes with being an IAD officer.
* SanitySlippage: He becomes more and more unhinged as he becomes more obsessed with nailing the Strike Team.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has the ear of the Chief of Police, so he can get away with things no other IAD investigator could.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kavanaugh is zealously committed to bringing corrupt cops to justice [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary.]] Indeed, the one thing that keeps him sympathetic is that he's ''completely'' correct about Vic and co.
* WorthyOpponent: Although he hates Vic and the Strike Team by extension for their continued allegiance, Kavanaugh does exhibit some respect for both Ronnie and Lem. Praising the former for how capably and thoroughly he has covered his tracks, Kavanaugh even encourages Ronnie to get out of the Team's grasp while he can, pointing out that their recklessness will land him in trouble he's too clever to get entangled in. In the case of the latter, he eventually expresses sincere regret over how much misfortune his investigation into the Strike Team has caused Lem, and [[spoiler: following his death, he explicitly calls out Vic for corrupting him]].
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[[folder:Benjamin "Ben" Gilroy]]
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[[caption-width-right:270: ''"Don't act like you're better than me. What things have you done? What've you done, then covered those things up?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnDiehl
The Assistant Chief of Police, Vic's political muscle within the department, and the man who created the Barn and formed the Strike Team.
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* TheAlcoholic: Has been flagged for five [=DUIs=], but promptly buries them. [[spoiler:He ultimately ends up dying of cirrhosis.]]
* ArcVillain: At the end of Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and pathetic that not even his wife cares after he dies. The only person who's moved by this is Vic.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled out of the country by a coyote in Season 2, his next appearance in Season 4 has him show up as a corpse, having died of cirrhosis.]]
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the first season having to desperately cover up Vic's actions and generally coming off as a NervousWreck. While his EvilPlan makes him into a threat at the end of the season, his failure destroys his life in spectacular fashion and he spends his last appearance having a drunken meltdown.
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
* DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda and Vic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
* VillainousFriendship: He was close with Vic for many years and provided him with protection for his crimes. He also seeems honestly apologetitc about having to rescind that protection. Vic for his part decides to help Gilroy escape his hit and run charge even after Gilroy abandoned him. This likely plays a part in Vic deciding to spare his life at the end of season 1 and Shane even says they should just kill Ben when Vic smuggles him out of the country in season 2.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when he reappears in "Coyotes".
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[[folder:Frances Housely]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AprilGrace
An IAD officer assigned to investigate Terry Crowley's death. She later returns to investigate Julian's testimony of having seen the Strike Team stealing drugs from a crime scene.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After serving as the main recurring IAD throughout Season 1, she disappears for the rest of the series.
* FailureHero: Both times she appears, she fails to successfully charge the Strike Team with corruption.
* FlatCharacter: She doesn't get much personality outside of being an IAD.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She comes to the conclusion that Vic had nothing to do with Terry's death and lets him off without charges.
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[[folder:Sedona Tellez]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/LanaParrilla
A corrupt LAPD accountant and Gilroy's lover who aids him in his real estate scam.
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* DragonInChief: To Gilroy. He is undeniably culpable in the real estate scam, but it's implied Sedona came up with the idea.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to making a plea deal with Aceveda, she's able to avoid prosecution and flees the country with most of her and Gilroy's money.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's able to play Gilroy like a fiddle, and gets off scot-free by making a plea deal with Aceveda since she knows that out of the two of them, taking down Gilroy would do far better for Aceveda's political career.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's implied to be ashamed of having betrayed Gilroy, hiding when he's hauled into the Barn in handcuffs so he won't know she sold him out. She still ultimately leaves town with most of their money, so it likely wound up being an IgnoredEpiphany.
* PutOnABus: She leaves town with most of her and Gilroy's money after the events of Season 1.
* TheStarscream: She turns on Gilroy and makes a plea deal with Aceveda in exchange for her freedom once it becomes clear their scheme is doomed.
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!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Welcome to the life."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CatherineDent
An LAPD officer working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey.
----
* ActionGirl: It's sort of requirement when fighting street crime as an LAPD officer.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this when she mentors Julien for the first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and is harsh on rookie cops, but she's repeatedly shown to be a fairly nice person is almost always kind and understanding to her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as it results in her turning a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the man after he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with a lawsuit by the man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the only co-worker to know that Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other cops even when their behavior is unethical.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Julien Lowe]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Went knocking, half the people weren't answering their door, the other half were sleeping."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelJace
An LAPD officer working at the Barn under Danny Sofer's tutelage. He is a devoted Christian who is also struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality.
----
* ArmoredClosetGay: He keeps his sexuality hidden both out of self-hatred and fear of how his co-workers would react. A series of traumas just leads to him doubling further down on his denial, leaving him locked in a loveless marriage.
* AudienceSurrogate: In the first season, Julien's status as a rookie allows much of the internal workings of the Barn and Farmington as a whole to be established.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Often. The best example is when he is up in arms after a church is searched, even though it turned out to be a front for heroin distribution.
* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny and Julien will kick your ass.
* ByTheBookCop: Being a zealous Christian, this was to be expected. He is scrupulously by the book, which causes friction with both Danny and Vic since his honest reporting on their conduct puts their jobs at risk.
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" and marries a woman. He is still married and closeted at the end of the show, though he does not seem happy.
* {{Gayngst}}: And ''how''! His homosexuality placed him at great odds with his devout Christian beliefs, even to the point that he chose not to wear his vest to a bust, hoping the perp would kill him.
* TheHeart: He tends to be the most moral member of the Barn and the one who actually cares about the welfare of Farmington's residents in contrast to Vic and Rawling's KnightTemplar "ends justify the means"-mentality and Aceveda's political spinelessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though he knows it would make him a pariah to the department, he rats on Mackey and the Strike Team for stealing drugs from a crime scene.
* NaiveNewcomer: Julien is initially unaware of a lot of the internal politics at the Barn and is disgusted at a lot of the LAPD's double standards, mainly the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence blue wall of silence]].
* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show after he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent with a transgender prostitute and it's outright stated that it was because of his own homosexuality.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tina Hanlon]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulaGarces
A new recruit assigned to serve as Julien's partner. Her going from vain pretty girl to competent cop was a major storyline for the later seasons of the show.
----
%%* BreakTheHaughty
%%* DudeWheresMyRespect
* FairCop: Oh, so much.
%%* FakeGuestStar: In Seasons 5 and 6.
* HiddenDepths: Is not as vapid as she seems and capable of some good ideas out on the field.
%%* MsFanservice
%%* NewMeat
%%* SpicyLatina
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tommy Hisk]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattGerald
Julien's new partner following Danny's brief termination.
----
* AntiVillain: Type II.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* DrivenToSuicide
%%* TooDumbToLive
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ray Carlson]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Matt Corboy
A virulently homophobic LAPD officer.
----
* CommutingOnABus: After being fired, he still reappears every now and then. First when Julien breaks his arm as revenge, and then as a private investigator that Vic hires.
* DirtyCop: He leads Julian and Paul in savagely beating a transgender woman for biting Danny, and later he and Paul do the same to Julien after they're fired for harassing him.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a massively homophobic, immature asshole who spends much of his time harassing LGBTQU+ people.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Julien breaks his arm in retaliation for Ray beating him within an inch of his,life at the end of Season 2.
* ManChild: Carlson acts more like a frat boy than a trained police officer, to an even greater degree than Vic.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's massively homophobic, and leads a harassment campaign against Julien after finding out he's gay. When Ray and Paul are fired for it by Aceveda, they promptly subject Julien to a beating out of spite.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Paul Jackson]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/FrankGrillo
Ray Carlson's partner.
----
* DirtyCop: He joins Ray and Julien's "blanket party" for a transgender woman, and later helps Ray inflict the same thing on Julien.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's just as much of a homophobic jerk as his partner and eagerly helps his harassment campaign against Julien.
* KarmaHoudini: Unlike Ray, he gets away scot-free for beating Julien.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's as homophobic as Ray and he's very willing to get violent against LGBTQU+ people.
* PutOnABus: He disappears from the series after being fired by Aceveda for his homophobia.
* SatelliteCharacter: He gets much less characterization than Ray, and mainly exists to serve as his right-hand.
[[/folder]]
----
[[folder:In General]]
* DysfunctionJunction: No individual within the Barn is devoid of issues at best, which makes for a chaotic, barely sustained environment. That's without counting the many instances these problems have bled into their police-work, causing citizens in the area no end of grief.
* PunnyName: The nickname "The Barn" comes from its location in Farmington (Farm-Barn word association), its function (keeping the "animals" in control, as Farmington has effectively been declared a war zone in L.A.) and its architecture (a repossessed church, with its conversion into a police station making for a cramped, noisy and improvised aesthetic).
[[/folder]]
!!Detectives
[[folder:Claudette Wyms]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's good to shake things up once in a while."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CCHPounder
Veteran detective partnered with Detective "Dutch" Wagenbach. Though positioned as the conscience of the Barn, she's more than willing to turn a blind eye to Vic's brutality and corruption...at least, at first.
----
* ActionGirl: She doesn't get much chances to show it, but Claudette isn't afraid to fight when it comes down to it. Most notably, she takes down a serial rapist with a well-timed [[GroinAttack punch to the balls]].
* BigGood: Eventually becomes this from Season 6 onward.
* BlackBossLady: After being promoted in Season 6.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-flipped]] variant. She's very disapproving of her daughter's new boyfriend and constantly makes it clear. She even goes so far as to interrogate him at one point.
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. She was never fond of Vic in the first place, but she was more apathetically resigned to him as long as he seemed to only be bending the law. Once she realizes he's a full-blown DirtyCop, she dedicates herself to bringing him down.
* ByTheBookCop: She's one of the few officers in the Barn to never bend or break the law, and she tends to follow the law almost judiciously regardless of the consequences.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first season depicts Claudette as cynically resigned to the Strike Team's brutality and the LAPD and city government as a whole's corruption. From Season 2 onwards, she's staunchly against it and suffers from HonorBeforeReason.
* DaChief: Has shades of this after finally [[spoiler:becoming the captain]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Is especially biting in her final conversations with Vic.
* DeathGlare: Claudette is very good at expressing her contempt for people through nothing but a withering glare.
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}, specifically moral pride. She's one of the very few characters in the show to stick with her principles, but it causes her to suffer friction and tension between higher-ups in the LAPD and the justice system that prevent her from doing her job.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. She's just as brilliant, ruthless, and driven as he is, but she's also an honest cop who believes in justice.
* GoodIsNotNice: She's harsh, cold, and blunt, but an honest cop through and through dedicated to doing the right thing.
* TheHeart: Of the Dutch-Claudette partnership, she usually pursues a more emotional angle when it comes to dealing with victims and criminals. And for the Barn as a whole, as she's the one who tries the most consistently to follow the law.
* HonorBeforeReason: Her battle against the D.A.'s office.
* IAmTheNoun: "Don't lecture me about the struggle, son. I ''am'' the struggle."
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: She makes sure to let Vic know she's figured out his corruption, even if she can't prove it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Claudette is often cold, cynical, and self-righteous, but hardly a bad person. She's empathetic towards victims of violent crimes and goes out of her way to comfort them, and she tends the most moral member of the Barn.
* KnightInSourArmor: She starts off as doing her best to do the right thing, but cynically accepting to the Strike Team's casual brutality and the public's apathy and at times appreciation for it. She's eventually galvanized into action once the Strike Team [[spoiler:has Armadillo murdered in custody]].
* MamaBear: She is ''extremely'' particular about the men in her daughters' lives. One can argue she is also this to the rest of the Barn.
* NotSoAboveItAll: While generally cool-headed and professional, she does have her occasional moments when she drops it. Notably, the pilot episode implies that she was the one who put dog crap in Dutch's desk.
* OnlySaneMan: The single most down to earth and reasonable person in the Barn. Whereas everyone else is varying degrees of dysfunctional, Claudette is mainly concentrated on doing her job as efficiently as possible without letting her personal issues get in the way.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dutch. They're very close and deeply loyal to each other, but it's clearly platonic.
* RageBreakingPoint: Throughout the first two seasons, Claudette apathetically tolerates the Strike Team's behavior since she knows the public won't care about their methods and because she's under the belief they aren't seriously breaking the law. However, midway through Season 2 she gradually realizes Vic and the team are corrupt, which eventually causes her to snap when she realizes Aceveda's self-interested covering for them resulted in [[spoiler:Armadillo being murdered in custody]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She delivers a crisp but effective one to Vic in "Scar Tissue", letting him know she knows ''exactly'' what kind of man he is and what he's done.
--> '''Claudette:''', [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow We both know.]] What happened to Ronnie, that's on you. It's ''all'' on you.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:She has lupus, although she doesn't realize that it's become terminal until almost the end of the series.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: She willingly turns a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption, mainly due to them being fellow cops even if she doesn't entirely approve of Mackey's methods. She eventually turns in them when she realizes that Mackey is willing to outright break the law to get what he wants.
* TheStoic: Claudette is often calm and not much seems to faze her. Even being attacked by a serial rapist doesn't shake her up too much, albeit mostly because [[ActionGirl she took him out with a single punch.]]
* TranquilFury: When Claudette's angry, she tends to remain just as stoic as she normally is, but she absolutely makes it clear that she's mad as hell.
* TrueCompanions: With Dutch. They will ''always'' have each other's back, and while their partnership does go through rough patches they always make up.
* VitriolicBestBuds: [[RuleOfThree With Dutch]]. The two are deeply loyal to each other, but they won't hesitate to snark at each other.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach]]
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[[caption-width-right:287:''"If [[SerialKiller you're]] so special, how come a lowly civil servant like [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass me]] just caught you?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JayKarnes
Detective and partner of Claudette. A brilliant, but socially inept detective who deals with unsavory bad guys. TheRival to Vic Mackey.
----
* BadassBookworm: One of the more well-read detectives, and one of the street smart ones as well.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Just ask Sean Taylor. Dutch is a goofy, socially awkward ButtMonkey, but he's a brilliant detective who is an excellent profiler and is scarily good at interrogations.
* BoringButPractical: While Vic is more showy with his arrests, Dutch puts in the leg work in order to build cases and catch his suspects. It earns him some ridicule, but he proves to be good at his job.
* BreakTheHaughty: Vic views Dutch as an arrogant snob, and leads the Barn against him to deflate his ego. While Dutch is definitely egotistical, much of the bullying is unprovoked and he's such a dorky sadsack that it reads more as [[KickTheDog kicking him while he's down.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dutch is socially awkward, dorky, and the Barn's resident ButtMonkey, but he's still a brilliant cop who is ''very'' good at what he does.
* ButtMonkey: Things rarely go right for him. Even his partner and best friend can't help he a jerk to him at times.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Dutch is insecure, blunt, and arrogant, but his heart is in the right place and he's a genuinely good man.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Comes across as awkward and is socially inept, but is an excellent profiler and has a way with words when it comes to catching bad guys.
* DeadpanSnarker: It's the only way he keeps his sanity most of the time.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the quirky, arrogant GreatDetective frequently seen in {{Police Procedural}}s. In a hyper-masculine environment like the Barn, Dutch finds himself frequently bullied by his colleagues who appreciate brute force more than genuine investigative prowess and view Dutch's awkward personality as a personal slight. Meanwhile, his interest in solving crimes frequently takes the form of LackOfEmpathy to the victims.
* DefectiveDetective: Despite being a brilliant detective, his personal life is often a mess and he struggles with depression and mental instability.
* DoggedNiceGuy: While he goes on a few dates over the course of the series, all his attempts to actively pursue a woman's heart end up failing miserably.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: To say he deserved to have the only somewhat happy ending would be an understatement.
* {{Foil}}: To Shane. They're both detectives with off-putting personalities, a history with abusive parents, express bigoted views, and serve as TheLancer to their partner. However, Dutch is by-the-book and tries his best never to cross the line, while Shane is an out-and-out DirtyCop.
* FreudianExcuse: Dutch had a bad childhood with a cold, unloving father. It's heavily implied this ingrained his numerous insecurities and his desperate need to be respected by his colleagues.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While apologizing to Danny for publicly giving her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he initially starts to cite his terrible childhood only to dismiss it and calls himself out for trying to use it as an excuse.
* GuileHero: The man's brain and profiling skills are just some of the reasons he catches some of the smarter criminals on the show.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In a typical police procedural he'd be the quirky GreatDetective protagonist and Vic would be the DirtyCop BigBad. Dutch's stories do make up multiple subplots, but the focus for the most part is on the Strike Team's exploits.
* HeroicBSOD: Dutch is absolutely horrified after watching child porn as part of an interrogation, especially since [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he had previously been callous towards the victims' plight]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Dutch has a bad tendency to inadvertently come off as self-absorbed and callous to others because of his lack of social skills.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Dutch is fairly arrogant and tends to view himself as above his colleagues, but he's deeply insecure and has low self-esteem.
* ItsPersonal: Dutch's investigation into Sean Taylor becomes much more emotionally motivated after Taylor murders a young child prostitute.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dutch is arrogant, self-centered, blunt, and socially awkward, but he's got a good heart and is a very loyal friend.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Strangling the cat.]] Played less as a moment of establishing villainy, though, and more as a symptom of Dutch's mental turmoil at the time.
* KnightInSourArmor: Dutch is a paranoid cynic who constantly believes the worst in human nature, but he's still genuinely dedicated towards seeing justice done and works hard to make up for his own mistakes
--> '''Dutch:''' We're animals... nothing more. And ya know what? I'm learning to be OK with that.
* LackOfEmpathy: Dutch occasionally gets so into his hyper-fixation on serial killers that he forgets that people have actually been killed and that it isn't just a fun pastime for him.
* TheLancer: To Claudette after she becomes Chief.
* ManipulativeBastard: A rare heroic example given his penchant for getting criminal suspects to confess during interrogation either by appealing to their vanity or exploiting their insecurities.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "Cherrypoppers", he's clearly guilt-ridden once he realizes how much of a LackOfEmpathy he's been showing to "Sally Struthers", a child prostitute who was Sean Taylor's latest victim.
* NoRespectGuy: He's a brilliant detective well-versed in book smarts and street smarts, but he's constantly bullied and picked on by his colleagues, especially Mackey, who goes as far as leaving dog shit inside of his desk. Even Claudette sometimes get in on being a jerk to him.
* NoSocialSkills: Dutch struggles in social situations, often coming across as overly blunt and callous even when he's not trying to be or misreading social cues. He's also terrible at talking to women, and can rarely do so without stammering or stumbling over himself.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His wife was a alcoholic so Dutch got her involved with an AA program [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only for her to cheat on him with her sponsor]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Occasionally shows some bigoted tendencies, although these pop up often due to insensitiveness and exasperation rather than malice.
** When trying (and failing) to get information [[spoiler:on a package for Margos Dezerian]], he snaps and yells: "If I sound superior, it's because I'm American [[spoiler:and you're Greek".]]
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in season 4, as this gets him in trouble with Rawlings when he makes an islamophobic comment.
* TheProfiler: He fancies himself one and his theories ''do'' tend to be rather useful, as proven in season 1 when he carries on a lengthy interrogation with a serial killer.
* ProperlyParanoid: His mistrust of Vic is very, very justified. He's also frequently suspicious of everyone involved in whatever case he's investigating, which more often than not turns out to be right. It's whenever Dutch ''isn't'' paranoid that he winds up screwing up.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Claudette. The two are extremely close and always have the other's back, but they're clearly just friends.
* RageBreakingPoint: Things go wrong for him even moreso than usual throughout "Cherrypoppers". His work station is destroyed by a flood, he's forced to watch child porn as part of an interrogation, he loses seven hours worth of his investigation into a serial killer because of an idiot trying to prank his friend, and Aceveda decides to abruptly stop the manhunt Dutch was leading to catch said killer. When Danny asks him to help her study for her sergeant's exam after she had previously blown him off to go on a date with Vic, Dutch loses it and gives her a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** After Danny inadvertently pushes him past the RageBreakingPoint after a particularly bad day, Dutch loses it and gives her a vicious one,
--> '''Dutch:''' Sure. Why don't we do that right now? [[SarcasmMode I'll just drop my pissant serial killer thing just to help you study.]] [[ItsAllAboutMe Because what you want always comes first, doesn't it, Danny?]] Comes before me, comes before [[SuddenlyShouting EVERYBODY ELSE HERE!]] Even comes before a dead thirteen year-old girl who we're all supposed to forget about come tomorrow! [[SarcasmMode So grab your books! Let's find a nice quiet spot. We'll study for that test right now.]]
** He gives a cutting one to Sean Taylor.
--> '''Dutch:''' It's pathetic.\\
'''Sean Taylor:''' What is?\\
'''Dutch:''' How typical you are. Soon as you're caught, you try to be special.\\
'''Sean:''' I killed twenty-two people. Well, twenty-three if you wanna count the hunting accident back in Rockford. I'm special alright.\\
'''Dutch:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion If you're so special, how come]] [[IronicEcho a lowly civil servant]] [[ArmorPiercingQuestion like me just caught you?]]
* SecretKeeper: Keeps [[spoiler:Claudette's lupus]] secret from the rest of the Barn.
* SecretlySelfish: Dutch's investigation into Sean Taylor is initially motivated mostly by his desire to play out his fantasies of being an FBI agent than any desire to see justice done. This admittedly changes into genuine altruism after [[HeelRealization he realizes how callous he had been towards Taylor's victims]].
* ShelteredAristocrat: Downplayed. Dutch implicitly comes from a middle-upper class background, and while he's fairly street smart, he's oblivious to aspects of the job that are second hand to his colleagues (i.e. knowing Spanish, among other things).
* TheSmartGuy: He's much smarter than Vic and could easily take him down, which Vic is very aware of.
* TrueCompanions: With Claudette.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: His social ineptness means that the rest of the Barn often forget what a brilliant detective he is, best demonstrated during his handling of the Sean Taylor case.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Claudette. They'll always have each other's back, but the two are more than happy to playfully snark at each other.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He became a cop to impress his cold, distant father.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** When dealing with a rapist who won't confess but who he knows is guilty, Dutch decides at Vic's advice to plant evidence in his home to frame the man. However, as he drives away from planting it, he has a change of heart and grabs the evidence before anyone can see it.
** He nearly kisses Danny in "Scar Tissue" when she moves in for a kiss, with no one else around to see it. However, Dutch turns her down after a second so he can remain faithful to his girlfriend.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Steve Billings]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"I think a profiler would call that a pattern of shitting where you eat."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidMarciano
A veteran cop who is five years away from retiring and dead set on doing as little as possible until then, in order to ensure he sees the day of his retirement.
----
* BerserkButton: Could rival even Vic's and Lem's love for kids. He doesn't like to see them harmed.
* BrilliantButLazy: He's a veteran detective with skills that rival Dutch. However, with only 5 years left before retirement, he's not particularly inclined to try very hard on cases.
%%* CasanovaWannabe
* CowboyCop: When he's roused to action, he thinks nothing of planting evidence to get his man.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Usually won't raise a finger to help, unless it's a case of child abuse, [[TheDeterminator in which case he will move heaven and earth to see that justice is done]].
* DirtyCoward: Oscillates between this and LovableCoward.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Does not take losing his temporary captaincy well during Season 5, claiming the lower crime stats are due to his leadership. However, Claudette points out the lower stats have more to do with less people calling 911 because of poor response times.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: His leadership style in Season 5 is to let Vic and the Strike Team have free reign around Farmington.
%%* HiddenDepths
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KickedUpstairs: Subverted. When the brass realize what a disaster he is as captain, they broom him right quick.
* LovableCoward: Oscillates between this and DirtyCoward.
* NeverMyFault: He is outraged that he might actually lose his job for filing a bogus lawsuit against the city.
* PlayingSick: After breaking up a fight between Vic and Kavanaugh and hitting his head on a desk, he sues the city for a laundry list of imaginary ailments related to the injury.
%%* PluckyComicRelief
* PointyHairedBoss: When he briefly became captain.
%%* ProfessionalSlacker
%%* TheSlacker
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!!Captains and Administration
[[folder:David Aceveda]]
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[[caption-width-right:315:''"Mackey's not a cop. He's UsefulNotes/AlCapone with a badge."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenitoMartinez
The politically ambitious police captain of the Barn and ultimately an influential member of the Los Angeles City Council. Despite being Vic Mackey's [[ArchEnemy archnemesis]] and by extension the [[HeroAntagonist main antagonist]] of Season 1, he and Mackey become begrudging allies in later seasons.
----
* AmbitionIsEvil: Starting around season 4, although he showed shades of this as far back as the pilot, willing to let Vic employ his brutal methods on a pedophile holding a little girl hostage, in order to get results.
* AntiHero: A {{pragmatic|Hero}} example in the first three seasons prior to becoming an outright villain. He wants the Strike Team taken down or at the very least to spout a damper on their rampant brutality, but he also wants to protect his political career and will make moral compromises to do so.
* BadassBureaucrat: Despite being a bureaucrat who primarily involves himself with public relations and soliciting support from LA power brokers, he is no less competent in the field than the police officers under his command.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He takes great pains to present himself as an altruistic public servant who adheres to the rule of law. As the story progresses, he is increasingly revealed to be a ruthless careerist who [[AmbitionIsEvil has no qualms manipulating others and abusing his authority to satisfy his lust for power]].
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:His rape midway through Season 3 throws most of his life into disarray. He eventually bounces back, and [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil hard]].]]
* DaChief: In the first three seasons. He's the head of the Barn, but spends most of his time struggling to bend Vic Mackey to his will.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially when Vic is the subject, Aceveda is prone to making sarcastic remarks.
%%* DrunkWithPower: From Season 4 onwards.
* EnemyMine: With Lanie Kellis monitoring the Barn for any sign of misconduct in Season 2, Aceveda makes a deal with Vic to put aside their mutual rivalry so long as Vic puts an end to his corrupt activities, hoping Vic's high statistics will help make Lanie back off.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While he does essentially give Vic carte blanche to go after Armadillo during their EnemyMine in Season 2, Aceveda draws the line at letting Vic actually break the law. He absolutely loses it when Vic illegally uses a teenager for a sting operation and temporarily takes him off the case.
* FairCop: Given his lofty political ambitions, he makes a point of supplementing his attractive appearance by being meticulously well-groomed and maintaining an impressive physique. This is acknowledged in-universe given that Vic Mackey often refers to him derisively as a [[PrettyBoy "pretty boy"]] publicity hound and the [[TheVamp vampish con-artist, Deena]] shamelessly flirts with him '''every''' time she sees him (albeit while trying to persuade him to reduce charges against her).
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. It ultimately serves as the catalyst for his [[FaceHeelTurn transformation into a villain]].
* AFatherToHisMen: During his tenure as Captain in the first 3 seasons. Despite being frequently condescending towards most of his employees and having no qualms using them as pawns to advance his interests, he exhibits genuine concern for his officers' well-being and goes to great lengths to look out for them.
* GoodIsNotNice: During the first 3 seasons before becoming corrupted by his ambition. While he genuinely wants to improve the quality of life for Farmington's population, he is also [[{{Pride}} vain]], calculating and a covert [[{{Sadist}} sexual sadist]].
* HappilyMarried: The Acevedas go through some serious problems, but they're still an example. However, given that [[LadyMacbeth his wife is just as ambitious and calculating as he is]], it's unclear after Season 3 what extent their relationship's longevity is due to their genuine affection for one another as opposed to political expediency.
* HeroAntagonist: In Season 1. While it is made apparent early on that he is [[GlorySeeker ambitious]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], his status as an antagonist arises solely from his [[VillainProtagonist opposition to the criminal practices of the series' corrupt protagonist, Vic Mackey]]. It is only in later seasons as he [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil increasingly aids and abets Vic's activities to advance his career that he ]]''[[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil truly]]''[[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil [= =]becomes villainous]].
* HumiliationConga: In Season 3 from "Mum" onwards.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He moralizes constantly about Mackey's corruption, yet he frequently allows him to engage in his brutal tactics if it benefits him.
** He frequently criticizes the often racist behavior of the officers under him even if he's willing to back them up, but during his brief time serving as a patrolman as part of a publicity stunt he takes a young black boy's bike under the assumption it was stolen. The kid rightfully calls him out on it when Aceveda returns it, and he's appropriately ashamed. He still decides to put off writing the report, however.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Even after realizing how terrible of an idea it was to ally with Vic, he still decides to keep covering for him while weathering the fallout of Lanie's report for the sake of keeping his job.
* InternalReformist: Subverted. He frequently spins himself as one at the beginning of the series to his constituents and his desire for internal reform motivates his pursuit of Mackey, but it becomes increasingly clear Aceveda cares about his optics more than genuine systemic reform.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Aceveda is an arrogant, hypocritical careerist, but he genuinely wants to improve life in Farmington and he is trying to put away a corrupt cop even if it's motivated more by his political ambitions than anything else.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When trying to get Lem to make a deal he tells him that if the positions were reversed Vic would not be so loyal. Ultimately Vic proves this correct when he throws Ronnie under the bus. He also offers to get the team's prison sentence reduced to 1 year which as he points out isn't too bad of a punishment when taking into account all the crimes the team has commited.
* KarmaHoudini: His reward for his role in passively (and sometimes actively) abetting Vic's crimes throughout the series? [[spoiler:He's almost certain to be the next mayor of L.A.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Aceveda is a cynical careerist who is very attuned to the shady tactics it takes to get ahead in politics, but he still tries to do the right thing most of the time even if much of it is done for optics as much as it is altruism. However, as the series goes on, he steadily prioritizes his ambitions over his own morality.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's no better than Vic in this department.
* MoralMyopia: For the first three seasons, he expresses a sincere desire to serve the public by cleaning up crime in Farmington and rooting out corruption within its police department. However, this doesn't stop him from [[ManipulativeBastard callously manipulating those around him]] to achieve this end nor prioritizing the interests of Farmington's Latino citizens over the rest of its population. By Season 4, he's pretty much discarded all pretense of morality in favor of advancing his own fortunes.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He realizes what a mistake he's made by allying with Vic after [[spoiler:Shane and Lem have Armadillo killed in his cell]]. It unfortunately becomes an IgnoredEpiphany as he continues to protect Vic so he can keep his Jon.
--> '''Aceveda:''' I've made a mistake.\\
'''Claudette:''' [[DeadpanSnarker You're just now realizing that?]]
* OutOfFocus: To varying degrees in Seasons 4, 5, and 6.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Inverted. Aceveda is competent in his role as Captain, but when he's forced to temporarily work a patrolman's beat as part of a publicity stunt he proves staggeringly out of his depth. He admittedly takes it in good humor.
* PragmaticHero: Aceveda is well-aware of when to pick his battles, and he frequently tries to dissuade the officers under him from pursuing investigations if they're draining too much time and manpower or are downright self-destructive. He's also perfectly willing to callously manipulate his employees if it can net him an advantage on Vic and Gilroy.
* RapeAsDrama: His rape and subsequent PTSD in Season 3 is portrayed gut-wrenchingly tragically, and continues to impact him throughout the series.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: A mild, comedic variant happens when he's supposed to write a report of the work he did while serving a patrolman's beat as part of a publicity stunt. Since it turned into a humiliating fiasco, Aceveda decides to put off making the mandatory end-of-the-day report to the Captain (I.e. himself).
--> '''Aceveda:''' I'll let myself slide.
* StrawmanPolitical: Aceveda is a TakeThat to politicians who spout liberal ideals only for the sake of votes. He frequently promotes ideas of police accountability and systemic reform, but never acts on the chance to actually enact them and allies with Vic whenever it proves useful for his ambitions. He's still portrayed as a complex and sympathetic figure, but his hypocrisy is depicted as one of his greatest character flaws.
* TautologicalTemplar: Increasingly so as he let his sense of ambitions get to his head.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He gains a big one in Season 4, when his mental problems and political position make him feel above everyone else.
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[[folder: Monica Rawling]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"A drug dealer uses a car to distribute drugs, we're gonna seize that vehicle. A gang sells crack out of their back room, we're gonna take that home."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/GlennClose
Replacement captain for the Farmington District after Aceveda left following his election to city council.
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* ArchEnemy: To Antwon Mitchell.
* BerserkButton: Negligent social workers.
* BigGood: Of Season 4.
%%* CoolOldLady
* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:She doesn't die, but she does sacrifice her career to win.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: She probably could have [[spoiler:kept her job]] if she had picked the Mitchell fight over the Social Services fight (or vice versa), but she just had to do both at the same time.
* KnightTemplar: A somewhat heroic version. Her pursuit of Carl and Scooby's killers leads her to take the leash off Vic, and even try a couple of extreme moves of her own.
* MamaBear: Protective of her fellow officers, especially after two of them are murdered on orders of Antwon Mitchell.
%%* NeverMessWithGranny
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appeared for one season, but [[spoiler:the IAD investigation she initiates ultimately destroys the Strike Team]].
%%* TeamMom
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Her seizure program rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, but she was putting money into the community.
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[[folder:Lanie Kellis]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LucindaJenney
->''"When I ask for something I ask politely because that's my nature, but when you make me ask a second time I lose my patience....The people I work for want answers. They expect me to get them. I have the power to recommend changes, get people fired, even shut down this entire building if it's warranted! Do you understand what I'm saying detective!?"''
A civilian auditor appointed by the City Council to supervise the Barn's activities following the events of Season 1. She and Armadillo Quintero serve as the [[BigBadEnsemble main antagonists]] of Season 2.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. She commits some pretty heinous actions just for the sake of scoring points with her superiors in the City Council.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of Season 2 alongside Armadillo Quintero. Throughout the season, the Barn is compelled to maneuver around her intrusive supervision while carrying out its law enforcement duties before ultimately weathering the fallout from her overly damning report after it's leaked to the press.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When first introduced, she acts very polite and respectful towards the police officers of the Barn. However, she quickly turns nasty and overbearing when they are less than prompt in providing her with the information she requests.
* DrunkWithPower: Upon being appointed by the L.A. City Council to supervise the Barn's activities, she becomes a petty tyrant who routinely coerces law enforcement officers into giving her their unwavering attention and obedience even when they are engaged in vital police work and threatens to use her authority to ruin their livelihoods if they don't.
* HeroAntagonist: Downplayed. Kellis is a {{Jerkass}} and an ObstructiveBureaucrat clearly drunk on her own authority, but she's largely motivated by her realizatiom that the Strike Team are corrupt and Aceveda is aiding them and her desire to expose them.
* JerkAss: When she drops the [[FauxAffablyEvil "polite civil servant" routine]], she is insufferably arrogant and condescending towards those around her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As she points out, while her report ignores a lot of the competence of the Barn's staff, the Strike Team are prone to PoliceBrutality and Aceveda's given them free rein to go hog wild and kept Claudette LockedOutOfTheLoop when she tried raising her concerns about them multiple times, ultimately resulting in them orchestrating [[spoiler:Armadillo's death in custody]]. While her report jeopardizes the staff's livelihoods, she's still not ''wrong'' in her assessment.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She never does personally atone for the harm she does to the Barn.]]
* LawfulStupid: Shows shades of this. She's more concerned with minor infractions and following the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She expects all officers to halt all their work until complying with her "requests" ('''even''' when citizens' lives are at stake) and inserts herself into '''''EVERY''''' aspect of Farmington's police business merely for the sake of digging up dirt on Aceveda.
* PrinciplesZealot: As far as PR is concerned.
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[[folder:Jon Kavanaugh]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ForestWhitaker
->''"Why is it that the guy with the conscience always gets caught holding the bag? And we don't ever want that guy, do we? We want the guy that put him into motion."''
An IAD officer who goes after Vic Mackey and the Strike Team.
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* AntiVillain: Type III. Forest Whitaker name checked this trope in at least one interview.
* ArchEnemy: To the Strike Team, especially Mackey.
* BerserkButton: Watching his meticulously crafted plans end in failure and anything involving his ex-wife, Claudia.
* BigBad: Of Season 5. He starts off the season as an arrogant but [[HeroAntagonist principled officer trying to bring a thoroughly crooked cop like Vic to justice]]. It's the [[WellIntentionedExtremist means he resorts to in pursuit of this end that ultimately lead him to become an outright villain]].
* ByTheBookCop: Initially; he refused to bend the rules for his partner or even his ex-wife.
* DrivenToMadness: Attempting to take down Vic and the Strike Team takes a toll on his sanity and morality, and eventually becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad as bad as they are]], but he eventually [[HeelRealization realizes]] this and decides to face justice for his crimes.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some of his theories about the Strike Team’s crimes are only a few degrees off. In particular, he concludes that [[spoiler: Lem wasn’t hit by the Salvadorans, but by Vic because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew too much]]. He’s almost correct, only it was Shane who killed Lem, not Vic.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Became corrupt when he tried to take down Vic.]]
* FatalFlaw: His obsessiveness and intense drive to win at all costs is ultimately what dooms him. He stoops to similar lows as Vic in order to get what he wants. But unlike Vic, he [[HeelRealization realizes]] what he's done and ultimately decides to face justice for his crimes.
* {{Foil}}: To Vic. As much as they are enemies, they are both alike. They are both very driven to do what they think is right, and stoop to dirty tactics in order to get what they want, and both are eventually screwed over because of their obsession with their work. The difference is that Kavanaugh [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is becoming no better than Vic, and turns himself in while keeping his dignity intact, while Vic [[spoiler: gets Shane to kill his pregnant wife, son, and himself]], [[spoiler: sells Ronnie out to save his own ass]], and loses everyone and everything that he cares about.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he is genuinely committed to bringing down crooked cops like Vic Mackey, he is also arrogant, vindictive, and obsessed with winning at all costs. [[spoiler: It is these qualities that ultimately drive him to [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] just for the sake of "beating" Mackey.]]
* GracefulLoser: He loses his private war with Mackey, but is able to hold his head high after turning himself in. When Mackey visits him in jail, he's at peace, intending to serve his time and rebuild his life, confident that karma will take care of Vic eventually.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Realizes just how far he's fallen and decides to confess to his crimes.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: After being outmaneuvered one too many times by Vic Mackey, he resorts to targeting the Strike Team's family members and conspiring with murderous thugs like Antwon Mitchell to bring Vic down.]]
* HeroAntagonist: The ''Hero'' part gets muddled as the season goes on.
* InternalAffairs: He's a lieutenant who works for IAD.
* ItsPersonal: What starts as a professional case to bust the Strike Team for corruption soon spirals into a private war between him and Vic Mackey, especially after Vic has sex with his ex-wife.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an unpleasant and manipulative bully at the best of times and his time trying to bring down the Strike Team brings out his worst qualities. Nonetheless, he is absolutely correct that Vic is a reprehensible excuse for a police officer and that it's disgraceful that he has been allowed to get away with all of his various crimes, including murdering other cops.
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Realising he can't bring in Mackey without breaking the law himself, he calls it quits and confesses to planting evidence and intimidating a witness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He certainly tries, but often times his machinations fall short and he has to resort to intimidation or threats.
* MarriedToTheJob: His ex-wife explicitly describes him as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing what he's done to Emolia, and realizing how many moral compromises he's made trying to bring in Vic and the Strike Team give him a full on HeelRealization, leading him to confess his crimes to Claudette.
* RulesLawyer: Comes with being an IAD officer.
* SanitySlippage: He becomes more and more unhinged as he becomes more obsessed with nailing the Strike Team.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has the ear of the Chief of Police, so he can get away with things no other IAD investigator could.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kavanaugh is zealously committed to bringing corrupt cops to justice [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary.]] Indeed, the one thing that keeps him sympathetic is that he's ''completely'' correct about Vic and co.
* WorthyOpponent: Although he hates Vic and the Strike Team by extension for their continued allegiance, Kavanaugh does exhibit some respect for both Ronnie and Lem. Praising the former for how capably and thoroughly he has covered his tracks, Kavanaugh even encourages Ronnie to get out of the Team's grasp while he can, pointing out that their recklessness will land him in trouble he's too clever to get entangled in. In the case of the latter, he eventually expresses sincere regret over how much misfortune his investigation into the Strike Team has caused Lem, and [[spoiler: following his death, he explicitly calls out Vic for corrupting him]].
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[[folder:Benjamin "Ben" Gilroy]]
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[[caption-width-right:270: ''"Don't act like you're better than me. What things have you done? What've you done, then covered those things up?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnDiehl
The Assistant Chief of Police, Vic's political muscle within the department, and the man who created the Barn and formed the Strike Team.
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* TheAlcoholic: Has been flagged for five [=DUIs=], but promptly buries them. [[spoiler:He ultimately ends up dying of cirrhosis.]]
* ArcVillain: At the end of Season 1, he briefly eclipses Aceveda as the [[BigBad main antagonist]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's so crooked and pathetic that not even his wife cares after he dies. The only person who's moved by this is Vic.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: After his arrest in Season 1, he develops a PermaStubble. After his body arrives in the morgue, it is revealed that it grew into a full-blown beard during his Mexican exile.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After being smuggled out of the country by a coyote in Season 2, his next appearance in Season 4 has him show up as a corpse, having died of cirrhosis.]]
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of the first season having to desperately cover up Vic's actions and generally coming off as a NervousWreck. While his EvilPlan makes him into a threat at the end of the season, his failure destroys his life in spectacular fashion and he spends his last appearance having a drunken meltdown.
* CrimeAfterCrime: In the last two episodes of Season 1, he commits a variety of crimes, ranging from blackmail to obstruction to murder, in order to cover up his involvement in a hit and run and the real estate fraud he's working in Farmington.
* DirtyCop: If a hit-and-run, multiple DUI's, killing a witness, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking real estate scam]] don't convince you he's this, nothing will.
* EvilFormerFriend: Well, ''Eviler''. Vic's no saint, but what motivates him to go after Gilroy is the discovery that Gilroy has deliberately decreased police effectiveness in Farmington so he could profit off of a real estate scam and indirectly caused countless deaths as a result.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. He's technically Vic's boss, but Vic is clearly the one calling the shots.
* HannibalLecture: Near the end of season 1, he explains his actions to Vic as nothing he wouldn't have done himself and calls him out for his hypocrisy at pretending he's any better than Gilroy.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He's robbed of most of his real estate money by Sedona, forced to serve as a mole by the DA's office to prove Vic's corruption, spends most of his time doing so having a drunken meltdown, and is finally tricked into paying his own hit-man and forced to hide out in Mexico with limited funds despite him and Vic both knowing he'll almost certainly die there.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Throughout the first season, Gilroy comes off more as an enabler to Vic than anything else and the least dangerous of the two. The final two episodes reveal he's the center of a massive real estate scam to sell property in Farmington and he's indirectly killed countless civilians to see it through. Even Vic is disgusted with him for that and turns on him.
* KillerCop: Guns down Jesus Rosales in order to keep him quiet.
* ManipulativeBastard: Uses police resources to bring down value in the Grove, then uses his mistress to buy up the property and sell it for a sizable profit.
* NervousWreck: He's perpetually fretting over whether Vic's latest scheme or Aceveda's investigation could ruin his career.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He frequently points out to Vic that there's no real moral difference between them, calling him out for acting like he has the moral high ground. And in his final appearance, Gilroy points out he's very much a cautionary tale of what could happen to Vic if he lets his greed consume him. [[spoiler:Which it ultimately does.]]
--> '''Gilroy:''' [[spoiler:I got greedy, and I lost everything. There's a lesson there.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He comes off as a harried politician very much out of his depth in dealing with Vic and not much of a threat in his own. The season finale reveals he's deliberately increased crime in Farmington as part of a massive real estate scam, something that unites Aceveda and Vic against him.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler:Vic forces him to flee to Mexico under threat of death, in spite of Gilroy's protests that thanks to his lack of funds he'll probably wind up dying.]]
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what Vic could become should his greed get the better of him; a pathetic, drunken failure who lost everything and everyone he had.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Gilroy is a fairly minor presence throughout Season 1 and only really comes into focus during the season finale, but his political pull is what keeps Mackey from facing consequences for his actions. His fall from grace
* SmugSnake: In Season 1, he tries to use Vic Mackey and David Aceveda as pawns in his real estate scheme but gets outsmarted by both of them.
* VillainousFriendship: He was close with Vic for many years and provided him with protection for his crimes. He also seeems honestly apologetitc about having to rescind that protection. Vic for his part decides to help Gilroy escape his hit and run charge even after Gilroy abandoned him. This likely plays a part in Vic deciding to spare his life at the end of season 1 and Shane even says they should just kill Ben when Vic smuggles him out of the country in season 2.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from being the BigBad of Season 1 to a broken, pathetic fugitive and [[spoiler:pawn of the DA's office]] when he reappears in "Coyotes".
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[[folder:Frances Housely]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AprilGrace
An IAD officer assigned to investigate Terry Crowley's death. She later returns to investigate Julian's testimony of having seen the Strike Team stealing drugs from a crime scene.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After serving as the main recurring IAD throughout Season 1, she disappears for the rest of the series.
* FailureHero: Both times she appears, she fails to successfully charge the Strike Team with corruption.
* FlatCharacter: She doesn't get much personality outside of being an IAD.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She comes to the conclusion that Vic had nothing to do with Terry's death and lets him off without charges.
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[[folder:Sedona Tellez]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/LanaParrilla
A corrupt LAPD accountant and Gilroy's lover who aids him in his real estate scam.
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* DragonInChief: To Gilroy. He is undeniably culpable in the real estate scam, but it's implied Sedona came up with the idea.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to making a plea deal with Aceveda, she's able to avoid prosecution and flees the country with most of her and Gilroy's money.
* ManipulativeBitch: She's able to play Gilroy like a fiddle, and gets off scot-free by making a plea deal with Aceveda since she knows that out of the two of them, taking down Gilroy would do far better for Aceveda's political career.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's implied to be ashamed of having betrayed Gilroy, hiding when he's hauled into the Barn in handcuffs so he won't know she sold him out. She still ultimately leaves town with most of their money, so it likely wound up being an IgnoredEpiphany.
* PutOnABus: She leaves town with most of her and Gilroy's money after the events of Season 1.
* TheStarscream: She turns on Gilroy and makes a plea deal with Aceveda in exchange for her freedom once it becomes clear their scheme is doomed.
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!!Officers
[[folder:Danny Sofer]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Welcome to the life."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CatherineDent
An LAPD officer working at the Barn, she is Julien Lowe's training officer, and an on-off lover of Vic Mackey.
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* ActionGirl: It's sort of requirement when fighting street crime as an LAPD officer.
* ActionMom: After having her child, she's still just as willing to go out in the field and battle perps if they come after her.
* ButtMonkey: Crap keeps happening to her.
* BrokenPedestal: Loses much respect for Vic when he doesn't help her escape the blame for Armadillo's murder.
* CoolBigSis: Has shades of this when she mentors Julien for the first two seasons. She's supportive of his sexuality and mental instability, and gives him at times BrutallyHonest advice about his life choices.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Always had the attitude, especially when she gives harsh lectures to Tina.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Danny is gruff and is harsh on rookie cops, but she's repeatedly shown to be a fairly nice person is almost always kind and understanding to her fellow cops. Perhaps too understanding, as it results in her turning a blind eye to the Strike Team's corruption.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She makes several Islamophobic insults toward a Middle Eastern man. It blows up in her face when she shoots the man after he draws a gun, and is promptly threatened with a lawsuit by the man's widow using her remarks against her.
* SecretKeeper: For a while, she was the only co-worker to know that Julien was gay.
* TeamMom: Becomes this in Season 5.
* UndyingLoyalty: Always protects other cops even when their behavior is unethical.
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[[folder:Julien Lowe]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Went knocking, half the people weren't answering their door, the other half were sleeping."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelJace
An LAPD officer working at the Barn under Danny Sofer's tutelage. He is a devoted Christian who is also struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: He keeps his sexuality hidden both out of self-hatred and fear of how his co-workers would react. A series of traumas just leads to him doubling further down on his denial, leaving him locked in a loveless marriage.
* AudienceSurrogate: In the first season, Julien's status as a rookie allows much of the internal workings of the Barn and Farmington as a whole to be established.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Often. The best example is when he is up in arms after a church is searched, even though it turned out to be a front for heroin distribution.
* BerserkButton: Hurt Danny and Julien will kick your ass.
* ByTheBookCop: Being a zealous Christian, this was to be expected. He is scrupulously by the book, which causes friction with both Danny and Vic since his honest reporting on their conduct puts their jobs at risk.
* CureYourGays: Julien undergoes conversion therapy, declares himself "cured" and marries a woman. He is still married and closeted at the end of the show, though he does not seem happy.
* {{Gayngst}}: And ''how''! His homosexuality placed him at great odds with his devout Christian beliefs, even to the point that he chose not to wear his vest to a bust, hoping the perp would kill him.
* TheHeart: He tends to be the most moral member of the Barn and the one who actually cares about the welfare of Farmington's residents in contrast to Vic and Rawling's KnightTemplar "ends justify the means"-mentality and Aceveda's political spinelessness.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though he knows it would make him a pariah to the department, he rats on Mackey and the Strike Team for stealing drugs from a crime scene.
* NaiveNewcomer: Julien is initially unaware of a lot of the internal politics at the Barn and is disgusted at a lot of the LAPD's double standards, mainly the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence blue wall of silence]].
* NiceGuy: Julien is a principled, good-natured man who is almost always polite and amiable. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Of course, there are exceptions to this]] which normally pop up due to his {{Gayngst}}.
* OutOfFocus: He becomes less of a focus of the show after he declares himself cured of his gayness.
* StraightGay: Julien is as stoic as they come and a zealous Christian, but he's still gay.
* TheStoolPigeon: In season 1, he volunteers to be this after witnessing the Strike Team stealing 2 keys of cocaine, knowing what kind of heat it will bring. He is eventually convinced otherwise. And by convinced, we mean blackmailed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He got very violent with a transgender prostitute and it's outright stated that it was because of his own homosexuality.
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[[folder:Tina Hanlon]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulaGarces
A new recruit assigned to serve as Julien's partner. Her going from vain pretty girl to competent cop was a major storyline for the later seasons of the show.
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%%* BreakTheHaughty
%%* DudeWheresMyRespect
* FairCop: Oh, so much.
%%* FakeGuestStar: In Seasons 5 and 6.
* HiddenDepths: Is not as vapid as she seems and capable of some good ideas out on the field.
%%* MsFanservice
%%* NewMeat
%%* SpicyLatina
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[[folder:Tommy Hisk]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattGerald
Julien's new partner following Danny's brief termination.
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* AntiVillain: Type II.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* DrivenToSuicide
%%* TooDumbToLive
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[[folder:Ray Carlson]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Matt Corboy
A virulently homophobic LAPD officer.
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* CommutingOnABus: After being fired, he still reappears every now and then. First when Julien breaks his arm as revenge, and then as a private investigator that Vic hires.
* DirtyCop: He leads Julian and Paul in savagely beating a transgender woman for biting Danny, and later he and Paul do the same to Julien after they're fired for harassing him.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a massively homophobic, immature asshole who spends much of his time harassing LGBTQU+ people.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Julien breaks his arm in retaliation for Ray beating him within an inch of his,life at the end of Season 2.
* ManChild: Carlson acts more like a frat boy than a trained police officer, to an even greater degree than Vic.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's massively homophobic, and leads a harassment campaign against Julien after finding out he's gay. When Ray and Paul are fired for it by Aceveda, they promptly subject Julien to a beating out of spite.
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[[folder:Paul Jackson]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/FrankGrillo
Ray Carlson's partner.
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* DirtyCop: He joins Ray and Julien's "blanket party" for a transgender woman, and later helps Ray inflict the same thing on Julien.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's just as much of a homophobic jerk as his partner and eagerly helps his harassment campaign against Julien.
* KarmaHoudini: Unlike Ray, he gets away scot-free for beating Julien.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's as homophobic as Ray and he's very willing to get violent against LGBTQU+ people.
* PutOnABus: He disappears from the series after being fired by Aceveda for his homophobia.
* SatelliteCharacter: He gets much less characterization than Ray, and mainly exists to serve as his right-hand.
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