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...Specials need every bit of their training to keep the peace. In his 15 years as a freelance cop, John Candido, outgoing president of the Patrol Special Police Officers' Association, has been roughed up, shot in the head and stabbed three times. Muses Candido: "I kick pimps out of hotels, I break up fights in rathole rooming houses. I look in garbage cans for bombs, I break up rapes, I save old ladies from fires, and I walk drunks home." The Grebmeiers have not yet encountered anything so violent. On a typical January night, they found no crime more...
...Enforcer's plot is agonizingly similar to its predecessors. Big trouble is brewing in San Francisco and all of San Francisco's finest are unable to stop it. Enter Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints filed against him. Ninety minutes, umpteen bodies and two or three episodes of debauchery later, the case is solved and the Bay City is safe once again. The particulars vary from flick to flick (the enemies were crooked cops in Magnum Force, young revolutionaries in The Enforcers), but the cliched plot...
...decide early that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches the fat, fraudulent and exposed cop, Harry Quinlan, sink beneath the river garbage in the closing shots of Touch of Evil? ("He was a real man," Dietrich mutters. "What can you say about people...
...being advertised as the dirtiest Harry of them all, but this third adventure of the San Francisco cop who finds nothing but bureaucratic blundering above him and unpunished crime all around him shows Clint Eastwood's creation in a mellow mood. Oh, he can still total a liquor store in the course of rescuing hostages, and he still has the fastest lip in the business when backtalking a superior. But in The Enforcer, Harry appears halfway along the road to becoming a lovable old curmudgeon...
LOUISIANA: In July a 5-to-4 vote had struck down part of Louisiana's new capital-punishment statute because it mandated death for all those convicted of first-degree murder. It did not deal specifically, however, with a section of the law mandating execution for cop killers. When a man who had killed a policeman appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, State Attorney General William J. Guste Jr. conceded that he could not be executed. Guste was therefore no little surprised when the Justices announced that they would hear arguments on why a mandatory death penalty...