History Series / ChicagoPD

* DisposableSexWorker: Averted. The cops go to great lengths to help anyone who needs it, and Lindsay even opens her home to Nadia after the girl comes out of rehab. That said, sex workers-turned-{{CI}}s still end up joining the RedShirtArmy fairly frequently on this show.

* InfantImmortality: This gets repeatedly averted. Even not yet being born isn't a safeguard.

* DisposableSexWorker: Averted. The cops go to great lengths to help anyone who needs it, and Lindsay even opens her home to Nadia after the girl comes out of rehab.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Dear lord'' is it ever! The show never fails to show how godawful Chicago really is, touching on topics such as corruption and violence practically every episode. While the protagonists in ''Series/ChicagoFire'' and ''Series/ChigagoMed'' are undeniably the good guys, the protagonists here are far more morally ambiguous and will stop at ''nothing'' to get their suspects, even resorting to brutalizing their suspects if need be. And that's not even getting started on the CerebusSyndrome the series goes through.

* BadassInDistress: Just about every member of Intelligence has been kidnapped and/or held hostage at least once. More often than not, they end up rescuing themselves by the time the calvary shows up. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: "The Other Side" breaks that streak as Burgess, who's been shot and left for dead, manages to crawl as far as a nearby car but passes out from blood loss before Atwater and Halstead find her and rush to Med, and since this is the Season 8 finale it's left ambiguous as to whether she'll [[CliffhangerEnding make it out of surgery]].]]

** Subverted in the Season 8 finale, "The Other Side". [[spoiler: Voight was going to kill that episode's suspect, who has shot and critically injured Burgess and refused to divulge where he'd left her, but Upton talked Voight down. Then said suspect grabbed for Voight's gun, forcing Upton to shoot him. The episode ends with Voight incinerating the perp's body before burying it]].

* BadassInDistress: Just about every member of Intelligence has been kidnapped and/or held hostage at least once. More often than not, they end up rescuing themselves by the time the calvary shows up.

* FairCop: Pretty much everyone of course, but special mention should probably go to Detective Erin Lindsay, who's played by Creator/SophiaBush, and Officer Kim Burgess, played by Marina Squerciati. Hailey Upton (Creator/TracySpiridakos) and Vanessa Rojas (Lisseth Chavez) also fit the bill.

** "Get My Cigarettes": [[spoiler: three scumbags cut off a couple's business and beat the father like a dog in front of his wife and kids when he was unable to pay them; losing the business causes the wife to overdose on Xanax. That and the overdose triggers the couple's seventeen-year-old son to hunt down and kill all three punks with a shotgun.]]

* AssholeVictim: Some of the deceased victims are this in the show.
** "Get My Cigarettes": [[spoiler: three greedy scumbags (who were also poker buddies of Voight) cut off a couple's business and beat the father like a dog in front of his wife and kids when he was unable to pay them; losing the business causes the wife to overdose on Xanax. This triggers the couple's seventeen-year-old son to hunt down and kill all three punks and their leader with a shotgun.]]

* CartwrightCurse: Seems to be suffered by everyone on Intelligence. Hookups within the unit (like Burzek or Linstead) not counting, anyone they try to have a romantic relationship with either dies, is on the other side of the law, or otherwise ends the relationship for some reason or another related to their line of work. Not even Dawson's and Olinsky's marriages are immune.

* KarmaHoudini: As of Season 8, every cop on Intelligence save newest member Andre Cooper (and given the trend, it's [[ForegoneConclusion only a matter time]]) has done at least one questionable thing that should have gotten them suspended on worse, and ultimately came away from it with their job intact. These run the gamut from simple obstruction to evidence fabrication to outright cold-blooded or reckless homicide.

* KarmaHoudini: As of Season 8, every cop on Intelligence save newest member Andre Cooper (and given the trend, it's [[ForgoneConclusion only a matter time]]) has done at least one thing questionable that should have gotten them suspended on worse, and ultimately gotten away with it with their job intact.

* AmoralAttorney: Many of the suspect's lawyers are these.

* AmoralAttorney: James Beckett's lawyer is a really punchable one.

* AmoralAttorney: James Beckett's lawyer is this.

** "Get My Cigarettes": three scumbags (two who were poker buddies of Voight) cut off a couple's business and beat the father like a dog in front of his wife and kids when he was unable to pay them; this also leads to the wife to OD on Xanax. This triggers the son to hunt down and kill all three punks and their leader with a shotgun.
** "Actual Physical Violence": a sex trafficker is killed by one of his victims.
** "Sisterhood": A [[SamusIsAGirl female]] [[VigilanteMan vigilante]], [[RapeAsBackstory who is a rape victim]], kills and castrates three [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapists]] (two gangsters and a high school janitor) [[RapeAndRevenge and successfully kills her own rapist (a gang leader)]].
** "Profiles": a woman gets killed by a man whom she accused of murder.
** "Silence of the Night": Thomas Doyle, a racist [[DirtyCop cop]], gets shot and killed after racially profiling a black man.

** "Sisterhood": A [[SamusIsAGirl female]] [[VigilanteMan vigilante]], [[RapeAsBackstorywho is a rape victim]], kills and castrates three [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapists]] (two gangsters and a high school janitor) [[RapeAndRevege and successfully kills her own rapist (a gang leader)]].

** "Sisterhood": A [[SamusIsAGirl female]] [[VigilanteMan vigilante]], who is a rape victim, kills and castrates three rapists (two gangsters and a high school janitor) and successfully kills her own rapist (a gang leader).
** "Silence of the Night": Thomas Doyle, a racist cop, gets shot and killed after racially profiling a black man.

--> '''Voight''': "An attack on your family is an attack on ours." -- ''{{S4E19}}'' - ''Last Minute Resistance''

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The BigBad of "Profiles" and "Hiding Not Seeking" (a {{Crossover}} with ''Series/ChicagoFire'')... [[spoiler:An ex-reporter who was WronglyAccused of murder. And despite being cleared, he still lost everything -- his job, prospects, wife (who was even DrivenToSuicide by the stress), etc. -- due to the bad publicity. Now he's finally snapped and invoked ThenLetMeBeEvil, going on a MadBomber RoaringRampageOfRevenge against everyone he blames for ruining his life based on "fake news."]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't *** with my city."'']]

* FairCop: Pretty much everyone of course, but special mention should probably go to Detective Erin Lindsay, who's played by Sophia Bush, and Officer Kim Burgess, played by Marina Squerciati. Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) and Vanessa Rojas (Lisseth Chavez) also fit the bill.

** The case featured in "No Regrets" (7x08) bears notable similarity with the ordeal underwent by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard Jaycee Dugard]]

** A little between Halstead and Lindsay, which leads to them becoming a couple up until her departure. Now it's between Halstead and [[ReplacementGoldfish Upton]].
** Also a little between Ruzek and Burgess and moreso now since [[spoiler:they're expecting a child.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Burgess miscarries and is quite ambivalent about becoming a couple with Ruzek again after the incident.

* HopeSpot: A lot of cases will feature a victim being carted off to Med, only for the Unit to be informed later that he or she didn't make it, just to up the ante into a homicide case.

* InfantImmortalty: This gets repeatedly averted. Even not yet being born isn't a safeguard.