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| “ | To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. | „ |
| ~ Harris' most famous quote |
| “ | Awwww, you motherf*ckers. Okay. Alright. I’m putting cases on all you b*tches! Huh. You think you can do this sh*t. Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You motherf*ckers will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, n*gga. 23 hour lockdown! I’m the man up in this piece! You’ll never see the light of…..who the f*ck do you think you’re f*cking with? I’m the police, I run sh*t here. You just live here! Yeah, that’s right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away, ’cause I’m gonna burn this motherf*cker down. King Kong ain’t got sh*t on me! | „ |
| ~ Harris threatening a whole neighborhood; his most famous monologue. |
Alonzo Harris is the main antagonist of the 2001 crime thriller film Training Day.
He is a corrupt narcotics detective with the LAPD who ensnares trainee detective Jake Hoyt in an intricate plot to steal drug money so he can pay off a debt to the Mafia.
He was portrayed by Denzel Washington, who also portrayed Azazel (while possessing John Hobbes) in Fallen and Macrinus in Gladiator II.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He considers himself above the law and frequently abuses his position as an LAPD detective.
- He profits from the illegal drug trade, blackmailing dealers into cutting him in to their profits, even when he is actually supposed to fight against it as a narcotics detective, proving how much of an egotistical hypocrite he truly is.
- He hypocritically presents himself as a well-intentioned crusader for law and order despite himself being even more of a criminal than the ones he either arrested or walked off from their crimes.
- It is implied he regularly kills off several criminals and threatens them with questionable but ruthless means, even using prison rape, to keep them under his thumb. It was so bad that he has an entire neighborhood put under his payroll, some of them even living in fear of him.
- He overall represents the worst of police corruption and brutality, as even fellow corrupt officials like the Three Wise Men and the majority of street criminals elsewhere, like Smiley and his gang, outright hated and condemned him.
- The fact that some of these criminals have been shown to be decent people in spite of their crimes—like Smiley caring for his cousin and even honorably letting Jake go because he saved her from being almost raped—makes Alonzo even worse, as he is proven to be far worse than them.
- He steals $1 million from the mob.
- He killed a Russian mobster in Las Vegas simply because the man insulted him, which is why he owed money to the Russian mafia in the first place.
- When apprehending a trio of teen drug addicts, he threatens to have a girl in their group to be gang-raped.
- He manipulates, or more accurately, coerces Jake into smoking PCP, risking his career as a police officer should he be tested.
- Later in the film, this proved to be a tactic meticulously planned by him from the very beginning for blackmailing Jake and having him under his thumb.
- He allows two rapists to go free (despite knowing full well they could victimize other women) and messes with one of them, threatening to have them prison-raped and using his gun to shoot off one of their testicles. While warranted, it is still way too far for Jake's discomfort.
- Moreover, this only makes him a huge hypocrite, since, as aforementioned, he threatened to have a girl from the apprehended teen trio gang-raped, proving that he actually does not have any genuine standards at all.
- In the past, he shot drug dealer Blue in the legs, leaving him crippled for no apparent reason other than sheer sadism.
- He forces a pen down Blue's throat to make him throw up.
- He forges a search warrant and steals $40,000 from Kevin "Sandman" Miller upon illegally breaking into his wife's house, holding her and his nephew at gunpoint.
- He engages in a shootout with the neighborhood gangsters, with Jake calling him out that it is a populated area and he could've shot nearby civilians.
- He, alongside his personal crew, steals $4 million from Roger, an informant and long-time drug dealer.
- He orders Jake to kill Roger; when Jake refuses, he kills Roger himself, not caring at the slightest that they are long-time friends.
- While he claimed Roger sold drugs to kids, there's no on-screen proofs of it, plus even if it was true, he killed Roger purely for self-serving reasons (e.g., steal the hidden $4 million in his house), not to deliver justice.
- He manipulates Jake into keeping quiet.
- He leaves Jake to be murdered by Smiley and his gang to tie up loose ends.
- After Jake escapes, he tries to kill him personally while brutally beating him to near death.
- He furiously threatens to arrest everyone in the neighborhood when they turn their backs on him.
- Despite his claims of caring for his family, this is proven to be nothing but lies.
- He frequently cheats on his "wife" (whom he more-well treats as a mistress) and extorts sex from women, despite his claims of being faithful to her. Earlier in the film, he even proposed to give Jake's wife another child.
- He is an absentee father to his son and later uses him as a human shield to leave Jake's guard down during a crossfire.
- Furthermore, he is indifferent when his so-called wife and son run away, leaving him alone, proving that he can very well live without his family and doesn't care about them at all.
- Although his death was somewhat brutal, being shot multiple times by Russian assassins while clearly being terrified, it wasn't played for sympathy at all but instead for karmic satisfaction for all the horrible things he did.
Trivia[]
- Alonzo Harris was the inspiration for another Pure Evil villain, Frank Tenpenny from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - who is also a corrupt cop.
External links[]
- Alonzo Harris on the Villains Wiki
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