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  • Played for Laughs in one episode of Assassination Classroom when Koro-sensei lets himself be bribed with a photo of a bikini-clad woman during a game of Cops and Robbers.
  • Black Lagoon:
    • It's quite plausible that the Triad leader Mr. Chang was one of these as a cop. Chang is a darker take on several John Woo characters, but his past as a cop seems to allude to Tequila from Hard Boiled. Since Tequila fights gangsters and Chang is one, it stands to reason that he wasn't that honest of a cop.
    • Chief Watsup arrested the Chief of Police in Roanapur. Not only is he on the take from the various cartels that run the city, but he has also used his authority to get an unfair advantage when collecting bounties put out by the cartels.
    • When Revy was a girl living in a slum, a cop apprehended her for the sole purpose of beating her up and then raping her.
  • In City Hunter, there are quite a few cops who work with the Yakuza. In addition, Saeko may be an honest and competent cop, but as pointed out by her sister Reika in one memorable occasion, Ryo is a criminal (and she had a few troubles for helping him when another cop decided to take down City Hunter), and she also helped to frame a terrorist for a murder he didn't commit.
  • Dirty cops are omnipresent in Cowboy Bebop. Jet Black was originally a cop, but "Black Dog Serenade" reveals that he quit the force after a hit on him was taken out by his own partner because he was basically the only cop in the unit who wasn't dirty.
  • In FAKE, Dee's backstory reveals that the man who Dee considered his adoptive father was a dirty cop, and Dee resolved to become a better cop than he ever was.
  • In the Crapsack World of Gangsta., crooked cops like Chad and Cody are honestly some of the most good-hearted people around. Yeah, they hire mercenaries to slaughter local troublemakers for the placation of powerful Mafia families, but at least they're doing so to keep the peace and prevent widespread slaughter. Less noble policemen are noted to accept bribes and clean up unwanted corpses.
  • Great Teacher Onizuka: Onizuka's friend Saejima, a former delinquent like Onizuka himself, is so corrupt that he offers to sell Onizuka drugs or other contraband in the police station (they may have been the only ones there, and the drugs turn out to be fake, but still). He later got his own spinoff, Ino-Head Gargoyle.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind has Leone Abbacchio. Before he became a member of Passione, he was a cop who became disillusioned by his job and began to take bribes. It came back to bite him later when one of the men he accepted a bribe from later shot and killed his partner.
  • Akai and Kanie from Kite use their status as homicide detectives to lead the investigation of a series of professional murders away from the true criminals. They are also the employers of the true criminals. That's not all they're mixed up in, either — Akai in particular is revealed to have been raping and brainwashing Sawa, one of the child assassins who he and Kanie employ.
  • The titular main character of Kurokochi is an incredibly corrupt policeman who knows every dirty secret in his prefecture, allowing him to blackmail pretty much all local politicians. They all reluctantly bribe him, and he's become quite wealthy as a result. However, he has a redeeming quality in that he also uses his influence to help bring corrupt politicians to justice.
  • Mad Bull 34 is a bizarre example — as part of the Buddy Cop Show dynamic, Officer "Sleepy" John Estes takes the Cowboy Cop's tendency to see justice done through venues outside the law to the extreme. He's running prostitution in his neighborhood, because the way he sees it, that stuff will always be there, and at least if he's in charge, he can keep it from getting out of hand and it keeps the girls safe. That said, it's all part of a larger Batman Gambit. He's also really good at killing criminals. You won't want to watch him work, but you can't imagine what the city would be like without him.
  • Monster has two of these: the two detectives who are hired by Johan to kill Nina's adopted parents and the ones from Prague, Commissioner Hamrlik, Chief Detective Batella, and Detective Janacek.
  • In Naruto (1997), the Inspector and his subordinate turn out to be one, killing Takashi, stealing the painting, and framing Naruto for both.
  • In one episode of Nerima Daikon Brothers, Gadget Detective Yukika tries to catch the eponymous group by cooking up a rumor that the chief of police is in league with the yakuza, and the money from their dirty deals is in a vault under the station, knowing they'll fall right into her trap. However, when the NDB tunnel in, they find that the chief of police actually is in league with the yakuza, much to Yukika's surprise.
  • The title characters of Noir kill a few of these over the course of the series.
  • One Piece naturally has a few in the Marines who extort their power over people, such as Nezumi in the Arlong arc, who is taking bribes from the titular Arc Villain to keep the Marines from answering the island's call for help, and Vergo, a lackey of Doflamingo who infiltrated the Marines to cover Doflamingo's operations. He even made into the rank of Vice-Admiral.
  • Ginza from Speed Grapher is mostly a Rabid Cop, given her habit of "self-defensing" people (she actually uses it as a verb), but she's kind of a dirty cop as well. She's shown essentially committing insider trading based on the crimes going on, and because of her jealousy of Kagura, she abuses her authority to obstruct Saiga, the hero. By the end of the series, she has a Heel Realization and ends up a better person.
  • ST☆R: Strike it Rich: Ichika has no issues with stealing confiscated goods or using her previous position in the anti-organized crime unit to cover for Hana's activities. Nozomi explicitly calls her one in the first chapter.
  • Technically, he's a correction officer rather than a cop, but if anyone in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds qualifies, it's Takasu. Among the unpleasant tropes that can be applied to him are The Bully, Politically Incorrect Villain, Bad Liar, Sore Loser, and Cheaters Never Prosper. In fact, he's such scum that his boss (Rex Godwin, the Big Bad of the first season) is disgusted with him and fires him after his brutal treatment of inmates becomes known.

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