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A member of law enforcement who also engages in murder. This person's motivations may range anywhere from monetary gain to exacting a form of street justice. Either way, expect this person to be much more dangerous than your average killer. Note that despite the name, the Killer Cop isn't always an actual police officer. He (or she) may also be a civilian employee, such as a forensics expert or something. Also, if the Killer Cop is an officer, their murders are obviously committed for a reason other than to maintain a cover identity. (Well, at least one hopes an undercover officer doesn't go to those lengths.) If the Killer Cop is a Serial Killer, the observant viewer may recognize the following signs: The crime scenes are jarringly devoid of any incriminating evidence. Either the killer is a forensics expert and cleaned up so thoroughly that they got rid of the evidence or they are a savvy police officer who has investigated many crime scenes and knows how to avoid leaving evidence in the first place. Note: This is not always a given, as a Serial Killer who isn't a member of law enforcement can avoid leaving evidence as well. If the killer is suspected to be copying the methods of another killer, the copy will be exactly like the original, even down to the details that only a member of law enforcement would know. If the killer is attempting to frame someone else for their crimes, the frame-up will be suspiciously thorough. The amount of evidence against the person will likely lead the viewer to two conclusions: That a calculating TV Serial Killer wouldn't be stupid enough to leave that much evidence against themselves, meaning the suspect isn't the killer and The real killer has such intimate knowledge of evidence and police work that they must be a member of law enforcement. Like the first sign, this isn't a given, as it is possible to research forensics. In Crime Dramas, this may be used as a Twist Ending, especially if the cop is the Villain Protagonist. See also Detective Mole. The inverse of a Cop Killer, although the two tropes sometimes overlap — the Killer Cop may target other cops, or may himself become the Asshole Victim of a Cop Killer. Often a subtrope of The Bad Guys Are Cops and Dirty Cop. Please be cautious when listing Real Life examples. Note: A character can qualify for this even if they don't use their position or expertise to help with their murders. However, if they appear in a murder mystery, they probably will. |
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the T-1000 spends the majority of the film impersonating an LAPD officer. | |
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Brooklyn's Finest: Sal, in the very first scene, shoots a criminal and steals his money. He then later kills some drug dealers to do the same thing before being shot dead himself. | |
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Detective Frank Divinci in Gang Related. He uses guns already tagged as evidence in other crimes to rob and kill drug dealers. Ironically, the one character he doesn't kill is his partner. | |
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The Angel episode "The Thin Dead Line" featured a police captain suppressing crime in his district by raising recently deceased police officers as zombies and having them indiscriminately and violently harass people on the streets after dark. They end up committing several murders themselves. | |
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On Bones, serial kidnapper (and also killer) The Gravedigger turned out to be United States Attorney and former FBI agent Heather Taffet, and chose self-representation during the trial. Also Agent Kenton in "Two Bodies In The Lab." |
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CSI: NY had one of those, a cop that went dirty and murdered others to cover his tracks. | |
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Dexter: Of course, Dexter is one of these, although he's a forensic examiner rather than a detective. He was also trained by his adoptive father, who was already a cop but couldn't bring himself to actually kill criminals who escaped justice. In season 2 Dexter is the subject of an ongoing investigation when the corpses of his victims are discovered, which he manages to avoid by making it look like another cop within the department had turned to serial killing. Dexter also went after one in season four, a cop who'd killed her own husband and daughter and made it look like a robbery gone foul. She was a particularly hard target because her experience allowed her to suspect Dexter was up to something pretty early on. |
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Cellular: It turns out the hired mercenaries are controlled by the police to leave no witnesses about the murders they committed. Then it turns out that they are the police, having used their job to murder drug dealers and steal the crack. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei: Detective Adachi from Persona 4 qualifies as one of these. Bonus points for the supernatural powers that helped him avoid leaving evidence. In Devil Survivor, a few rogue cops abuse their position and their possession of COMPs to kill innocent bystanders with demons. |
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The Dukes of Hazzard: The final season's "Cool Hands, Luke and Bo" has police officers who – it is strongly implied – have killed inmates in the past at the Osage Road Prison, where Bo, Luke, Rosco, and Boss Hogg are being held on false charges. | |
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Shiver from Sidekick Girl. He was transferred from L.A. with a list of excessive force charges as long as his arm and has multiple "accidental" deaths in his past. Unfortunately, the fact that he's smart enough to confine his assaults to those technically guilty of a crime makes it very hard to actually convict him of anything. | |
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Narcos: some police officers in Bogota decide to round up young men from the slums they suspect working for the cartels, and just summarily execute them into a ditch. | |
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Green Arrow: Green Arrow fought a gang of cops known as the Vice Squad, who got together and used police equipment during their off-duty hours to eliminate what they saw as 'undesirable' elements off the streets. The leader made the mistake of assuming Green Arrow would agree with his crusade. | |
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Heatwave (2022): Parker murders his own partner when the latter comes to suspect (rightly) that he'd been involved with the murder of Eve's husband Scott, covering it up. | |
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In Wild Things, Ray Duquette murders Kelly and stages it to make it look like self-defense, and conspired with Sam to (supposedly) kill Suzie, just to get his hands on the money acquired from the courtroom scam. As it turns out, it's not the first time either, as Ray murdered Suzie's best friend several years ago. His superiors accept his explanation of Kelly's death (meaning he's free of any murder or manslaughter charges), but fire him because it looks very suspicious either way. | |
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In an episode of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, the protagonist of one story is a cop who discovers that he killed a young woman while sleepwalking. He is completely unaware of this until he compares the bullet found at the scene to one in his gun. | |
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The Prowler turns out to be Sheriff George Fraser. The first two murder victims were his ex-girlfriend and her new love interest. The motive was apparently jealousy. The Prowler then became a serial killer, by going on a killing spree on the anniversary of the original murder. He was never seen as a suspect both because he was a respected authority figure, and because he supposedly had taken a vacation at the time of the spree. It was just an alibi. | |
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The Dresden Files: FBI Agent Denton and his cohorts in Fool Moon have gone full Knight Templar and are now killing criminals who they believe have escaped justice. In Battle Ground Rudolph's panicky nature and oft-derided gun safety finally create a fatal combination, for Murphy, who had just saved his life again and whose life he'd spent years trying to upend and make miserable for his own petty reasons. |
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SCP-973-2 ("Smokey") is a demonic, homicidal traffic cop who patrols an undisclosed highway at night, where he brutally murders anyone he pulls over for speeding, inflicting horrific tortures such as rape and mutilation on his victims. The speed limit he enforces on this highway fluctuates often, and this makes avoiding his wrath harder. Even worse, the territory that Smokey haunts seems to be growing, and the Foundation is still unable to capture or neutralize him... | |
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Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean: Ex-cop D an G believed in the Nostradamus prophecies and killed a few people he disliked in 1999, using his status as a cop to hide the evidence. When the world didn't end in 2000, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years, landing him in Green Dolphin Street Prison where he would eventually antagonise the protagonists. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street: One arc had Pembleton assigned to investigate the police shooting of an unarmed suspect by a rookie cop to figure out whether it was justified or not while facing backlash from his fellow officers for even investigating. Even the usually reasonable Giardello pressures him to ignore leads that implicate the police and nearly frames an innocent man before he realizes what he's doing. Pembleton eventually discovers that the rookie was covering up for his commanding officer, who had shot the suspect in the back when he tried to run away. Jake Rodzinski (played by guest star Bruce Campbell) is a cop who kills his ex-cop father's murderer for revenge when the murderer is sprung by a hung jury. Bayliss becomes one in the series finale when he performs a Vigilante Execution on Luke Ryland after he got off on a technicality. |
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In the Cut: Frannie suspects that Malloy is the serial killer who he's been trying to catch. She even outright asks him multiple times. It isn't him, but his partner Richard Rodriguez. | |
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In "Butcher for Hire", David Rovics expresses this opinion about Real Life police chief John Timoney, who was hired by multiple different cities (and the Rebulic of Bahrain) to conduct brutal crackdowns on civil disobedience. | |
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It's implied in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 that the night guard before Jeremy (currently working the day shift) is the man responsible for the Missing Children Incident mentioned in the first game. One of the killer's Atari-esque sprites in the random after-death minigames depicts him with what appears to be a gold badge (which he also has in his Easter Egg appearance in 4), the minigames depicting the murders are implied to have happened the week before the game, and on Night 5 Phone Guy all but states outright that the guard was arrested under suspicion. However, William Afton ended up not being charged and released due to the bodies never being found. Afton infiltrated the Freddy's location of 2 as a security guard despite his earlier falling apart with his fellow founder Henry and things rapidly escalated from there. | |
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Robin (1993): Roman Cavallo and Marcus Wise murdered two men to cover their tracks and try to kick off a turf war with the implication they weren't the blackmailing cops' first murders. They follow this up by hiring someone to assassinate Tim Drake in Red Robin when they think he's going to reveal their corruption during a public speech about community building in Gotham. | |
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Luke Cage: Misty Knight's partner Rafael Scarfe is in Cottonmouth's pocket. He kills Chico Diaz when Chico prepares to snitch on Cottonmouth. | |
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I See You reveals that the detective protagonist is the serial child abductor. | |
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The eponymous characters of both Maniac Cop and Psycho Cop film serieses. The former is an honest cop turned into a deranged anti-cop, and the latter is a Serial Killer masquerading as a police officer. | |
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One of the 1970s-era Columbo mysteries involved the Police Commissioner himself trying to get away with committing murder. | |
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In the Mario Puzo novel from which The Godfather trilogy was mined, Albert Neri starts as an incorruptible but viciously Rabid Cop. Then he gets sent on a call to bring in Wax Barnes, a pimp who just slashed one of his girls and her daughter — said call coming a few hours after Neri's wife has left him. Officer Neri thus earns his "promotion" to this trope. | |
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Jessica Jones: Will Simpson is first introduced as a cop who is ordered by Kilgrave to attack Trish. After surviving an explosion, his sanity begins slipping, causing him to kill fellow detective Oscar Clemons and attack Trish and Jessica. | |
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Detective Adachi from Persona 4 qualifies as one of these. Bonus points for the supernatural powers that helped him avoid leaving evidence. | |
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The Nightingale Killer from Frequency is a serial killer of women who turns out to be a fairly respected cop and later private detective. | |
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Vic Mackey in The Shield. He proves this when he shoots fellow officer Terry Crowley on a drug bust...in the FIRST episode. | |
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Walker, Texas Ranger: A 1997 episode "The Brotherhood" featured cops who – frustrated by the system – kill suspects before they've had their due process, and it results in an innocent man paying with his life after he had been wrongly accused of rape. | |
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A subplot of Queer as Folk (US) has Debbie finding the body of a strangled prostitute in a dumpster. The investigation is suspended because of "lack of evidence" before the police can even identify the victim, and he becomes known simply as "Dumpster Boy". Later, it turns out that the killer was a cop who frequently solicited male prostitutes, and the reason the investigation was shut down so quickly was that the killer, in a state of panic after having committed a murder by mistake, goes to his ex-partner and long-time friend, Police Chief Stockwell, and begs for help. | |
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Do the Right Thing has Danny Aiello's real-life son, Rick, playing another one of New York City's not so finest who chokeholds Billy Nunn's "Radio Raheem" to death during a riot towards the end. | |
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Girls Don't Hit: Shannon, a police officer, murders Joss to get rid of her so she can have Colin, making it look like self-defense. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Agent Carter season 2 begins with a subversion, as Detective Henry disguises someone else's murder as a previous serial killer's work. The trope is later played straight as he tries to abduct someone and gets shot by another Corrupt Cop. Daredevil: In season 1,Wilson Fisk has numerous cops on his payroll. Among them are Emergency Service Unit officers who are so dirty that they're willing to murder fellow officers who aren't on the take or become liabilities. Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter in season 3 is an FBI agent. Over the course of the season, Fisk slowly manipulates him and corrupts him into becoming his top assassin, impersonating Daredevil to discredit the vigilante who took Fisk down. Dex ends up being responsible for both major character deaths in season 3 (Father Lantom and Ray Nadeem), as well as a bunch of minor character deaths/hospitalizations (including Mitchell Ellison and Jasper Evans). Jessica Jones: Will Simpson is first introduced as a cop who is ordered by Kilgrave to attack Trish. After surviving an explosion, his sanity begins slipping, causing him to kill fellow detective Oscar Clemons and attack Trish and Jessica. Luke Cage: Misty Knight's partner Rafael Scarfe is in Cottonmouth's pocket. He kills Chico Diaz when Chico prepares to snitch on Cottonmouth. The Punisher: Carson Wolf "kills" David Lieberman by shooting him while claiming that David has a weapon. But he doesn't see that the bullet is stopped by the cell phone in David's breast pocket, and David subsequently fakes his death and goes underground. |
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Kurtis Stryker of the Mortal Kombat series. | |
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In Yakuza 2, detective Jiro Kawara of the Osakan Police Department in the Foreign Affairs division grew a reputation for mercilessly gunning down foreign criminals, gaining the nickname "Killer Kawara". In truth, he was hunting down the remnants of the Jingweon Korean mafia to avenge his late wife, who was hunted down and murdered for abandoning their organization. | |
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Detective Rick Messer, aka The Bearded Man in Damages, who acts as a hitman for a Corrupt Corporate Executive. Plays with this as it isn't revealed that he's a cop until late on. | |
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Barry from Killing Spree murders Jase's best friend Jimmy to get back at Jase for killing his wife, and later murders Glenda, the witch that granted Jase his wish for superhuman strength. | |
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In the third case of Spirit of Justice, it is revealed that the Kingdom of Khura'in had been employing a Secret Police and had them kill rebels with total impunity. Case 5 then tops it with Inga being a killer Minister of Justice, with Ga'ran also having killed during her tenure in the position. | |
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Cradle of Fear: When Inspector Neilson's son is murdered, he snaps completely, knocks out his boss, and storms Fenham Asylum intending to kill Kemper personally. | |
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In Deadly Hero (1975), NYCPD cop Ed Lacy fatally shoots a surrendering extortionist who terrorized a beautiful music conductor. Afterwards, Lacy terrorizes the woman herself when she files a complaint about the excessive force he used in rescuing her. | |
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FBI Agent Denton and his cohorts in Fool Moon have gone full Knight Templar and are now killing criminals who they believe have escaped justice. | |
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The Great Ace Attorney tops it with a killer judge. Two of them, in fact. Seshiro Jigoku, the judge of the Japanese cases, killed Inspector Gregson, while Mael Stronghart, the current Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain (who serves as the judge for the final case), masterminded the Professor and Reaper murders. | |
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The Equalizer had at least two episodes with officers as not so finest as such, "Lady Cop" and "Solo". | |
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In Devil Survivor, a few rogue cops abuse their position and their possession of COMPs to kill innocent bystanders with demons. | |
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The Hate U Give is built on this, the plot kicking off when an officer kills Starr's childhood friend, who was unarmed and wasn't breaking any laws when they got pulled over. He gets away with it. | |
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Norman Daniels in Rose Madder. He kills at least six people during the book (including two cops, three people who helped Rose, and a hooker), and while he's disposing of a hooker he strangled, he mentally comments it's not the first time, implying previous murders. He's also strongly suspected of killing an inconvenient victim of his own police brutality who was taking him and his department to court over it. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: At the end of the Petals to the Metal arc, Captain Captain Bane attempts to poison the party, presumably to steal the Gaia Sash. Sherrif Isaak killed Jack for the Temporal Chalice in The Eleventh Hour. |
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Rizzoli & Isles had a detective who killed a bunch of women with the same names as the original Boston Strangler victims. His purpose in so doing was to frame the person he believed was really the Boston Strangler. He had worked the original murder case and didn't believe that the person who confessed was really the killer. | |
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Class of '09: In 2023, Poet is undercover working as a police officer with a corrupt department. Her partner murders a man who lets them into his house when they get called there over supposed gunfire, then he plants a gun by his side to excuse this. It's revealed he'd been an FBI informant whom they got rid of this way. | |
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Law & Order and its various spin-offs have featured these on more than one occasion. | |
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Subverted in Dual Destinies with detective Bobby Fulbright, who is not even a real detective, but an international spy impersonating the real Fulbright, who is actually long dead. | |
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Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: Due to Police Brutality, the Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers are unfettered, and are willing to turn to murder at a moment's notice if it's to their convenience. This is made the most clear when Yomi manipulates Yakou Furio to commit murder and, as shown in the final chapter, they have executed plenty of residents unaware they're homunculus clones already, as seen from the defects dumped into the restricted area by Makoto. Chief Yakou of the Nocturnal Detective Agency is revealed as the culprit of Chapter 4, of whom was also manipulated into doing so by Yomi, who leads the aforementioned Peacekeepers. |
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Murder in the Alps: The Dada Killer, the Serial Killer obsessed with Dadaism, is revealed to be Oskar Havel, a constable of the Zürich police. | |
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Daredevil: In season 1,Wilson Fisk has numerous cops on his payroll. Among them are Emergency Service Unit officers who are so dirty that they're willing to murder fellow officers who aren't on the take or become liabilities. Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter in season 3 is an FBI agent. Over the course of the season, Fisk slowly manipulates him and corrupts him into becoming his top assassin, impersonating Daredevil to discredit the vigilante who took Fisk down. Dex ends up being responsible for both major character deaths in season 3 (Father Lantom and Ray Nadeem), as well as a bunch of minor character deaths/hospitalizations (including Mitchell Ellison and Jasper Evans). |
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Accused (2023): The FBI agent who handles Derrick murders him after the activists surrender so he can frame them for felony murder. | |
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Your Honor: It turns out Michael's wife Robin was murdered for investigating gangland killings that were actually committed by cops. One of the cops involved did it to cover this up. It turns out some moonlighted in murder for hire while a Gang War went on. The one who'd murdered his wife tries to murder Michael while making it look like a suicide. Eugene gets shot by the other one, surviving both this and a later attempt to finish him off when he's in the hospital. | |
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Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter in season 3 is an FBI agent. Over the course of the season, Fisk slowly manipulates him and corrupts him into becoming his top assassin, impersonating Daredevil to discredit the vigilante who took Fisk down. Dex ends up being responsible for both major character deaths in season 3 (Father Lantom and Ray Nadeem), as well as a bunch of minor character deaths/hospitalizations (including Mitchell Ellison and Jasper Evans). | |
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The police death squad from Magnum Force. They contrast with Cowboy Cop Harry Callahan by being willing to murder not only people acquitted of crimes and other people they feel are criminals but also anyone with them, guilty or innocent. They're also not above killing other cops who either get too close to their operation or they feel needed to be sacrificed. The vigilante cops' indiscriminate behavior disgusts Harry. | |
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In Heavy Rain, it's eventually discovered that the Origami Killer is a retired police officer. Specifically, Scott Shelby. | |
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Mindhunters: After searching the entire island with infrared sensors, the FBI trainees rule out anyone else being on the island and realize that the killer is one of their own. | |
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Near the end of Killer Workout, Lt. Morgan is convinced that he knows who the killer is but also knows he will probably never have enough evidence to convict, so he decides to play Judge, Jury, and Executioner and just kill them out of hand. | |
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Mouse (2021): Ba-reum is a policeman and a serial killer, and pretends to investigate his own crimes. | |
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Fort Apache, The Bronx Danny Aiello's "Morgan" and to a lesser extent unknown John Aquino's "Finley" as | |
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The Magnus Archives: The episode "A Father's Love" is about a girl's childhood living with her serial killer father, who was also a policeman. Daisy Tonner is one of these, on account of her servitude to the Hunt. Elias' comments imply that many of Daisy's coworkers, especially those that are part of Section 31, are this as well. |
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Near the end of Disco Elysium, the Detective is thought to be an undercover assassin for a mob boss due to his nickname "The Human Can-Opener" note given because of his ability to get confessions and discovering the truth behind this becomes yet another quest. At the ending Harry's partner outright states that there's no way he could ever be a mob asset due to his rampant instability. | |
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NYCPD's Mike Brennan in Q & A under Homicide Chief Kevin Quinn's command to erase Quinn's past by murdering living members of Quinn's former gang so Quinn can run for state senate. | |
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Agent Carter season 2 begins with a subversion, as Detective Henry disguises someone else's murder as a previous serial killer's work. The trope is later played straight as he tries to abduct someone and gets shot by another Corrupt Cop. | |
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In Gotham Central, Dirty Cop Jim Corrigan ultimately became this, murdering Crispus Allen. The Not-Dirty Cop who became the Spectre after being murdered by gangsters was a completely different Jim Corrigan. Allen himself would also later do a turn as the Spectre. Given that the Spectre was one of the few DC Heroes who would intentionally kill criminals, often in rather gruesome ways, both of them probably technically count as well. | |
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Judge Dredd: Wilson Priest, one of the judges featured in The Pit arc is this. He murders a suspect after he repeatedly gets Off on a Technicality and begins to do it more often. Given the legal structure in the Dredd universe, this overlaps with Hanging Judge. The Dark Judges are an especially extreme version, as they enforce the law by simply murdering every potential criminal, believing life to be the source of all crime. Eradicate life, eradicate crime. Several senior Judges used to be part of an extralegal killing squad known as the Citizens' Court, to kill criminals who fell through the cracks of the justice system. |
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The Bill: Over the course of the show's 26 years, several officers in the show ended up committing murder. This began in earnest following the show's change into a Crime Time Soap: 1998 - PC Eddie Santini, already a corrupt constable, murdered his girlfriend, a witness in a gangland case. 2000 - DS Don Beech murdered his own colleague DS John Boulton when Boulton found out about Beech's corruption. 2002 - PC Des Taviner was responsible for the first Sun Hill fire which killed six of his fellow officers: Inspector Andrew Monroe PC Di Worrell PC Sam Harker PC Ben Heyward DC Kate Spears DC Paul Riley 2004 - PC Gabriel Kent was the show's first serial killer cop. He was the 'Sun Hill Sniper' and amongst others, gunned down PC Kerry Young 2005 - PCSO Colin Fairfax was a deranged, racist officer who, after his dismissal from the force, drove a petrol-laden van into the station, starting the second Sun Hill Fire. The victims of this fire were: SRO Marylin Chambers PC Andrea Dunbar DC Ken Drummond |
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CSI: Paul Millander, the bathtub killer, is revealed to have a double life as a judge. Ray Langston, at the end of season 11. Not a cop, but still a CSI. Also Undersheriff Jeffery McKeen, who turned out to be a ruthless crime boss who killed Warrick Brown for getting too close to his secret and then continued to run things from prison after his arrest until he was found out and transferred to solitary in another prison. Detective Vega turned out to be a killer as well. |
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Criminal Minds: The first episode that features The Reaper leads you to think that this might be the case. The Reaper was a serial killer who had stopped killing for ten years, then started killing again. In the original run of murders, he had killed a bunch of people but left one victim alive. Ten years later, that victim was hiding from The Reaper by living at a number of different addresses and switching between them. At one of The Reaper's crime scenes, he left the victim's address numbers written on windows in blood, leading you to think that the lead detective from the local police department might be The Reaper. (Since he would've been one of the few people who knew the addresses, as they had been told to him by the victim.) However, this turns out not to be the case. In reality, the "victim" survived because he was The Reaper. Another episode features a cop that stages shootings so he can be the first to "save" the victim. Occasionally those victims die, but he is honored as a hero cop. He tries to kill Penelope when he thinks she is on to him. In "Broken Mirror", it turns out one of the local FBI agents helping with the investigation is the perp, while "A Rite of Passage" has a Sheriff's Deputy turn out to be "Santa Muerte." |
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Forever: Detective Dunn in "Diamonds Are Forever" murders his partner in crime, and almost murders Jo. | |
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Hatred: The DLC has the Psycho Cop, an officer who survived the rampage of the Villain Protagonist but was disfigured and driven insane. He leads two other crusaders codenamed Widowmaker and the Recidivist in going out to kill as many people as possible before being killed themselves. | |
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Hightown: In Season 3 Jackie discovers that Detective Tom Dolan was actually the man who'd murdered Petey over an antique bayonet. He nearly murders Jackie after she's found out too, but she saves herself through stabbing him in self-defense (he lives to get arrested). She later learns he and a couple other cops murdered a sex worker too. Season 3 also has Ray go off the deep end in his corruption by murdering Frankie. |
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Suggested but ultimately averted in A Walk Among the Tombstones. It appears that the Serial Killers hunted by the protagonist, ex-cop turned private eye Matthew Scudder, are with the Drug Enforcement Agency because they have police radios and DEA files on their victims. However, Scudder says they're too crazy to have gotten into the DEA, and suggests they were civilian employees who briefly had access to the files. Later, Scudder discovers one of their victims was an undercover DEA agent who had the files on her. | |
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Acts of Vengeance (2017): It turns out Strode, a police officer, murdered Valera's wife and daughter for revenge as Valera got the man who murdered his own daughter off, which left him free to murder her. He kidnapped them with the pretext of a traffic stop. | |
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The Mercy Thompson offshoot series, Alpha and omega features CNTRP agent Les Heuter of the novel Fair Game. By day, Les is seemingly a normal member of the government policing organisation CANTRIP (Combined Nonhuman and Transhuman Relations Provisors) which is in charge of investigating criminal cases involving non-humans such as fae and werewolves. By night though, Les is a brutal Serial Rapist and Serial Killer who brutally preys on female fae and werewolves and takes much pleasure in it. | |
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Ace Attorney: Case 1-5 of the first game has former detective and current high prosecutor Lana Skye accused of murder. The real killer is not just a killer cop, but killer police chief Damon Gant. Not to mention killer prosecutors Manfred von Karma, Godot, Jacques Portsman, the latter of which is also involved in an international smuggling ring and killer defense attorneys Calisto Yew and Kristoph Gavin. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has Daryan Crescend, who started out with smuggling but then killed the Interpol agent looking into him. Subverted in Dual Destinies with detective Bobby Fulbright, who is not even a real detective, but an international spy impersonating the real Fulbright, who is actually long dead. In the third case of Spirit of Justice, it is revealed that the Kingdom of Khura'in had been employing a Secret Police and had them kill rebels with total impunity. Case 5 then tops it with Inga being a killer Minister of Justice, with Ga'ran also having killed during her tenure in the position. The Great Ace Attorney tops it with a killer judge. Two of them, in fact. Seshiro Jigoku, the judge of the Japanese cases, killed Inspector Gregson, while Mael Stronghart, the current Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain (who serves as the judge for the final case), masterminded the Professor and Reaper murders. |
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Norman Stansfield from The Professional is a psychotic DEA agent who uses the law to threaten, extort, and kill whoever he wants. On a drug bust early in the film, Stansfield goes on a drug rush and along with his men, murders Mathilda's family, including their baby brother, only caring about how he'll explain their deaths to his superiors. When Mathilda confronts him later on, Stansfield plans to kill her — implying that he'll enjoy doing it — before he's stopped by the news of the death of one of his subordinates. He later leads a raid on Leon's apartment to try to kill both him and Mathilda and shoots Leon in the back as the latter tries to escape only to meet his end by a pack of grenades. | |
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Wild Bill: Alex Blair, a police detective, committed multiple robberies, murdered a witness later, and framed another one for his crimes. | |
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Manny Lopez in the MacGyver (1985) episode "Tough Boys". He uses the local youth center to recruit the eponymous gang to act as vigilantes in destroying crack houses. | |
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The Punisher: In some continuities, Frank was a cop rather than a Vietnam veteran before turning to vigilantism (the Alternate Universe of Spider-Gwen is a complicated example: he was a Marine, then a mercenary (for Tony Stark, of all people), then became a cop and his increasingly-insane crusade to get the titular vigilante had him blowing up a significant chunk of New York). In "Six Hours to Kill", he ends up in Baltimore, where (among others) he faces a kill-team of corrupt cops. | |
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On Frasier in That One Case which Martin has been working on for years, it turns out that the detective did it. | |
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The 1992 Australian mini-series Phoenix is about the investigation into a car bomb that exploded outside Victorian Police headquarters, killing a policewoman. The very first suspect the Major Crimes Squad is ordered to investigate is a police officer who allegedly made a threat to blow up the building. It turns out the whole thing was an argument blown out of proportion, and the officer had nothing to do with the bombing. Ironically the police rank-and-file are as willing to believe the rumor as anyone. | |
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Hill Street Blues had at least its fifth season's three-episode "arc" about this with Michael Biehn as "Randall Buttman" as such in its episodes called "Rookie Nookie", "Fowl Play" and "Bangladesh Slowly". | |
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The Punisher: Carson Wolf "kills" David Lieberman by shooting him while claiming that David has a weapon. But he doesn't see that the bullet is stopped by the cell phone in David's breast pocket, and David subsequently fakes his death and goes underground. | |
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A recurring villain on Cold Case was a serial killer who worked as a civilian in the police department's records division, and used what he knew about the detectives to successfully deflect their interrogation techniques. | |
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Manny Pardo from Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has a penchant for slaughtering gangsters and innocents as the Miami Mutilator. It comes with the fact that he's based on Manuel Pardo, an actual cop who became a spree-killer. | |
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