Stolen! Angry about Police Dept.? Just the opposite (7)
I believe the answer is:
pirated
'stolen' is the definition.
(pirating is a kind of stealing)
'angry about police dept ? just the opposite' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'angry' could be 'irate' (irate can mean angry or annoyed) and 'irate' is found within the answer.
'police dept' could be 'pd' (as in NYPD, New York Police Department) and 'pd' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pirated that I've seen before include "Published without permission" , "Copied" , "Used in defiance of copyright" , "knocked off" .)