History Main / NobleBigotWithABadge

* Detective Sergeant Jimmy Beck from ''{{Cracker}}''.
* Dets. Stabler and Tutuola from ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', while not especially racist or sexist, tend to be...less than fans of the GLBT community.

* Rusty Galloway in ''LANoire''.

->'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ah, that's one thing about our Harry. Doesn't play any favorites! [[HatesEveryoneEqually Harry hates everybody]]. Limeys, micks, hebes, fat dagos, niggers, honkies, chinks, you name it.\\

'''Harry Callahan''': [[EspeciallyZoidberg Especially spics.]]

* Variant: small town Police Chief Gillespie (Creator/RodSteiger) in ''InTheHeatOfTheNight''. At the beginning, he seems the stereotypical obnoxious, racist redneck, but - also thanks to Steiger's Oscar-winning performance - slowly emerges as a decent (if bitter) man who befriends the black protagonist, Virgil Tibbs. It helps that Gillespie is shown to be significantly ''less'' bigoted than most of the rest of the town.

* Rafael de la Cruz from Literature/{{Hometown}} is a tireless, hard-working, conscientious sheriff who cares deeply for his community. He is also a good father...and he considers it his duty, as a good father, to ensure that his daughter has no further contact with her lesbian best friend. Who knows what happened during all those sleepovers over the years?

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* Definitely a trope with some real world truth to it: In David Simon's ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' he discusses one cop who ran an entire African-American family through the police databases after they moved in next door, yet was diligent in his pursuit of any murderer, regardless of the race of the victim. Simon portrays it mostly as about pride; they're not about to let a little thing like their own blatant racism get in the way of proving their smarts.
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** The other [=MTacs=] are perhaps better examples, with the character Bo in particular actually being a normal human being shown prone to introspection and a life outside of killing things, while Soledad has nothing in her life except killing [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual mutants]] and her boyfriend [[spoiler: and later, trying to kill her mutant boyfriend]]. The normal police officer doesn't even manage that level of noble, either.

* ''TheProposition'' Morris Stanley gives people TheSadisticChoice, beats up prisoners, discriminates against Irish people, is a bit blunt on the whole imperialism thing, and doesn't trust his wife with information that might upset her. The thing is, it's all out of a misaimed sense of duty and chivalry, and he's not really a bad guy, underneath it all.

* ''Literature/IT'': In the first 1984/1985 segment of the narrative, the cops interrogating the young men that assaulted Adrian Mellon, a gay man, throwing off a bridge and into the Derry canal to his death (at the hands of Pennywise), would love nothing more than to see the local gay bar close its doors for good. However, they react with anger and disgust at the brutal way in which Mellon was beaten and they look forward to throwing the book at the three punks who did it.

* Variant: small town Police Chief Gillespie (Rod Steiger) in ''InTheHeatOfTheNight''. At the beginning, he seems the stereotypical obnoxious, racist redneck, but - also thanks to Steiger's Oscar-winning performance - slowly emerges as a decent (if bitter) man who befriends the black protagonist, Virgil Tibbs. It helps that Gillespie is shown to be significantly ''less'' bigoted than most of the rest of the town.

-->'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ah, that's one thing about our Harry. Doesn't play any favorites! [[HatesEveryoneEqually Harry hates everybody]]. Limeys, micks, hebes, fat dagos, niggers, honkies, chinks, you name it.
-->'''Gonzales''': How does he feel about Mexicans?
-->'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ask him.
-->'''Harry Callahan''': [[EspeciallyZoidberg Especially spics.]]

-->'''Gene:''' Now. Yesterday's shooting. The dealers are all so scared we're more likely to get Helen Keller to talk. The Paki in a coma's about as lively as Liberace's dick when he's looking at a naked woman, all in all this investigation's going at the speed of a spastic in a magnet factory. (Sam drops his radio) What?
-->'''Sam:''' Think you might have missed out the Jews

* The ''{{NCIS}}'' episode "Designated Target" showed Tony [=DiNozzo=] as uncharacteristically hostile toward African immigrants. It [[CompressedVice hasn't been mentioned much since then]] but he does still tend to get a little politically incorrect when trying to get under a suspect's skin.

* Not cops, but otherwise fits pretty much the entire cast of ''RescueMe''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliNaspGVDg At sensitivity class]]:
-->'''Franco:''' See, that's another thing. Puerto Ricans, we get shafted even when it comes to racism. Chinks got what, like four ethnic slurs? We get one-- spick. That's it. The Irish they got mick, patty, donkey. The Italians they got guinea, wop, dago.
-->'''Sean:''' Yeah, and spaghetti-bender.
-->'''Franco:''' Ah, spaghetti-bender went out of style during Sinatra's first marriage.
-->'''Mike:''' Greaseball.
-->'''Franco:''' Yeah, greaseball. There you have it; that's four.
-->'''Tommy:''' That's great. Same thing with the Jews, right? Heeb, kike, Jew boy, Benny.

-->'''Tommy:''' ...Let me tell you somethin' the next time I run into a burning building and refuse to bring out anybody who's not the same color as me, then that's when you can bring my angry, pink, sober, Irish, a* back down here. Got it?

* Hank Schrader, the SympatheticInspectorAntagonist from ''BreakingBad'', has a habit of stereotyping his subjects and making somewhat, shall we say, politically insensitive remarks, particularly about Hispanics and poor people. When judged by his actions rather than his words, however, he is a good cop and a heroic man who is supremely dedicated to fighting crime and protecting his friends and family. Ironically, his two closest friends on the force (and quite possibly in the world) are Hispanic and black, the former of whom laughs off his racist jokes most of the time.

* Agent Doyle of ''Series/TwentyFour''. Seemingly a bigoted, arrogant, stuck-up, ends-justifies-the-means agent who won't take crap from anyone and isn't afraid to make things physical if they disagree. Has also secretly covered up honest mistakes and screw-ups of his co-workers to make sure they don't get hot under the collar with their ObstructiveBureaucrat superiors, and admits he's spiritually lost.

** Bones herself (technically not a cop, but acts as Booth's partner in the field) often shows bigotry toward religious people, particularly Catholics. Note, however, that Booth is Catholic, so she clearly bears no ill will toward them—it's more a matter of general insensitivity.

-->-- ''DirtyHarry''

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* Huang of ''DarkerThanBlack'' is a FantasticRacism version, but certainly looks the part, being a cigar-chomping, hard-drinking, overweight, JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

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* Soledad O'Rourke of ''[[JohnRidley Those Who Walk in Darkness]]'' and ''What Fire Cannot Burn'' fits this trope to a T, and is the reason given for every one-star review of the former book on Amazon.com as of this writing. She's described as a "good cop" for her honor and devotion to her work, but even her sidekick considers her to have fallen beyond redemption, due both to HeWhoFightsMonsters and the fact that the "freaks" she hunts ''aren't'' AlwaysChaoticEvil.

** Though this isn't so much ''hating'' robots as simply [[NeverTrustATrope not trusting them]]. It's also largely [[SurvivorGuilt justified]].

* Gleb Zheglov in ''TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged'' is a notorious CowboyCop who, while not given to a racial prejudice, is nevertheless essentially a vigilante with a badge, having no qualms of opening first and planting the evidence to put the notorious thief behind the bars, circumstanced be damned. It is even more pronounced in the [[FilmOfTheBook original book]], where he verges on a SociopathicHero.

* Also most of the pro-Registration side in ComicBook/CivilWar were supposed to be this. Unfortunately, so few writers believed in the Pro-Reg argument that the 'Noble' aspect never came up.

* Ashley Williams from ''MassEffect'', although less in the sense of hatred than a refusal to completely trust or rely on them.
** ''Everybody'' from ''MassEffect'' but the pilot, the Captain, and an especially-Paragon Shepard has at least one group they act like this towards.
** Ashley, oddly enough, appears to have her reasons for disliking aliens, as her grandfather was commander of the Shanxi garrison during the FirstContact War, and her whole family was blacklisted in the military as a result. She also apparently spent next to no time in space, and was forced into planetary garrison duty on safe, human-populated worlds, so she's had no contact with aliens prior to joining Shepard's crew.
** Perhaps Ashley's best redeeming feature is that if the player is feeling indifferent to the topic of aliens, she'll get over her issues on her own.

* The DC Universe has Detective Harvey Bullock; like Sam Vimes, he HatesEveryoneEqually. (Except for {{Batman}}, who he hates just a ''little'' bit more)

* Braxton Underwood, a minor character and newspaper owner in ''ToKillAMockingbird'', is said to be unable to stand black people and unwilling to let them anywhere near him. Nevertheless, he respects Atticus (even while disagreeing with his decision to defend a black man) enough to have his gun ready to defend Atticus when a lynch mob comes for his client (albeit without making his presence known until after the threat has passed) and all but condemns Tom Robinson's conviction and the shoddy nature of his trial in his newspaper on principle.