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