Attorney General Barr lauds the 'sense of satisfaction' Americans get from vigilante movies by writerknowles
Attorney General William Barr, the top U.S. law enforcement officer, said in a recent interview that he understands the appeal of the vigilante justice portrayed in films like “Dirty Harry” and “Death Wish.”
Barr speculated that films like “Dirty Harry” , which starred Clint Eastwood as a detective who takes the law into his own hands, resonated with the American public’s impatience with the courts. Eastwood’s character in “Dirty Harry” is hamstrung by legal restrictions in his attempt to arrest a murderer. In its final scene the officer ignores what Barr might call the formal “process,” shoots the killer in defiance of the law and throws his police badge away.
Barr credited “the strategy of incapacitation” — long prison sentences for repeat criminals — for the decline in crime in the U.S. since its peak in the early 1990s. “From that time forward, the American prison population steadily increased to where it is today and the crime rate has gone down, and been halved in that period,” he said.
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