This ain't no Dirty Harry

There is a lot of similar news with the same worrying pattern: when police, the tough one, is needed, well, bureaucracy eunuchized them somewhere along the last 2 decades.

This Steyn's pearl sums it up:

A few days ago in The Corner, I mentioned the South Yorkshire Police, who sat outside watching as a young couple and their children burned to death, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who sat outside a Greyhound bus for four hours watching a cannibal slice body parts off his victim and eat them. Now from Binghamton: >>> ...read more

This ain't no Dirty Harry! And if Dirty Harry is too old and wrinkled now anyway then reinstate Vic Mackey and give him carte blanche.