As Eastwood as Dirty Harry said during the candidate for Inspector interview: what do you think this is, some kind of encounter group?
Yea, asks her how fast she can run in a dash. Needed to know in case there’s a chase. Later in the movie there was.
Of course, in the same series there was the morbidly obese officer who was killed.
In the post-mortem, the Dirty Harry series will be seen as the dying gasp of society trying to get folks to realize the perilous territory we’re entering.