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* DrinkingOnDuty: Roy has become an alcoholic thanks to his job as a police officer, and his new partner catches him drinking from a bottle he's stashed in a police callbox. He points out that he can't rely on a partner who's this trope. Roy later gets a three-week suspension for drinking on the job.


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* FoodAsBribe: The police have been ordered to crack down on street prostitution. The veteran cop pulls up in a paddy wagon brandishing a bottle of booze, so the hookers will go along willingly. Once the hookers are too drunk to work the streets, the police let them go.
* PhoneyCall: When a ScaryBlackMan causes trouble, one of the policeman calls for an ambulance for the injuries he's about to receive. He decides to surrender without trouble, and finds it ActuallyPrettyFunny when he's told the call was a fake.
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* FakeOutMakeOut: Roy sees a robbery taking place inside a store, calls for backup, draws his gun and ducks behind a car for cover, then realizes that there's a couple snuggling each other in the front seat. He rushes over to warn them, only to get shot in the chest with a sawed-off by the couple, who are driving the getaway car.
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Idealistic young student Roy Fehler (Keach) joins the LAPD to pay his way through law school, and finds himself partnered with veteran cop Andy Kilvinsky (Scott). Under Kilvinsky's influence, Roy gradually begins to lose his ambitions and becomes completely immersed in police work.

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Idealistic young student Roy Fehler (Keach) joins the LAPD to pay his way through law school, and finds himself partnered with veteran cop Andy Kilvinsky (Scott). Under Kilvinsky's influence, Roy gradually begins to lose his collegiate ambitions and becomes completely immersed in police work.

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''The New Centurions'' is a 1972 film directed by Richard Fleischer and based of the novel of the same name by Joe Wambaugh.

Idealistic law school student Roy Fehler (Creator/StacyKeach) joins the LAPD to pay his way through law school, and finds himself partnered with veteran cop Andy Kilvinsky (Creator/GeorgeCScott). Under Kilvinsky's influence, Roy gradually begins to lose his ambitions and becomes completely immersed in police work.

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''The New Centurions'' is a 1972 action drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and [[TheFilmOfTheBook based of on]] the 1970 novel of the same name by Joe Wambaugh.

Joseph Wambaugh. It stars Creator/GeorgeCScott, Creator/StacyKeach, Creator/JaneAlexander, Creator/ScottWilson, and Rosalind Cash.

Idealistic law school young student Roy Fehler (Creator/StacyKeach) (Keach) joins the LAPD to pay his way through law school, and finds himself partnered with veteran cop Andy Kilvinsky (Creator/GeorgeCScott). (Scott). Under Kilvinsky's influence, Roy gradually begins to lose his ambitions and becomes completely immersed in police work.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Kilvinsky]] commits suicide shortly after he retires.

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Kilvinsky]] commits suicide shortly after he retires.retires.

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''The New Centurions'' is a 1972 film directed by Richard Fleischer and based of the novel of the same name by Joe Wambaugh.

Idealistic law school student Roy Fehler (Creator/StacyKeach) joins the LAPD to pay his way through law school, and finds himself partnered with veteran cop Andy Kilvinsky (Creator/GeorgeCScott). Under Kilvinsky's influence, Roy gradually begins to lose his ambitions and becomes completely immersed in police work.

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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Kilvinsky]] commits suicide this way.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Kilvinsky]] commits suicide shortly after he retires.

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