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Weirdly, when I watched the first season of Gotham, the GCPD was pronouncedly less corrupt than your typical municipal police department in the United States. The difference is GCPD was on the take by the Falcione family, but IRL police departments are the crime syndicate, themselves.
(This is a product partially of too much fighting with the Prohibition-era mob syndicates through the later 20th century until RICO laws were established, but now the mafia families are vastly reduced in power, the police unions took over. It's why we shrug off four-to-five officer-involved killings of innocent civilians every day, most of whom are unarmed and not resisting when the officer decides to escalate to unaliving them.)
At that point I realized even Gotham is copaganda, and the Batman/DC Cinematic Universe has little to do with what IRL looks like. Which is a shame, because DC could do better.