Tropescilloscope: Dirty Cop

A corrupt cop who commits police misconduct. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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An Arm and a Leg Handicapped Badass Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Have a Gay Old Time Dramatic Irony Interrupted Suicide Dressing as the Enemy Anyone Can Die You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bavarian Fire Drill One Steve Limit Chase Scene Hair-Trigger Temper Half the Man He Used to Be Mood Whiplash Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Major Injury Underreaction Reality Ensues Even Evil Has Standards Ghost Fiction True Companions Badass in a Nice Suit Drugs Are Bad Disappeared Dad Alpha Bitch Faux Affably Evil Fiery Redhead Heterosexual Life-Partners Real Life Pet the Dog Advertised Extra From Nobody to Nightmare Bloodier and Gorier The Bad Guy Wins A Father to His Men Cool Shades Scenery Porn Anachronic Order Hollywood Law Mighty Whitey Big-Bad Ensemble Face Death with Dignity Affectionate Parody Setting Update And I Must Scream Artistic License – Physics Married to the Job Those Wacky Nazis Race Against the Clock Too Dumb to Live No Celebrities Were Harmed Dwindling Party Conspicuous CG No Antagonist Gory Discretion Shot Costume Porn Took a Level in Jerkass Empathic Environment As Himself Horror Comedy Antagonist Title Suddenly SHOUTING! Woman Scorned Villain Ball Villainous Breakdown Historical Villain Upgrade Serial Killer Documentary Leave the Camera Running Obviously Evil Broken Bird Bowdlerise The X of Y In Medias Res Slashed Throat Rewatch Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Cool Old Lady Heel Realization Fatal Flaw Humans Are Bastards Punny Name Once More, with Clarity! The Voiceless Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cool Car Villain Protagonist Author Appeal Not So Different Break the Cutie Rule of Cool Failed a Spot Check Almost Kiss Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fanservice Deal with the Devil You Have Failed Me Guile Hero Babies Ever After The Musical O.O.C. Is Serious Business '80s Hair Early-Bird Cameo Gold Digger Aside Glance All Girls Want Bad Boys Vacation Films Captain Ersatz Would Hurt a Child Freudian Excuse Continuity Nod Protagonist Title Evil Is Petty Famous Last Words Fish out of Water Lock and Load Montage Face–Heel Turn Kubrick Stare Naked People Are Funny Artistic License – Law The Oner Aluminum Christmas Trees Exactly What It Says on the Tin Freeze-Frame Bonus No OSHA Compliance Bland-Name Product An Axe to Grind It Can Think Blatant Lies Red Right Hand Silence Is Golden Only a Flesh Wound Faking the Dead Soundtrack Dissonance Pyrrhic Victory Sir Swears-a-Lot Intrepid Reporter Exact Words The Ace Imagine Spot Works Set in World War II From Bad to Worse Badass Grandpa The End... Or Is It? Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Faceless Green-Eyed Monster Crapsack World No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Here We Go Again! Fourth Date Marriage The Dog Bites Back Tagline Downer Ending Be Careful What You Wish For Actor Allusion Trailers Always Spoil The Alcoholic Knife Nut Author Avatar Retired Badass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bury Your Gays Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Expository Hairstyle Change Random Events Plot Dull Surprise Japanese Films Insult Backfire Bar Brawl Epic Movie Pretty Little Headshots Eldritch Abomination Deliberately Monochrome Disguised in Drag Black and Gray Morality Gilligan Cut Karma Houdini Pre-Mortem One-Liner Yandere Mad Scientist Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Darker and Edgier Foregone Conclusion Bloodless Carnage Psycho for Hire Earn Your Happy Ending Martial Arts Movie Implacable Man Fake Shemp Crazy-Prepared Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Meaningful Background Event Knight Templar Horror Films Meaningful Name Hollywood Darkness Paper-Thin Disguise The Chessmaster Call-Back Final Girl Make It Look Like an Accident Stepford Smiler Italian Films The Cavalry Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Psychological Thriller More Dakka Bare Your Midriff Villain Opening Scene Black Dude Dies First Bunny-Ears Lawyer Greater-Scope Villain folderlabel Corpsing Breaking the Fourth Wall Amusing Injuries Cassandra Truth Attempted Rape Composite Character Historical Hero Upgrade Sole Survivor Hoist by His Own Petard Beard of Evil "Well Done, Son!" 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Pay Evil unto Evil Death Seeker Sports Stories Spanner in the Works N-Word Privileges You Killed My Father Same Language Dub Big Brother Instinct Creepy Child The Lancer Crucified Hero Shot Red Shirt Never My Fault Not So Stoic Sanity Slippage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Starscream Bond One-Liner Jitter Cam Credits Gag Line-of-Sight Name Older Than They Look Reality Has No Subtitles "Shaggy Dog" Story Film Noir Death of a Child Awesome, but Impractical Bad Boss Really Gets Around Zombie Stories Better to Die than Be Killed Girl-on-Girl Is Hot I Have Your Wife Kids Are Cruel Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Accidental Murder Bald of Evil Boom, Headshot! Cool Old Guy The Alleged Car Defrosting Ice Queen Arch-Enemy Love at First Sight Catapult Nightmare Manchild Love Triangle Bilingual Bonus Bittersweet Ending Precision F-Strike Pragmatic Villainy Insistent Terminology Dark Reprise Worthy Opponent Adapted Out Butt-Monkey Wounded Gazelle Gambit Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Berserk Button Character Development Not So Above It All Mr. Fanservice Cluster F-Bomb Logo Joke Laughing Mad Big "NO!" A Date with Rosie Palms Get Out! Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Un-Reveal "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Gender Flip Politically Incorrect Villain Affably Evil Re-Cut Heroic BSoD Sassy Black Woman Gorn Riddle for the Ages Department of Redundancy Department Slasher Smile Title Drop Early Installment Weirdness Belligerent Sexual Tension Bound and Gagged He Knows Too Much Male Gaze Wretched Hive Rule of Three Rousing Speech Take a Third Option Black Best Friend Rule of Funny Body Horror Darkest Hour Disproportionate Retribution Only in It for the Money Off-into-the-Distance Ending Man on Fire Annoying Younger Sibling The '50s Loads and Loads of Characters Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Parental Incest Not Even Bothering with the Accent Developing Doomed Characters Frame-Up Sinister Minister Not What It Looks Like Market-Based Title Calling the Old Man Out Brother–Sister Incest Ass Shove Together in Death Overly Long Gag Shout-Out Eye Scream Needs Wiki Magic Love Jerk Jock This Is Gonna Suck Bottomless Magazines All Men Are Perverts Improbable Aiming Skills Celebrity Paradox Genre Savvy Men Are the Expendable Gender Stalker with a Crush Male Frontal Nudity Hidden Depths Hero of Another Story Non-Indicative Name All Just a Dream Made of Iron Left the Background Music On Papa Wolf The Dragon Everyone Has Standards The Mole Whole Plot Reference Funny Foreigner Parental Neglect Daylight Horror Damsel in Distress Sacrificial Lion Manly Tears My Greatest Failure Fate Worse than Death The Stoic Token Minority Pragmatic Adaptation Dramedy One-Man Army Romantic False Lead Shut Up, Hannibal! Ominous Latin Chanting Corrupt Corporate Executive Camera Abuse Historical-Domain Character Our Vampires Are Different Roaring Rampage of Revenge Oh, Crap! Madness Mantra Humiliation Conga Film Series Did Not Get the Girl It Will Never Catch On Dumb Blonde Even Evil Has Loved Ones Leaning on the Fourth Wall Shipper on Deck Naïve Newcomer Taking You with Me Alas, Poor Villain Adaptation Distillation Victoria's Secret Compartment Hooker with a Heart of Gold Aww, Look! 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Is a Crapshoot Grey and Gray Morality Captain Obvious For the Evulz Vomit Indiscretion Shot Award-Bait Song Mercy Kill Deliberate Values Dissonance Vampire Fiction Big Eater Rasputinian Death Big Applesauce Based on a True Story Gone Horribly Right Extreme Doormat Visual Pun Depraved Bisexual Gratuitous English The Dreaded Mind Screw Betty and Veronica Mama Bear Maybe Ever After Off with His Head! Monumental Damage Nice Hat Your Cheating Heart Air-Vent Passageway Military and Warfare Films Stylistic Suck Killed Mid-Sentence Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Drowning My Sorrows Evil Plan Artistic License – Biology Artistic License – Gun Safety Outrun the Fireball Manipulative Bastard Drill Sergeant Nasty Took a Level in Badass Good Is Not Nice Animal Motifs Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Flashback Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Easily Forgiven Fanservice Extra Never Trust a Trailer Honor Before Reason Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Slap-Slap-Kiss Overprotective Dad Beta Couple Moment Killer Evil Is Hammy Agony of the Feet Evil Counterpart Never Found the Body Police Brutality As You Know Totally Radical Anachronism Stew Disney Death Badass Boast NO INDOOR VOICE Video Credits Heel–Face Turn Scare Chord The Hero Dies Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Film Noir Index Villain with Good Publicity Running Gag Epic Fail Adults Are Useless Despair Event Horizon Only Sane Man Race Lift Spiritual Successor Not Quite Dead Mystery and Detective Films Cowboy Cop Femme Fatale Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Only One Name Not Using the "Z" Word The Stoner Adaptational Heroism Becoming the Mask There Is No Kill Like Overkill