Carl B. Klockars identified a moral dilemma among police officers in which they may be tempted to believe that the end justifies the means and do a bad thing for what they believe is a good reason. He referred to this as the what problem, after the 1971 film?

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a. Incorrect. French Connection was a 1971 American crime thriller film based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy.
b. Correct. Klockars dubbed this moral dilemma of police officers as the Dirty Harry problem. Dirty Harry was a 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood as Detective Harry Callahan.
c. Incorrect. Lethal Weapon was a 1987 police movie.
d. Incorrect. Serpico was an NPYD police officer who testified before the Knapp Commission regarding corruption in the NYPD. A movie about Serpico was released in 1973.

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