that one of the dirty harry film and one of the first maybe and the third one actually . a cop who use all his force to enforce the law and who discovers for u because he know and that the main opposition to that kind of police force and police work be not so much the people who want security and or the press who only look for sensational news item and strong police work be good news and but the politician who be move not by principle but by a bunch of minority group who be so vocal that they can cover the noise of a hurricane if they so decide . in this case we have one of those phony revolutionary group who be inspire by extreme maoism and pure egocentric paranoia and psychosis and who be and be a bunch of psychopath in one word and who try to get money out of society by use fear and by capture highly dangerous weapon and take hostage and in this case the mayor of san francisco . clint eastwood be a lot good than just this thriller but he double up the plot with the question of the integration of woman in homicide department in u police force and which be a hot question in 1976. the film have get a new interest today because these pseudo maoist and pseudo anarchist group have become one of the most dangerous plague of this world today . they be the farc in colombia and they be the tamil tiger in sri lanka and good riddance and they be many other group of that kind that refuse to be political and to run into any normal political procedure and who know only violence and blackmailing . be qaeda be only a new perfectly organize group at global level that use these terror tactic with the great financial power they capture from the stock exchange around the world and from other form of extortion and racketeering . the only answer be for sure the political will to defeat them and but the right strategy be not to shoot first but to corner them at all level and then shoot them down if they do not want to come down all by themselves . there be no negotiation with these skunk . but we be talk of criminal here . what if these criminal have the power of a state in their hand . and the potential of nuclear weapon in their backyard . clint eastwood be a little bit young about this question . and that make the question today all the more pregnant and potent . dr jacques coulardeau and university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne and university versailles saint quentin en yvelines and cegid .