Why Didn't Harry Join Forces With the 'Bad Cops'?

The punk(Scorpio)did reach for hus gun before Harry finished him off.

What I don't understand is that Sweet was one of the Bad Cops, however, he was sacraficed. I know Charlie McCoy had to die because he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. He would have ruined their operation. Why was Sweet sacraficed?

Im guessing sweet was sacrificed was to throw harry of the trail, if he thought one of the cops he believed was in on the killings was killed he may have been wrong. David souls character i reckon was in on sweet getting killed, he did not look to shocked about it, the main older cop obviously talked him round, by saying one of them had to die to make it look more believable, and to stop them all being caught

Harry doesn't actually believe he's above the law. He just has such strong personal values that he sometimes goes outside the law. He disagrees with the law, therefore he breaks it.

The killing squad in Magnum Force are entirely different. Unlike Harry, they actually believe that they are above the law.

Critics of Dirty Harry don't understand that Harry is actually a better man than many real cops. The sad thing is that while cultural critics were decrying Dirty Harry for its "fascism," while believing that because of things like the Miranda rights, we were becoming a more "moral" nation, REAL cops were becoming more and more like the vigilantes in Magnum Force. (I live in New York State. I've lost count of how many cops have killed or beaten innocent bystanders without reason and gotten away with it.)

"Under strengths... You just put 'Accounts.' That's just your job." ~David Brent, The Office

Exactly. He explains "Pretty soon, you'll be killing folks over parking tickets". The fact that they did not care about collateral damage shows IMHO that they were not "real" cops, just a bunch of psychopath who took the law as an excuse to kill people indiscriminately. No moral high grounds justifies killing innocents for being there or anotrher cop to save your bacon and keep on killing. That's why Harry is different : he barely kills people in cold blood, even Scorpio. What would hav e happened if Scorpio had put down the gun ? I doubt Harry would have shot him, and Harry throwing his badge at the end of part one remains a point of discussion (maybe, even though he does not kill him in cold blood, he feels no longer worthy to be a policeman ?)

If Harry would've agreed with the rogue cops in the parking garage to join their cause, do you think the mail bomb still would've gone off and killed Harry? That was the very next scene, and it seems if he oined them, he was still a dead man.

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