To Kill a Cop

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FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City, he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree, including the killing of a police officer.

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Criminal Minds has a number of unsubs who've killed cops. The most notable was one in the episode "Brothers in Arms" with an unsub that targets policemen. In another episode, there was a cop-killing unsub who turned out to be a cop himself. The Mentalist had a Serial Killer who targeted police officers as the focus of the episode "Red Moon". Life on the Street did this at least twice, with the same twist both times: In the follow up, "Law and Disorder," the detective assigned to solve Buscemi's murder has to admit defeat because no cop will help him.

In the "Justice" two-parter, a cop killer is acquitted in court and murdered shortly thereafter. The dead cop's son played by Bruce Campbell is suspect number one, but nobody can figure out the evidence trail until one of the detectives casually mentions that Campbell owns a derringer. Da Chief explains that when he was a junior policeman, the Baltimore police always executed cop killers without trial, and usually did it with a derringer which was easy to dispose of, and couldn't be traced back to the department.

On Copper a rookie police officer is stabbed to death and the other cops tear though the Five Points neighborhood looking for the killer. When they have no success, the local ward boss, an ex-copper himself, orders the closing of all the local pubs until the killer is found.

In a neighborhood populated by Irish immigrants this is extremely Serious Business. The killing was actually a gang initiation intended to make sure that the new member would never dare inform on the gang to the police. The episode also ends with the bar they're holding a wake for her in being shot up in a drive-by.

Nobody's killed although Danny ends up in a wheelchair for a while , but it fits the trope in spirit. Aiden also counts, despite no longer being on the team.

They were dead set on finding the perp and Danny was willing to beat up the guy he thought did it. Mac's speech in the beginning has a double meaning. He's talking about the dead Marine, being one himself, but it clearly shows with Aiden too. Mac himself was a variant in the season 8 finale, having been shot In the Back after stumbling into a drug store robbery while off-duty. He only nearly died, but the NYPD's reaction was largely the same as in a straight example.

In The Blacklist , the FBI gets into this part when they face off against heavily armed criminals and terrorists, resulting in their deaths. Happens throughout the 24 TV series when local police officers alongside CTU officers are killed by armed terrorists or criminals, serving as Red Shirts. Tiger Cubs A new recruit on his first foot patrol gets killed in "King of Thieves" by Tin-yu's gang during a routine search.

Inspector Chin reminds his men that if they acts as vigilantes and go after them by themselves instead of using the law , then they'll be nothing more than just a bunch of rogue cops acting outside the law. Quinn later sics HR on his own godson Detective Beecher after the latter asks the wrong questions about the Szymanski murder.

The next episode there's a city-wide manhunt for him. Unfortunately for Simmons, Team Machine are also looking for him, and Reese in particular isn't inclined to be merciful. After the rest of the team stops Reese, Fusco tracks down Simmons himself and arrests him, openly refusing to kill him in Carter's memory. The Don Carl Elias is not so scrupulous and has him killed in the hospital because he liked Carter. The page quote comes from a flashback in "The Devil's Share", where Fusco is unburdening himself to a police shrink that his first on-the-job kill wasn't a good shoot.

He had hunted down and murdered a drug dealer who had killed an off-duty rookie and gotten off scot free. An odd variation in " Chrysalis " where we get the the typical police reaction without the actual death. Garibaldi is shot In the Back by one of his own men after uncovering a plot to assassinate President Santiago. He doesn't actually die but he's comatose until " Revelations " in season 2.

The security man who shot him who is still above suspicion at the moment then guns down his co-conspirators in cold blood and claims to the other guards that they took a shot at him. The other guards go along with this, despite the deceased's PPG clearly not having been fired, because it's a fellow cop their beloved boss who got shot. A young Ranger gets involved, and since Trace sees them as some kind of law enforcement, he decides to use what he's got.

The Ranger survives, barely, but Trace now has the Rangers' personal attention. Occasionally dealt with; in particular, Alex's first husband was a police officer killed in the line of duty. In Nikita the title character came to Division's attention after she was sentenced to death for killing a cop while high on ketamine. Division faked her execution and brought her to their training facility.

The full story is more complicated: The cop was dirty and was threatening her foster mom. Nikita moved to protect her and accidentally shot the cop with his own gun.

A variation in 'Love Me Dead' where the victim is an A. It's treated the same way by the cops at the scene, though. Subverted in 'Almost Famous'. Castle and Beckett respond to an "officer down" call, but it turns out the victim is a male stripper in a police officer costume. Since protagonist Raylan Givens is a US Marshal, most villains end up as attempted cop killers by default.

In The Twilight Zone episode "Another Life", a rapper keeps waking up to find himself in an interrogation room getting beaten up by enraged cops who accuse him of killing one of them. He protests that he has no idea what is going on, then wakes up and dismisses the events as nightmares. It turns out the events in the interrogation room are really happening and his life as a rich and famous rapper are a dream.

The cops eventually beat him into a coma, trapping him in the dream permanently which he sees as a happy ending.

The cops are then informed that the real cop killer was caught, and the protagonist was innocent. The Elementary episode "End of Watch" starts with the murder of an NYPD Highway Patrol officer and the discovery that his sidearm has been replaced with an airsoft gun. The officer had been trading police guns for oxycodone, replacing them with airsoft replicas, and when he tried to quit, the arms dealer killed him in order to use his funeral as a diversion while he robbed the ESU armory.

After the traitor gets exposed and his funeral cancelled, he then murders another cop who was completely honest and got picked at random, to ensure there's another funeral. When the killer gets arrested and dragged out of his hideout, his Smug Snake attitude towards the couple of officers holding him gets a severe knocking as he's greeted by the sight of dozens of cops lining the street as he's put in the car, reminding him that he's made a lifelong enemy of every single person in the NYPD.

In the first episode of Brooklyn South a guy goes on a shooting spree and kills a bunch of cops right outside the precinct house, then is himself shot and dragged into the house. He dies while waiting for paramedics to show up, and his relatives sue the police force alleging that the cops purposely let him bleed to death in revenge. Third season "The Empty Weapon" has a juvenile criminal doing this while fleeing from a mugging that he did. Second season "The Empty Gun" has another sociopath juvenile doing this and another second season-er has the entire police academy the target of this by an vengeful former arrestee, who shot at a cruiser with two officers inside at the episode's opening.

In the pilot Mafia hitman Tony Gallo murders Sara's partner Danny Woo in cold blood in front of her, and she spends the rest of the episode trying to catch him while learning to use the Witchblade. Gallo also killed Sara's father, a beat cop.

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Narcotics detective Dean Gorner gets into it with Sara at a murder scene, claiming that Homicide is dragging its feet on investigating the death of Gorner's partner Torres and taking umbrage. It turns out in the end that Gorner and Torres were Dirty Cops and Gorner himself was the triggerman.

He killed Torres for his share of the take. Following on from the above spoiler, a drug kingpin refuses to kill McCarty or Gorner, because "unlike you, I'm not a cop killer. Fortunately Sara and Danny get there in time. The Mexican government insists on the US taking the death penalty off the table before they'll extradite him, angering the trooper's family and Texas Governor Caleb Lockwood.

The Cousins, Leonel and Marco Salamanca. Marco uses his chrome axe to murder a tribal police officer who happens to stumble upon them. They later are directed on Gus Fring's orders to assassinate Hank since Gus forbids them from killing Walt. However, Hank gets tipped off by Gus about their impending arrival one minute before the attack begins. Hank is shot four times and critically wounded, but manages to fatally shoot Marco in the head and crush Leonel's legs with a car.

Leonel survives, forcing Gus to send Mike to the hospital to finish him off. This orchestration of events allows Gus to force the cartel into a sitdown, and also turns up the heat on the cartel's operation, since DEA agents are normally off-limits for assassinations. A complicated case was seen in Better Call Saul. Mike Ehrmantraut is a retired cop from Philadelphia whose son Matty also became a cop.

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Matty was completely idealistic, and when he found out that his partner and sergeant were dirty, was ready to turn them in to Internal Affairs. Mike frantically convinced Matty not to do this, because he knows cops will do anything to avoid prison, which could include killing Matty. Matty eventually backed down, but by that point the two Corrupt Cops killed Matty anyway, convinced that he was snitching on them , and made it look as though Matty was killed by a criminal they were pursuing.

Mike eventually lured the two into a trap and killed them both. Because of the complications at work there's also a schism in the response of other police: The Wire repeatedly hammers home that criminals doing anything to incur the ire of the police is a very, very, bad idea, and everyone involved in organized crime is cognizant of this.

Only the extremely foolhardy or most aggressive criminals try to do such a thing. Near the end of season 1, Orlando Blocker, the guy who runs Avon Barksdale's strip club, is arrested for dealing drugs to undercover State Police cops. The Major Crimes Unit, under pressure from Burrell, arranges a buy-bust using Orlando, during which Orlando will meet with a fellow Barksdale soldier on the pretense of needing money for his legal issues, accompanied by an undercover Kima Greggs.

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Unfortunately, it's a setup, as they are ambushed by two members of Barksdale's "muscle", Wee-Bey Brice and Little Man. Orlando is killed, while Kima is shot multiple times and critically wounded. Kima lives, but the police proceed to crack down hard on the Barksdales. For acting impulsively without checking with his boss, Little Man is killed by Wee-Bey on Avon's orders, and every other crook who hears about the incident is pissed off because of the massive, city wide crackdown that has happened as a result.

In season 3, Kenneth Dozerman, a Western District cop in Carver's Drug Enforcement Unit, is trying to buy drugs when the dealers he's talking to simply rob him, shoot him, and steal his gun. Dozerman survives, but once again it triggers a massive police reaction. When McNulty sees the brutality inflicted on the shooter, Bunk explains that the arrest van took an "unscheduled stop" at the Western District parking lot for a tune-up, and the officers "mistook him for a pinata. Bunk meanwhile finds himself tasked with the menial duty of recovering Dozerman's missing gun.

The first part of painting the infamous Stanfield Organization as more dangerous than the Barksdales is the fact that they're perfectly willing to use violence against anyone who goes up against them. Major Colvin sends Herc and Carver to tell Marlo Stanfield to show up at a parley that Colvin is doing with various drug gangs in the Western District for his "Hamsterdam" project.

When Marlo refuses, Herc gets up in his face over this disrespect If not for Carver getting a proper read of Marlo's men and getting Herc to back down, they'd have a pretty bad day, and if they didn't have police badges, they'd be dead. The scene itself is an early hint about just how ruthless and bloodthirsty the group will turn out to be.

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Augustus Hill, the show's narrator, is in a wheelchair because he shot a cop while trying to escape arrest. After he was arrested and handcuffed, another cop threw the helpless Hill off a building as payback. Hill was lucky enough to survive, but unlucky enough to be paralyzed below the waist and get a life sentence. Adebisi beheaded an undercover cop with a machete, as well as a narc in Em City. Johnny Basil killed inmate and ex-cop Bruno Goergen. Beecher, Groves, and Tarrant all killed guards.

Jessica Jones Will Simpson 's sanity begins to slip after he's almost blown up by Kilgrave and ends up taking combat enhancers from Dr. Kozlov, who runs the IGH program Simpson used to be a part of. He stumbles upon Oscar Clemons, a detective two years from mandatory retirement with full pension , at the CDC facility where Jessica had tried to isolate Kilgrave. He grills Clemons for information about Trish's whereabouts and the whereabouts of Kilgrave's father, and after getting what he needs, Simpson shoots Clemons in the face before burning down the facility.

A season later, Detective Costa recounts how terrifying the incident was and how he had nightmares that only stopped when Kilgrave died. Jessica herself accidentally kills in self-defense Dale Holiday, a corrections officer assigned to guard her mother and who turns out to be a serial killer that murders inmates, makes their deaths look like suicides, and collects their numbers as trophies. To cover up her presence, Jessica stages his death to look like a suicide.

That said, Dale turns out to have not been much better with his colleagues, none of whom are saddened to hear about his death. When cornered by Detectives Eddy Costa and Ruth Sunday in Trish's hospital room, Alisa disarms and takes Sunday hostage, then leaps out the window, dragging Sunday to her death. Wilson Fisk has numerous NYPD cops on his payroll who are so corrupt they're willing to murder fellow officers who aren't on the take.

Fisk also has no qualms about having the corrupt cops on his payroll killed when they become liabilities. Clyde Farnum, a guard who owes money to Fisk, is threatened by James Wesley into attempting to hang Karen Page in her jail cell. When the attempt fails due to Karen clawing out one of his eyes, Fisk has Farnum bailed out, and then killed by a hitman who stages his death to look like a suicide. Officer Sullivan, a rookie with just six months on the job, stumbles upon Matt Murdock and a wounded Vladimir Ranskahov in an abandoned building. Despite Matt's efforts to talk him into leaving, Sullivan calls in a hostage situation, forcing Matt to knock him out and handcuff him to a pole.

This ends up summoning numerous cops to the scene including Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman, a pair of corrupt detectives who Matt just witnessed killing one of Vladimir's men in an interrogation room for saying Fisk's name. Blake has become a liability to Fisk as in the time since that incident, Matt has attacked Blake, broke his right arm, and stolen his cell phone, which contained the addresses of Vladimir's stashhouses. The ESU team that enters the abandoned building, meanwhile, kills Officer Sullivan by cutting his throat with a knife. Because Detective Blake survived the attempt on his life, Fisk and Wesley know that he'll probably snitch on them.

So they threaten Hoffman into killing Blake by injecting a syringe of poison into his IV. Matt shows up and overpowers Hoffman, but is unable to get anything out of Blake before he dies. Hoffman, wracked with guilt over the incident, is scooped up by Leland Owlsley and hidden away as a bargaining chip. When Fisk learns of Hoffman's location, he sends a team of corrupt cops to kill Hoffman, but Matt manages to stop them.

In season 2, we learn that Frank Castle's family was killed in a three-way shootout between three gangs. The combined amount of drugs seized in these cases could fit in your pockets. And this biggest question is: Have we as a society lost our minds? As we mentioned, in Rosas' case, he wasn't the target at all.

The police were serving a warrant against his nephew, who wasn't even home at the time of the raid. Some drugs were found in the nephew's room, and by "some drugs" we mean "roughly half of what you'd bring for a long weekend at Burning Man. Corpus Christi Police Department. Wondering what's with the webcam? Well, Rosas had it on the exterior of his house, and the police decided that was the marker of a drug den rather than of someone who lived in a dangerous neighborhood. See, no-knock warrants require a certain amount of "points" to be granted in advance. The police have to be able to make a case that the person they're raiding is so dangerous that it's simply not safe for them to announce themselves first.

And what are the standards for issuing a no-knock warrant? It's hard to say. It took Greenberg two years in court to get the department to admit some of the things that factored into their decision. But if you have a dog and they call it a dangerous dog, you get like 20 points on this scale. And you need like 30 to get a no-knock warrant. I asked the officer what's a dangerous dog.

Everybody in Texas has a gun. He explained that the point system is called a "Risk Matrix" a search of IMDb shows that, tragically, there has never been a Steven Seagal film with that title , and it's different in every department. Covered windows [are] obstructive, a loud dog, [since] because he barks he gives alert, again taking away this element of surprise.

So you've got to think about it in those terms There are some places where they'll actually take out a BB gun to take out the lights How do you preserve that element of surprise? He spent 25 years on the job, and he was adamant that no-knock warrants were the way to go, claiming that they reduce the risk of violence.

So it's much safer for law enforcement to use no-knock warrants. Believe me, I'd get 'em all the time if I had to. But if a suspect happens to be exercising their Second Amendment rights and is able to get to their gun, tragedy seems inevitable. Not because the suspect doesn't want to be arrested, but because they don't want to die. And believe it or not, juries sometimes agree. Gebhardt and Whitus were both insistent that no raid should ever occur without a huge amount of homework.

In Rosas' case, they didn't properly surveil the home or make sure the actual subject of the warrant was even there. In Magee's case, the police drove around the trailer once. Otherwise, they were working off the information given to them by the informant, and no real steps were taken to verify the story of a guy who was, again, trying to reduce his own criminal charges by acting like he was giving up a kingpin.

Well that was whole cloth too," says DeGuerin. The police even had some indication that was fishy. They'd been to Magee's home before, responding to a noise complaint due to him shooting off his guns for fun we understand that in many parts of Texas, if neighbors don't hear gunfire, they assume you're either on vacation or have fallen into a deep depression. On that occasion, Magee spoke to the officers and cooperated without any issues. There was no indication that the man was willing to go down shooting to avoid jail, aside from the word of their terrible informant.

It's hard to say exactly how frequently the police under-prepare for dangerous forced-entry raids, but it's probably worth noting that the vast majority of these raids turn up nothing. In forced-entry raids, like both the cases in this article, the police "hit" rate is a mere 25 percent. The other thing to remember is that a lot of so-called SWAT teams are in fact groups of normal cops with fancy gear.

But even if you don't want to get bogged down in procedure, it seems like the risk of tragedy is high even if it goes perfectly. In Rosas' case, he says that if they yelled "Police! This was a man who had been sound asleep and then awakened by an explosion , suddenly bleeding from the head. He assumed he'd been shot.

Remember, his elderly mother was in the house, too -- it wasn't only his own life he thought he was fighting for. In Magee's case, he had been asleep next to his pregnant girlfriend, Kori White, on the living room sofa. The officers threw the flashbang into the wrong end of the trailer, and the couple didn't even wake up until they heard somebody banging on their front door, trying to break in.

They insist that they even asked who was there, and got no answer before Hank ran to get his gun. A figure burst through the door, and Magee opened fire. It was a perfect recipe for disaster, and for that, Adam Sowders paid with his life.

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