But they would surely form an interesting series, films like "Serpico," "The Departed," "Prince of the City," "Bad Lieutenant," "Night Falls on Manhattan," "Cop Land" and the brilliant "French Connection," in which cops may be the good guys but are also seriously flawed.
In a society in which cops tend to assume that any black teen is up to no good, clothing choices can have consequences that, for a black child, go far beyond matters of style.
He stayed mostly underground where, like some large grub, he was oiled twice a day by his bodyguards and fed on curry and Clint Eastwood movies, in which cops and cowboys shot themselves out of trouble.
Take the case of Alain Delon, satanically handsome, who stars in "Le Samouraï" (1967), "Le Cercle Rouge" (1970), and "Un Flic" (1972), a trio of late Melville dramas in which cops and robbers feel almost interchangeable.
Syracuse, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut, last year tried an experiment in which cops issued dramatically more citations for two weeks and mobile-phone use fell sharply in both places".I don't think we'll see an outright ban in my lifetime in California," says Joe Simitian, a state senator who has written California's three laws against distracted driving.
The 1993 video for Madonna's "Bad Girl" is Fincher's work in miniature: The police enter and examine a corpse (Madonna's) — a visual motif that he returned to in the grisly "Se7en" (1995), in which cops repeatedly walk in on deliquescing or bloody corpses.
He was part of an abortionists' circle in Los Angeles, and he knew which cops you could lean on.
But when Lawrence Shepherd saw the series finale, in which two cops drag Walter White's body away, he knew that he was the guy to tell those cops' story.
There's a name for the kind of regime in which the cops rule, answering only to themselves.
First was "When a Woman's Fed Up," one of the rare moments in his catalog in which Mr. Kelly cops to his flaws.
So there's the classic scene in which our cops dangle a crim over a balcony by his feet to extract info.
