Securing the support of the police and active-duty military portions of the fanbase was so important that actor Jon Bernthall specifically addressed them, “I know how important he is to law enforcement, to the military, and I look at this as a huge honor, a huge responsibility, and I give you my absolute word: I’m gonna give everything that I have.” In an interview with Abraham Riesman of Vulture, law enforcement officer Jesse Murrieta expressed a sentiment common in the law enforcement community: “Frank Castle does to bad guys and girls what we sometimes wish we could legally do, Castle doesn’t see shades of grey, which, unfortunately, the American justice system is littered with and which tends to slow down and sometimes even hinder victims of crime from getting the justice they deserve.”
Since then, in addition to the ongoing comic series, the Punisher has had two more movies and two seasons of an acclaimed series on Netflix. However, the last Dirty Harry movie was released in 1988, while the first (forgotten) Punisher movie was not released until 1989. The department removed the decals after public backlash. Ĭatlettsburg, Kentucky Police department cruisers sporting the Punisher skull and “Blue Lives Matter” decals in 2017. They tapped into a part of the conservative psyche that saw itself losing control on the streets and in the courts, especially in the wake of America’s military defeat in Vietnam and the loss of faith in the Republican-led government following the Watergate scandal. As a whole, these characters rejected the police reforms, such as 1966’s Miranda v. The Punisher character archetype was a staple of post-Vietnam fiction and film, from Don Pendleton’s Executioner series of novels (1969) to Clint Eastwood’s star turn in Don Siegal’s film Dirty Harry (1971). When the system failed to deliver justice, Castle became the Punisher, dealing out deadly retribution. Castle was a United States Marine Corps Vietnam veteran whose wife and child were gunned down by members of an organized crime family after witnessing a mob hit. Making his first appearance in The Amazing Spiderman #129, in 1974, the character’s origin story helps to explain his popularity to many in the military, police, and militia group communities. Louis Police Officer’s Association, for example, asked officers to post the image to their Facebook pages in support of 22 officers under investigation for racist social media comments. However, some within the law enforcement community have called for police to use the “Thin Blue Line Punisher” logo as a symbol of solidarity. Panels written by Becky Cloonan from The Punisher #13. Jackson Spielvogel’s World History: Modern Times.
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