Dirty Harry Ethical Issues

Dirty Harry embraced a rough sort of justice embodied by the multiple violations of a person’s constitutional rights. The movie also suggest a post Miranda Rights America had entered a suicide pact with itself and given over its big cities to criminals who could break the law and, then hide behind the law. Dirty Harry as no issues of using excessive force to get his job done and solve crimes and save the lives of the people. Dirty harry steps on the leg of a criminal who has been shot multiple times to find out where a kidnapped girl is. In a scene in the film off-duty
Harry Callahan is eating a hot dog at a greasy diner next to an adult book store and witnesses a bank robbery in progress and stops it all by himself with his .44 Magnum, before pointing his gun at one of the criminals laying on the ground shot and asking, “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” In the real world of policing this
This makes them disregard some laws to the point they use intimidation, and sometimes torture in their crime fighting profession. In the film, Harry Callahan is chastised by a San Francisco district attorney and a Berkeley criminal rights lawyer for torturing the serial killer Scorpio who had buried his most recent victim alive. “The law’s crazy,” Callahan famously says”. The film is filled with racist and sexist stereotypes, and they openly sneer at soft sided liberals for aiding and abetting society’s scum. Dirty Harry is violent, condescending, and morally questionable. Harry Callahan ever pleased with dispensing violence and he is always a reluctant avenger. This sort of angry attitude died with Dirty Harry. Recall the film’s grim final scene, as Callahan, having slain the Scorpio killer, and chunked his gold badge into a nearby pond, because he knew he’d pushed far beyond the limits of the