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Good Cop, Bad Cop
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
en good cop bad cop.
en 1988 Careers and the MBA. Or the two of you are playing ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ and you’re the Good Cop.
en 2002 Anthony Asadullah Samad Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man: Conflict and Compromise of Second-Generation Advocacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era Kabili Press 9780972388009 We’d take turns playing “Good Cop, Bad Cop.”
en 2008 Colin Harvey Killers Swimming Kangaroo Books 9781934041666 105 "Were they having an affair?" Bad Cop Pall asked. I'd played Good Cop, Bad Cop myself. "He's a good-looking guy. Wife was pregnant, we hear. Maybe she went off sex. Pretty colleague, isolated spot, working together all the time: Who'd blame them?"
en 2014 Riley McLincha The Runyaker’s Journey AuthorHouse 9781491859544 179 Once again atop the high bank and by the prison perimeter, we soon were surrounded by four correction officers. Two began playing “Good Cop, Bad Cop.” Bad Cop wanted my camera.
en 2018 Wesley Allan Dueck The Storyteller's Son: A Memoir of Loss and Hope in the Storm FriesenPress 9781525530791 63 The two officers played “Good Cop, Bad Cop” just like on television. The nice one asked if I had any other activities to confess.
en 2019 Iori Miyazawa Otherside Picnic: Volume 1 J-Novel Club 9781718359987 “The Time-space Man was trying to make you stay away from the other world, but these middle-aged women came here on their own. Isn’t that contradictory? Are they playing Good Cop, Bad Cop to shake us up?”