Close to opening scene from Dirty Harry The Enforcer, after freeing hostages by "excessive use of force". This scene is immediately followed by Harry's first experience working in "personnel": • Dirty Harry on feminis...
If this video "disappears" you'll find it here: odysee.com/$/invite/@thepointingfinger:d The next scene is even better: - "Dirty Harry on feminism and women's quotas": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9rcIJIWqYmo.html - Also, see this brilliant debunk of "racist police": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ioxWvjiB9YY.html
@@MasterGhostf Thats just NOT TRUE and the FACTS prove the case. The is no solid evidence whatsoever that minorities are being targetted. That said in area with high crime rate more people are likely to get shot but its f*** all to do with race colour or creed its do do with excessive criminality in that area
1:56 - Clint's delivery of "yeah" is too epic. A cross between "oh shit" and "that explains it." This will never cease to cause me to laugh my ass off. Lol.
@@gr8dvd Hint: Dictionaries aren't made up on the fly, either, by clowns who think a word sounds interesting and decide to assign a different meaning to it.
@@monsieurcondottiero2685It's basically HR - human resources - which is no small thing when it comes to recruitment, billeting, rotations, promotions, retirement planning, pay & benefits, etc etc. Harry says "that's for assholes" coz they're not down in the trenches looking for perps and arresting and shooting people or detective work or investigations, forensics, etc. Hey -- if it was an asshole job or a worthless job it wouldn't exist. So whatever -- they might not be collaring people and firing rounds but Harry wouldn't have had his job without them.
We watched these movies and laughed at how idiotic the mayors and police leadership were......and here we have life imitating art. But the very worst of it.
I’m not sure what your comment means. Dirty Harry is a movie. It’s a good movie, but it’s just a movie nevertheless. In the real world, people got fed up with some cops doing things like choking helpless people to death.
@@newsdukeAnd the best part is the only reason we know cops are killing so many people unreasonably is because NOW everybody has a camera and a way to post it immediately.
"Personnel, that's for assholes." Possibly one of the greatest movie lines ever. This may have been the reason why the name was changed to Human Resources. It used to be such innocent fun to call up personnel at the weekend and leave this message on the answerphone. It was a nice treat on Monday morning when they checked their messages.
Someone told me this years ago, and most time it is correct. People end up in "Human Resources" because they aren't butt ugly, and usually pleasant, have a degree, and are totally fucking incompetent at what they do. There is usually one or two people who are lower responsibility who gets all the works done. The folks in charge are usually total morons. Most places it works like that.
🤦 You guys are stupid. This is a period piece, it's not relevant, it's NOT real, and it was only meant to be an action film, not a social commentary about police ethics. Violent crime was and still is very real, and sometimes the only way out of violence is with more violence. Simple as that.
@@revolverrambles So terrorize a community with literal white-knight, cowboy antics because there's CrImE!?! You'll do well in a zombie apocalypse...no brains, Adam.
@Speed Two so rather than counter his argument, you point out misspelling and declare moral victory? What, are you from an early 2000s blog? Get a life marxist trash. Trump is STILL your president.
@Speed Two People like you declaring others to be "unfit voters" over a spelling mistake is the essence of why I will never vote for a left winger under the current political paradigm ever again. And this is coming from someone who used to take Jon Stewart's word as gospel truth.
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Management like this are one of the reason that cities are falling apart. They refuse to see the real crime for what it is. It's not sweet a pretty when someone gets shot or stabbed or raped. But they want it to be.
Richard Killy There have always been three kinds of government employee: -The dipshits who rarely do their job and are busy politicking to climb the ladder at the expense of everyone and everything else, including the mission of whatever agency/department they work for. (Great example here is the captain who doesn’t want the police to do any police work because it’s bad for his career goals). -the guy who puts in an hour worth of work in an eight hour work day, collects his pay and doesn’t care. (Not seen here, but visible at your local social service office or DMV). -The true believer who is there to complete the mission to make the part of the world they are responsible for a better place. (As illustrated here by inspector Callahan) -
Cities were booming until Trump let the virus take over. Also, there is more crime in rural areas due to the opiate epidemic. Crack isn't really a thing anymore.
@@nicholasdickens2801 Then burn down courthouses and the property of politicians, not black business owners (which is ironic, screaming for equality, well guess they got it in that regard), and screaming at the rest of the police force that is sent out to help keep the peace during protests/riots... screaming at them to make change, when they don't have the power to do so. Those in power to make the biggest, most meaningful change, is the politician to reform police, increase training variety/efforts/quality. However, even if the police were perfect, we still have the other side of the coin, if those who wish to play the victim card, don't look at consequences and make changes, then nothing will change. A revolving door if you will. I'm not saying the police are faultless, they're human and make mistakes (or are just bad people) but the left is also greatly ignoring that many who break the law, no matter their color of skin, had no good intentions when doing so, and got their 'just desserts" as it were.
@oldcorps76 With respect, that's bullshit. I lived 10 miles from Portland Oregon for 25 years, and trust me when I tell you that there is not ONE fucking Liberal in that shithole city that would vote for a peaceful Republican over a violent Democrat. Take what's going on with Mayor Wheeler right now......go tell his citizens that they have to pick between him and a Republican/Conservative candidate. He could literally hose people down in the street with a M60 machine gun and they would still vote for him. If Ted Wheeler goes after ANTIFA tomorrow with all the police resources at his disposal, and tells his officers to do what needs to be done, even the most extremist Left-wing cocksuckers in that city will vote for him over a Conservative Republican candidate, any day of the week. They aren't afraid of losing votes.....they are afraid of losing money.
Over 50 years ago, and here we are. 1970s/80's a lot of vigilante movies came out and the audience loved them, because it tapped into their sentiment about crime in America and something needed to be done - unleash the law dawg to kick ass and take names.
Movies are wish fulfillment. It’s very entertaining, but it’s fiction. In the real world, people didn’t mind when cops shot violent criminals. They got fed up with some cops just shooting innocent people for no good reason.
The look on his face, and the way Harry says, “Yeah”, when the Captain says he was in Personnel for ten years, has always killed me. You know he’s thinking “my point exactly!”. lol
When I first saw this I thought the captain was about to answer "yes that's why I am putting you there" But HR guys aren't usually bright enough for that.
@ed miller Hey, wipe of my ass, my point was you could write a joke for Clint Eastwood many other ways. He's usually much more direct, and not so subtle. Nobody laughs after the Captain spoke. Opportunity lost.
You could also have somebody walk onto the set and explain the significance of the line, looking directly into the camera. You wouldn't want the slower members of the audience to miss it.
One of my best friends was a cop in England and very good at his job, but one day a violent offender has to be arrested and the offender knocks out a policewoman. The policeman flattens the criminal, but nearly gets done for police brutality, even though the policewoman and the criminal's partner have been badly assaulted and the criminal has a long record. No wonder he left the force and found another job, seems the criminal has more rights than the victim.
@@E-0921 No it didn't. The 80s were great. The 90s were even better. The 2000s were a step & a half down. The 2010s were absolute crap and the 2020s are easily the worst things have ever been. In some cases, the U.S. govt has become more tyrannical & corrupt than socialist germany under hitler or socialist russia under stalin. Yes. That bad.
Harry is the sort of cop Americans wanted in the seventies; totally above taking bribes, bending the rules if it means the public are safer and stopping very dangerous people.
He knew puttin him on Personnel was a punishment. He had a smug ass smirk on his face when he said it. He just didn't like it when Harry called him on it. It hit a little too close to home. 🤣
That's what a stupid show would do these days so the stupid audience could understand what's going on. Smart shows don't resort to such obvious lines. They respect the audience enough to read between the lines.
He was in personnel for ten years, and it showed. Maybe if he spent ten years on the streets dealing with the average people on the streets, protecting them from all sorts of criminals, he would act differently.
@@kyokogodai-ir6hy i think that ordinary middle/working class people not being able to afford living in SF is the biggest problem! Reasons why homelessness is a big problem! Ironically the "hood" is not the only thing being driven out of the city
@ed miller You live in la-la land. Probably in a nice white neighborhood not overrun by "diversity". Take a few walks in the hoods....enjoy their "culture" :)
This is a fictional entertainment from 50 years ago. George Floyd was a citizen like you murdered on the street by a public servant. Which story suits your backward ideology?
The fact Eastwood is still alive kicking butt in life some 50 years later is even more admirable. This movie could not be made today despite being an all time great movie.
I remember taking a management course and one the the main course books was " Personnel Manangment" . Believe it or not on the first page when it talked about " What is Personnel?", it quoted Harry's word to the "T" - " Personnel?, that for arseholes!".
From what I've seen in many comment sections here on RU-vid, one of the main themes behind the Dirty Harry films that most people forgett is that every film portrays an extreme version of the binary political spectrum. In this film the "Far Left or Democratic ideology" is trying to overprotect the criminals by giving them rights they don't deserve under the crimes they commit, however in the next film when the police officers execute almost anyone on the street it is the "Far Right or Republican ideology" that is portrayed as the enemy. - In any case Harry Calahan was always in the middle, he NEVER supported the overprotection of criminals nor the murdering of people just because they could be suspects of something. Even in the end when Harry is betrayed by his boss at gun point, Harry firmly states that HE HATES THE SYSTEM but he would stick with it until something better comes, however he would NEVER go on the streets harrasing people without a reason. - On top of that he never had a problem with the genders, race or color of the officers in the force. In the scene where the Far Left officials want to push women into the active duty Calahan declares the obvious stupidity behind the idea, NOT because he didn't want women in the force but because they were FORCING inexperienced people just to reach a social quota. - Long story short, Calahan is NOT a savior of America nor a brutal enforcer, he is just a normal guy who is willing to work with anyone that has the guts and the experience to fill the requirements for the job, on top of that he is not the kind of people that would go on the street fucking around with the civilian population, hence, why his character is so liked, a Police Officer that ACTUALLY WORKS AS INTENDED, a fair man but with the guts to take any necesary risk to put down the criminals.
people watching movies are like people listening to politicians and saying "I want them to tell me the truth!" when all they actually want is to hear their own thoughts but from someone else's mouth they see what they want to see
Very astute observation. I remember when this movie first came out, some people blasted the film, claiming it "glamorized" police brutality. Then, "Magnum Force" came out, as if in response to those claims.
@mo zack -- uphold the law .. -- I have issue with this , upholding the law sounds good in theory but in practice it's quite impossible to achieve . Laws get made by the Legislature and they are expected to be enforced but by the time a defendant goes to court the Judge or Judiciary ' interprets ' the Law - sometimes by the ' letter ' of the law and sometimes by the ' intent ' of the law and usually it's one way or the other not by both at once . This causes confusion intentionally ... The other issue I have with this kind of thinking is that the Laws themselves get changed or thrown out completely , so what was criminal yesterday is now legal today or what is legal today is criminal tomorrow . In order to ' uphold the Law ' the laws need to be consistent and all parts of the system needs to support those laws entirely . The system itself can only work properly when all parts of the system are in agreement , if 2 parts of the system are pro - something and 1 part is against then the system will fail . Seriously you could have all of the ' best ' legal intentions on the planet but there will always be someone who will willingly break the Law just to contest it court . There are lots of criminals even in the United States who have been made extremely wealthy by getting their convictions overturned and then suing to gain reparations for time served they have also written books about their crimes confessing everything they did even in areas of law such as Rape and Murder .
@@williamwaha3193 If you've seen the movies, it becomes clear that Harry violates the law several times, such as arresting and torturing a rapist without a warrant to do so, in order to reveal the location of a suffocating girl said rapist had kidnapped and planned to kill within the day. So while your point still stands with regards how to U.S. laws work and get passed, it does not dismiss or contest the fact that Harry does more than the law permits: he upholds what he believes is right and wrong, and does so in order to save lives. Whether or not his personal views, which at times seem higher than the legal laws the police are legally allowed to operate within, are justifiable or are instead dangerous acts of vigilantism is another topic. But Harry does not simply uphold the law-he upholds his own sense of right and wrong. "Letter of the law" be damned if it gets in the way of the job!
That's pretty much what Sacramento indeed recommends we do in 2020. Theyll be taking the cops' guns and giving them whistles and those lil wooden midget batons.
@@_Meng_Lan you know what visionary is implying,LOL it's a movie you sound like an absolute moron for saying something that wasn't even implied,LOL. Always so quick to reply with something shitty that you make a fool of yourself.
"And what about the lady with the shotgun in her ear?" "I'm not going to debate this with you inspector." In other words, I refuse to acknowledge your view on this event, or have any intention of letting you change my mind to anything other than my preconceived interpretation of the facts. I am in charge, and you have to obey me. I am right, you are wrong, end of discussion. Sounds a lot like modern U.S. Congress doesn't it? They will deny the problem and instead punish the victims. Actual justice would put them out of business.
Defending yourself from a mob potentially prepared to kill you on YOUR PROPERTY? Someone breaks into your house and you shoot first, ask questions later? Someone is chasing another person with a knife and you take the shot? Gun license revoked and charged for murder!
@@Pandasrawk666: Yes. Most people don't get that he has that character flaw. In each of the better films, it costs a partner his life or career, but Harry learns... 'til the next film. The conflict between his and his (I hate to use the word) superiors' view of reality was the substance of the films. Both were wrong. Reality was somewhere between the two. But such deep philosophical conflict is what great films are made of.
Mark Richards there is nothing inherently wrong with the black lives matter movement. if you’re upset with the looters, believe me i am too, however, with any large scale protests like these, there are going to be people exploiting it. if you’re mad about them tearing statues down, you shouldn’t be. almost every confederate monument you see in the south weren’t put up during the civil war, they were put there in the 50s as a protest to integration. look at it from the perspective of a african american, having to walk by statues and flags with racist origins every day, having to watch the cycle of poverty in your community continue, people you know and care about shot. you’d get sick of it and want change.
"I was in personnel for 10 years". Sounds like my last supervisor who only lasted a couple of years managing our field crew. Someone must have "educated" him because one day he just never showed up for work anymore.
It's always important to remember that this scene (and scenes like this) isn't a real debate between people discussing real ideas; this is a screenplay of a shower argument somebody had with themselves. It's not a depiction of how the world actually is; it's just a projection of how the writers think the world is.
@@turbodick94 one look at San Francisco today proves your head is firmly lodged up your ass. Just keep pretending everythings ok, your little world is all that matters.
unlike current reality, Harry's "police brutality" is only directed at people who actually deserve it. Harry never rousted anyone who was innocent or unarmed or not posing a threat. i think some people miss that distinction.
Well considerin' the movies are centered around a system that doesn't abide law and order, anybody who actually intends to uphold law and order even if they ain't like Harry are branded "fascists", in fact the politicians who run the system are exactly those shitbirds I mentioned.
@@Gilmaris Note the quotation marks. Commenter was saying what Harry did wasn't brutality. The problem isn't people like Harry,it's people using unjustified force. And the other part of the problem is superiors not doing proper discipline as good leadership creates good workers.
Current reality? What reality? The vast majority of police use of force is justified. You only hear about the rare cases of abuse. And even half of those are overblown. How many times do you hear about an innocent man, not resisting or causing trouble, getting beaten to death or shot? Out of the millions of police encounters every year... I can think of one in the past decade.
So these problems were always there, even back during the 70s. But back then, you could make the occasional movie showing the crime-fighter's point of view. Nowadays, you're not even allowed to use phrases like "fighting crime", because then you're seen as insensitive.
Not allowed to? Is it illegal? Who is stopping you using that kind of phrase? I still read that expression quite often, so it looks like you're lying. But keep taking this film whose "moral position is fascist" (in the view of a respected film critic) as some kind of blueprint.
@@mattcast44 Dirty Harry was an anti-hero. The film isn't necessarily embracing his point of view, because it doesn't hold him up as some paragon of perfection, but is able to use him as a contrast foil in making social commentary about various issues.
You do realize that basically ALL cop movies are from the "crime fighter's perspective"? And the means they show (violent interrogation, unlawful seizures, no use of warrants, etc.) are the kinds of things criminals would walk away scott free in the real world. It's a movie. It's fantasy and makebelieve. Anyone trying to equate reality to anything Hollywood has ever produced (maybe outside of WWII training films, and even then most are blatant propaganda), is looking in the wrong place.
@@manofsan I don't think it's "suddenly" scorned. It's been a slow boil. As long as I can recall (some 20+ years) police in the US have been talked to be trigger happy and violent. And worst of all, not even for some understandable reason like corruption or demanding payments, but just violent and dangerous. Especially so if you're a POC, or just happen to do the wrong move. It's just that those tones have finally broken into the mainstream. It's far from sudden, though.
of course this is just a movie. But DH would never had cried out “ i was in fear of my life”. And the hoods DH took out were not lying on the ground already in handcuffs. He didn’t pull out a gun and shot someone just because he heard a loud bang. DH comes from another era. Men were different back then.
Loved all these Dirty Harry films. I always thought he was a paradox, he would ask what laws are being broken to 'rookies' and yet completely disregard them when apprehending criminals. Fighting fire with fire.
S B - Actually this is how a command structure works : There are ' ranks ' usually starting with 1 and proceeding to at least 9 . The lower the rank the less authority you have and the more manual labor you will be expected to perform . Within the ' structure ' itself there are ' occupational jobs ' . Any person of ' sufficient ' rank will have to perform ' administrative ' type duties while in their current rank before they can proceed to the next larger rank . ( Sometimes this means they will have to work ' outside ' of their normal occupational job as not all of these occupational jobs have an administrative position , some occupational jobs are administrative only positions depending on the host structure ). By the time you reach the top ranks of 7 through 9 you'll find these mostly are all Administrative type positions requiring no manual labor of any kind , there is a phrase for this achievement ," With rank comes privilege and usually responsibility " . There is also another phrase ," Crap rolls down hill " .
Have seen all of the Dirty Harry films many times, but watching this clip on 9/18/23 is kind of shocking. The woke DEI bs has really been ramping up at work lately. This film was made 40? years ago. It is prophetic.
Until the liberal pussies get rid of them because some piece of shit ghetto thug got his feelings hurt for actually getting punished for breaking the law. Not including all the acts of domestic terrorism the blacks commit after they dont get their way. A couple of gunships would stop the riots real quick.
I was a cop for 35 years thanks to Harry Callahan. My friends from the 70s all died from drug ODs or landed in prison then came out bums. Do the math. God bless Dirty Harry.
