Tropescilloscope: Police are Useless

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

More Tropes Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Sadistic Choice Market-Based Title An Aesop Not Even Bothering with the Accent She's Got Legs Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds A.I. Is a Crapshoot Humiliation Conga The Cameo Abhorrent Admirer From Nobody to Nightmare Affectionate Parody Make It Look Like an Accident Plot Hole Pretty in Mink Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Defrosting Ice Queen Race Against the Clock Darker and Edgier Paper-Thin Disguise Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hollywood Darkness Suddenly SHOUTING! Animated Credits Opening No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Laugh Evil Plan Stylistic Suck The Alcoholic It's All About Me Suspiciously Specific Denial The Film of the Book Offscreen Teleportation Gratuitous English Dirty Cop Important Haircut All for Nothing Protagonist Title Amusing Injuries Say My Name Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Quiet One Heterosexual Life-Partners Nothing Is Scarier Narrator Have a Gay Old Time Yandere Sealed Evil in a Can Deadpan Snarker Pay Evil unto Evil Silence Is Golden Action Genre Would Hit a Girl Brick Joke Straight Gay Extreme Doormat Ambiguous Disorder Jerkass Has a Point Real Life Writes the Plot The Musical The Chick Older Than They Look Hate Sink Diabolus ex Machina Obstructive Bureaucrat Ship Tease Disproportionate Retribution Hair-Trigger Temper What Happened to the Mouse? Loads and Loads of Characters Adult Fear The Smurfette Principle No Ending Fantastic Racism Fire-Forged Friends Dull Surprise Twist Ending Manchild The Starscream Soft Glass Bullying a Dragon Daddy's Girl Film Noir Chase Scene The Remake Meaningful Background Event He Knows Too Much Eureka Moment Informed Ability Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mind Screw Book-Ends Bottomless Magazines Does This Remind You of Anything? "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bad "Bad Acting" Only a Flesh Wound Demonic Possession Sci-Fi Horror Villain Opening Scene Hope Spot Refuge in Audacity Ghost Fiction Expy Dual Wielding Decoy Protagonist Not Quite Dead Fantasy Films Knife Nut One Steve Limit Grey and Gray Morality Let's Get Dangerous! Broken Aesop Establishing Character Moment Alliterative Name Unresolved Sexual Tension Science Fiction Films "Awesome McCool" Name Scary Black Man Heroes Want Redheads Historical In-Joke The Vamp Bloodier and Gorier Blatant Lies Evil vs. Evil Gorn Music Stories Developing Doomed Characters Intrepid Reporter Costume Porn Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Chekhov's Gunman Ms. Fanservice Broken Pedestal Evil Is Hammy Broken Bird Psycho for Hire Bolivian Army Ending Covers Always Lie Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Coming-of-Age Story Double-Meaning Title Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pyrrhic Victory Black Best Friend Anachronic Order No OSHA Compliance Rewatch Bonus Red Eyes, Take Warning The '90s Reckless Gun Usage Five-Man Band Fun with Acronyms Never My Fault No Antagonist Overprotective Dad Distracted by the Sexy Jump Scare Reality Has No Subtitles Fingore Berserk Button Chiaroscuro Beauty Is Never Tarnished More Dakka Age Lift Ascended Extra 20 Minutes into the Future Big Bad Same Language Dub Artistic License – Military The Big Guy Only in It for the Money The Dog Bites Back She Cleans Up Nicely Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Chessmaster Lighter and Softer Conspicuous CG Demoted to Extra Cruel and Unusual Death Taking the Bullet Television Movie Index Throwing Your Sword Always Works I Need a Freaking Drink Kill 'em All It's Personal The Place Cain and Abel Historical-Domain Character Greater-Scope Villain Those Two Bad Guys Dark Action Girl As You Know Foreshadowing Death Glare Instant Death Bullet Sports Stories One-Word Title Kill It with Fire Noodle Incident Red Right Hand Alas, Poor Villain Artistic License – History Cold-Blooded Torture Artistic License – Physics Stealth Hi/Bye Eiffel Tower Effect The Mole timeperiod Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hero Antagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension Camera Abuse Action Girl Irony Martial Arts Movie Easily Forgiven Motor Mouth Badass Bookworm It Can Think Not So Above It All Our Zombies Are Different Adaptation Name Change Stuff Blowing Up The Brute Obviously Evil Jitter Cam Department of Redundancy Department Guile Hero All Just a Dream Frame-Up Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Jerk Jock Bi the Way Driven to Suicide Ax-Crazy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Blood Knight Death of a Child Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Leave the Camera Running Bland-Name Product Half the Man He Used to Be Dark Is Not Evil Rated M for Manly Stealth Pun How We Got Here The Ghost Combat Pragmatist Eagleland Stalker with a Crush Retcon Awesome, but Impractical Accidental Misnaming "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue B-Movie And I Must Scream Bring My Brown Pants Soundtrack Dissonance Corrupt Corporate Executive Hidden Depths The '60s Your Cheating Heart Gainax Ending Genre Savvy Badass Grandpa What You Are in the Dark Improvised Weapon Cassandra Truth Badass Normal Big Brother Instinct "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pragmatic Adaptation From Bad to Worse Curse Cut Short Worthy Opponent A Date with Rosie Palms For the Evulz True Companions Big Fancy House Dissonant Serenity Adaptational Badass Super Strength Creepy Child Sassy Black Woman Heel–Face Turn Hong Kong Films Card-Carrying Villain Unreliable Narrator Horror Comedy Match Cut Dirty Coward Stock Footage I Have Your Wife Tap on the Head Pretty Little Headshots I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Brutal Honesty Back from the Dead Evil Counterpart Rule of Symbolism Translation Convention Once More, with Clarity! Scenery Porn Author Appeal Heroic BSoD Break the Haughty Affably Evil Framing Device Last-Name Basis Actor Allusion Kick the Dog The Bully Camp Gay Funny Background Event Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bad Boss Does Not Like Shoes Random Events Plot Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Made of Explodium Abusive Parents Aside Glance Film Series Chewing the Scenery The Ace Heroic Sacrifice Superhero Malevolent Masked Men Setting Update As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fiery Redhead Get Out! Retirony Film Noir Index Not So Different Improbable Weapon User Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Made of Iron Famous Last Words Reality Is Unrealistic Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Meaningful Echo Karmic Death Parental Substitute In Name Only Butt-Monkey Getting Crap Past the Radar All Girls Want Bad Boys Wrong Genre Savvy Deconstruction I Want My Beloved to Be Happy A Minor Kidroduction The Casanova All Men Are Perverts Drowning My Sorrows Big "NO!" Continuity Nod The Voiceless Totally Radical Action Prologue Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Wham Shot Expository Hairstyle Change folderlabel Anguished Declaration of Love Animal Title Index Lock and Load Montage Early Installment Weirdness Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Amoral Attorney Love Triangle Deus ex Machina Epic Movie BFG Betty and Veronica Faux Affably Evil Ambiguously Gay Taking You with Me Off with His Head! Auto Erotica Eldritch Abomination Deliberate Values Dissonance Loophole Abuse An Arm and a Leg What the Hell, Hero? Ass Shove Word of God Black Comedy Rape Cool Shades Gilligan Cut Brainless Beauty Artistic License – Gun Safety Mercy Kill Agony of the Feet Parental Neglect Vomit Discretion Shot Bury Your Gays Fatal Flaw The '80s Country Matters Anachronism Stew Recycled IN SPACE! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Fatal Family Photo Red Shirt Black and Gray Morality Missing Mom A God Am I Anti-Hero Bound and Gagged Failed a Spot Check Rich Bitch Composite Character Catapult Nightmare Ominous Latin Chanting Fish out of Water Action Survivor After the End Earn Your Happy Ending '80s Hair My Greatest Failure The '50s Not What It Looks Like Happily Married Silent Movie I'm a Humanitarian Victoria's Secret Compartment Really Gets Around The Lost Lenore Improbable Aiming Skills Dark and Troubled Past Madness Mantra The Power of Love Artistic License – Law Morality Pet Bare Your Midriff Children Are Innocent Becoming the Mask Non-Indicative Name Oh, Crap! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Curb-Stomp Battle Vampire Fiction Well-Intentioned Extremist Woman in White Up to Eleven Captain Obvious You Have Failed Me Cat Fight Rule of Funny Military and Warfare Films Anti-Villain Gory Discretion Shot Double Entendre Take That! Psychological Thriller Animal Motifs Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Adaptational Attractiveness Hooker with a Heart of Gold Hero of Another Story Redshirt Army No Name Given The X of Y Black Comedy Bilingual Bonus Redemption Equals Death Honor Before Reason Arc Words Femme Fatale Sacrificial Lion Ungrateful Bastard Properly Paranoid Love at First Sight Hoist by His Own Petard Retired Badass All There in the Manual In Medias Res Fate Worse than Death Good Is Not Nice Foil Mundane Made Awesome Fanservice Adaptation Dye-Job Final Girl Real Life Alpha Bitch Death by Sex The Reveal Fat Bastard Heel Realization Those Wacky Nazis Would Hurt a Child Exact Words Tempting Fate Shell-Shocked Veteran Mythology Gag Parental Incest No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Pre-Mortem One-Liner Batman Gambit Genre Throwback Dramedy Obfuscating Stupidity Insistent Terminology Police are Useless Hell Is That Noise Index of Film Westerns Spiritual Successor Race Lift Shown Their Work Villainous Breakdown Chekhov's Skill Rule of Three Spiteful Spit Danny Peary Cult Movies List Historical Villain Upgrade Extremely Short Timespan Annoying Younger Sibling Title Drop Jerkass Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mr. Fanservice Early-Bird Cameo The '70s Too Dumb to Live Flipping the Bird Your Head A-Splode Mighty Whitey Training Montage Faking the Dead Manic Pixie Dream Girl Spanner in the Works Celebrity Paradox Corpsing Ripped from the Headlines Badass in a Nice Suit In the Back Only Known by Their Nickname Left the Background Music On Gold Digger Neck Lift Wretched Hive The Dragon Visual Pun Grievous Bottley Harm Canon Foreigner Enemy Mine Adaptation Distillation The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Woman Scorned Henpecked Husband You Killed My Father Bowdlerise Never Found the Body Nice Guy Time Skip Took a Level in Jerkass Not Using the "Z" Word Trailers Always Spoil Call-Forward Hypocritical Humor Running Gag Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sequel Escalation Fake Shemp Interrupted Suicide Foregone Conclusion Biopic Serial Killer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anyone Can Die Sir Swears-a-Lot Serious Business Wham Line Fainting Big Bad Duumvirate Bar Brawl Cool Old Lady Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Parental Abandonment Evil-Detecting Dog As Himself Storming the Castle Male Gaze Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wicked Cultured Gone Horribly Right Scare Chord Immune to Bullets Adorkable Crucified Hero Shot Knight Templar Everyone Has Standards Spared by the Adaptation Death Seeker Japanese Films Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Beta Couple Face–Heel Turn Pragmatic Villainy Big-Bad Ensemble Badass Longcoat I Did What I Had to Do Babies Ever After Kids Are Cruel Room Full of Crazy Mistaken for Gay Almost Kiss War Is Hell French Films Disney Death Aluminum Christmas Trees Shout-Out Imagine Spot Black Dude Dies First Cloudcuckoolander Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adapted Out Award-Bait Song Manipulative Bastard Unwitting Instigator of Doom Evil Brit Empathic Environment Needs Wiki Magic Love The Stoner Friend to All Children Be Careful What You Wish For A Father to His Men Actually Pretty Funny O.O.C. Is Serious Business NO INDOOR VOICE Monumental Damage Those Two Guys Dutch Angle Car Fu The Bad Guy Wins And the Adventure Continues For Want of a Nail Moment Killer Depraved Bisexual Determinator aka: The Determinator Romantic False Lead Star-Crossed Lovers Beware the Nice Ones Dressing as the Enemy Manly Tears My Beloved Smother Cat Scare Thriller Badass Boast Names to Run Away from Really Fast Product Placement One-Man Army Tranquil Fury Leitmotif Dying Moment of Awesome Red Herring Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Adults Are Useless Married to the Job Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Sociopath Insult Backfire Nice Hat Shut Up, Hannibal! Comically Missing the Point Shirtless Scene The Dreaded Determinator Slashed Throat Reasonable Authority Figure Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Axe to Grind Psychopathic Manchild Only One Name Cool Car Neck Snap The End... Or Is It? Due to the Dead Casting Gag Dirty Old Man It Will Never Catch On Creator Cameo Destination Defenestration Call-Back Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Playing Gertrude Skewed Priorities Historical Hero Upgrade Maybe Ever After Rousing Speech All There in the Script Never Trust a Trailer Deal with the Devil You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Our Vampires Are Different Cool Guns Evil Sounds Deep Handicapped Badass Karma Houdini There Is No Kill Like Overkill Russian Films Naïve Newcomer Horror Films Red Oni, Blue Oni Tagline Romantic Comedy Villain Song Off-into-the-Distance Ending Eyepatch of Power Logo Joke Stepford Smiler The Stinger Smug Snake Chekhov's Gun Rape as Drama The Ditz May–December Romance Naked People Are Funny Not So Stoic Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Small Name, Big Ego Crazy Jealous Guy Slasher Smile Captain Ersatz Public Domain Feature Films Armor-Piercing Question Deliberately Monochrome Novelization Even Evil Has Loved Ones Advertised Extra Documentary Killed Mid-Sentence Darkest Hour Creative Closing Credits The Stoic Villain Protagonist Villain Ball Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Line-of-Sight Name Overly Long Gag Only Sane Man Fanservice Extra Artistic License – Geography The Smart Guy Mr. Exposition Works Set in World War II Sinister Minister Undying Loyalty Big Damn Heroes Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mama Bear Facial Horror Toplessness from the Back Video Credits Mystery and Detective Films Truth in Television Roaring Rampage of Revenge Based on a True Story As the Good Book Says... Reality Ensues Every Car Is a Pinto Dropped a Bridge on Him Show Within a Show My God, What Have I Done? Big Applesauce Laughing Mad The Great Depression Pimped-Out Dress Drugs Are Bad Plucky Comic Relief Sexy Discretion Shot Arranged Marriage The Faceless Apocalypse How Revenge Implacable Man Politically Incorrect Villain Breaking the Fourth Wall World of Ham Cluster F-Bomb Sole Survivor Adaptational Heroism Bittersweet Ending Precision F-Strike Re-Cut Male Frontal Nudity Disney Villain Death Intergenerational Friendship British Films Genre Shift Disguised in Drag Central Theme Sequel Hook Hollywood Law Green-Eyed Monster Asshole Victim Break the Cutie Adaptational Villainy The Load Riddle for the Ages Bond One-Liner Face Death with Dignity No Celebrities Were Harmed Take a Third Option Mood Whiplash Posthumous Character Meet Cute Sanity Slippage Shoot the Shaggy Dog Did Not Get the Girl Crazy-Prepared Adaptation Expansion Despair Event Horizon And Starring Character Development Disappeared Dad Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Freudian Excuse Light Is Not Good Mugging the Monster Author Avatar The Atoner Domestic Abuse Air-Vent Passageway Cowboy Cop German Films Major Injury Underreaction Kick the Son of a Bitch Downer Ending Fourth Date Marriage Put on a Bus The Un-Reveal Bloody Hilarious La Résistance Dwindling Party Rasputinian Death He Who Fights Monsters Pet the Dog Bavarian Fire Drill Authority Equals Asskicking Kubrick Stare Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Mafia Together in Death This Is Gonna Suck Damsel in Distress Smoking Is Cool Police Brutality Funny Foreigner Blackmail Gender Flip The Lancer Fan Disservice Shipper on Deck Scenery Gorn Bond Villain Stupidity Bloodless Carnage Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Hero Dies Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Beard of Evil Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rule of Cool Zombie Stories Hypocrite The Cavalry Bait-and-Switch No-Sell Death by Adaptation Dramatic Gun Cock Meaningful Name Dark Reprise Drives Like Crazy Mad Scientist Body Horror Four-Temperament Ensemble Australian Movies The Alleged Car Slap-Slap-Kiss Groin Attack Antagonist Title Crapsack World Dogged Nice Guy Mooks Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Poor Communication Kills Here We Go Again! Eye Scream Lampshade Hanging Man on Fire Closed Circle Insane Troll Logic Evil Is Petty Freeze-Frame Bonus Calling the Old Man Out Contrived Coincidence Credits Gag Cool Old Guy Shower Scene Outrun the Fireball Men Are the Expendable Gender Canadian Movies Drill Sergeant Nasty Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dramatic Irony Ambiguous Ending Even Evil Has Standards "Shaggy Dog" Story Better to Die than Be Killed Mexican Standoff Punch-Clock Villain Christmas Movies Index Epic Fail Dumb Blonde Villain with Good Publicity Laser-Guided Karma Slasher Movie Large Ham Idiot Ball Vacation Films Daylight Horror N-Word Privileges Didn't Think This Through Guns Akimbo Defiant to the End MacGuffin Wounded Gazelle Gambit Blood from the Mouth Unusual Euphemism Accidental Murder You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Papa Wolf Whole Plot Reference Homage Unspoken Plan Guarantee Vitriolic Best Buds Artistic License – Biology Bald of Evil Boom, Headshot! Punny Name Dies Wide Open Spell My Name with an "S" Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Oner Catch-Phrase Humans Are Bastards Took a Level in Badass Brother–Sister Incest Jerk with a Heart of Gold Italian Films Ironic Echo Arch-Enemy Attempted Rape The Hero Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Flashback Big Eater Self-Deprecation Token Minority Death by Irony