"good-cop bad-cop" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Meredith Ahner Wood, Re/sisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels",
          "text": "They spent about an hour playing good-cop bad-cop and making a dent in my supply of dark French Roast from The Castro Bean (Tango 87).",
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          "ref": "2000, John Shannon, The Poison Sky, Berkley",
          "text": "Just think, if we run into bad guys, there’s two of us, and we can play good-cop bad-cop.",
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          "ref": "2007, Information Services Latin America",
          "text": "Together they can play good-cop bad-cop, while Cubans wait for word on their nation’s future.",
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          "ref": "2010, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, page 12",
          "text": "His personnel file, an inch thick with commendations, recounts hunches he played, good-cop bad-cop routines, shoot-outs with Glocks and Berettas.",
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          "ref": "2010, John Sandford, Storm Prey, Penguin",
          "text": "JENKINS AND LUCAS played good-cop bad-cop for a while, Jenkins suggesting that Honey Bee had helped some, and she might help more, and so deserved another chance. Lucas wanted to put her in jail.",
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