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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Ab tak chappan is the best encounter squad movie
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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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Full circle eh
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Adam is a walking Wikipedia+tvtropes
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Wasn’t the Serpico movie in this era as well?
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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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Possible causes (speculative): 1. With the help of NRA and their pushing of gun rights *and culture* (especially since their governance takeover in 1977 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-nras-true-believers-converted-a-marksmanship-group-into-a-mighty-gun-lobby/2013/01/12/51c62288-59b9-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html …) a hyper-efficient, shoot-to-kill, military-style weapons use has gradually and generally ...
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… become accepted in US society as part of recreation (e.g. hunting in camo with military style weapons, incl. kids), sport, fun, game. It no longer carries stigma in civil life...
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