corrupt cops
Badge-wearing criminals
Corrupt cops are police officers who abuse their authority for personal gain or engage in criminal conduct—taking bribes, stealing from suspects, planting evidence, or protecting illegal operations.
The phrase treats corruption as a modifier of an otherwise legitimate role: The movie's corrupt cops were on the cartel's payroll.
Often shortened to dirty cops.
- dirtyNot clean
- crookedBent or dishonest
- on the takeAccepting illicit payments
- badgeWorn symbol of membership
- bribeIllicit payment for favor
graft · shakedown · payoff · informant · evidence · planted · coverup · code of silence · kickback · drug money · vice · evidence locker · narcotics · precinct · internal affairs · snitch · rat · bust
- BlaxploitationFoxy Brown, Pam Grier, Slaughter, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield
corrupt copsprotectors
Those who guard others
crime fighters · public servants · peace officers · reformers
corrupt copsAndy Griffith
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