dirty cop

dirty cop

A corrupt or unethical police officer, such as one who accepts bribes, falsifies reports, or abuses the power of their authority for personal gain. There are so many dirty cops in this town that the police are now more dangerous than the criminals. With a number of dirty cops on their payroll, the mafia organization has been eluding prosecution for years.
See also: cop, dirty
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bent cop
  • ethically challenged
  • corrupt
  • absolute
  • absolute power corrupts absolutely
  • absolutely
  • get up a (full) head of steam
  • get up a head of steam
  • build up a head of steam
  • build up/work up, etc. a head of steam
References in periodicals archive
However, now, after claiming she found something new that ties him to the crime, Hope will find herself facing accusations of being a dirty cop on the Friday, Sept.
Mark has been hired to find the woman who left her husband [a dirty cop, btw] and her child "in the lurch" then stole money from the kid when the guy died, and disappeared with the life insurance.
Nigel Mungur - jailed for five years A DIRTY COP made PS363,000 selling details of car crash victims to claims firms while living life of luxury with his policewoman wife.
When the child identifies a dirty cop as the killer, he and the detective on the case, John Book (Harrison), are targeted to be silenced.
News Reporter annette.belcher@trinitymirror.com @AnnetteBelcher1 BIRMINGHAM'S top cop has branded the behaviour of dirty cop Steve Walters - jailed for sexually assaulting the vulnerable women he was supposed to be helping - among the worst he has ever seen.
Being a dirty cop became a mark of shame in the eyes of fellow officers.
Chapter titles include The History of Police Corruption; Power, Politics, and Racism; What Makes a Dirty Cop?; Mounting Excessive Force in Reaction to Political Pressure; and Building Confidence in the Criminal Justice System.
They act blandly evil with no hint of motivation or reasoning between them, so it's literally like they've been told to think of the most stereotypical dirty cop they can think of and act like them.
Two actors with delightful performances are Mendelsohn and Ray Liotta, the latter at his menacing best as dirty cop Deluca.
Maximum fails to be the dirty cop saga it had promised to be.
The young women are targeted by the King, a dirty cop with a hate-on for street kids.
Or going with police on a drug raid in preparation to play a dirty cop in The Departed in 2006.
Under the influence of the heady narcotic, Dale witnesses ruthless drug lord Ted Jones murder a rival, abetted by dirty cop Carol.
Angela has been doing her best to help Tasha cover up Tariq's connection to the dirty cop's murder but it appears the women have failed to successfully distance themselves from the investigation.
His character Rory was this week exposed as a dirty cop in the season finale of the TV3 drama - and the 29-year-old revealed he enjoyed every minute of playing the baddie.