by Stacie Hougland
Whether they're taking justice into their own hands when they think it can't be done otherwise, like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, or they're so far on the other side of the moral compass they've dropped off it, like Harvey Keitel and Robert Patrick in Cop Land, rogue cops remain a staple of Tinseltown entertainment. The genre lives on in Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a bad man in blue who makes his new neighbors really blue. Click through for 10 dirty movie cops who stretch the thin blue line to its breaking point.