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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Dec 2017
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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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      1. Robert E. P. Levy‏ @rplevy 9 Dec 2017
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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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      1. Tentatively returning to this hellsite‏ @pneumatik 9 Dec 2017
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        So you're saying you're soft on crime?

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      1. Marc Gorcey‏ @marcgorcey 9 Dec 2017
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        You said it, Hollywood. See the book "Life, the movie'

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      2.  🪐 🧙🏼‍♂️ ✨‏ @mwiik 9 Dec 2017
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        Several things, IRL & movies. Loss of beat cops, 9/11, post 9/11 military equipment, military vets becoming cops, white nationalist infiltration, continued geographical concentration of elite, diminished civil rights, Reagan, increased inequality, end of civics b/c no draft, etc.

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      3.  🪐 🧙🏼‍♂️ ✨‏ @mwiik 9 Dec 2017
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        Movies becoming more action oriented for worldwide distribution, maybe more violent in general. Presumably pay bonuses or other inducements for SWAT activation from FOP, key events e.g. N Hollywood shootout, Ruby Ridge, Waco. Probably a lot of things.

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      2. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 9 Dec 2017
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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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      3. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 9 Dec 2017
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        Later, much later, in one of the sequels the producers poked fun at the fact that Eastwood’s “Harry” went from rage provoking antihero to icon in the popular culture which had turned hardline on violent crime, even among liberals

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      2. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 9 Dec 2017
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        True. Each film had an unsubtle message

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      3. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 9 Dec 2017
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        That fit in with Bronson’s Death Wish vigilantee film

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      2. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 9 Dec 2017
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        Wasn’t the Serpico movie in this era as well?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Dec 2017
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        Fun fact, Amitabh Bachchan's first hit, Zanjeer, created exactly the same mood shift in India in 1973 and movie cops went from nice to angry vigilantes. Now Bollywood cops are all basically Dirty Harry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanjeer 

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