The Statue of Judgement is a fictional structure in the Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd

Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...

comic strip in 2000 AD

2000 AD (comic)

2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold...

. It is a mammoth statue of a Mega-City Judge

Judge (2000 AD)

Judge is a title held by several significant characters in the Judge Dredd series, which appears in the British comics 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine...

, built in Mega-City One

Mega-City One

Mega-City One is a huge fictional city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. The exact boundaries of the city depend on which artist has drawn the story...

 where New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 once was, next to the Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886...

. In some stories it has been called the Statue of Justice. It first appeared in 2000 AD prog 7 in 1977.

It has been drawn by various artists (originally Mike McMahon

Mike McMahon (comics)

Michael McMahon is a British comics artist best known for his work on 2000 AD characters such as Judge Dredd, Sláine and ABC Warriors, and the mini-series The Last American....

), who have not been consistent in depicting its size, although it is always shown to be larger than the Statue of Liberty. In some illustrations Liberty is shown to be around waist-height to Judgement; in others knee- or ankle-height.

The original Statue of Judgement was built in 2099. It used to tower over the Statue of Liberty, before the Liberty statue was destroyed by terrorists. The Statue of Judgement was itself destroyed in 2115, and was rebuilt in 2117. The new building is the headquarters of two important organisations within Justice Department: the Special Judicial Squad and the Public Surveillance Unit

Public Surveillance Unit

The Public Surveillance Unit or PSU is a fictional institution in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD. It was introduced in progs 954 and 959 . Notable PSU characters in the comic strip are Judge Niles, its chief, and Judge Roffman, who frequently assists Judge Dredd in surveillance, espionage...

.

The original structure was the site of the assassination of Chief Judge Cal

Judge Cal

Chief Judge Cal is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD. He was loosely based on the real life Roman emperor Caligula, who is widely considered to have been insane...

, who fell to his death from the public viewing gallery in the statue's eyes.