History Main / CopCriminalFamily

* ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' has the Racket family in Twinbrook, who are a dysfunctional criminal family. The eldest son Dudley distanced himself from the them and works in law enforcement.

* In ''Literature/TheShameOfTheFamily'', author Charles Exbrayat describes a criminal family from Marseille dealing with the second son becoming a police officer, in no small part due to the fact that he was raised by local Inspector Picherande while his parents were in jail for their various traffics.

* In ''The Fairy Gunmother'', Van Thian is the son of a couple keeping an OpiumDen and later married a woman pimped by her criminal brothers, who are themselves gangsters Van Thian put in prison.

* In ''The Shame of the Family'', author Charles Exbrayat describes a criminal family from Marseille dealing with the second son becoming a police officer, in no small part due to the fact that he was raised by local Inspector Picherande while his parents were in jail for their various traffics.

* ''{{Series/CSI}}'': Catherine Wilows, one of the forensic scientists, discovered she was the daughter of casino mogul Sam Braun. She’s pretty sure he killed at least one showgirl although he only ordered it and got out of being arrested. It’s indicated he had ties to other criminal activity and mob stuff, but he made sure it couldn’t be tied back to him.
* ''{{Series/CSINY}}'' had Detective Don Flack and his sister Samantha, who was an alcoholic and had been in prison and part of one of the later seasons revisited the friction between them a few times.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' features this with the latest generation of the Beifong family, at least in the backstory. Lin was a faithful deputy of the police, and eventually grew up to be Chief of Police same as her mother, Toph. Suyin, on the other hand, fell in with a bad crowd, then later ran away to join up with pirates and other ner'do'wells. She'd grown out of it by the time she's introduced in the series, though Lin still holds a serious grudge over how that past behavior forced their mother to step down from her position and left Lin with a facial scar.

* Technically, any superhero who is related to a cop count as this. After all, superheroes usually are more-or-less vigilantes, and vigilantism is a crime, so technically, even though Superheroes are good guys, they’re still criminals. Unlike in other examples, however, it’s never painted as Lawful Good vs Chaotic Evil, but rather Lawful Good vs Chaotic Good.

** On ''Series/TheFlash'', Barry Allen moonlights as a vigilante. For the most part Central City is accepting of his alter ego, but his actual trouble comes when his public persona is framed for murder. This creates a conflict of interest as his adoptive father is a senior police detective who also happens to be married to the District Attorney putting Barry on one side of the law and his family on the other. However, the West-Allens rally around Barry and eventually exonerate him.

* ''{{Series/CSINY}}'' had Detective Don Flack and his sister Samantha, who was a drug addict and had been in prison and part of one of the later seasons revisited the friction between them a few times.

** Investi-Gator reveals that his great-grandfather was the famous detective [[SherlockHomage Sherlock Gator]], and his great-grand uncle was Moriarty Gator, indicating that the latter was a criminal mastermind just like [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes James Moriarty]].

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan is [[TheyFightCrime a forensic anthropologist, married to an FBI agent]]. Her parents were bank robbers, and his father was an abusive alcoholic who threw his mother down a flight of stairs.

** ''{{Series/CSINY}}'' had Detective Don Flack and his sister Samantha, who was a drug addict and had been in prison and part of one of the later seasons revisited the friction between them a few times.

May overlap with TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes, SiblingYinYang, FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling, OutsideManInsideMan, and CainAndAbel. Compare DatingCatwoman, where the relationship is romantic rather than familial. Related to StandardCopBackstory, in that many fictional officers were exposed to crime in the family in some way as a child. The cop character may be a ReformedCriminal who's trying to stay straight. If the family as a whole is overwhelmingly on one side or the other with just one odd member out, you've got BlackSheep or WhiteSheep.

* In ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'', Jesse Reese was inspired to become a cop after learning of the toxic influence his father, a mob boss named Al Hawke, had.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' features this with the latest generation of the Beifong family, at least in the backstory. Lin was a faithful deputy of the police, and eventually grew up to be Chief of Police same as her mother, Toph. Suyin, on the other hand, fell in with a bad crowd, then later ran away to join up with pirates and other ner'do'wells. She's much less "criminal" by the time she's met in the series, not that her sister acknowledges that.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan is [[TheyFightCrime a forensic anthropologist, married to an FBI agent]]. His father was an alcoholic who threw his mother down a flight of stairs. Her parents were bank robbers.

*** Oliver ends up in direct opposition to his half-sister Emiko after he is deputized by the Star City police department and Emiko is committing crimes as the copy cat Green Arrow while simultaneously working as the head of the Ninth Circle, a terrorist organization which sought to profit by causing world-wide chaos and then selling defense to connect with her and convince her to abandon her criminal path.programs and weaponry to frightened governments. No matter how much damage Emiko does to Oliver, he continues to try.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Samara is a Justicar, a legally-sanctioned KnightTemplar in asari society. Her job is hunting Ardat-Yakshi, asari with a genetic trait that makes them basically sex vampires. More specifically, the one she's hunting is her own daughter.

* [[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-07-31-0207310310-story.html The Lane family]]'s two youngest sons are named Winner and Loser. Winner is a small-time crook. Loser is a police sergeant.

*** Oliver ends up in direct opposition to his half-sister Emiko after he is deputized by the Star City police department and Emiko is committing crimes as the copy cat Green Arrow while simultaneously working as the head of the Ninth Circle, a terrorist organization which sought to profit by causing world-wide chaos and then selling defense to connect with her and convince her to abandon her criminal path.programs and weaponry to frightened governments. No matter how much damage Emiko does to Oliver, he continues to try

** Rachel Brooks is a Deputy US Marshall. In the episode "For Blood or Money" the audience finds out that Rachel's sister Shauney had a drug addiction and her Brother-in-Law Clinton served time for her death after he crashed while driving under the influence. Throughout the episode, everyone frames Shauney as the victim and Clinton as the monster who killed her, but Rachel seems remarkably calm. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Rachel doesn't blame Clint because she believes he simply had the misfortune of being the catalyst of Shauney's death, but Rachel felt that Shauney had been headed towards an overdose even if she'd survived. Rachel insists on bringing Clint in alive and helping him as much as she can, feeling that she couldn't save her sister but she can help her brother-in-law.