Gotham Central

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Actually, you know what'd make that show? Harvey Dent. First half of the season, he's a dedicated public servant who keeps getting more and more obsessed with bringing down Insert Crime Boss. During sweeps week, he gets doused with acid. He's out for a few episodes, then in the second half of the season he launches a roaring rampage of revenge, burning all the undercover cops and classified information the GCPD has, just blowing shit up and taking names. Season finale is him, Gordon, and Batman all having it out. Basically, it could be Breaking Bad in one season.

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Harvey Dent could work just as well in a police show as a Batman one. Better, even, since it'd be hard to have Batman really get to know Harvey (can you imagine them standing around, chatting it up?) and if you have Bruce and Harvey as friends, it'd be hard to avoid a Clex/Smallville situation. Whereas with a cast of cops, you can have them meeting his wife, working with him on cases, arguing over prosecutions, et al. And the Harvey Dent story really hasn't been told from the point of view of cops, especially the angle of him using classified information on his crime spree. For instance, as a DA, Harvey knows something from an undercover cop that the police can't use, but now that he's Two-Face, he's willing to use it, so the cops have to protect their guy on the inside.

I'd go with the conventional wisdom of barely featuring Batman, or even setting this in the Year One days when the cops are hunting him as well.