Could Deputy Molly be the answer to Avon and Somerset chief constable Nick Gargan's recent call for some more clean-living cops on TV?
He is a decorated second world war veteran and a clean cop in a dirty town.
He considers Dotson a good, "clean cop," and he and Suggs supported Dotson's addition to the unified command.
In coming up through the ranks of the L.A.P.D., Parker had been a clean cop in a department so dirty that even the fictional treatments of police corruption, from Raymond Chandler to Hollywood's gangster pictures, did not defame it.
On the night that King directed the police to the protester with the bullhorn — "A clean cop is hunting him," he tweeted, hoping to crowdsource followers into isolating the offenders until officers arrived — thirty-one people were arrested.
With the reputation of a "mad bastard", his story is one of being a clean cop surrounded by corruption.
In addition, we get the parody of "Dragnet," that triumph of alliterative tongue-twisting in which Jack Webb, investigating the theft of a school bell, sombrely elicits from Carson the information that kleptomaniac Claude Cooper copped the clean copper clappers kept in the clothes closet.
Burt Lancaster is a clean-cut cop trying to redirect Scott's libido.
The actor, who plays a clean-shaven cop on TNT's "Memphis Beat" (and stars in "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" come December), even vanquishes whiskers the old-fashioned way: "I go for straight-razor shaves at Sweeney Todd's Barber Shop".
Cooper ditched the sexy-guy swagger (see: Wedding Crashers, Limitless) for his portrayal of clean-cut cop Avery Cross in Derek Cianfrance's sprawling generational tale of masculinity, heredity and pride.
The unlikely team, one a clean-cut cop, the other a long-haired social worker, uses a carrot-and-stick approach, sometimes cajoling a person into mental health treatment or contact with other social services, and sometimes, where criminal behavior is involved, using the threat of arrest or imprisonment.
