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/idealfailure 1d ago

I disagree. The police as an institution aren't really for the people at the end of the day. If you have quotas for arrests and tickets, your goal isn't to protect and serve. The real goal is to put people in the system and put money back into the government. I understand quotas aren't legal in some states, but it's still legal in most of them in the US.

Sure, some do good, but there sure are a hell of a lot of them that do bad. You dont have to kill an unarmed person of color to do bad as a police officer. Abuse of power has many faces, and it happens every damn day. It's not always something crazy enough to make news but excessive force, wasting people's times with pulling them over for minor to nothing at all, asking questions with the intent to use it against a citizen. And with that last one, weaponizing conversation to either get a rise out of a citizen or to fish for something to try and get them on that you can use against a citizen is petty and shitty behavior.

Now this video was an example of the good they can do, there needs to be harsher consequences for the shitty officers and we need to be able to hold them to a higher standard. If we hold them to higher standards, then maybe we can look upon a video like this fondly without the voice in the back of our head reminding us of all the shitty officers that we or other people we know deal with everyday.