![]() ![]() In movies, this was originally a portrayal only American films got away with. Sometimes this may be to make a statement about ethnic/racial relations (e.g., Do the Right Thing) or more generally about political repression (e.g., Dekada '70), as part of a gloomy Film Noir-type Wretched Hive setting (e.g., Sin City), or as part of a futuristic Dystopian State Sec setting (e.g., Nineteen Eighty-Four). Though this is Truth in Television, it is often exaggerated in fiction, whether for dramatic effect or perhaps to push political agendas. Some types of policemen, however, are thugs who take cruel pleasure in beating and tormenting people they don't like, for petty reasons or, in particularly bad cases, no reason at all. When police aren't useless, then they're vicious bullies, or at very least, just big jerks.Įven though nobody likes being bossed around by the police, it's their job and they have to do it whether we (or they * see Reasonable Authority Figure, which can be Truth in Television, but that isn't what this article is describing) like it or not. ![]()
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