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There was a time (before Dirty Harry?) when cops in movies embodied benevolent protectiveness and sincere desire to "serve and protect". Since then they seem to embody a hunt-and-kill sport. A sort of live FPS video game playing subculture. What the hell happened? Drug war?
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Check out old TV series Dragnet. Dirty Harry was a reaction against both the prevailing “limousine liberalism” soft in crime views of the late 60’s/early 70’s and the skyrocketing crime rates, esp. murder in the same period. The movie sparked outrage at the time
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Encounter specialists are a later phenomenon, post Bombay blasts of 93 when organized crime fighting morphed into anti-terror. Zanjeer style angry cops (1983-93) were about crime
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That was what I found hardest to suspend disbelief on when I finally watched the original Twin Peaks series. The law enforcers are portrayed as sincerely good people, almost like in a children's book such as The Hardy Boys.
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