List of fictional portrayals of the NYPD

In fiction

• Shafer City Stories by Jesse Aaron
• Darkhouse by Alex Barclay
• Ellie Hatcher novels by Alafair Burke
• Heat Wave, Naked Heat, and Heat Rises by Richard Castle
• One Police Plaza, Suspects, Black Sand, Exceptional Clearance, Cleopatra Gold, Pigtown, Chains of Command written by William Caunitz, who retired at the rank of Lieutenant from the NYPD and commanded a detective squad while serving in the department
• A Spirit of Evil by Lisa Cotoggio
• To Kill a Cop by Robert Daley
• Lincoln Rhyme novels by Jeffery Deaver
• Precinct by Michael Grant
• The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
• The Cop and the Anthem, a well-known short story by O. Henry
• Mad Bull 34 manga by Kazuo Koike. Also adapted into a four episode OVA and spawned a sequel manga, Mad Bull 2000
• Detective First Grade by Dan Mahoney
• Fort Freak, a mosaic novel edited by George R. R. Martin
• -FAKE- manga by Sanami Matoh
• 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain ; though the city is fictional, McBain's world is all but in name that of Manhattan's finest
• Perfect Pawn, Queen's Gambit, Small Town Secrets, Bishop's Gate, Little Boy Lost, NYPD Cold Case - Katherine White Murder, Knight Fall, Brooklyn Bounce, NYPD Cold Case - The Rosary Bead Murders, Glass Castle, by Andrew G. Nelson
• Kate Mallory novels by Carol O'Connell
• The Michael Bennett series by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
• McKee of Centre Street by Helen Reilly
• In Death series by J.D. Robb )

  Film

• 1408
• 16 Blocks
• A Stranger Among Us
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• The Avengers
• Across 110th Street
• American Gangster
• Arbitrage
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Bad Lieutenant
• Big Business
• Black Rain
• Blue Steel
• The Bone Collector
• Brooklyn's Finest
• City by the Sea
• Clockers
• The Corruptor
• Cop Land
• Cop Out
• Cotton Comes to Harlem
• Dead Presidents
• Deadly Hero
• Death Wish
• Death Wish 3
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• The Devil's Own
• Die Hard
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Do The Right Thing
• Dog Day Afternoon
• End of Days
• FeardotCom
• The Fifth Element
• The French Connection and sequel French Connection II
• The Forgotten
• Fort Apache, The Bronx
• Frequency
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• Fritz the Cat
• Gangs of New York
• Ghost
• Godzilla
• The Godfather
• The Hard Way
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• Inside Man
• Iron Man 2
• It Could Happen To You
• Jungle Fever
• King of New York
• Léon, also known as 'The Professional'
• Live Free or Die Hard
• Little Nicky
• Malcolm X
• Maniac Cop
• Maniac Cop 2
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• Mistrial
• Money Train
• The Naked City
• New Jack City
• The Odd Couple
• One Good Cop
• One Tough Cop
• Once Upon A Time In America
• The Other Guys
• Pay or Die
• Pride and Glory
• The Public Eye
• Q&A
• Ragtime
• Ransom
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• Report to the Commissioner
• Righteous Kill
• Rumble in the Bronx
• Safe
• Salt
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Serpico biopic about New York Police Officer Frank Serpico
• Titanic
• The Seven-Ups
• Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.
• Shakedown
• Shaft and its sequels and
• Spider-Man
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• Shaft
• Spider-Man
• Summer of Sam
• The Super Cops
• Super Fly
• Taxi
• Taxi Driver
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
• The Taking of Pelham 123
• West Side Story
• We Own the Night
• Who's the Man?
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• World Trade Center

  Music videos

• "Breathe" by Fabolous
• "Dick in a Box" by Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg
• "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues
• "Hate It or Love It" by The Game and 50 Cent
• "Locked Up" by Akon
• "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit
• "One Mic" by Nas
• "If I Were a Boy" by Beyoncé

  Television programs

• 24
• Barney Miller
• Beauty & the Beast
• Big Apple
• Blue Bloods
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Brooklyn South
• Cagney & Lacey
• Car 54, Where Are You?
• Castle
• Copper
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• Daredevil
• Eischied
• Elementary
• Ellery Queen
• Everybody Hates Chris
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Fish
• Flatbush
• Forever
• Golden Boy
• Jessica Jones
• The Job
• Joe Bash
• Katts and Dog
• Kojak
• Law & Order
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• Life on Mars
• Manifest
• McCloud
• Naked City
• New Amsterdam
• New York Undercover
• NYC 22
• N.Y.P.D.
• NYPD Blue
• Person of Interest
• Shades of Blue
• Swift Justice
• Taxi Brooklyn
• The Mysteries of Laura
• The Odd Couple
• The Unusuals
• Third Watch
• To Kill a Cop
• True Blue
• Unforgettable

  Video games

• Battlefield 3, in which the protagonists use a stolen NYPD police car to chase down a terrorist.
• Battle Arena Toshinden, which features NYPD Officer Tracy
• ' by Reflections Interactive
• Fahrenheit by Quantic Dream
• The following Grand Theft Auto games feature the Liberty City Police Department, which is based on the NYPD:
• *Grand Theft Auto III
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• *Grand Theft Auto IV
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• ' by Cing
• Max Payne by Remedy Entertainment/Rockstar Games
• ' by Remedy Entertainment/Rockstar Games
• ' by Konami
• Parasite Eve by Square Enix
• PAYDAY 2 by Overkill Software
• The following Spider-Man games:
• *Spider-Man by Activision
• *Spider-Man 2 by Activision
• *Ultimate Spider-Man by Activision
• *Spider-Man 3 by Activision
• *Spider-Man by Insomniac Games
• The Warriors by Rockstar Games
• ' by Electronic Arts
• Tom Clancy's The Division by Ubisoft
• ' by Activision

  Anime

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency