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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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.
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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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Ab tak chappan is the best encounter squad movie
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Adam is a walking Wikipedia+tvtropes 😄
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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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