Dirty Harry Problem relative to Police Officer Roles and Functions
[2023-11-02 03:16:51]
1) How will the "dirty Harry problem" affect the community's expectations on the roles and functions of police officers? How is this issue related to the balance between the role of individuals and the rights of society? "When, to what extent, ethical, political or legally dangerous means can prove their achievement, is it proved for moral purpose?" This is the focus of the mass media and even the source of profits.
"Dirty Harry problem" (Klockars, 1980) is based on the idea that some police officers say "dirty" means to decide who is committed a crime. Hiring a "dirty" police officer believes that by doing so they can accomplish three things at the same time. Authorities believe that what they do is morally right, their behavior is legitimate, and we believe that a wider community will support this heroic behavior (Thomson, 1999). The movie 'Dirty Harry' (Siegel, 1971) involved an imaginary person named Harry Callahan, an investigator who made Scorpio the criminal. He kidnapped a 14-year-old girl and demanded a ransom of 20,000 dollars to free the girl buried with enough air for several hours. After all, Harry arrested Scorpio, tortured, told the position of the girl, and got a confession from the suspect. It is an unethical procedure but also obtains "results" (Siegel, 1971)
1) How will the "dirty Harry problem" affect the community's expectations on the roles and functions of police officers? How is this issue related to the balance between the role of individuals and the rights of society? "When, to what extent, ethical, political or legally dangerous means can prove their achievement, is it proved for moral purpose?" - One of the main powers that law enforcement officers play is the power of citizens voluntarily abandoning their rights. Most people, in the face of police experience the panic of mild to moderate, may result in tension or anxiety, to limit as much as possible the time to spend with police officers. As citizens and police have different powers, when officials are fighting with them or they are bullying, civilians often abandon their constitutional rights unknowingly (Guideline 1).
Clint Eastwood plays the role of a rogue cop, Harry Calgel, in the political hymn of a lively controversial director of director Don Siegel, symbolizing Eastwood's occupation. An important turning point in career. After releasing, the top ten entertaining hit products "Dirty Harry" are nervous in the political polarized atmosphere of this era, those who think that the right of the suspect has gone too far. Many critics express this film as "fascism," Eastwood ignores the police process, Harry who does not follow the boss is a "fantasy person", "People want reality I am doing things ". Everything you do in life, but you can not. "Dirty Harry", he later said to put the "victim 's right" over the defendant' s right, over time. The direction of the motion sense of the movie and the editor have built a lot of aesthetic foundations of the tough and real police drama in the 1970s.