Sergeant Harrison Yates (called Lou in "Cartman's Incredible Gift"), voiced by Trey Parker, is a police detective with the Park County Police Department. He was originally shown working for the FBI in "Christian Rock Hard," but was shown working for the South Park Police Department in "Casa Bonita". In "Free Willzyx" he and his men were investigating the theft of an orca whale in Denver. He is often depicted as either incompetent or corrupt. In "The Jeffersons", when he learns that a wealthy black man named Mr. Jefferson has moved into South Park, he leads a police conspiracy to frame the man for a crime he did not commit, but aborts the plan when he actually sees the light-skinned Mr. Jefferson, and becomes disillusioned with the long-time police tradition of framing wealthy black men for crimes they didn't commit. (In actuality, Mr. Jefferson was an incognito Michael Jackson). In "Cartman's Incredible Gift", when a serial killer strikes South Park, Yates becomes enamored with the idea that Cartman has psychic powers that can capture the killer, and dismisses proven criminal science such as fingerprinting and blood analysis as "hocus pocus". As a result, he arrests and even kills a number of innocent people based on Cartman's alleged "psychic visions", failing to identify the killer as such when he first investigates him, despite an overabundance of evidence, and nearly letting him go free. In "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", he initially takes no action when it is reported that Ike Broflovski's kindergarten teacher is having sex with him, because he finds the idea of a female teacher having sex with a male student alluring. Cartman asks Yates to help him get back a photo he wrongfully thinks Kyle stole in the episode "Cartman Sucks". In the season 13 episode "Butters' Bottom Bitch", Yates goes undercover as a (female) prostitute to try and crack down on prostitution in South Park—and insists on going through various sexual acts (including oral sex and a gang bang) before arresting the clients.
Yates is usually seen with his grey-haired partner, Detective Mitch Murphy, voiced by Matt Stone. Murphy, along with the rest of the Park County police force, is shown to be more sensible and less corrupt than Yates, although he is still prone to the typical incompetence seen in the show's adults. Murphy has also been referred to as Harris ("The Jeffersons", "Free Willzyx").
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