Movies and TvShows featuring "police-incompetence" theme.

In 1986 Korea, two detectives struggle with a case of young women raped and murdered. They face challenges due to lack of forensic technology and improper collection of evidence. As more murders occur, they discover patterns that lead them to the killer. However, their suspect is cleared, leaving them frustrated. They eventually identify another suspect, but fail to prove his guilt. The crimes remain unsolved, but years later, one detective realizes the killer may be among the audience.

In the small town, a mother goes to extreme lengths to protect her mentally disabled son, leading to a string of murders. As the investigation unfolds, the truth behind her actions slowly comes to light.

After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears in this true-crime docuseries.

A true-crime drama. Four young gay men are murdered in similar circumstances between 2014 and 2015 in the Barking area of London.

It is summertime and the campaign for the upcoming parliament election is in full swing. A young policeman is the first victim of a political terrorist who guns down senior officials and politicians. The two police inspectors Anna Holt and Bo Jarnebring are two of the policemen investigating. It is soon obvious that the murderer is in full control and knows every step they take. And some politicians and high officials are primarily interested in using the investigation to gain votes or make a career...

An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find follows a widow who is trying to take care of her two children and seeks revenge on those who harmed her family. She becomes entangled with a drug dealer and discovers the truth about her husband's murder. With her life unraveling, she takes matters into her own hands and fights back against her enemies.

54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis narrates the intense events surrounding a bank robbery turned hostage situation in Gladbeck, Germany, during the 1980s. The series explores the police incompetence, the lives of the hostages held captive, and the rollercoaster of emotions experienced by all involved.

Backyard is a 2009 movie that delves into the depths of corruption, voyeurism, and crime along the US-Mexico border. The story revolves around a female police officer who is forced to witness brutal acts of violence, including the rape of her own wife, as she confronts the harsh realities of immigration, femicide, and the villainous forces at play in Juarez, Mexico.