r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/Callmemabryartistry 1d ago

Nice to see police doing good.

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u/Goldglove528 1d ago

Most police do good. You only hear about the bad ones because they get more views.

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u/WeAreTotallyFucked 1d ago

Definitely not the case in Mexico..

Lived in Tijuana 5 years and I was WAY more afraid of the police than the cartel or any local gangs.

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u/OkComplaint6736 1d ago

That also describes the police in the NW suburbs of Chicago.

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u/SpadoCochi 1d ago

As a black guy from Chicago and currently living in Mexico—it’s honestly not even close. Mexican police are scary in the wrong area

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u/Tough-Appeal-8879 1d ago

NW? What, is the Palatine PD shaking you down everyday? I think you need to travel more lol..as someone from that area, you should def be more afraid of the gangs…

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u/OkComplaint6736 21h ago

As a truck driver, I'm putting a huge target on my back every time I get in the cab of my truck. Cops love to hate truck drivers and seem to see us as rolling piggy banks to fund their pensions.

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u/Tough-Appeal-8879 21h ago

Well I agree with you there. I briefly worked with a retired Indiana state trooper and his opinion was that truck drivers were more morally corrupt than drug dealers..

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u/Universal_Contrarian 17h ago

I used to work in Lake Zurich, and would constantly be made late because the police set up an impromptu weigh-station on a local highway.

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u/only_positive90 1d ago

the wealthy part of Chicago where nothing happens?

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u/Adept_Energy_230 1d ago

💯👏🏻

I honestly am forced to doubt whether that person has ever even been to Chicago much less lives there.

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u/venbrx 1d ago

Chicago? That's a neighborhood in Brooklyn right?

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u/Adept_Energy_230 1d ago

Chicago Park, California

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u/thealmightyzfactor 1d ago

That's not true! People around here leave their cars unlocked with the keys in them overnight and then wonder how they could have possibly been stolen.

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u/ArmyofThalia 1d ago

Sorry the officer gave you a hard time in Park Ridge. I'm sure you'll manage

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u/Adept_Energy_230 1d ago

Ohhh yeaaahhh Evanston PD are just terrifying, last time I visited my cousins there one of them even stopped me to ask if I was OK while I was clearly lost carrying heavy bags.

then he gave me a fucking lift to my cousin’s house

I’m still scarred /s

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u/BangkokRios 1d ago

Suburban Chicago police are notorious for not being as helpful to brown people walking the suburbs.

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u/unnecessaryCamelCase 1d ago

Don’t be fucking ridiculous lol. In the US they don’t even accept a bribe. In Mexico they purposefully squeeze you out of money, and that’s the start.

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u/OkComplaint6736 1d ago

I wish the police accepted bribes here to look the other way so I can keep shit off my driving record.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 1d ago

Bullshit unless you are gang adjacent yourself. Before yall downvote read the other replies from people that live there.