History Main / RabidCop

* Colin Mochrie played a parody of one on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' in a game called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLKLcQ5XF4 Good Cop, Bad Cop]].

* Detective Park Doo-man and Detective Cho Yong-koo from ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'' both brutally try to beat and torture confessions out of their suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Detective Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation, [[spoiler: but by the end of the movie, is driven to becoming almost as bad as them.]]

* Agent Nightingale in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' really fits in this trope. Though the source for his jerkassery is found in [[AllThereInTheManual his back story]].

* Detective Park Doo-man and Detective Cho Yong-koo from ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'' both brutally try to beat and torture confessions out of their suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Detective Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation, [[spoiler: but by the end of the movie, he's driven to becoming almost as bad as them.]]

[[caption-width-right:180:''Series/NYPDBlue'''s Andy Sipowicz, the quintessential Rabid Cop.]]

* Detective Park Doo-man and Detective Cho Yong-koo from ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'' both brutally try to beat and torture confessions out of their suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man who ended up being completely innocent, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Detective Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation.

* Detective Park Doo-man and Detective Cho Yong-koo from ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'' both brutally try to beat confessions out of their suspects, one of whom was a mentally handicapped young man who ended up being completely innocent, and get very few results. They're contrasted with Detective Seo Tae-Yoon, who uses logic and reason in his investigation.

* ''Creator/ColinMochrie'' played a parody of one on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway?'' in a game called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLKLcQ5XF4 Good Cop, Bad Cop]].

* As illustrated above, Andy Sipowicz from ''Series/NYPDBlue''.

* Most of the PerpSweating scenes in the South Korean film ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'', which is [[BasedOnATrueStory based on real events]], fall into this category.

* Detective Park Doo-man from ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'' and his partner regularly beat and threaten their suspects, one of which was a mentally handicapped young man who ended up being completely innocent.

* Agent Nightingale in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' really fits in this trope. Though the source for his jerkassery is found in [[AllThereInTheManual his back story]].

* Lt. Carter Blake in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is a police officer with immunity from the local precinct (why, nobody knows) who prefers beating a suspect rather than extracting any information, has no problem with breaking the law in order to investigate, and will have no qualms about killing. Initially, he's rather reserved to just beating suspects, [[spoiler:and then he roughs up a psychologist who has done absolutely nothing. And then does everything in his power to assure those affiliated with the investigation that [[PapaWolf Ethan Mars]] is the Origami Killer. [[TheProfiler The FBI agent attached to the investigation, Norman Jayden]], isn't convinced, and the two have a very rough rivalry. If Ethan is arrested, then it leads to a [[MoralEventHorizon scene where Blake will mercilessly beat Ethan into unconsciousness]]. Jayden can intervene and punch Blake, which will prompt him to hold Jayden at gunpoint, waiting for the perfect opportunity to kill him]].\\
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It doesn't stop there. One possibility at the end of the game has Blake [[spoiler:order a sniper squad to gun down Ethan who had finally reunited with his ten-year-old son after having gone to incredible lengths to save him from a horrible death, all while the aforementioned son watches in horror as his beloved father's body falls to the ground, lifeless. All because Blake refused to believe anyone but Ethan could be the Origami Killer and the instant the obviously unarmed Ethan has to clutch his side in pain instead of keeping his hands up, Blake gives the order to shoot]]. Needless to say, Blake is by far the most hated character in the game, even the actual killer doesn't come close. The worst part? In any good ending [[KarmaHoudini he gets away with everything]].

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "ARE YOU USERNAME '[=LADIESMAN217=]'?!?!"

* The titular character from the Creator/AdultSwim show ''WesternAnimation/AssyMcGee'' is an extremely violent parody of this trope (and a HeroicComedicSociopath) despite being, as his name suggests, a pair of ass cheeks. He was perpetually intoxicated, told to hand in his badge and gun at least once an episode, and other offenses too numerous to list here.

* Depending on how you view him, Joe Apraio.

* Although he isn't in the circumstance described above, Alonzo Harris from the film ''Film/TrainingDay'' is the embodiment of this trope. He is not necessarily insane though, just genuinely evil and sociopathic.

* Agent David Kujan pulls this on Verbal Kint a couple of times in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''. ("I've got immunity now." "''NOT FROM ME! There IS no immunity from me, you piece of shit!''")

* Bud White of ''Film/LAConfidential'', hands down...to the point he frightens the officer trying to play 'bad cop', as well as the suspect.

* Terence [=McDonagh=]'s partner, Stevie Pruit, is one of these in ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans''. And [=McDonagh=] starts to turn into one himself as his addictions spiral out of control.
* Officer Mooney in ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' has to be almost physically restrained from beating up a couple of punks brought in for public drunkenness. He later takes a flashlight to the head of one of the klowns, which turns out to be [[MuggingTheMonster not such a hot idea]].
* In the first ''Film/{{Saw}}'' movie. David Tapp's recklessness nearly kills one of Jigsaw's victims, gets his partner shot by multiple shotguns at once, gets his ''own'' throat cut, nearly killing him, and gets him dismissed from the force. And that is just [[FlashBack backstory]]. By the time the events in the movie proper start, he is a broken shell of a man in a fetid bedsit across from the house of the guy he thinks is the killer. It is arguably creepier than any of Jigsaw's actual traps.
** Detective Eric Matthews in the second movie. As the movie progresses, it's revealed that he has a very nasty record of violence towards suspects, and in several cases planted evidence to gain a conviction. And after spending most of the film watching his son trapped in a house with the victims of said evidence-planting, he resorts to thrashing the living daylights out of Jigsaw for the location of the house, [[spoiler:which turns out to be a trap set up specifically for Matthews.]]
* Henry Oak in ''Film/{{Narc}}''. In a similar vein to the aforementioned Alonzo Harris above, he happens to be a narcotic police officer with a case of PoliceBrutality against the criminals he's facing against.

* As illustrated above, Andy Sipowicz from ''Series/NYPDBlue''.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s Elliot Stabler can cross into Rabid Cop territory, especially when ItsPersonal. Which is roughly every other week. This tendency earned him the FanNickname Un-Stabler. Most likely because Elliot is increasingly unstable and psychotic. Many theorized the series would not end until he actually killd someone, ending his massive fall from grace... and ironically, while he did end up off the show due to a killing in the precinct it was A) a 'clean' (wholly justified) shoot of someone that was shooting up the holding cell and B) happened to be a 14 year old girl he was wholly sympathetic with. \\
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The cop in the (ironically named) episode, "Unstable", made Elliot look normal.

* Jimmy Beck in ''{{Cracker}}'', once causing his superior officer to say 'I don't know what you did to him, but you scared the hell out of me.'

* The retired detectives of ''NewTricks'' have slightly CowboyCop attitudes compared to modern police methods and standards. So they see nothing wrong with creating a fake Rabid Cop scenario where the interrogator gets so insanely angry that he shoots the suspect's public defender lawyer. The 'lawyer' is another retired cop and the gun is a starter pistol.
* The aptly named Detective Slaughter from ''Series/{{Castle}}'', a one episode character played by Creator/AdamBaldwin.
** Beckett herself was this at various points, usually when the case involved her mother's death. After [[spoiler: she is shot by a sniper]] she becomes this way when investigating that case as well as anything that reminds her of it.
* Ray has moments like this in ''Series/BreakoutKings'', including threatening to burn a suspect's genitals with a cigarette lighter.

* Agent Nightingale in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' really fits in this trope. Though the source for his jerkassery is found in [[AllThereInTheManual his back story]].

* Though not technically a cop, Lock-Up from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' definitely counts.

* Depending on how you view him, Joe Apraio

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s Elliot Stabler can cross into Rabid Cop territory, especially when ItsPersonal. Which is roughly every other week. This tendency earned him the FanNickname Un-Stabler. Most likely because Elliot is increasingly unstable and psychotic. That series will not end until he actually kills someone, ending his massive fall from grace.\\

* Saren Arterius of ''VideoGame/MassEffect''. As a Spectre, he's essentially a Council space cop with no strings attached, and he plays it to the hilt - making frequent usage of the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, pursuing his own ambitions on the side and pinning the collateral damage on people he doesn't like. He's the same sadistic, racist government law officer we've seen in many other works - just relocated to a sci-fi setting. And this was what he was like ''before'' he went JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!. Vimes does whatever he can not to turn into one, to the point that he [[spoiler: actually has a Vimes-esque entity in his mind to prevent him from succumb to the darkness.]]

* [[Literature/{{Discworld}} THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!]]. Vimes does whatever he can not to turn into one, to the point that he [[spoiler: actually has a Vimes-esque entity in his mind to prevent him from succumb to the darkness.]]

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s Elliot Stabler can cross into Rabid Cop territory, especially when ItsPersonal. Which is roughly every other week. This tendency earned him the FanNickname Un-Stabler. Most likely because Elliot is increasingly unstable and psychotic. That series will mot end until he actually kills someone, ending his massive fall from grace.\\

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' "ARE YOU USERNAME 'LADIESMAN217'?!?!"

* [[Film/{{Transformers}} "ARE YOU USERNAME 'LADIESMAN217'?!?!"]]

The room is small. Help is far away, on the other side of many locked doors. Your arm is chained to the table and a Rabid Cop is spraying spittle into your face in a way that convinces you that he has completely ''lost his mind.''

* Henry Oak in ''Film/{{Narc}}''. In a similar vein to the aforementioned Alonzo Harris above, he happens to be a narcotic police officers with a case of PoliceBrutality against the criminals he's facing against.

* The main character's partner is one of these in ''Film/BadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans''. And the main character starts to turn into one himself as his addictions spiral out of control.