A person holds a sign as Department of Homeland Security Investigations agents join Washington Metropolitan Police Department officers as they conduct traffic checks at a checkpoint along 14th Street in northwest Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington. Jose Luis Magana

If “Escape from Alcatraz” inspired President Donald Trump ’s insistence that the federal prison be reopened , it is safe to assume that another Clint Eastwood film played a role his attempted takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s outlook on law and order should be familiar to anyone who has seen “Dirty Harry,” the 1971

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“Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done,” Callahan says ruefully in the second film in th

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