Tropescilloscope: Police are Useless

Security authorities either don't help to solve problems or makes them worse. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Overly Long Gag Those Two Guys Car Fu Woman in White Facial Horror Room Full of Crazy Sanity Slippage Abusive Parents Overprotective Dad Faux Affably Evil More Dakka Big Eater Historical Villain Upgrade Bound and Gagged Horror Comedy Unreliable Narrator French Films Not Quite Dead Straight Gay Cold-Blooded Torture Half the Man He Used to Be Black Dude Dies First Credits Gag Slap-Slap-Kiss Manipulative Bastard Boom, Headshot! 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