Editing Bad Lieutenant (section)

==Alternate versions==
Originally rated [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system#X replaced by NC-17|NC-17]] and one of the few films to be rated thus on the basis of depictions of drug use and violence (the only other film being ''[[Comfortably Numb (film)|Comfortably Numb]]''), the unedited cut's rating was described as being for "sexual violence, strong sexual situations and dialogue, graphic drug use".

[[Blockbuster LLC|Blockbuster]] and [[Hollywood Video]], the largest video rental companies in the United States, had a policy prohibiting the purchase and rental of NC-17 films. An R-rated cut was created specifically so that Blockbuster and the other retailers would rent and purchase out the film. The R-rated cut was described with "drug use, language, violence, and nudity". The scene in which the Lieutenant pulls over two young girls and masturbates in front of them is almost completely absent from the Blockbuster version.

The original theatrical version featured the song "[[Signifying Rapper]]" by [[Schoolly D]]. The song was removed from some editions of the film's home video release due to the unauthorized use of a re-recorded guitar riff from [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Kashmir (song)|Kashmir]]", which the rapper did not license.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/22601 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320230824/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/22601 |archive-date=March 20, 2007 |title=Abel Ferrara {{!}} The A.V. Club|website=[[The A.V. Club]] }}</ref>

===Ban in Ireland===
On January 29, 1993, the film was banned in [[Ireland]]. Sheamus Smith, who headed the [[Irish Film Censor Board]] at the time, felt the film had a "demeaning treatment of women".<ref name=boardsielist>{{cite web|title=Films banned in Ireland|url=https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/113288|website=boards.ie|access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Violent 'Bad Lieutenant' has been banned in Ireland|url=http://buffalonews.com/1993/02/06/violent-bad-lieutenant-had-been-banned-in-ireland/|website=The Buffalo News|date=February 7, 1993 |access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Dwyer|first1=Michael|title=Film about amoral policeman is banned|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=5 February 1993}}</ref><ref name=madonnaban>{{cite news|last1=Dwyer|first1=Michael|title=Madonna film is banned by the censor|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=23 November 1994}}</ref> The [[DVD]] release was banned for the same reason 10 years later.<ref>{{cite web|title=No.27 – 279–287 – 04042003|url=http://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2003/april/2003%2004%2004%20IO%20Issue.pdf|website=Iris Oifigiúil|access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref>