Insert your credit in the slot.
- You have five seconds to surrender !
- Dredd, it's just a servo-droid.
- The servo-droid is your friend.
Please let your friend go by.
- Three. Two.
- You are in the way of the servo-droid.
- One !
- Boy, am I glad to see you !
Mega City code 7592:
Willful sabotage of a public droid.
That's six months, citizen.
Let's see your Unicard.
Come on, give me a break,
Judge... Dredd. Dredd ?
- God !
- Ferguson, Herman. Hacker.
lllegal tampering with city droids,
computers, cash machines, taxi robots...
And you haven't even been out of jail
for 24 hours. He's habitual, Hershey.
Automatic five-year sentence.
How do you plead ?
- Not guilty ?
- I knew you'd say that.
Five years ? No ! No !
I... I had no choice.
- They were killing each other.
- You could've gone out the window.
- 40 floors ? It would've been suicide.
- Maybe... but it's legal.
- Judges ?
- Yes, sir ?
Five years. Aspen Penitentiary.
Case closed. Take him away.
Don't close the case.
You're misjudging me ! Open the case !
You're not going to be able
to sleep tonight.
He might've been telling
the truth, you know.
Haven't you ever heard of
extenuating circumstances ?
I've heard it all, Hershey.
I knew you'd say that.
My fellow Judges, have we forgotten
the lessons of history ?
My fellow Judges, have we forgotten
the lessons of history ?
However quickly these
block wars can be contained,
it's clear that
they're becoming an epidemic;
an epidemic that should
be dealt with... immediately.
The only solution
is a tougher criminal code.
Our situation gets worse
every day.
73 citizen riots in 16 different
sectors in the last two months alone.
Violent crime is rising
at 15°/o every quarter.
If we don't increase
our resources,
they will be inadequate
in less than three years.
Three years ?
Our resources are inadequate now !
My fellow Council members,
as a city
we continue to grow,
and growth is painful.
Sixty-five million people living in
an area designed for no more than 20 !
It's not enough
that they rely on us...
for food, clothes, water,
clean air...
Chief Justice,
the city is in chaos !
For social order,
we need tighter reins.
Incarceration hasn't worked
as a deterrent.
I say we expand execution
to include lesser crimes !
My fellow Judges,
I was barely in my teens
when I put on this badge.
When the time comes for me
to take it off,
please let me do so knowing that
it still stands for freedom...
and not for repression.
- [ Siren Wailing ]
- [ TV Reporter ] 53 hospitalized.
Nineteen dead, four of them
killed by a gang of squatters...
who were themselves killed
in summary executions by Judge Dredd.
As my special undercover
report continues,
I will take you behind the
scenes at the Halls of Justice...
for a disturbing probe into
these recent riots and block wars.
Coincidence...
or deliberate ?
Dredd !
Dredd !
[ Reporter ]
Some people think working these mean
- Joseph.
- Chief Justice Fargo.
You may stand at ease,
Joseph.
So, tell me. Seven summary executions.
Were they necessary ?
Unavoidable, sir.
Unavoidable.
Life doesn't mean much
to some people anymore.
- You'd see that if you weren't always...
- If I weren't what ?
Always at the Academy,
sir.
Oh ! Don't you mean,
at the Academy wiping cadets' asses ?
That's what they say
in the squad room, isn't it ?
It's irrelevant.
You set the standard, sir.
Now you do...
at least to many young cadets.
You're a legend.
Sir.
You remember your days
as a cadet, Joseph ?
I remember what
you taught me, sir.
You were my finest student.
So, I've drawn
a new assignment for you.
Starting tomorrow, you're going to
spend two days a week at the Academy.
I'd be honored, sir.
narmed combat or marksmanship ?
Ethics.
Wait here.
[ Male Computer Voice ]
Remain still. Identify yourself.
Miller. Warden.
Voice sample recognized.
Thank you, Warden. System disarmed.
[ Man ] Why are