Yes, to the dream sequence especially! This is not a bio-pic, it's a "you can't just arrest the klan and fix it all" story. The critical focus on whether or not the depiction is accurate (well, actually, Ron was a cop for far longer before the investigation... No shit, we all know you don't make detective your rookie year) is asinine, and the idea that it glorifies police depends on that criticism. I would argue that everything up to her telling him no way and the crosses burning is meant to be fantasy, to show that it's not one clever dude with enough moxie that takes down hate and makes it so the rest of us can do dick all about armchair Adolph and his hatred for Mexicans because freezed peach.
No one knew about the actual operation until 30 years after the fact, so let's be real, showing it have any actual impact was always going to be fantasy. Policing is always reactive, so by the time a Klan investigation starts it means you've already got nazis, and there's a huge chance they're on your force because fascists gravitate to exploitable power. The films move from victory to defeat shows the dangerous fantasy of policing as heroic action; the horse is already out of the barn by the time they're closing the doors.
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Date: 2018-08-27 12:26 am (UTC)No one knew about the actual operation until 30 years after the fact, so let's be real, showing it have any actual impact was always going to be fantasy. Policing is always reactive, so by the time a Klan investigation starts it means you've already got nazis, and there's a huge chance they're on your force because fascists gravitate to exploitable power. The films move from victory to defeat shows the dangerous fantasy of policing as heroic action; the horse is already out of the barn by the time they're closing the doors.