Coppers
Flatfoot
Flatfoot noun - A member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level.
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- If the FBI are the bad guys, expect the good guys to be salt-of-the-earth honest flatfoot coppers; for the CIA to be good guys they'd have to be up against the even shadowier NSA.
Source: CIA Evil, FBI Good
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